Ok. Yeah I did a little poking around, and it looks like thats the only place they drop. I'm guessing you are on Hardcore?

Yeah, I'm on Hardcore.

I was trying to farm The Cave last night, as its supposed to be a good place. Apparently theres a good chance of a large chest to spawn there and it'll usually have a couple orbs. I did like 5 runs, and never saw a chest. Although I had one run that had a really large number of rare enemies. I died on that run, and the instance on The Fields had run out. I tried to get back the The Cave but there was a crazy number of enemies there for some reason. By the time I got back to the cave it was too late.

On the bright side I did find a OK amount of orbs and my first GCP

Best farm locations:

Act 1 - The Ledge
Act 2 - Church Dungeon
Act 2 - Dead Thicket
Act 3 - The Docks

I do those in that order and it works really well. Dread Thicket also has the highest chance of any zone in the game to spawn a large chest.

I've played this for a few hours, pretty fun. Love summoning zombies

My friend is having some bad luck. First off he was stupid and used most of his good Orbs he's found so far, including trading his one GCP he's found for some gear (he was like lvl 30 at the time, so he got lvl 30 gear). He also spent a crap ton of orbs trying to get sockets/links perfect on something. So then he was about out of orbs. Now nothing good drops for him. He rarely even gets scrolls to drop. Last night he finally got his first stack of portal scrolls, and he's at level 50.

Last night the best orbs he got were ones that dropped for me that I let him have. He did get a unique 2-hand sword to drop though. I had decent drops on orbs, and even got a divine orb

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I do feel like when running with a group, or even just one other person, the game tends to heavily favor someone. The one night we were running a 5-man ledge group and only one friend of ours was getting drops. He got like five Orbs of Alchemy while the rest of us got portal and ID scrolls. It always does that when we group.

So confused by this game at times. Just died on my Templar to that General Greviouciousoisus whatever the his name is. Prior to that I was able to tank and spank everything. I had a ton of HP, maxed out resists, and a bunch of Armor and Energy Shield. Nothing could touch me and I killed everything super fast. I go to fight him, get shield charged by one of his little minions, then he makes fire rain onto me and I immediately die.

The damage doesn't make any sense. I don't get how things go so well and then one guy just instantly is able to kill me before I can even get an attack off.

It sucks to because I was having a bunch of fun with that Templar. I was tanky (or was up until that point) and was actually able to output damage. Guess it's back to my 53 Duelist who is tanky as but does zero damage and has to rely on a group.

Originally Posted by SEH I do feel like when running with a group, or even just one other person, the game tends to heavily favor someone. The one night we were running a 5-man ledge group and only one friend of ours was getting drops. He got like five Orbs of Alchemy while the rest of us got portal and ID scrolls. It always does that when we group.

Yeah, I was totally the lucky one last night. I got The Peregrine to drop, with like 28% Magic Find on it. Then for awhile all the rares that dropped were for me. I think all the Gems that dropped were for me. At one point Chain dropped for me and I didnt see it. One of the other guys picked it up and said they wasnt giving it back (he'd been trying to get Chain for awhile now). He did give it back, but I thought it over and decided he could have it. My Ranger doesnt need it, and my Witch is still too low level to use it for awhile. As far as Orbs, I got about 50% of those while one guy got 40% and the other guy got 10%.

Well we're through Cruel. Between the start and Lioneye's Watch we ran into like 3 or 4 rare enemies, and had a 6 slot armor drop. Thats all the further we went though.

I got lucky last night and my vendor had a six socket chest piece that I needed. Unfortunately I wasted all my fusings trying to get at least four sockets linked (which never happened).

My buddy gave me a six socketed Ivory Bow last night. I too, wasted all my crap trying to get a 5 or 6 link out of it. Good news is that I think the colors are already good. I wanna put Lightning Arrow, Ice Arrow, Lesser Multi Projectiles, Pierce, Life on Hit, and maybe Increase Rarity or Attack Speed on it. I also need to get a 4 link chest that I can put some other stuff on. Probably Poison Arrow + Fork for starters.

Just booted this game up. Enjoying it so far. Any tips for a newb? Decided to play a marauder. Seemed pretty basic, but im only lvl 5.

Save all your mats for when you reach higher levels (I usually start crafting when I hit 40 or so). Nothing worse than burning through all your Alchemy, Chaos, and Regals making low-level gear.

I'm burning through everything on a 6-slot bow trying to get 6 links.

Also if you are just starting out the currency system (or lack thereof) is kinda confusing. For crafting materials you can go HERE for a approximate conversion rate. I honestly still dont know what to trade gems and items for though.

Something you can do kinda early is check the vendors for and 3-link 3-color gear. Buy anything that has Red, Blue and Green all linked and you can sell it right back to the vendor for a Chromatic orb.

Also selling certain groups of items to the vendors gives different items. For example any group of pieces of armor that have a combines quality of over 40% gives an Armorer's Scrap. Weapons work the same way only you get a Blacksmiths Whetstone. More recipes can be found HERE.

And I really recommend researching your build early. Once you get up in levels, it becomes almost impossible to change your build. Take some time and look over the Passive Skill Tree and find skills you really want. From what I understand though, you have to build much more defense than offense in this game if you wanna get through Cruel and Merciless.

Pretty much take all the HP nodes in your tree that you can get your hands on. Health is king at higher levels.

Originally Posted by Waughoo I'm burning through everything on a 6-slot bow trying to get 6 links. Also if you are just starting out the currency system (or lack thereof) is kinda confusing. For crafting materials you can go HERE for a approximate conversion rate. I honestly still dont know what to trade gems and items for though. Something you can do kinda early is check the vendors for and 3-link 3-color gear. Buy anything that has Red, Blue and Green all linked and you can sell it right back to the vendor for a Chromatic orb. Also selling certain groups of items to the vendors gives different items. For example any group of pieces of armor that have a combines quality of over 40% gives an Armorer's Scrap. Weapons work the same way only you get a Blacksmiths Whetstone. More recipes can be found HERE. And I really recommend researching your build early. Once you get up in levels, it becomes almost impossible to change your build. Take some time and look over the Passive Skill Tree and find skills you really want. From what I understand though, you have to build much more defense than offense in this game if you wanna get through Cruel and Merciless.

3 of the same color or all 3 colors? Like Red-Red-Red or Red-Blue-Green? I pretty much pick everything up and sell it

RGB linked is the Chromatic recipe.

Finally made it to Merciless in Hardcore (after leveling like 3 characters to 50+ because I was getting bored).

My main is finally to the point where I can farm Merciless ledge solo and probably not die. Theres sometimes a rare or blue enemy or group I cant deal with. Usually ones with the life regen and life leech both. I cant deal damage faster than their regen.

My new ranger is like lvl 30 I think now, and so far is working much better. I've got most of her passives already, but I'm holding off on getting Blood Magic till I get my HP higher and I get a bow with enough links to use Life on Hit... also I need Life on Hit still.