Battle Blade/Sundered Blade drops

[Egat Bearskinner]

Please forgive the post, I've had no luck running searches here.

I'm trying to evolve my last trophy and have been doing 2-cam treant bows as a path. I seem to remember ages ago a post about a location where cam parts (battle/sundered blade types) could be gotten as a ground spawn.

Is my memory clear on this? Or am I sentenced to slowly farming the drops in the Devastation and bazaar?

Alternatively, can anyone suggest an easier path for evolving the trophy?

[Zaltak]

Easyer but alot more expensive method is Energetic bows.Three silver conduits to make a large core etc.

[Elyssanda]

groundspawn in devastation. They look like a black rock on the ground with red lines (music notes if you look closely) Much cheaper than silver conduit which requires Sunshard ore, which you will have to farm mobs or bazaar for.

[Egat Bearskinner]

Thanks Elyssanda, I knew someone here would be able to help me!

Onward! 42% left to go!

[Gorse]

They can also be foraged in the same zones (Devistation and Rage).



Gorse

[Egat Bearskinner]

I spent two hours running around the zone looking for groundspawns and discovered two facts.

1. The sundered blade shards now look like a small, light grey rock.

2. They seem fairly rare, I got a bunch of other items though!


Does anyone know if they spawn in a fixed location or is it in random areas?

[Gorse]

I spent two hours running around the zone looking for groundspawns and discovered two facts.

1. The sundered blade shards now look like a small, light grey rock.

2. They seem fairly rare, I got a bunch of other items though!


Does anyone know if they spawn in a fixed location or is it in random areas?

You might want to search through the old posts from when PoR was released, there was a lot of discussion then.

From what I recall, they have an area where they will spawn, for example, as you zone into Devistation from E Freeport (the statue in the back of the arena) There is a ruined fortification to the left past the quest NPC. I recall finding the ground spawn for that on the west and north sides of the wall (outside) and several locations inside the fortification.


Your best bet is to run invis and keep an eye out for the ground spawns while dodging all the undead and see invis.



Gorse

[Tobynn]

Easyer but alot more expensive method is Energetic bows.Three silver conduits to make a large core etc.

Expensive to make, yet merchants buy these energeiac items back at big platz $$. In the end, it ends up to be a fairly reasonable expense.

[Gorse]

Expensive to make, yet merchants buy these energeiac items back at big platz $$. In the end, it ends up to be a fairly reasonable expense.

"Big platz $$" being close to, but still less than the amount of plat you put into each combine (and that is assuming farming the ore). Also this does not account for failures, which get very costly.

It's not a path I would recommend unless you have plat to throw at the problem tradeskill.



Gorse

[Tobynn]

Um, yeah. Obviously, the sellback value is less than the materials cost. Funny how Ngreth kinda sticks with that format on every recipe for every tradeskill.

As the OP is seeking final trophy evolution, a recipe with a 330 trivial should result in an overwhelming number of successful combines and very few failures.

[Egat Bearskinner]

I've decided to go with a bit of both types, buying the sunshard when the price is reasonable and gathering the sundered blade shards as I see them.

Thanks for the advice. Here's to finishing soon, cheers!

[Ngreth Thergn]

Um, yeah. Obviously, the sellback value is less than the materials cost. Funny how Ngreth kinda sticks with that format on every recipe for every tradeskill.

As the OP is seeking final trophy evolution, a recipe with a 330 trivial should result in an overwhelming number of successful combines and very few failures.

sorry I am not into creating infinite plat!

[Bonzz]

Infinite Plat

LOL Negreth.

I always figured the logic for this "reverse realism" was just that.

By reverse realism, I mean that if I am a craftsman making stuff, I am most certainly going to sell it for at LEAST what it cost me to make to start with.

So rather than making these items a Plat Loss... ever consider making them a Plat recoup (even stevens)?

After all, players are still going to loose plat on fails.

[Ngreth Thergn]

LOL Negreth.

I always figured the logic for this "reverse realism" was just that.

By reverse realism, I mean that if I am a craftsman making stuff, I am most certainly going to sell it for at LEAST what it cost me to make to start with.

So rather than making these items a Plat Loss... ever consider making them a Plat recoup (even stevens)?

After all, players are still going to loose plat on fails.

well. while I understand that, and totally agree that it is backwards.

This issue is that tradeskills can be done as fast as you can click buttons.

So it becomes a way to generate huge amounts of plat in the game. Something we do not want.

It gets even worse when you figure in the third party programs that we all hate. With those you can create thousands of plat in a very short amount of time (depending on the profit point)

[gggrant]

Please forgive the post, I've had no luck running searches here.

I'm trying to evolve my last trophy and have been doing 2-cam treant bows as a path. I seem to remember ages ago a post about a location where cam parts (battle/sundered blade types) could be gotten as a ground spawn.

Is my memory clear on this? Or am I sentenced to slowly farming the drops in the Devastation and bazaar?

Alternatively, can anyone suggest an easier path for evolving the trophy?

By making Oak Treant Laminate Recurve Bow Staffs (triv 322) and using them to make Oak Treant Laminate Recurve Bows (triv 302), I suspect you can get your trophy fully evolved quicker (although with more combines). The nice thing is that the bow does not require any cams, just a bowstring.

I may be wrong about this but I recall being able to farm the oak branches and horse hooves a whole lot faster than the blades required for the cams.