Shadowscream Farming 223-267

[Airl]

I farmed up ~130 swirling shadows last night, and I was wondering how many it would realistically take to get smithing up to 267?

I haven't even started on the substances for the orbs yet, as I need to read up on how to trigger the Hollowshade war.

My toon is a half-elf Bard, so no Blue Diamond cultural for me.

Thanks in advance.

[Qaladar Bragollach]

If you average 20 combines per skill up, you can consider it a good run.

Thus I'd estimate you'll need somewhere in the neighborhood of 900 combines worth of materials for 223-267. Maybe less if you're lucky, maybe more if you're not.

[Nolrog]

Given the fact that skill ups are coming harder at the higher levels these days, I think you'd do great if it was "only" 900. Expect more in the line of 1500 (which would be about 35 per skill up.)

[Airl]

Wow that is a lot of farming considering 1800 shadows, 900 wailing, and 900 shrieking substances!

Thx for the reality check.

[Wystler]

I'm finished with this process finally.

687/24 = 28.625 combines per skill up. I've got Smith Mastery 3 and Salvage 3 and 15% gloves. I never make a skill up run without Wunshi and a Str of 450. I may have failed 23'ish times in that entire 687 run.

I'm so sick of of Hollowshade that the meer idea of farming more parts makes me want to camp out for the night.

When figuring out how many you'll need, something else to consider aside from Fails/Salvages is that you'll need to move to parts that use more than two swirling shadows later on. You'll never really go wrong farming and extra stack of two of the shadows though cause when I'm on a run, I pay dearly for them. Anything I can do to cut the farming of this stuff is plat well spent imo.

EDIT: Edited in my 167 combines and their skill ups (I got one skill up doing a meldstone for a guildy). I'm now at base 267 before mod gloves, I've destroyed my Vah Shir hammer and anvil and going to go get drunk.

[Xulan]

Wow that is a lot of farming considering 1800 shadows, 900 wailing, and 900 shrieking substances!

Thx for the reality check.

Don't forget that your combines will eventually require 3 shadows per combine for the final stretch.

[MatthyasL]

I hate shadowscream, I hate shadowscream, I hate shadowscream! Has anyone had any other effective smithing routes? I tried master DoN armor, but I failed a mass combine of 6 which is trivial of 182 (I was at the time 254 with Geerlok and I have smithing mastery level 3). The few combines I succeeded on that armor too are still trying to sell. It seems to me the only other serious option is Mistmoore cutting sickles. Does anyone have any other recommendations?

[Phantron]

I went back to doing Tae Ew stuff because making sickles is too much of a pain and hurts my hand.

Mastery and modified skill do not decrease minimum chance to fail.

[Secone]

Pure Enchanted Velium Bar

[Astroshak]

That is one seriously expensive combine there ... and I thought MCS's were expensive!

[Arfyak Reflux]

That is one seriously expensive combine there ... and I thought MCS's were expensive!

795p+ a combine...

[Phantron]

Infernal Scepters are like 2k per combine! All storebought though!

[Cyrint Aircaller]

I went back to doing Tae Ew stuff because making sickles is too much of a pain and hurts my hand.

Mastery and modified skill do not decrease minimum chance to fail.

Tae ew chain armor is good, im even making a profit selling it

[Shadowpyre]

Infernal Scepters are like 2k per combine! All storebought though!

Do these have any resell value to vendors?? I ate 600k++ on gem studded chains and only got to 298 before I gave up.

[Phantron]

I highly doubt they've any resale values at all. It's not a good method to skillup unless you've a few million plat to burn.