Animist solo farming creep and......?

So 20 vers or 20 arb?

Does the low level tangled help at all?

Tue 30 Jul 2019 1:27 PM by Moid

20 stealth.

In other words the sub spec doesn’t matter. The most effective solo Animist farming technique I’ve found is setting up in a spot where your baseline shrooms can pull mobs consistently over a long period of time while you sit back and cast a new shroom every 10-20 seconds. Your main creeping pet has a snare and will take aggro from your stack so the mobs will rarely hit any of your pets. Here’s a diagram of the technique...

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The stack pulls, mob runs to stack. Once the mob reaches the stack the main pet draws aggro and the mob charges past the stack and heads for the main pet. By the time the mob reaches the main pet the mob is dead. This works for mobs which con up to high orange and very low red if the mob is weak to the pet spell damage type. If the mobs are resistant against the damage type then you will have to limit yourself to orange con mobs or maybe even low orange con mobs.

Once established the Animist does the following until bags are full. Stand...Cast shroom...Sit...(wait 15 secs)...<repeat>

If you are really good then you’ve skilled salvaging and can work in a /salvagbag occasionally. If you’re smart then you brought along a merchant and a vault and cleaned out your vault before hand. You also brought mana regen pots. If you took a little time to RvR then you have Serenity, MCL, and even raging power and can work in using MCL occasionally. If you have everything above then there is no downtime and your only problem is dealing with full bags.

It’s a little different kind of farming, it’s slow and steady rather than burst pulling an entire camp like a Shaman would do but it is very effective and extremely efficient. Unfortunately it is also a little monotonous and if you aren’t well rested can put you to sleep which nearly happened to me on several occasions.

Tue 30 Jul 2019 2:03 PM by Eidorf

Personally I don't use the main pet at all, it will get agro and die giving the agro to me which causes issues.

My personal method is...

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I normally place my stack just out of agro range and let the Spore Cannon just pull everything (it has longer range so can get the mobs at the back of the pack). If the mobs are not very densely packed then I won't leave any distance at all, i'll just plonk my stack in the middle of the mobs using the same strategy.

The above applies to yellow and orange mobs that don't hit very hard, for harder mobs (Fins for example) I use another strat entirely.

You don't need 50 creep either, split spec creep/verd works just fine if you have good power management.

Tue 30 Jul 2019 2:09 PM by Kurbsen

39 verd 37 creep. Put forest hearts at your feet, then put grove executioner 300 units from you, then put spore jet like 1000-1400 units from you to do all the pulling. You main pet will keep aggro, keep your stack up forest hearts up and you can also pbae off your main shroom when wanted.

Tue 30 Jul 2019 2:20 PM by gotwqqd

I went 50 creep
Before my free respec runs out @50 I want to make sure 20 xxxxis right choice

Does 20 verd help with the pet healing and the damage absorption pet buffs?

Any upside to putting 20 in arb?

Tue 30 Jul 2019 5:53 PM by vilcleft

45 creep, rest verd has been my staple spec of choice, although the 39 creep 37 verd also works well or 45 creep 7 arb rest verd

gives me enough verd to farm cash by blowing up swarms of greens and enough creep to chain farm reds and low purps without me feeling the need to use pots or tinderboxes

Everyone has their own style when it comes down to it

Tue 30 Jul 2019 9:11 PM by gotwqqd

Eidorf wrote: ↑
Tue 30 Jul 2019 2:03 PM
Personally I don't use the main pet at all, it will get agro and die giving the agro to me which causes issues.

My personal method is...

Mobs
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Stack including one Spore Cannon
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Animist

I normally place my stack just out of agro range and let the Spore Cannon just pull everything (it has longer range so can get the mobs at the back of the pack). If the mobs are not very densely packed then I won't leave any distance at all, i'll just plonk my stack in the middle of the mobs using the same strategy.

The above applies to yellow and orange mobs that don't hit very hard, for harder mobs (Fins for example) I use another strat entirely.

You don't need 50 creep either, split spec creep/verd works just fine if you have good power management.

So why creep at all?

Wed 31 Jul 2019 2:49 PM by bigne88

Sooo mani missleading infos here.
Go full arbo rest wathever. Is besto for both farming and 8v8.
Why? Arbo pet is the one making more DPS and points in creep wont help you saving mana.

Btw I'm off fron NF patch, maybe there was some huge animist arbo nerf.

Wed 31 Jul 2019 4:10 PM by Eidorf

bigne88 wrote: ↑
Wed 31 Jul 2019 2:49 PM
Sooo mani missleading infos here.
Go full arbo rest wathever. Is besto for both farming and 8v8.
Why? Arbo pet is the one making more DPS and points in creep wont help you saving mana.

Btw I'm off fron NF patch, maybe there was some huge animist arbo nerf.

I'm sure Arbo can farm but its not better than creeping for pure farming efficiency. In the end its comes down to keeping a shroom stack up and creeping simply does that the best. No misleading info in this thread other than the post above.