Getting swirling shadows: Easy

[Trelad]

As a 65 ranger i have been having no problem farming them in twilight getting like 2-3 stacks and hr ish. I basically clear the island in about 4 minutes. Only time i have trouble is when i get like 10-15 lifetapping for 100 every 10 seconds lol, that hurts but can always manage to kill all but like 2-3 before im down to like 30%, then i just root and destroy em with my bow in like 3 hits. Its not bad.

[Raamil]

As a 65 druid it's a little slower, but I can round them all up with ensnare and mass kite them all down with my quad spell. Takes about 10 min from start to finish, takes longer to ensnare them all than to kite. They really hurt with taps even at 65 and moderate gear. I have died by getting stuck in a tree and mass tapped. It's really fun getting a cleric to come rez you in a zone full of greens

[Eggborn]

This is very fun for shadow knights. Even more fun once our pets start to lifetap.

The undead part of them is nice too, espeically if you clear the place and are waiting for repops. I usually use sense the dead to get to them extra fast.

Once a sk gets spirit tap (150 lifetap) they now have the lifetap that the shaodws do. RIGHT BACK AT YA PUNK!! hehe

[Meirril]

Not exactly easy, but possibly more rewarding.
In the fort in Maiden's Eye the shadow type mobs there drop swirling shadow at a higher rate than either of the other two zones. At the right level its good xp, and faster than doing the island.

[Mahrk_Lonefeather]

I farmed Twilight for swirling shadows at level 57. The greater shadows and the named ones all repeatedly lifetapped for 150; the lesser ones for 135. Fortunately, my polished obsidian tomahawk proc'd a lot, protecting me from the lifetaps quite a bit. After a while, I started noticing that if a shadow didn't get a lifetap off before it died, it usually dropped two swirling shadows. If it got one lifetap off, it would usually drop one swirling shadow. And if it lifetapped multiple times, it didn't drop any swirling shadows. But I didn't keep close enough track to see if this was happening every time. Coincidence? Who knows.

[Brickhaus]

I farmed Twilight for swirling shadows at level 57. The greater shadows and the named ones all repeatedly lifetapped for 150; the lesser ones for 135. Fortunately, my polished obsidian tomahawk proc'd a lot, protecting me from the lifetaps quite a bit. After a while, I started noticing that if a shadow didn't get a lifetap off before it died, it usually dropped two swirling shadows. If it got one lifetap off, it would usually drop one swirling shadow. And if it lifetapped multiple times, it didn't drop any swirling shadows. But I didn't keep close enough track to see if this was happening every time. Coincidence? Who knows.

As a druid with KEI, I'd usually just single nuke the shadows to death. I'd get resisted about 1/4 of the time, but I never noticed a pattern about which ones dropped 2 or 1 or None. After reading your message, I went back to checking again for lifetap/shadows dropped pattern. In 8 clearings of the Island, it seemed pretty random to me.

Brickhaus

[Rabdos]

OK, so you can get lots of swirling shadows in Twilight Sea. Where can you get mass quantities of wailing & shrieking substance?

54, almost 55 SK, so I'll get a new undead nuke & bobbing corpse (self levitate). I went by the shade island a couple of levels ago and they were mostly green with a few of the greater shades blue.

[Kieroth_whiteleaf]

Edit: My reply is directed at previous poster regarding wailing/shrieking rather than swirling shadows.. you can't get SS in HSM :P --sfg

Best place I've noted is (like everyone else says) the south island in HSM. That's the only place where I've found any quantity of drops.

Farming it for about an hour or so at level 57 (warrior) I get roughly a stack. I've found the fastest way to do it (being melee) is to run around and get as many as possible on you (usually I attack to draw aggro, move to the next one, rinse, repeat until I get about 10 on me) face them and attack.. the extra damage I get from ripostes softens them up a little bit and I can kill the lot within about a minute or two.. that nets usually 1-2 drops. A Bard could probably do well there playing an aoe dot to get aggro and then meleeing the crap outta them.

I hear the usual caster tactic is similar to what I do only use an aoe spell once you've gotten enough of them on you. As usual, each class is a little different on that sort of thing.

SFG