TOPK Farm for ecto's

**NOTE: Due to an update in March 2011 that changed the spawns, this farm is no longer functional - Marty**





Found this build on youtube, its for a sin a/me to farm the 6 foes(banished dream riders(3) and terrorwebs(3)) on the 1st level of Topk over and over...

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Very easy build to use and a simple farm. I decided to keep all my data from the runs to see how much loot I could make...

They're a bit skittish if u stand next to them so for an easy pull death charge over the wall and run to the west wall and then run back to where u jumped in to ball them up..then u can ether and cop them as a group.

Runs done 201
Foes killed 1206
Ectos 23

Drop rate approx (1:52)

Its about a 2 min run, the most I did was 27 runs in an hour...

So it works out to 3.1 ecto an hour on average.

Got two double drops i.e. 2 ecto dropped from the six on one run.

Best run was 4 ecto in 8 runs or 16 mins.

Not a bad farm very easy to do and the profits not too bad either. Have a fun and good luck let me know if u get a triple drop!!

Looks interesting. I thought cry was nerfed?

How do u get the skill template to show as icons? or is it my browser ?

In 1 hour you can make ~10k, not bad, but not good either.

Is this done in HM or NM?

3 ectos at 6.5k to 7k lately check your maths champ thats 20k per hour.

Quote: Originally Posted by gmonster2

3 ectos at 6.5k to 7k lately check your maths champ thats 20k per hour. I would say ecto's are ~6k that's to newly revived UWSC and the famous Plains Farm.

Your killing 6 enemies, RARE DROP RATES DROP from continuous farming. Taking into consideration after 1 hour you can get 3 drops, the next you could get 0. Also, you didn't explain the time you spent in towns running to the portal. Lastly, HM or NM?

Don't lash at me because I said it wasn't good. Plains Farm is good (lots of money), farming Norlani is a bad (low money) farm.

Thats still not very good.

W/Me Smite Farmer. 8-10 min runs, 1k cost. Thats -6k an hr, and probably closer to 6 ectos an hr... sounds better to me. Sure, you fail more, but its still gonna smash topk. + its not the best build out there either.

guys, please dont try to critisize such a fabulous farm, we dont want anyones feelings hurt...

if that build is working well enough, yeah, you would be best off running to the plains, its just much more profitable... TOPK is a good place to learn how to run that kind of farm as it costs you nothing to do it. but for profit... UW my friend...

Quote: Originally Posted by Luminarus

Thats still not very good.

W/Me Smite Farmer. 8-10 min runs, 1k cost. Thats -6k an hr, and probably closer to 6 ectos an hr... sounds better to me. Sure, you fail more, but its still gonna smash topk. + its not the best build out there either. Actually if you do it right its at least 2 ectos per run so 12k per 8min but you need to train alot and even then it will still be risky.

Quote: Looks interesting. I thought cry was nerfed? Not really, still has good synergy with Ether Nightmare, or any other hex.

Hey no problems guys its a discussion forum I threw it out there for poeple to try. THose times are including zoning towns etc...its not bad in my books.

I've done some smite farms took me about 30 mins with warrior/rit build and was averaging 1 or 2 ectos so not so great and a friend was getting the same had a few runs with no ecto at all both of us. smites are 1:50 drop rate so how many are there down there anyone got a count??

I did a planes clear with my sos rit every single last thing on there and got one ecto! sure we cant base it on one run and if theres about 200-250 foes up there and the drop rate is 1:50 which i suspect it is then u would get about 4-5 an hour, from what ive read on the new planes redux build. We need to compare things properly not just talk about a few good runs.

The 8-10 mins smite runs? i'd like to see that

I plan on getting some planes numbers soon.

My numbers are dinkum some people like to brag a little on their times and drops. In theory planes would be averaging 4 to 5 ectos so it all depends on the speed poeple can clear it and that includes the chamber and getting up there and the scrolls are now 1.9k to get in. didnt the guy who posted the build say it takes him an hour?

With more practise if i got 30 runs in one hour thats 180 foes killed how many are on the planes 200? if it takes one hour and the mindblades drop ratesa re the same as banished it wont be far off will it?

What I like about this farm as well as most of my other farm build I use it that it is pretty mindless. You don't have to pay attention the whole time and you can do other things. That is what I like, if you do make a mistake or lag out you don't lose the entrance fee to UW. Just did 3 runs this morning. Maybe took 10 minutes to zone in out etc and got one ecto and a couple purples. Just another viable ecto farm for those looking for one.

I'm back just did a census of the planes

Skeles 7
Wailing lords 21
Banished dream riders 15
Mindblade spectres 161

Give or take, it was a bit chaotic on the chaos planes , got 3 ectos nice..

Total 204 ecto droppers if all drop rates are 1:50 the average should be 4 ectos a run.

Anyone got any times for the new redux runs?

cheers...

A farming I will go, A farming I will go.. Thanks for the post

zodiac meter; I thought u thought farming was borring, ecto rate stays the same.
all builds are generalky nm for ectos because no difference in drop rate.
nice buikd op quite fast but topk is useless for ecto

Quote: Originally Posted by gmonster2

I'm back just did a census of the planes

Skeles 7
Wailing lords 21
Banished dream riders 15
Mindblade spectres 161

Give or take, it was a bit chaotic on the chaos planes , got 3 ectos nice..

Total 204 ecto droppers if all drop rates are 1:50 the average should be 4 ectos a run.

Anyone got any times for the new redux runs?

cheers... I did a planes run last night and got 8 ectos. Don't know how long it took because I didn't bother to keep track but 1 run is 1 run. Either you do it in 30 minutes or take 1 hour it's still 1 run and I got 8 ectos out of it. Not too shabby if I say so myself.

I stopped doing ToPK a long time ago. It's just not worth my time.

Just thought I'd chuck some more data on the pile.
"Same build" just use Way of Master and Critical agility as my energy management, but still Cry of Pain and Ether Prodigy as only source of damage.

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Time: 60min
Runs: 24 (getting faster as I go)
Kills: </=144 (on a couple of runs I only killed 5/6 due to scattering)
Ectos: 3 (1 on my 11th run and 2 on the 13th)

So that works out at 3 ectos per hour at an approximate ratio of 1:48

This run works fine for me because I want quick access without need to "book" a time slot to complete a longer Farming run.

Will continue recording to see if my figures come inline with gmonster's over time.

I've done about 10 post-update runs now in plains and I have yet to complete them faster than 1 hour and 10 minutes (the Dreamriders really slow stuff down). Anywhere from 2-5 ectos a run, averaging about 3 per run (that's killing all spawns in plains).

Just a little more info on the current ecto farms.

I've got my runs down to 2 mins thats including zoning so 30 runs an hour is possible. 180 killed.

I wait at the wall till the banished come back in range then hop over and run to the west wall until they(banished) move together then run back to where u hopped in and they line up nicely...even if u jump in and they are all around u i run away first as they will scatter if u stay there..

Thing i like about this is u can jump on and do a few runs till u get an ecto if u havent much time to farm .

last few days data..

day1 4th run one ecto in 8 mins
day 2 10th and 20th 2 ecto 40 mins (meh unlucky)
day 3 sixth run 12 mins
day 4 runs 5 and 10 2 ectos 20 mins
day 5 11 runs no ecto gave up

Good for a quick farm...on average u should score one ecto in 9 runs.

wts plains full clear ~25mins, and everything there has a 4% chance to drop an ecto, so 1:25, should be uhh 8e per run or something?

gogo farm moar