Acrylia Farming

[Taqwus]

Where the best place to farm for the Blocks of Acrylia and the Pelts needed
I am a 62 Druid

[Perseverence Rewarded]

The pelts are easy in DSP if the rockhoppers own the cave. If they don't then either kill the Sambata tribal leader to reset the cave or go to Mons Letalis to kill rockhoppers there.
For Acrylia, opinions very as to where is best. Personally I go to TM and farm the Grol Baku/Crag Ligi soldiers and warlords. Drop rates fluctuate wildly. One day I bring home 30 bricks in a few hours another I bring home 6. Acrylia only drops from the Grol Baku btw(1-3 bricks). Windstones and Essence of Wind from the Crag Ligi.
I ALWAYS make 400-600 platinum from various gem drops and average 2-4 windstones and 4-8 essence of wind with a 3 hour KEI.
I have noticed that windstones drop best in the mines from Grimmling ore finders. Acrylia also drops well from the Grimmling Laborer. As an added bonus I have looted the Grimmling Runners Pack(for Rallic Pack quest) 6 or 7 times now while farming in TM.

Edited for spelling and zone names ops:

[Pockets FullOfGold]

Funny thing while farming Rockhoppers last night. For some reason a Sambata Tribal Worker kept spawning in one of the Rockhopper spawn points in the DSP Caves. I even saw the Sambata spawn on top of the Rockhopper. The Worker immediately attacked the Rockhoppers near him. Each time I saw him up and killing a Rockhopper, I made sure he died before he killed the Hopper, thus giving me an extra chance for the Superbs and Flawless I was looking for.

I don't know how this change came to be but it's a nuisance.

And btw, the spawn rates of the PH's for the Age Old and Garn in the Rockhopper/Sambata caves seems to have changed. Prior to LoY the spawn rate of the Sambata Tribal Keeper was 23 Minutes. On Tuesday Night when I was trying to get Sambata Tribal Leader Garn to spawn, the Keeper was spawning in under 10 minutes.

Pockets FullOfGold

[Taqwus]

What is teh expected drop rates in Mons Letalis

[Perseverence Rewarded]

I went soloing so didn't venture to deep into the zone. Drops were a little under DSP rate. I only spent about 6 hours in zone total for 2 visits. Lots of adds cause line of sight sucks here. Lots of falling damage also.

[Darklens]

I used to hunt Letalis for Exp... the skins were a bonus! I got quite a few HQ and some Flawlwss and Superb... I'd say I got a Flawless or a superb out of every 5 kills... That was quite a while ago so it may have changed! I always used Levitate. Also the Rockhoppers and Bugs aren't agro (except the tiny bugs) so if you don't bother them they will 'usually' not bother you. I reccomend you find a corner close to the Grey zone... fewer stonegrabbers...

[Pockets FullOfGold]

Update to the Rockhopper Cave in DSP. I have found that the change to the spawn rate of the PH's and named for changing from Rockhoppers to Sambata's and back again is 12 minutes instead of 23, if anyone was wondering. I think the rest of the cave is on the same timer spawn but previously the PH was alot longer to respawn than the rest of the cave.

Pockets FullOfGold

[Morgrist]

You can also explode the entire grimling population in Hollowshade as well. Any of them can drop acrylia. You should be able to incinerate it without blinking twice. Destroy the entire village area-if grimlings are spawned elsewhere,I never saw any acrylia on them (could be just unlucky).

[Meirril]

Hollowshade moor stinks for acrylia drops. Its a rare drop there. Well, rare may be an understatement.

Killing lots of aliens in TM produced good results for acrylia drops, lots of peices and the occasional small/large brick or block. Grimling laborer is the best dropper in the zone for acrylia but is on a 10 min spawn timer. Paths between the 2 mines so you don't have to go in after it. Also Grimling Runner very commonly drops acrylia as well as the satchel you turn into Ralic for the pattern. Oh, don't bother the named aliens unless you want to clear the spawn for another PH, they don't share a drop table with their more regular brethern.

[Pojodan]

My experience has been about 1-2 peices/blocks of acrylia per clearing of the grimling caves, twice as much if you can clear both.. If I'm stuck with 1 due to someone else farming I'd just go out and take out some aliens that where in the area and would get one with 3 bricks from time to time.

Cash to be made is quite good.. even the acrylia runes that the grimlings drop are good cash.. you learn pretty quick which ones are the rarest, and those are the ones that are worth something (One kind being 9pp each),, gem drops are excelent along with windstones (Whom I give to a guildy).. there's even something called Luclinite that I can't find a use for but sells to vendors for 80pp.

Even if you're going to use the acrylia for yourself it's good cash to help afford future efforts or to buy pelts in order to skip farming them.

[slimb hcarvul]

Mines ..

In TM - would it be worth my while to go into the mines and kill the grimlings in there or should I just stick to the mobs that wander outside the mines and throughout the zone.

[Bennan]

If you are going to hunt the mines in T.M, I would strongly suggest the mine nearest Katta. As that one spawns a Grimling Labourer, which in my experience always drops some Acrylia.

Its a toss up between hunting the mines, or outside in the zone. At least with the mines, you get to sit in one spot more or less, in the zone itself, some travel maybe required.

[Pockets FullOfGold]

I have been hunting in TM for the last 5 months or so working on Acrylia Studded and Acrylia Reinforced. I have found that the Grimling Mines are better due to the fact that you can get alot of plat when you loot the different items the Grimlings Drop and then sell the items in Katta. As well, you don't have to worry about other mobs agroing on your when you are farming Acrylia in the caves. There have been times when the caves have been occupied and I've had to try to hunt down Grol Baku Soldiers and having to avoid the Sonic Wolves and Darkwing Bats is a pain.

Pockets FullOfGold

[Gryfalia]

Don't know why people haven't mentioned it, but Acrylia Caverns seems to be the best for acrylia.

Or am I missing something in the question?

Gryfalia

[Eumerin]

Might have something to do with the levels of the people posting. As a level 51 paladin, I know I won't be able to say much about Acrylia Caverns for a while.
I had a lowly Sambata Tribal Worker tear me up the other night (I whittled away about 2/3s of one bubble of his health, while he tore up over half my health bar - and that includes the heal I tossed on myself early on). Stepping foot into Acrylia would undoubtedly be suicide for me without a full sized group.
I've had a couple of sessions in Tenebrous. As a 51 paladin, I have no trouble clearing the outer areas of the caves. Unfortunately, each cave ends in an open area with about half a dozen grimlings lining the wall, and I've never had enough time to pull more than one (with careful use of Soothe) before the grimlings behind me start to respawn. I'd rather not root the things (get hit less often, after all), and since they always path to the cave entrance when they run, its in my best interests to go back and clear them out again. The only thing that gives me experience is the foreman, which spawns occasionally, but doesn't seem any more likely to drop acrylia.
Drops usually seem to average a piece every two or three times through the cave. Cash drops aren't bad, particularly when you get gemstones (windstones sell for the most, even to a vendor, although emberstones are only a step behind them). The only exception is the laborer, which always seems to drop at least one piece of acrylia. This grimling spawns in the cave closest to Katta and then runs to the other cave, where it will backstab anyone it finds fighting within. If you're in the cave closer to Grimling Forest, you can tell if anyone's in the other cave based on whether or not you see the laborer.
Its a fairly easy camp provided you don't get careless, and provided you have a way to deal with spellcasters (I've been hit for as much as 250 by the geomancers when my stuns don't go off quite right). Spellcasters in particular should do quite well. I was coming back from a supply run to Katta (to sell drops, fashion my first acrylia item - a cloak for the wis boost, and incidentally get 159 tailoring *cheer!*) and spotted a mage starting to clear the laborer cave (the one closer to Katta). I went back to the other cave (where I had been clearing for a while) and after I had killed only two or three mobs, the same mage wandered in to check on the status of my cave.
Yes, certain classes will do much better here than others, but that's hardly a surprise...