PurpleSerpent's Guide to the Monster Manual
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Dragavon
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Awesome post, thank you so much
vryxnr
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regarding Mariliths: I know it was kinda glossed over for being a long quest, but I feel I do have to give a shoutout to Princess Aurelia from Prison of the Planes... because once you are able to activate the side prisons, you can make her respawn as fast as you can DDoor and run back. I was a bit short on beeing able to see marilith HP (want to see it for the new raid) so I farmed her for my last few, and it was surprisingly easy (while overleveled running it on heroic normal)
Make sure you use single target dps or instakills (trap the soul worked beautifully on her). Go in, kill her, DO NOT HURT THE JARILITHS, Dimension Door out. The room only finishes if all enemies are slain, and if no one is in the room, it closes and resets itself. Run back, activate the room, repeat. The limiting factor is waiting for DDoor to come off cooldown to be used again. My DDoor has a 1 minute cooldown, so I was essentially getting 1 kill per minute once I was there.
Randomly it will complete without killing the Jariliths (I think because sometimes they don't despawn with the room reset, but will anyways like a normal summon after 10-ish minutes, so if they despawn naturally at the same time you kill the Princess, if finishes it. I averaged around 40-50 kills before this happened to me while I was farming her for my monster manual, so for me was nothing more than a minor annoyance overall).
edit: it may sound cheesy, but I suspect these rooms were coded like this to prevent soft-locking yourself out of quest completions. Everyone in a room being dead also triggers them to close and reset, and an emergency DDoor to run away from a fight gone bad is also valid.
Make sure you use single target dps or instakills (trap the soul worked beautifully on her). Go in, kill her, DO NOT HURT THE JARILITHS, Dimension Door out. The room only finishes if all enemies are slain, and if no one is in the room, it closes and resets itself. Run back, activate the room, repeat. The limiting factor is waiting for DDoor to come off cooldown to be used again. My DDoor has a 1 minute cooldown, so I was essentially getting 1 kill per minute once I was there.
Randomly it will complete without killing the Jariliths (I think because sometimes they don't despawn with the room reset, but will anyways like a normal summon after 10-ish minutes, so if they despawn naturally at the same time you kill the Princess, if finishes it. I averaged around 40-50 kills before this happened to me while I was farming her for my monster manual, so for me was nothing more than a minor annoyance overall).
edit: it may sound cheesy, but I suspect these rooms were coded like this to prevent soft-locking yourself out of quest completions. Everyone in a room being dead also triggers them to close and reset, and an emergency DDoor to run away from a fight gone bad is also valid.
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PurpleSerpent
Monster Hunter of Moderate Renown
Hmm... very interesting! Thanks for the suggestion, I'll add it to the list. (This might actually make Marilith farming a lot easier; even with Devashta you're looking at over 24 total hours of farming the first five minutes of the same challenge.)
PurpleSerpent
Monster Hunter of Moderate Renown
The Guide is now updated, in a way, for Update 70. Rest in peace, Memoirs of an Illusory Larcener.
(Technically this means I've also added a new location for Elves, as with Memoirs gone Gwylan's Stand starts to look like a better option.)
(Technically this means I've also added a new location for Elves, as with Memoirs gone Gwylan's Stand starts to look like a better option.)
PurpleSerpent
Monster Hunter of Moderate Renown
The Guide is now updated, slightly belatedly, for Update 71! This includes a new location for Shadows.
PurpleSerpent
Monster Hunter of Moderate Renown
Good point, and thank you! I've added this location to the guide.
PurpleSerpent
Monster Hunter of Moderate Renown
The guide is now semi-updated for Update 73!
Nothing immediately available with Update 73 is a standout location on its own, since so far only Dinosaur Crisis has come out, but the monsters in Den of Vipers now have their MM entries, which earns the raid a nod for Glabrezu and Yuan-ti. I will probably be adding Toil and Trouble as a location for Monstrous Plants when that comes out in two weeks (edit: done that, also added locations for Kobolds and Sahuagin.)
Nothing immediately available with Update 73 is a standout location on its own, since so far only Dinosaur Crisis has come out, but the monsters in Den of Vipers now have their MM entries, which earns the raid a nod for Glabrezu and Yuan-ti. I will probably be adding Toil and Trouble as a location for Monstrous Plants when that comes out in two weeks (edit: done that, also added locations for Kobolds and Sahuagin.)
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