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FYI: Eternal Pools solo farming is dead (at least the old way of doing it)
Hi Reddit,
Just wanted to share my experience with Eternal pools, I don’t know if it’s common knowledge but :
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AGS added an invisible wall around the mountain behind the Lazarus Portal, this mountain was previously used by some people to reach Eternal pools from the top and kill the tentacle boss without taking any damage.
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Then you could kill the 2 tentacles around the bear boss below while waiting for the tentacle boss to respawn - Afaik those still can be farmed this way. (But that’s if you managed to reach the top solo)
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You could then, by using the block jump strategy, climb some rocks to reach the tentacle boss again and complete the loop. Well, the rock formation that was used to climb the mountain as been modified and it is impossible (to my knowledge) to use this route anymore. This means you must break the wall behind the bear boss to reach the top.
What does it mean : solo farming is (again to my knowledge) dead at Eternal pools. Is it a bad thing ? Well honestly, killing a boss solo by not taking any damage is a blatant exploit so I’m fine with it. What I have a problem with is the constant nerfing of things that make the game playable mostly solo. I play on a medium pop server, groups for elite zones aren’t common, so being able to farm stuff solo was very enjoyable.
What are your thoughts on this change ?
It was considered exploiting to solo farm the top of eternal pool. I knew of people getting week long bans after farming the tentacle.
I personally like how late game content requires groups, despite it being sometimes annoyingly difficult to find them. I play on a low pop server (aarnivalkea) but those of us that are still there are constantly running elites so I'm ultimately unaffected by the fix. Chest runs or crafting are going to be your best bet if you're dedicated to pure solo gameplay.
(There's also a way up there from the west gate but it isn't risk free. You climb up the rocks to the left of the gate until you reach the bear, then run parallel with the tentacles along the right edge until you pass the staircase with 2 wolves and 3 angry earth, then block jump up the rocks until you reach the last tentacle.)
I'm pretty sure they said killing the tentacle itself was not considered exploiting. Killing the tentacle and forcing the spawn by getting far enough was what got people banned.
Just don't dive through walls and skip all the mobs.
You can bypass bear wall, did it last night. I don’t believe you can get behind the tentacle anymore though on that cliff. Did not check was just going with a 5 man group to the arena.
Yes some other comment pointed out a route. Will try to see what is possible to do with it. Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it.
Farming pools for weeks now every day .. 600 on armor/weapons 580+ .. god damit gimme some bows
Alot of legy mats crystalcores and stuff for the TP.
Were you doing it solo ? Or are you doing it now as a group ? Just curious
Nope, people are still exploiting it, just from a different position.