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I've been farming shissar scales a lot recently so I decided to write a guide to do it.
Shissar scales are used in some culture's Master armor. 1 shissar scale can combine for leather arms for up to tailoring 290. Past that you'd need 3 scales at once for either leg or bp. If you somehow have an abundant supply of crushed diamond dust you can also use scales for blacksmithing via Master augments.
Some basic stuff about Shissars:
Shissars have relatively low HP, normalish DPS (for PoP and later era), but high AC. DS and spells works well on them.
They all summon
They have a tiny assist range
Now the snakes you want are the live ones, which can be tell by the fact that live snakes always wear clothing (and conversely undead ones never do). The type you want are Temple Patrollers which are alive and only repop as Temple Patrollers. The following is a pretty optimal path to get all the patrollers in the 1st level (well if you can kill faster than I can then you can always try to find more to kill)
1. Entance: 4 patrollers, 1 temple guard (live). Unlike other temple guards, this one always repops as temple guard. The two sitting by the door can be singled by pulling them from the side, or invis pasting them and then pull the one on the right of the door from inside.
2. Head toward the basement. You'll come across a small area with 4 patrollers, 2 on right and 2 on left. These can be singled by either invising behind them and start hitting it (watch push), or if you're gutsy you can simply make a quick turn and go to the snake you want to hit before the one on the other side can see you. The ideal place to fight the snakes is on the wall that they're facing away from, but you need to be a class with a good knockback to do this. Don't even think about trying to move the snakes here, because all that will do is bring more of its friends.
3. Room before Rhag 1 - This room has 8 temple patrollers. The setup is somewhat similar to the room before but with much wider space. Singling should be trivial, but if you've problems just invis first so the snake on the opposite side can't see you while you set up.
4. Elevator to basement - This room has 5 temple patrollers (2 at entrance, 3 by elevator) and 4 temple guard type (1 at each corner). Temple guard can repop as a temple guard, caster snake, an elite, and probably a commander as well. Elite, commander, and temple guards are alive but casters snakes are undead. There will be two by the entrance. To split these, invis past them and kill one of the snakes at a corner. Then, from there pull the closer one from the door and it will come single. Now proceed to kill the rest of the room. After killing 1 patroller by the entrance I go around the room first so that the respawns are spread out and next time I can just start from the entrance. If DPS is lacking, you can skip the 4 temple guard types in the corners and just go for the temple patrollers.
Now go back to entrance and repeat. Your actual mileage may vary depending on your DPS/solo ability. At the very least try to clear from rooms 1-3 because those are all guaranteed patroller spawns. Room 3 is the easiest to clear in terms of pull difficulty.
Shissar scales are used in some culture's Master armor. 1 shissar scale can combine for leather arms for up to tailoring 290. Past that you'd need 3 scales at once for either leg or bp. If you somehow have an abundant supply of crushed diamond dust you can also use scales for blacksmithing via Master augments.
Some basic stuff about Shissars:
Shissars have relatively low HP, normalish DPS (for PoP and later era), but high AC. DS and spells works well on them.
They all summon
They have a tiny assist range
Now the snakes you want are the live ones, which can be tell by the fact that live snakes always wear clothing (and conversely undead ones never do). The type you want are Temple Patrollers which are alive and only repop as Temple Patrollers. The following is a pretty optimal path to get all the patrollers in the 1st level (well if you can kill faster than I can then you can always try to find more to kill)
1. Entance: 4 patrollers, 1 temple guard (live). Unlike other temple guards, this one always repops as temple guard. The two sitting by the door can be singled by pulling them from the side, or invis pasting them and then pull the one on the right of the door from inside.
2. Head toward the basement. You'll come across a small area with 4 patrollers, 2 on right and 2 on left. These can be singled by either invising behind them and start hitting it (watch push), or if you're gutsy you can simply make a quick turn and go to the snake you want to hit before the one on the other side can see you. The ideal place to fight the snakes is on the wall that they're facing away from, but you need to be a class with a good knockback to do this. Don't even think about trying to move the snakes here, because all that will do is bring more of its friends.
3. Room before Rhag 1 - This room has 8 temple patrollers. The setup is somewhat similar to the room before but with much wider space. Singling should be trivial, but if you've problems just invis first so the snake on the opposite side can't see you while you set up.
4. Elevator to basement - This room has 5 temple patrollers (2 at entrance, 3 by elevator) and 4 temple guard type (1 at each corner). Temple guard can repop as a temple guard, caster snake, an elite, and probably a commander as well. Elite, commander, and temple guards are alive but casters snakes are undead. There will be two by the entrance. To split these, invis past them and kill one of the snakes at a corner. Then, from there pull the closer one from the door and it will come single. Now proceed to kill the rest of the room. After killing 1 patroller by the entrance I go around the room first so that the respawns are spread out and next time I can just start from the entrance. If DPS is lacking, you can skip the 4 temple guard types in the corners and just go for the temple patrollers.
Now go back to entrance and repeat. Your actual mileage may vary depending on your DPS/solo ability. At the very least try to clear from rooms 1-3 because those are all guaranteed patroller spawns. Room 3 is the easiest to clear in terms of pull difficulty.
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