Been thinking about this for a while now. Seems like the new potions are the best way to get to 300, by far more reasonable than anything before. I have gotten from 200 to 230 in about 300-400 combines. I got AM3 so i dont fail as much as i would otherwise. I still get about 75% success with the lvl X potions.
This guide should net you 2 things.
1) Enough flowers to keep you full of potions (I currently have 100 doses of the clarity X potion sitting in bank because I cant get rid of them fast enough)
2) Enough plat so that you wont be breaking your bank trying to get to 300 (If your like me, I only have a few k plat in the bank)
To start off with, I suggest farming or buying an Obtenebrate Short Sword () for snares. Give it to dogdog and he'll normally proc once per fight and thats all you really need. On Prexus, i find the sword for less than 400 plat. Its a lifesaver where we're going. I tried using our snare potions, didnt work so well. Had a hard time trying to move back far enough to use them before the mob ran off and it really wasnt worth the price. Killing thousands of frogs means you need thousands of snare potions. Much cheaper to just give dogdog a snare weap.
Now that you got your snare weap, head to Old Sebillis. Can run there from PoK -> FoB -> EJ -> TT -> OS or get a port to EJ and skip FoB. Dont worry about KEI or cleric buffs for the most part. They get dispelled and the frogs are pretty weak anyway. I keep 30 doses or so of clarity X with me to use instead of KEI, same mana regen.
Once in OS, summon pet and buff him and urself up. I go for max dex on pet, that means IOS + dex buff instead of wunshi. It gives slightly more dex and pet's stats start so low that every bit helps. I finish off dogdog's buffs with might, diaku, SLTW, FA and spirit quickening. I know the hastes dont stack but it gives str or dex or somethin so I keep it on. Give pet the snare weap and get ready to bash some frogs.
I like to use leopard down here. The 300 DD will chop down the frogs really fast. You can single pull most of the mobs with slow, but I'm lazy and I just charge em. The frogs should be quite weak and once slowed shouldnt put up much of a fight. The frogs we are looking for are the casters. The frogs wearing chainmail. The wizards and shamans (I have great luck with shamans dropping them) drop the nodding blue lily's. The knights drop wax flowers, which are useless I think.
My favorite spot to camp is the disco. Have had great luck there. Lots of named to give a good change of pace (keeps it from getting too boring when your working on your 6th hour down there). EQatlas has a map that shows where disco is if you dont really know. The frogs should drop more plat and gems than it costs to use all the flowers that you farm. It will be close but I have yet to run out of money doing it this way. Also, some of the drops can sell for quite a bit still. Tolan's Darkwood Bracer still sells for 9k or so on Prexus. The bracer isnt lore so you can farm as many as you want.
Just keep clearing disco and you will get around 20-30 flowers an hour if not more. Plenty of mobs, I cant keep it all clear solo with leopard. I'm not that uber yet. Constantly more mobs to pull so never waitin on spawns if your DPS is like mine.
If you dont think you can handle all the spawns, or if disco is just camped at the time that you came into OS, there is another option. I've had decent luck killing around the upper zone out (UZO). I clear from ent down to UZO, kill anything that i see isnt camped, clear to the actual zone pad, pad out, zone back in and repeat. I'm normally waiting on spawns, but UZO seems to spawn quite a few wizards and shamans. Drop rate is higher than in disco, but not as many mobs so less plat.
As for making the potions..... for all of them you need 5 small vials, 1 hemlock powder, 1 flower and 1 other. It depends on what you are making.
Clarity: Katuka Bark
Healing (HoT): Gerti Blossom
Health: Centenialspore
Haste: Arnworth
Healing: Tregrum
Vials and the variable part can be bought at the potion merchant in PoK. The Hemlock powder is bought in the Abysmal Sea from Lita Hegeway. Can find her on the north boat, 1 deck down from where you start. Use the find button. If that doesnt work, jump to a different deck and then try it. Hope this helps.
Well, thats about all I can think of right now. If anyone has any comments, feel free. If you think its good, i'll edit it when I think of somethin new. Or if you think that I just wasted my time writing this, tell me so I dont do it again
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