Farming Helm of the Warblade

Purr

Well-known member
Is there another way to get this besides killing the worm? Is there a level limit for it to drop if I'm over level? Like, could I farm this at 30 instead of at 15?
 

DBZ

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You are a trooper you could try a spiked turban great drop rates for cursing and a 2 set bonus if your looking for a hat

Combo's nicely with storm and epic storm
 
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Purr

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You are a trooper you could try a spiked turban great drop rates for cursing and a 2 set bonus if your looking for a hat

Combo's nicely with storm and epic storm
Sure. Looking to upgrade helm of butterflies to something else with crown of summer, though.
 

saekee

long live ROGUE
Sure. Looking to upgrade helm of butterflies to something else with crown of summer, though.
I would farm a mythic Helm of Butterflies, slap on a solid curse (do a few and choose the best one). You can farm the crown of summer from the werewolf chest easily and the shards are 3 for rerolls!

Then, you do reaper frag upgrade. You have the ultimate helm from 5-29.

Mine is myth 3/reaper abiltiy scores +2/curse of major imbuement with a Master’s gift. Getting this will be faster than going for the worm drop and more useful anyway!

edit: if you are obsessive, you can put on the alchemical resistance ritual too but I have not seen the need. Just posting this before Fisto does lol.
 

rabidfox

The People's Champion
Farming for rares like that helm is just really bad odds. Do it if you're bored and killing time, but otherwise very high risk for burnout there.
the crown of summer on the warblade helm does not work ATM cuz its bugged and hasn't beenn fixed
What's funny is the other MD helm had a broken crown of summer too, but that one got fixed (at least the legendary version did, I don't have a heroic version to test).
 

Gimp-1

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Working with friends greatly reduces the number of runs required. Good guild/friends make this a lot less taxing by magnitudes.
 

Sarlona Raiding

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I am not sure what the new drop rate is since the last change, but it was supposedly improved. Whether that's a 1% improvement or 15% improvement I don't know. I am not sure if that # is available in the data files to view.

Based on a 33% drop rate it will take about 404 runs on average to get your helm, but you might get some other rare drops along the way. If you ransack it solo that would be roughly 50 weeks on average. If you run with 5 others and ransack it would take 8-9 weeks on average assuming nobody else needs it. With rerolls, a fully party and discovery potions you can obviously shorten that to most likely one day. You can always have above average or below average luck which makes that better or worse.

Here is the math which hasn't yet been updated for the recent drop rate improvement, because I have no data or verification on that yet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16IE7hwZVYJ4ihbfpPyxIew3FfBfgT4bCI8xpHi6n-Wk/edit?usp=sharing

Just running the content regularly with dual boxes and/or friends I've had quite a few rare things for me drop that I wasn't even looking for, but might be useful at some point. My approach is that I won't farm for a specific rare, but if it happens to drop for me I will consider it in my gearing.

But definitely don't farm for a broken item with no timeline for resolution.

To answer one of your questions, yes you can run a level 30 in the heroic wilderness to get those rares and there is no penalty to do so. If you or your friends have the free saltmarsh vip potions that can improve the heroic drop rates also. Just bring a bank iconic alt or new character with the potion. Obviously the ideal is one level 30 and 5 iconic looters with saltmarsh potions with different people needing different items from those rares.
 
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Purr

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I would farm a mythic Helm of Butterflies, slap on a solid curse (do a few and choose the best one). You can farm the crown of summer from the werewolf chest easily and the shards are 3 for rerolls!

Then, you do reaper frag upgrade. You have the ultimate helm from 5-29.

Mine is myth 3/reaper abiltiy scores +2/curse of major imbuement with a Master’s gift. Getting this will be faster than going for the worm drop and more useful anyway!

edit: if you are obsessive, you can put on the alchemical resistance ritual too but I have not seen the need. Just posting this before Fisto does lol.
That's a really good idea. thanks! never ocurred to me to just do extra butterfly helms
 
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