Best Cannith Challenges to Solo these days?

[Grunndi]

Been a while since I did these, usually just do them for Renown Pots or Tokens so the specific mats don’t matter.

Which are the best to solo in terms of mat payout/minute?

I used to like the lava caves ones, but have the pathing issues made these problematic?

And what builds are good for these? Thinking of making an iconic Inquis to park at a good level, since you can’t really do them at cap, could see an electric sorc doing well too.

 

[The Narc2]

Been a while since I did these, usually just do them for Renown Pots or Tokens so the specific mats don’t matter.

Which are the best to solo in terms of mat payout/minute?

I used to like the lava caves ones, but have the pathing issues made these problematic?

And what builds are good for these? Thinking of making an iconic Inquis to park at a good level, since you can’t really do them at cap, could see an electric sorc doing well too.

Get in there soon, i am expecting all the cannith challenges to eventually be non-functional due to the fact that they provide free potion boosts and tokens of the twelve.

With the new pathing issues with torch lines I wonder if we will ever see crystal cove again and I wonder if magically when crystal cove makes another appearance if they somehow find a miraculous fix for the torch pathing.

Broken canntih challenges is fiscally responsible like breaking repeater attack speeds thru heroic TR levels.

 

[saekee]

I am not sure in terms of time/payout but I imagine the lava caves: time is money is the fastest. You only need to check a few locations, and often the one off to the right has enough. The pathing is pretty limited so should not be too big an issue with kobold AI.

Use Mikayl the Pious to drop DDoors that do not expire and you can have a lot of fast results.

Parked toon would need to be ML 21 ideally.


I do not recommend the Rushmore mansion because time keeps increasing as you go. Can take forever and the need to break stuff/pickup is exhausting.

Best toon would be fast moving aggro magnet that can toss haste to buff kobolds; use the elemental resist buff out of Unyielding. (I would probably do Bard inquisitive, include 1 barb for extra run speed, maybe 1 rogue or DH for trapping)

 

[Terranigma]

If you do them in Heroic (level 10 or 11), Kobold Chaos (level 15 variation) has the best potential payout once you learn it (using Hirelings helps a fair amount).

If the Kobold mining was in a good state, then it is a toss-up between Colossal Crystals and Buying Time.

If you do them Epic (level 21) and remove the Kobold mining challenges, then Moving Targets is the best for ingredient payout.

In general, I find that doing one good run of Kobold Chaos, Moving Targets, or Colossal Crystals yields enough ingredients (about 1000 to 1200 ingredients) to get me a close to a full Heroic and Epic life's worth of EXP Potion time (20 to 24 hours worth of potion time).

 

[Farlino]

Note that on Cormyr the Kobold Island Challenges give only 50% of the materials compared to the other servers. Wiki gives the formula for the normal servers. This problem has also always been present on each of the HC event servers.

 

[Mindos]

Note that on Cormyr the Kobold Island Challenges give only 50% of the materials compared to the other servers. Wiki gives the formula for the normal servers. This problem has also always been present on each of the HC event servers.

That's so weird. I wonder why that happens.

 

[Gragahn]

If you do them in Heroic (level 10 or 11), Kobold Chaos (level 15 variation) has the best potential payout once you learn it (using Hirelings helps a fair amount).

If the Kobold mining was in a good state, then it is a toss-up between Colossal Crystals and Buying Time.

If you do them Epic (level 21) and remove the Kobold mining challenges, then Moving Targets is the best for ingredient payout.

In general, I find that doing one good run of Kobold Chaos, Moving Targets, or Colossal Crystals yields enough ingredients (about 1000 to 1200 ingredients) to get me a close to a full Heroic and Epic life's worth of EXP Potion time (20 to 24 hours worth of potion time).

This is the most recent (lol) video I could find of you running Kobold Chaos

Is your technique still the same? Get one Large extractor running and upgrade it to Level 3, don't bother upgrading Small extractors? Or is there a more recent video?

 

[Terranigma]

I do not have a more recent video of Kobold Chaos, but the general technique I tend to use right now is:

• Run the challenge 5 levels above your level (or at challenge level 15 if you are level 11+)
• Summon a hireling (I tend to prefer the Favored Soul ones as they often hold their own well)
• Head north towards a Small Extractor, turn it on, and plant the hireling there
• Work around counter-clockwise to turn on all the other Small Extractors. Kill kobolds and smash kobold idols along the way as you need 40 mechanical parts
• Do another counter-clockwise loop to get more mechanical parts, upgrade the Small Extractors, and plant a Level 1 Turret on each Small Extractor (except the one you put your hireling at). For this loop around, hit all the more out-of-the-way kobold idols
• If/when the archon arrives, go towards it and slay it for the Dragonshards (if you haven't gotten the Large Extractor started yet)
• At 300 extracted Dragonshards, go to a Large Extractor and turn it on. Ideally this will happen around 8:00 minutes left on the timer
• Upgrade it to Level 2 and Level 3 as you are able to. Summon your hireling to help if you need help. Let Small Extractors get destroyed if they are taking damage
• Wait until the challenge ends

 

[Terranigma]

I was a bit distracted when I recorded it (I was spacing when to upgrade the Large Extractor), but this is an updated solo run of Kobold Chaos:

 

[Grunndi]

1400 mats for 15 mins is nice. Is that with the challenge bonus going on currently?

I’ve been doing picture portals at level 20 (with a level 15 1st life iconic). Without the challenge boost I’d say I get about 500 mats for a 25min run, so seems considerably less efficient.

 

[Terranigma]

Yeah, that is with the challenge bonus.

 

[Grunndi]

But still 1kish mats per 15 min run is pretty solid.

 

[The Narc2]

There are better ways still then kobold chaos, although for now atleast kobold island is still a functioning cannith challenge.

I would tell you about the better ways to farm cannith ingredients for tokens of the twelve but that is strictly against discussing here due to rule number 5 of the fight club community. Oh by the way the fight club community doesn't really exist its just a myth or a story with no real legitimacy.

 

[saekee]

Time is money is the fastest overall. You can usually find enough purples heading off to the right (East) there—watch for a few groups of mobs. Small learning curve on 5 minute runs; use Mikayl the Pious level 11 fighter for 3 non-expiring ddoors to teleport them back

 

[Gragahn]

I was a bit distracted when I recorded it (I was spacing when to upgrade the Large Extractor), but this is an updated solo run of Kobold Chaos:

That's very useful thank you

 

[danzig138]

• Summon a hireling (I tend to prefer the Favored Soul ones as they often hold their own well)

When running at the right level for it, FS Larafey is pretty solid. Park her and she'll cometfall everything within sight. Just don't count on her for healing.