Farming
Numbers are the author's tally over ~15 runs each — not datamined rates. Your RNG will disagree with this table. That is farming.
| Source | Targets | Runs/hr | Yield | Danger | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunken Cathedral (hidden dungeon) | Tidesinger's Vigil pieces, Pearl of the Undertow | 4 | ~1.6 set pieces / hr | ●●●●● | Best gear/hour if you can stomach underwater combat. Reset at the altar, not the entrance. |
| Drowned Arsenal (hidden dungeon) | Weapon billets, Deepcurrent, Tidecaller Bell | 3 | ~0.9 billets / hr | ●●●●● | Weapon billet farm. Slower than commissions for merits but you cannot buy billets. |
| Ashen Colossus (world boss) | Ashborn Ward pieces, Cinder Eye, Ember billet | 2 | ~1 set piece / hr + chance at amulet | ●●●●● | Respawn timer seems to be 40 min but nobody has confirmed it. Waiting on data. |
| Cinderpeak elite loop | Quarrybreaker, Ashborn Fang, ore | 12 | ~2.4 SR weapons / hr | ●●●●● | The classic "podcast loop". Five elites in a circle, fast travel back, repeat. |
| Hollow Marsh elite loop | Frostbind pieces, shadow pearls | 10 | ~1.8 set pieces / hr | ●●●●● | Easier than Cinderpeak, worse drops. Good while watching something. |
| Commission board spam | Merits → enhancement stones & Harborlight | 8 | ~800 merits / hr | ●●●●● | Boring. Reliable. Funds every enhancement past +10. The real endgame is spreadsheets. |
| Skyway parkour chests | Skypath Runner pieces | 6 | ~1.2 pieces / hr | ●●●●● | Fun once. Then you learn the routes and it becomes a job. Still faster than world boss RNG. |
Recommended Loops
Tide Gear Loop (Chapter 5+) ~28 min per loop
- Teleport: Sunken Shelf — West buoy
- Clear Drowned Arsenal (skip optional rooms, 7 min)
- Swim north to Undertow Matriarch if spawned; else skip
- Sunken Cathedral reset run (12 min)
- Teleport back, vendor trash, repeat
✓ Author tested · author main loop, 60+ rotations
Cinder Ore & SR Loop ~22 min per loop
- Teleport: Cinderpeak — lower camp
- Five-elite circle (Cinder Widow → forge → ridge)
- Mine every node on the ridge (ores fund everything)
- Colossus if up, else restart loop
⚠️ Community dispute：The eternal argument: dungeons (RNG hope) vs commission spam (guaranteed merits). Speedrunners say dungeons; the +12 enhancement bill says commissions. Do both, alternate, stay sane.
💬 Editor's note: I keep a literal paper notebook for drop tallies. People asked why not a spreadsheet. The notebook does not crash. The notebook does not judge me.
Shipwreck Log
“Grinded the underwater dungeon 43 times for this helm. Give up and do commissions, trust me.”
“"Unlimited gear grinding with no stamina" sounds great until hour six of the Cinderpeak loop. Then it sounds like a job. A job I paid for. 10/10.”
📌 World boss respawn timers (both Colossus and Matriarch) are crowd-sourced guesses right now. Waiting for a bigger contributor with a stopwatch.