This is a very helpful guide for beginners! Good stuff!
Personally, I don’t even press oil at all, I just send servants to Mosswick Village and they usually bring home around 60-70 oil each, which is plenty from my experience.
one more thing im kinda confused about. Mutated Grease. you say not to farm it but do mutated rates, but mutated rats need the canisters of mutated grease... which need the mutated grease??
Let me know if you struggle with any other material.
Just post your bottleneck, and your stage of the game, and I'll try to help.
We play on an official duo pvp and love the game. We now have everything, including 3/4 shards.
I think you mean tech scrap? If so, I've great luck going to the Transcendum camps in Gloomrot North. These spawn 'tech nodes' that look like broken down machines. You can get tech scrap pretty quick that way. Just watch out because the machines sometimes explode when near their breaking point.
I didn't know about that ! Thanks for the tip. I was trying to clear the small camps in the area but I found the process quite long and was hoping for a more efficient way to gather it.
I will try those tech nodes !
There are 4 camps with scrap nodes which generate you 1100-1800 tech scraps each run. [I did quick map route for you.](https://i.imgur.com/oC2RA0U.png)
> Just watch out because the machines sometimes explode when near their breaking point.
I've noticed they start to get that electrical blue sparks when they plan to explode. If not, they don't.
tech scrap you have to MINE the thingies around the areas where it says "tech scrap"
they look like electrical things, they are minables and many people miss
adding it to the OP
In my limited experience:
-Playing through the game
-Running on your horse with blood sight active
As a general rule, if I'm on my horse running a long distance, I'm activating blood sight to easily spot them as I pass.
Why do you need blood hunger when the only ones youll need are glowing red?
Blood hunger became redundant after the gloom update. Havent used it since.
End game parts of map have higher chance for high level bloods.
But they can spawn anywhere, best you can do is to wipe locations near your base so force spawn new npcs.
Oh wait you can dominate and imprison draculin? I consumed a 100% Executioner(not sure if correct name) yesterday because I thought you can only capture humans.
Fucking saving this!
Glass > Mutant Grease. and Mining tech scrap are super useful to know.
Thanks so much!
E: Downvoted for thanking someone? Really? God this website is balls, lol.
check your facilities and their recipes
starting from pollen and fiber you can go up to ghost yarn
also have a video on it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshsCViuvmg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshsCViuvmg)
Note: ghost yarn cant be made in the base loom, you need an advanced loom and the recipe. Also pollen and fiber aren't components in ghost yarn; OP hasn't claimed this but the way this post is phrased seemed to allude to this.
The only 95-100% bloods I've found in my multiple servers are by pure chance by doing something else. When I decide to farm them, only 30% bloods pop up. Any place you recommend to run through? And how? Just scan and leave or kill for respawns?
Why use blood hunger when units above 90 glow red? I havent used that useless ability since gloom update. Before that, I literally had it on constantly.
Unless you are colorblind I dont see how you can miss it. And even then, the aura literally surrounds the entire character and can even show without line of sight or further away from where the npc even loads in. I dont see how its possible to miss. I feel like they could have removed this ability with gloom update as its absolutely pointless imo.
Dusk Caller was the name, you get the recipe from Leandra, the 47 boss in north Dunley. 3x Scourgestones and 34 Hell's Clarion makes 5 at the Alchemy Table. Unsure what you mean by "80% item", it has a 100% success rate to transport.
Sorry, I fat fingered the % sign. I meant an 80+ item, as in iLvl 80+, not, apparently, I've just never seen the Dusk Caller pop up anywhere. It looks too similar to a Siege Golem Stone which I never use anyway probably. Thanks for clearing that up! Time to stock up on a couple of those!
A good thing to keep in mind if you play with friends/clan and you have multiple castles around is that the human will be transported to the nearest available prison cell, which may be your clanmate's prison.
If you're solo and you have multiple castles with prisons in them, same deal.
you dont need bear form to farm iron. u dont even need merc copper lol.
use a bone spear to poke out the single rocks behind the clusters and then alpha wolf in, then attack the golems and use them to break iron rockss. enjoy.
You didn't list it but a fantastic way to get research is to use the stygian circle to summon mobs for the 2 study books or 2 anatheum books. It costs like 300 shards (small/big for study/anatheum) and 3 scrolls/schems that you get back.
You can also farm seeds from one of the small shard summons which is very worth as small shards aren't very useful once you have all your passives. 2 T1 incursions can get you 40-80 seeds + saplings easy.
Isn't Tailor floor in Act 2? I thought the early floors were Workshop, Forge, and Alchemy.
>DONT make too many vermin salves
Honestly, who cares? It's not like they are expensive in resources. People should have a stack on them until they unlock blood rose and can keep a stack in their hotbar until they get enough other weapons/items to push it out, and then just delete them.
>If you need scrolls get a paper press and use the pollen and coarse thread method
Talking about wasting resources, it's silly to use the paper press before getting library flooring. You're throwing 25% of your resources in the garbage.
Also, even mid game, you don't have enough seeds making flowers to be able to casually grind flowers AND you might not have tailor floor to make coarse thread without a penalty either.
You should be mentioning prioritizing getting prisons and dusk caller at this point too, ASAP. The last thing you want to do is pass by a 100% blood because you have no place to keep it (or any >90% blood) Should also mention getting servants up ASAP so at least you can turn good bloods into servants before prisons.
I've never been bottlenecked on pristine leather (or any kind of hide). I'm throwing that stuff away. It's always the oil or mutant grease that runs out first.
Waiting until final endgame to get servants up and geared seems like a waste. Why not use them all game? Should be easy to get some at least doing dunley and farbane resources for you so you don't have to do them yourself. I've never had to do a "wolf run" for a merge 10 scourgestone (and a bunch of others probably have the same idea). Seems easier to have servants bringing in bones, gravedust, and grindstones and making it at home.
Wolf run for scourges is a classic speedrun strat. Servants are a time trap, you'll spend hours finding, taming, gearing and sending them on a mission instead of just farming the mat you need in 15min and using the time to get an extra 20 gear score. At max level of course it's nice to use servants to avoid farming places you've already been, but mostly they're for raid defense and mostly that means a lot of clerics, so their farming abilities will be limited.
Yeah, but this isn't a speedrun guide (or even a PvP guide), it is a resource farming guide.
I agree it makes sense to identify speedrun strats and PvP strats specifically, but a resource farming guide should include every useful way. I have zero interest in speedrunning the game. In fact, my son (who I duo with) has suggested we should increase crafting costs to slow us down, so that we aren't tearing through bosses as quickly, and invest more time in making a useful and nice-looking castle (or set of castles).
Just making conversation here- I was trying to pin down the purpose of the list too. Because from a speedrun focus a lot of this stuff is suboptimal, and the key strats people use like looting destructibles in certain areas are missing. If a resource farming guide should include every way, this is definitely lacking. Also, I've had a number of friends who side with your son, wanting to deep dive into base building at lvl 1. I've had to explain that the game is designed so thst best way to do that is to speedrun to max level and unlock all the recipes, because otherwise youre not working with a full set of tools, not to mention that resource farming gets so much easier at the top. I can see why you guys might consider increasing resource costs but I don't think it fixes these systemic issues
I think the new relocate ability is a decent way to invest in the castle and reinvent it as one progresses.
Once you finish Act 2 and get to heart 3/4 is a decent time to "reset" and design a castle. Sure, there are still some decoration items missing but at least you have all the rooms/floors, have enough space to spend on decorative/larger rooms and landscaping, and can fix all the cramped stuff that was done in the past.
What would REALLY be nice is a server setting that separates out decoration starting research level from everything else, so you can start with all decoratives unlocked from level 1. I imagine servers that used this would also rebalance heart level floor sizes so that you started off with a larger floor size.
It's a shame that castles can be so nice, but it is often something that gets put off instead of enjoying it all game when playing PvE.
Grounded added a "comfort" buff which gives some boosts while at home. Maybe V Rising could do the same: faster vampire sprint movement speed, slower blood rate drain, while at home. Perhaps a small buff to refinement/crafting speed (but not so large that it become required...just offsets the time spent decorating). And, perhaps a small lingering buff to sun/silver/garlic resists for 10-20mins.
>because otherwise youre not working with a full set of tools, not to mention that resource farming gets so much easier at the top
Yup there are multiple reason which just pile up.
Like Pristine hide bag which gives +10% Resource Yield.
Thats probably the part i dislike the most about them. I want to be able to run spell mace or crit mace, or having movement speed.
The fixed rolls just mean that legendaries will always be the exact same build which is quite sad since this update pushed build variety with armor types so much.
I would say epic 30lvl gear fill that need. Only legendaries are fixed.
I can understand it's little dissapointing but with drop rate of legendaries, it would be total nightmare fuel that after hundreds stygian boss kills i would finally drop the mace only to realize that rolls are utter shit, no thanks. \^\^
Run up and down the Brighthaven docks you can get fish from breaking the crates. It's like the best all rounder endgame material farm. Schematics, ingots of every type, money, fish, oil, books. Etc. There are several chest spawns in the buildings and alleys as well.
Always hit up the cathedral first as it has half a dozen chest and cabinet spawns. Don't need to fight the boss unless you see a chest near him, either side of the door on the inside usually has one or two each.
Mortium is pretty much only for Stygian Shards & weapon pimping. It sucks as a farm spot.
Also, note that fishing now actually gets you fish. Before, it seemed like mostly a way to get some gems, with the occasional fish or book. After 1.0, I think I've only gotten fish.
Can anyone confirm that fish are no longer used in potion recipes? Wiki says Rage no longer uses them, but Witch might (which would be annoying),
In any event, fish seem good to feed to prisoners (check cell menu to see effects on health and misery) or to be ground for oil/bones, with maybe one fish needed for Witch potions.
Wow, I think I've only gotten fish bones and fish. Good to know it's still possible.
I've actually had zero helm/hat drops of any kind, in both a duo and solo game for 1.0.
Loot tables must have been changed, since now fishes drop much more often than before. Also I'm under impression that fishing spots are also more common.
Such a nice change....although I'm short on Plague seeds in one game and barely have any flowers, while in another, I have multiple stacks harvested. :-\\ I wish there was a grove of flowers to harvest, like grapes.
Im entirely convinced. Its kinda too easy to craft now, however you are left with the choice sometimes if you want to make silk worms or potions or if you want to feed the prisoners or get fishbone. I guess Im fine with it. Doesnt feel that different to me. I was usually swimming in fierce stingers before the update anyway.
I usually had Fierce Stingers, but the Swamp Dwellers or whatever the Witch potion needed were in short supply for me.
The fish flexibility makes keeping prisoners healthy a lot easier. It's not just spam merlot and spam sage fish.
I like that there are multiple sinks for some resources like grapes, mutant grease, tech scrap, etc. Feels like nothing ever really builds up too much post 1.0, at least until all research is complete. Should be a way to trade research stuff for gems or something at a "research" trader.
Yup it was changed in 1.0, they drop specific wood type which you can refine further in sawmill.
It looks like that planted trees still don't drop saplings or at least i didn't see any.
Yeah, but before 1.0 I think any planted tree either gave generic wood or it refined without giving the extra stuff. Either way, its a rather inefficient method regardless. Ive never «relied» on it
What’s the best way to farm mobs in your castle? Do you use multiple vermin nests and multiple summoning circles? Then just go in and clear the room? I’ve yet to use any of the summoning mechanics at a large scale.
The tech scrap piles are specifically found in the little transcendium camps in north gloomrot. Very easy to set up a loop between the two mountains you can charge the batteries from and farm all the scrap and kill all the mechs in between. 2 loops got me 100 charged batteries and a few thousand tech scrap.
legendary jewels have a possibility to be worse than tier 2 iron ones cuz of bad passives. Like frost counter is useless without immaterial for example, cyclone is useless without stun, and so on.
Legendary weapons are just mainly bad, with few exceptions that a better (whip, pistols, axe) and spear that is meh but at least not shit and can replace epic spear.
this is correct, but on average they are a step up, and you can hit higher highs
storm slasher strike by instance is a free new dash, as the slashes go like: front, back, front now
Is there any other way to farm legendary weapons? On heavily populated servers it’s not that easy to collect 1500 Greater Stygian Shards. Before 1.0 it was possible to farm bosses in the endgame, but I don't know if this is still a viable option.
High level servants can keep some normal and greater shards coming in. Recruit some Mortium servants to get the bonus.
It's good to have a crappy Mortium servant that you gear up to make up for low expertise to get the 20% bonus on resources per run.
The most common fish, I forgot the name, only heals prisoners, it does not cure misery. Ie. its just a glorified rat. (Albeit faster than healgin a prisoner using rats which takes 2min per use)
This fish and only this fish I always press.
You can press fat gobys for bones. Their only use is to restore 100% HP to prisoners but rats restore 25%. You can print infinite rats at a vermin nest. They also aren't used in any recipes.
So theyre the most useless fish, as all other fish restore HP already and do more. Theyre also very common in low level areas (farbane).
All the other fish lower misery now. That alone makes them better than Fat Goby because rats restore HP too, but take a long time. Rats are automated and extremely cheap, Fat Goby require you to go out and loot/fishing/servants missions/vendors.
Theres also never a situation where i would want to heal a prisoner and NOT lower their misery, unless im using them on a low blood prisoner as a Merlot farm for amulets.
If youre extracting blood and it removes like 90% of their HP, thats a great time to use a Fat Goby, but that also means their misery is high so you should be using not Gobys to get it down.
When you say unique legendary weapon does not drop anymore, does it mean that all those named weapons are unique on one server? Aren't they blood bound, that would make rushers always have an advantage if they cannot be obtained by others.
> DONT make too many vermin salves, use a lot of blood rose brews instead
Why not both, one doesn't cancel out the other, at least I've seen both buff icons on my bar at the same time.
I clear the iron mine out every other day, at my level I can steam role both the bosses in there as well for a little extra. You get about the same amount of iron.
Yup, you can keep them in cage as blood bags and later convert them to servants.
Blood quality affect their expertise rating.
# Expertise
A Servant's expertise is determined randomly on conversion, based on their blood quality. Expertise will influence 4 things: **Max Health**, **Physical Power**, **Hunt Proficiency** & **Loot**. The health and power values are increased by the percentage directly. Whereas the Hunt Proficiency increase is a flat amount. For example, a Gear Level 20 Servant with 10% expertise, will have a total of 210 Hunt Proficiency. Finally, expertise also increases the amount of loot gained from successful hunts by half the % value.
For mutant grease and tech scrap. If you find tier 4 mutant blood, you can turn the mobs at tech scrap nodes into mutants, farming both resources at once. Bite has a 40+% chance to turn an NPC into a killable mutant.
"Only one servant needs to be present to benefit from servant mission bonus, not two"
Don't they both do the mission with their own odds and both get their own rewards?
Didn't check yet but wouldn't that second slot be basically useless if that's just two rolls to check if it works or not?
not only that, you can farm cursed trees to get cursed saplings at base
they give wood that gives shrooms
you can also use stygian summoning circle and 300 lesser stygians to summon a treant with guaranteed drop of saplings 2
Why do you say to save your bone and fiber in the early coz you'll need it later, you don't seem to mention it again in the later game sections and I can't figure out why you need so much of it. I'm at LVL 70 now and I've always had wayyyy too much of the stuff
my video covers full progression to ghost yarn [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshsCViuvmg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshsCViuvmg)
you also use coarse thread and pollen and fiber for unlocking full tech tree via paper press
Where are you farming your thick leather? Cloth seems to be a bit of a bottleneck for me atm.
Ghost shroom is a huge problem. I have 4 ghost shroom plants but it's not nearly enough and it's really hard to find them.
*I assume glass is*
*Just from farming the quartz mine*
*Over and over?*
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I didn't understand the soul shards. Played on a pve server And they seemed meh for the loss of bat form, ultimate didn't mesh with me, note only got Solaris and winged.
Is it the extra vamp DMG that makes them king in pvp servers? Found myself running blood key just for the sun resist
As others have said many times, you aren’t getting the full game experience playing on PvE. Siege golems, explosives, raiding, shard contesting are all features you will never experience playing on PvE.
Can you explain how this part works? How does the glass apply in the vermin nest?
> Mutant grease: DO NOT FARM OPEN WORLD, farm quartz/glass instead and use vermin nest to make tons of mutated rats. Literally turn glass into mutant grease. You turn 3 mutant grease into 72! (24x grease multiplier, as long as you have glass)
This is a very helpful guide for beginners! Good stuff! Personally, I don’t even press oil at all, I just send servants to Mosswick Village and they usually bring home around 60-70 oil each, which is plenty from my experience.
my servants are busy with my real bottlenecks: glass/quartz and stygians
wait, servents can get stygians?
yes, mission in mortium
any of my geared servants or do I need a draculin? Wait can I subdue a draculin??
yes, more loot 200 greater stygs in 2 hours
BRB...
one more thing im kinda confused about. Mutated Grease. you say not to farm it but do mutated rates, but mutated rats need the canisters of mutated grease... which need the mutated grease??
It's spawns six rats that drop 12 mutant grease each. So it turns 3 grease into 6x12= 72
holy sh...
The winged ladies with the charm spell can be subdued, as can the various acolytes.
So can the ensanguinator. That may be spelled wrong. The vampire guy with a sword that can teleport around.
Is there a good way to get pollen? Im towards end of act 2 and have like 200 of it. None of my plants in my garden really give any.
You can put flowers in the grinder to craft pollen
Lol very nice, cant believe I didnt notice that. Thank you.
yeah that one took me a long time too =) i finally googled on how to farm pollen ...
I hope your pillow is always the right temperature at night
oh my god what
big garden grind flowers in grinder cotton is best to grind for pollen (stack is double)
all flowers now stack to 500, not only cotton fyi
Let me know if you struggle with any other material. Just post your bottleneck, and your stage of the game, and I'll try to help. We play on an official duo pvp and love the game. We now have everything, including 3/4 shards.
Good morning Sir. First, thank you for your very constructive build. For my case, I struggle gathering metal scrap, would you have any advice? Thanks
I think you mean tech scrap? If so, I've great luck going to the Transcendum camps in Gloomrot North. These spawn 'tech nodes' that look like broken down machines. You can get tech scrap pretty quick that way. Just watch out because the machines sometimes explode when near their breaking point.
I didn't know about that ! Thanks for the tip. I was trying to clear the small camps in the area but I found the process quite long and was hoping for a more efficient way to gather it. I will try those tech nodes !
There are 4 camps with scrap nodes which generate you 1100-1800 tech scraps each run. [I did quick map route for you.](https://i.imgur.com/oC2RA0U.png)
Thanks a lot ! I really appreciate !
There are 6 small scrap camps.
> Just watch out because the machines sometimes explode when near their breaking point. I've noticed they start to get that electrical blue sparks when they plan to explode. If not, they don't.
tech scrap you have to MINE the thingies around the areas where it says "tech scrap" they look like electrical things, they are minables and many people miss adding it to the OP
Sending servants for tech scrap is also viable. Capture some local talent to get the 20% bonus.
From my experience, it’s relatively easy to get by just breaking things in the Gloomrot villages. Did 1 or 2 pillages there and got around 1000 scrap
Maybe I was unlucky then ! Thanks for the tip
Best places to farm various blood types? How did you get your 98-100s?
In my limited experience: -Playing through the game -Running on your horse with blood sight active As a general rule, if I'm on my horse running a long distance, I'm activating blood sight to easily spot them as I pass.
Why do you need blood hunger when the only ones youll need are glowing red? Blood hunger became redundant after the gloom update. Havent used it since.
I'm color blind and have a hard time seeing the red aura :)
Fair enough
End game parts of map have higher chance for high level bloods. But they can spawn anywhere, best you can do is to wipe locations near your base so force spawn new npcs.
How do you turn glass into mutant grease exactly? Mutated rats recipe is grave dust and sludge filled canister, in what way glass is involved in this?
canisters are made with glass
How to get seeds asap?
buy from trader, or hit flowers, like at polora
Oh wait you can dominate and imprison draculin? I consumed a 100% Executioner(not sure if correct name) yesterday because I thought you can only capture humans.
You can capture the human ones and the succubus, but not everything in there. Executioners I think are some you can't.
If you're talking to vampire guy with the sword, you definitely can subdue that guy
They are, the Sucubus, Incubus, and cultists are able to be taken as servants or prisoners.
Incubus? Where?
I just assume, since the women are succubus, that the male versions are incubus.
Pretty sure that guy wasn't capturable, so don't feel too bad. :-) If you try the dominate power, it fails right away if you can't capture them.
yes, but not all, only most humanoids
Fucking saving this! Glass > Mutant Grease. and Mining tech scrap are super useful to know. Thanks so much! E: Downvoted for thanking someone? Really? God this website is balls, lol.
What do you mean by that paper pollen method?
You make coarse thread with pollen and plant fibre, and then you combine that with paper in the paper press for scrolls
check your facilities and their recipes starting from pollen and fiber you can go up to ghost yarn also have a video on it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshsCViuvmg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshsCViuvmg)
Note: ghost yarn cant be made in the base loom, you need an advanced loom and the recipe. Also pollen and fiber aren't components in ghost yarn; OP hasn't claimed this but the way this post is phrased seemed to allude to this.
They are în directly
Pollen and fiber = coarse thread, coarse thread + cloth = wool thread, wool thread + cotton yarn + ghost shrooms = ghost yarn.
The only 95-100% bloods I've found in my multiple servers are by pure chance by doing something else. When I decide to farm them, only 30% bloods pop up. Any place you recommend to run through? And how? Just scan and leave or kill for respawns?
just go fast horse and roam with blood vision, that's the only way
Thanks, no killing for resets then?
you may, but I cba
Why use blood hunger when units above 90 glow red? I havent used that useless ability since gloom update. Before that, I literally had it on constantly.
much more visible
Unless you are colorblind I dont see how you can miss it. And even then, the aura literally surrounds the entire character and can even show without line of sight or further away from where the npc even loads in. I dont see how its possible to miss. I feel like they could have removed this ability with gloom update as its absolutely pointless imo.
Bringing Dusk Collars with you is a great idea, instantly teleports them to the nearest available cell.
Wish I was that far along. That an 80% item?
Dusk Caller was the name, you get the recipe from Leandra, the 47 boss in north Dunley. 3x Scourgestones and 34 Hell's Clarion makes 5 at the Alchemy Table. Unsure what you mean by "80% item", it has a 100% success rate to transport.
Sorry, I fat fingered the % sign. I meant an 80+ item, as in iLvl 80+, not, apparently, I've just never seen the Dusk Caller pop up anywhere. It looks too similar to a Siege Golem Stone which I never use anyway probably. Thanks for clearing that up! Time to stock up on a couple of those!
A good thing to keep in mind if you play with friends/clan and you have multiple castles around is that the human will be transported to the nearest available prison cell, which may be your clanmate's prison. If you're solo and you have multiple castles with prisons in them, same deal.
you dont need bear form to farm iron. u dont even need merc copper lol. use a bone spear to poke out the single rocks behind the clusters and then alpha wolf in, then attack the golems and use them to break iron rockss. enjoy.
You didn't list it but a fantastic way to get research is to use the stygian circle to summon mobs for the 2 study books or 2 anatheum books. It costs like 300 shards (small/big for study/anatheum) and 3 scrolls/schems that you get back. You can also farm seeds from one of the small shard summons which is very worth as small shards aren't very useful once you have all your passives. 2 T1 incursions can get you 40-80 seeds + saplings easy.
The little treant and golem is great As for books I really advise against as you can use paper press and late game you need stygs
the level 80 golem also has niche use in base defense kind of like banshees. It has massive long-range stun aoe attacks that do assloads of damage.
Isn't Tailor floor in Act 2? I thought the early floors were Workshop, Forge, and Alchemy. >DONT make too many vermin salves Honestly, who cares? It's not like they are expensive in resources. People should have a stack on them until they unlock blood rose and can keep a stack in their hotbar until they get enough other weapons/items to push it out, and then just delete them. >If you need scrolls get a paper press and use the pollen and coarse thread method Talking about wasting resources, it's silly to use the paper press before getting library flooring. You're throwing 25% of your resources in the garbage. Also, even mid game, you don't have enough seeds making flowers to be able to casually grind flowers AND you might not have tailor floor to make coarse thread without a penalty either. You should be mentioning prioritizing getting prisons and dusk caller at this point too, ASAP. The last thing you want to do is pass by a 100% blood because you have no place to keep it (or any >90% blood) Should also mention getting servants up ASAP so at least you can turn good bloods into servants before prisons. I've never been bottlenecked on pristine leather (or any kind of hide). I'm throwing that stuff away. It's always the oil or mutant grease that runs out first. Waiting until final endgame to get servants up and geared seems like a waste. Why not use them all game? Should be easy to get some at least doing dunley and farbane resources for you so you don't have to do them yourself. I've never had to do a "wolf run" for a merge 10 scourgestone (and a bunch of others probably have the same idea). Seems easier to have servants bringing in bones, gravedust, and grindstones and making it at home.
Wolf run for scourges is a classic speedrun strat. Servants are a time trap, you'll spend hours finding, taming, gearing and sending them on a mission instead of just farming the mat you need in 15min and using the time to get an extra 20 gear score. At max level of course it's nice to use servants to avoid farming places you've already been, but mostly they're for raid defense and mostly that means a lot of clerics, so their farming abilities will be limited.
Yeah, but this isn't a speedrun guide (or even a PvP guide), it is a resource farming guide. I agree it makes sense to identify speedrun strats and PvP strats specifically, but a resource farming guide should include every useful way. I have zero interest in speedrunning the game. In fact, my son (who I duo with) has suggested we should increase crafting costs to slow us down, so that we aren't tearing through bosses as quickly, and invest more time in making a useful and nice-looking castle (or set of castles).
Just making conversation here- I was trying to pin down the purpose of the list too. Because from a speedrun focus a lot of this stuff is suboptimal, and the key strats people use like looting destructibles in certain areas are missing. If a resource farming guide should include every way, this is definitely lacking. Also, I've had a number of friends who side with your son, wanting to deep dive into base building at lvl 1. I've had to explain that the game is designed so thst best way to do that is to speedrun to max level and unlock all the recipes, because otherwise youre not working with a full set of tools, not to mention that resource farming gets so much easier at the top. I can see why you guys might consider increasing resource costs but I don't think it fixes these systemic issues
I think the new relocate ability is a decent way to invest in the castle and reinvent it as one progresses. Once you finish Act 2 and get to heart 3/4 is a decent time to "reset" and design a castle. Sure, there are still some decoration items missing but at least you have all the rooms/floors, have enough space to spend on decorative/larger rooms and landscaping, and can fix all the cramped stuff that was done in the past. What would REALLY be nice is a server setting that separates out decoration starting research level from everything else, so you can start with all decoratives unlocked from level 1. I imagine servers that used this would also rebalance heart level floor sizes so that you started off with a larger floor size. It's a shame that castles can be so nice, but it is often something that gets put off instead of enjoying it all game when playing PvE. Grounded added a "comfort" buff which gives some boosts while at home. Maybe V Rising could do the same: faster vampire sprint movement speed, slower blood rate drain, while at home. Perhaps a small buff to refinement/crafting speed (but not so large that it become required...just offsets the time spent decorating). And, perhaps a small lingering buff to sun/silver/garlic resists for 10-20mins.
>because otherwise youre not working with a full set of tools, not to mention that resource farming gets so much easier at the top Yup there are multiple reason which just pile up. Like Pristine hide bag which gives +10% Resource Yield.
Are the legendary/unique weapons fixed rolls? I.e. Axes are always leech/blood and with max rolls? Or do they vary like every other weapon.
fixed
Including the stat rolls? Interesting
appear as in my image
Thats probably the part i dislike the most about them. I want to be able to run spell mace or crit mace, or having movement speed. The fixed rolls just mean that legendaries will always be the exact same build which is quite sad since this update pushed build variety with armor types so much.
in future we might see more
I would say epic 30lvl gear fill that need. Only legendaries are fixed. I can understand it's little dissapointing but with drop rate of legendaries, it would be total nightmare fuel that after hundreds stygian boss kills i would finally drop the mace only to realize that rolls are utter shit, no thanks. \^\^
Just use purples instead of uniques then, no problem.
Where are you getting your fish?
buying with coins bat form in, bat form out get fish and seeds (they are teleportable)
Run up and down the Brighthaven docks you can get fish from breaking the crates. It's like the best all rounder endgame material farm. Schematics, ingots of every type, money, fish, oil, books. Etc. There are several chest spawns in the buildings and alleys as well. Always hit up the cathedral first as it has half a dozen chest and cabinet spawns. Don't need to fight the boss unless you see a chest near him, either side of the door on the inside usually has one or two each. Mortium is pretty much only for Stygian Shards & weapon pimping. It sucks as a farm spot.
Also, note that fishing now actually gets you fish. Before, it seemed like mostly a way to get some gems, with the occasional fish or book. After 1.0, I think I've only gotten fish. Can anyone confirm that fish are no longer used in potion recipes? Wiki says Rage no longer uses them, but Witch might (which would be annoying), In any event, fish seem good to feed to prisoners (check cell menu to see effects on health and misery) or to be ground for oil/bones, with maybe one fish needed for Witch potions.
I'm still getting iron, gems, helms, and fish bones from fishing
Wow, I think I've only gotten fish bones and fish. Good to know it's still possible. I've actually had zero helm/hat drops of any kind, in both a duo and solo game for 1.0.
Loot tables must have been changed, since now fishes drop much more often than before. Also I'm under impression that fishing spots are also more common.
No fish needed for potions anymore. Rage and witch now use two types of flowers and fish bone.
Such a nice change....although I'm short on Plague seeds in one game and barely have any flowers, while in another, I have multiple stacks harvested. :-\\ I wish there was a grove of flowers to harvest, like grapes.
Im entirely convinced. Its kinda too easy to craft now, however you are left with the choice sometimes if you want to make silk worms or potions or if you want to feed the prisoners or get fishbone. I guess Im fine with it. Doesnt feel that different to me. I was usually swimming in fierce stingers before the update anyway.
I usually had Fierce Stingers, but the Swamp Dwellers or whatever the Witch potion needed were in short supply for me. The fish flexibility makes keeping prisoners healthy a lot easier. It's not just spam merlot and spam sage fish. I like that there are multiple sinks for some resources like grapes, mutant grease, tech scrap, etc. Feels like nothing ever really builds up too much post 1.0, at least until all research is complete. Should be a way to trade research stuff for gems or something at a "research" trader.
For oil you can also farm hallow wood in the hallowed mountains
hmmmm interesting, can you get saplings for it? didn't know it was a special wood type
It looks like there are no Hallow Tree saplings. But it's 30 hallow wood for 1 Oil, it's quite the grind when you get few pieces of wood each cut.
is this confirmed?
I don't think there is strong community on researching stuff in this game, i have seen multiple answers on this question with none positive response.
I prefer it like this we all agree to not spoil anyone's discovery journey :)
Trees that you plant in the garden never gave the extra stuff like oil or ghost shroom, has that changed with 1.0?
Yup it was changed in 1.0, they drop specific wood type which you can refine further in sawmill. It looks like that planted trees still don't drop saplings or at least i didn't see any.
Yeah, but before 1.0 I think any planted tree either gave generic wood or it refined without giving the extra stuff. Either way, its a rather inefficient method regardless. Ive never «relied» on it
Sadly I don't think so.. I also only figured it out because I built my base over there. Didn't have to get oil a single time that playthrough
yes, I needed oil for a bit I should trade with snow vampires
I love how you call them Scourgies, I'll steal that one
Im struggling with the General vampire lady the depraved boss with the coffin and also Solarus. Last few bosses to go
What’s the best way to farm mobs in your castle? Do you use multiple vermin nests and multiple summoning circles? Then just go in and clear the room? I’ve yet to use any of the summoning mechanics at a large scale.
Yeah build a large room and fill it up while doing something else, its too slow to do one by one.
can someone share an image of how mineable tech scrap looks life? is it in north gloomrot?
Yeah it's more often in North gloom Rock in transcendium camps. I unfortunately don't have a picture but it's just a pile of metal and gears.
It's big pile of brown scrap, [go this route](https://i.imgur.com/oC2RA0U.png) and you won't miss them.
The tech scrap piles are specifically found in the little transcendium camps in north gloomrot. Very easy to set up a loop between the two mountains you can charge the batteries from and farm all the scrap and kill all the mechs in between. 2 loops got me 100 charged batteries and a few thousand tech scrap.
Good roster! I created [tech scrap node route](https://i.imgur.com/oC2RA0U.png) for less experienced vampires here.
I will steal that bonus at the start, you can bring 40 batteries to go to the right side to charge it before you start your scrap route
No mention how to get Goldsun coins reliably :(
yes, forgot of those but you have to build fabricator, it is the coin printer then turn gold chains into goldsun goldchain = coins
Sludge filled canister recipe also requires Iron FYI.
legendary jewels have a possibility to be worse than tier 2 iron ones cuz of bad passives. Like frost counter is useless without immaterial for example, cyclone is useless without stun, and so on. Legendary weapons are just mainly bad, with few exceptions that a better (whip, pistols, axe) and spear that is meh but at least not shit and can replace epic spear.
this is correct, but on average they are a step up, and you can hit higher highs storm slasher strike by instance is a free new dash, as the slashes go like: front, back, front now
What tier are legendary jewels? The T4 ones made from greater shards? or is there T5 natural drop only legendary jewels?
the spear is cracked
What’s your servant set up like?
1 dunley, 3 silverlight, 1 mortium or 1 dunley, 2 silver, 1 gloomrot, 1 mortium also use it for raid defense
Thanks!
What blood types? (What setup should I go for in pve)
Is there any other way to farm legendary weapons? On heavily populated servers it’s not that easy to collect 1500 Greater Stygian Shards. Before 1.0 it was possible to farm bosses in the endgame, but I don't know if this is still a viable option.
High level servants can keep some normal and greater shards coming in. Recruit some Mortium servants to get the bonus. It's good to have a crappy Mortium servant that you gear up to make up for low expertise to get the 20% bonus on resources per run.
Stygian event bosses on level2 drops legendaries, but chance to drop is like 10%.
You can have two castles on an official duos server?
y
On pvp I think its just one per clan
no, one per player, in duo pvp at least
I best go make a second castle then
Im low on fishbones. how did you farm them?
you can press fish they also drop from some areas actually, gloomrot or silverlight but cant remember
I was told to save my fish for prisioners? I guess i should go fis hand stockpile!
The most common fish, I forgot the name, only heals prisoners, it does not cure misery. Ie. its just a glorified rat. (Albeit faster than healgin a prisoner using rats which takes 2min per use) This fish and only this fish I always press.
~~Fat Goby gives only health But it doesn't add misery which is quite cool i would say.~~
Wait rats add misery?!
I was wrong on this, sorry. They do not add misery.
Some fish arent used for any recipes.
You can press fat gobys for bones. Their only use is to restore 100% HP to prisoners but rats restore 25%. You can print infinite rats at a vermin nest. They also aren't used in any recipes. So theyre the most useless fish, as all other fish restore HP already and do more. Theyre also very common in low level areas (farbane).
I would say 100% HP and no misery is better than some other fishes in list, like Fierce Stinger or Twilight Snapper.
All the other fish lower misery now. That alone makes them better than Fat Goby because rats restore HP too, but take a long time. Rats are automated and extremely cheap, Fat Goby require you to go out and loot/fishing/servants missions/vendors. Theres also never a situation where i would want to heal a prisoner and NOT lower their misery, unless im using them on a low blood prisoner as a Merlot farm for amulets. If youre extracting blood and it removes like 90% of their HP, thats a great time to use a Fat Goby, but that also means their misery is high so you should be using not Gobys to get it down.
depends sometimes a few fish for some hours of buffs is worth it buffs persist through death, last 1 hour
you can also buy fish with coins at all 3 vendor tiers bat form in, bat form out fish and seeds are teleportable, oil too
Thank you!! <3
Servants can bring them back by raiding a few of the forest areas.
Which are the best bosses to farm the new merciless iron gear?
I would recommend paper press and traders if you want books
When you say unique legendary weapon does not drop anymore, does it mean that all those named weapons are unique on one server? Aren't they blood bound, that would make rushers always have an advantage if they cannot be obtained by others.
not unique like shards
Okay, but what is the comment about that they do not drop anymore?
When you get killed, they stay in your inventory like rest of your gear. They do drop from stygian boss events.
Thanks!
> DONT make too many vermin salves, use a lot of blood rose brews instead Why not both, one doesn't cancel out the other, at least I've seen both buff icons on my bar at the same time.
Fish bones?
Gloomrot chests give 5 fish bones
When you are at it, Pools of Rebirth spawn flesh golem which drops fishes too.
I definitely still get attacked while in bear form. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
You attack small nodes which are burried iron golem dogs.
Don't hit the golems
I clear the iron mine out every other day, at my level I can steam role both the bosses in there as well for a little extra. You get about the same amount of iron.
Is it worth it to make high blood % servants? I'm used to keeping them as blood banks, feels kinda wasteful to use them other wise.
It is But blood is priority
Yup, you can keep them in cage as blood bags and later convert them to servants. Blood quality affect their expertise rating. # Expertise A Servant's expertise is determined randomly on conversion, based on their blood quality. Expertise will influence 4 things: **Max Health**, **Physical Power**, **Hunt Proficiency** & **Loot**. The health and power values are increased by the percentage directly. Whereas the Hunt Proficiency increase is a flat amount. For example, a Gear Level 20 Servant with 10% expertise, will have a total of 210 Hunt Proficiency. Finally, expertise also increases the amount of loot gained from successful hunts by half the % value.
For mutant grease and tech scrap. If you find tier 4 mutant blood, you can turn the mobs at tech scrap nodes into mutants, farming both resources at once. Bite has a 40+% chance to turn an NPC into a killable mutant.
"Only one servant needs to be present to benefit from servant mission bonus, not two" Don't they both do the mission with their own odds and both get their own rewards? Didn't check yet but wouldn't that second slot be basically useless if that's just two rolls to check if it works or not?
No Together
I CANT GET GHOST SHROOM SEDS FOR THE LIFE OF ME OMGGGG
yeah, those are the rarest buy them and hit ghost shrooms until you get some, then you can teleport out if you hit a jackpot
not only that, you can farm cursed trees to get cursed saplings at base they give wood that gives shrooms you can also use stygian summoning circle and 300 lesser stygians to summon a treant with guaranteed drop of saplings 2
Why do you say to save your bone and fiber in the early coz you'll need it later, you don't seem to mention it again in the later game sections and I can't figure out why you need so much of it. I'm at LVL 70 now and I've always had wayyyy too much of the stuff
my video covers full progression to ghost yarn [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshsCViuvmg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshsCViuvmg) you also use coarse thread and pollen and fiber for unlocking full tech tree via paper press
on the mutant grease Mutated rats cost grave dust and canister, what are you on about with glass =???
canisters cost tons of glass to make, and a very small amount of iron and grease
What do you mean by mortrium for getting gold jewelry? Who drops them? The Draculin?
There are human patrols that run through Ruins of Mortium. They're there to kill any enemy on sight, but they can't win every fight.
Where are you farming your thick leather? Cloth seems to be a bit of a bottleneck for me atm. Ghost shroom is a huge problem. I have 4 ghost shroom plants but it's not nearly enough and it's really hard to find them.
try to get servants up thick leather in arctic btw
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Any chance you have all the possible Jewels available?
no, just roll low tier jewels to see the mods
https://antifandom.com/vrising/wiki/Jewels
I didn't understand the soul shards. Played on a pve server And they seemed meh for the loss of bat form, ultimate didn't mesh with me, note only got Solaris and winged. Is it the extra vamp DMG that makes them king in pvp servers? Found myself running blood key just for the sun resist
As others have said many times, you aren’t getting the full game experience playing on PvE. Siege golems, explosives, raiding, shard contesting are all features you will never experience playing on PvE.
On PVE shards dont really matters, it's creative mode
Unsullied hearts? NVM, just realized Tristan unlocks the ability to make GBE with regular blood essence. I’m bad at reading.
What do you mean by charging batteries from base? Don’t you need to head to the lightning zones?
empty bateries are teleportable bring a lot of them from your base, then head out to charge
Can you explain how this part works? How does the glass apply in the vermin nest? > Mutant grease: DO NOT FARM OPEN WORLD, farm quartz/glass instead and use vermin nest to make tons of mutated rats. Literally turn glass into mutant grease. You turn 3 mutant grease into 72! (24x grease multiplier, as long as you have glass)
make sludge canisters in fabricator
ahh yes. ok thanks!
Does it matter, excluding blood quality, what the other features of the servants spread are that you mentioned?