PurpleSerpent's Guide to the Monster Manual

[Kerkos]

When I got close on mind flayers, I farmed the 4 near the riz malag portal in the underdark. Once you've discovered the portal, it is fairly easy to port in, farm, recall, reset.

 

[Dragavon]

Welcome to PurpleSerpent’s Guide to the Monster Manual! Listed here are a set of good locations to farm monsters to quickly fill out your Slayer objectives for each entry in the various Monster Manuals.

Awesome post, thank you so much

 

[vryxnr]

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.

 

[PurpleSerpent]

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).

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]

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.)

 

[PurpleSerpent]

The Guide is now updated, slightly belatedly, for Update 71! This includes a new location for Shadows.

 

[Synalon]

For ghasts: they spawn infinitely in the lower level of Chamber of Raiyum. IIRC, one spawns each time the mephit NPC lights a torch. So you can follow him round and kill ghasts to your heart's content.

 

[PurpleSerpent]

For ghasts: they spawn infinitely in the lower level of Chamber of Raiyum. IIRC, one spawns each time the mephit NPC lights a torch. So you can follow him round and kill ghasts to your heart's content.

Good point, and thank you! I've added this location to the guide.

 

[PurpleSerpent]

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.)

 

[marinerfan]

Bumping this guide as I'm sure people are scrambling to finish monster manual objectives that they are close to completing before the server migration.

Thanks for all your work on this guide PurpleSerpent!

 

[Lagin]

@PurpleSerpent I'm farming pet rewards,
Beholders & Hell Hounds- Invaders 17 @ run. run to HoX, 2nd fm last portal to raid, "Lower Tunnels" will net 14 +/- ,
Fire & Earth Ellies- Taming the Flames. (respawn every 60 seconds),
Wraiths- Caverns of Koromar, Enemy within I'll post more later today

 

[PurpleSerpent]

@PurpleSerpent I'm farming pet rewards,
Beholders & Hell Hounds- Invaders 17 @ run. run to HoX, 2nd fm last portal to raid, "Lower Tunnels" will net 14 +/- ,
Fire & Earth Ellies- Scorched Caverns. (respawn every 60 seconds),
Wraiths- Caverns of Koromar, Enemy within I'll post more later today

Thank you for these! I've been trying to keep the guide down to a few suggestions per monster type, so I haven't included all of your suggestions here (Hell Hounds and Wraiths already have several high-density locations suggested, and Taming the Flames, the quest in the Scorched Caverns, was already a suggestion for Fire Elementals), but I have added Invaders! for Beholders and Taming the Flames for Earth Elementals.

 

[Lagin]

Editited my post to reflect taming the flames ty. Which I'll share my farming spot. Enter quest, go right to room with key. the ledge where key is will have respawns @ 55 seconds, just stay there, kill all 6, rinse/repeat. TtF also is good for earth ellies,
Orthon & Living Spells & Bearded Devils, Sub-T
update Taming the flames has 25 earth ellies, took 5 min to clear dungeon

 

[Lagin]

Beholder Pet, 1600 kills. got it tonight.

 

[DrRomz]

Can I suggest Servants of the Overlord for Hell Hounds - work your way through to Flamefang killing as you go the recall as no more Hell Hounds after this point. Should get about 30 hounds per run.

My last kill to earn the Hell Hound pet turned out to be Flamefang so I named him that in honour.

 

[Cheesieweezie]

• Harpies spawn in large numbers in the Storm Horns, but unfortunately these don’t seem to count, so you’re going to want to head to Search and Rescue, where a small flock spawn right outside the entrance to the tomb. Bring a ranged weapon, snipe them from the entrance, then leave by the front door.

Just noticed the bolded bit above for Harpies in Volume 8. I wasn't paying attention when this volume was launched, but assume this was an issue that was fixed in a later update, because all four of the Harpies in the Storm Horns are counted in the MM now and this is reflected on the wiki pages.

 

[PurpleSerpent]

Just noticed the bolded bit above for Harpies in Volume 8. I wasn't paying attention when this volume was launched, but assume this was an issue that was fixed in a later update, because all four of the Harpies in the Storm Horns are counted in the MM now and this is reflected on the wiki pages.

Fantastic, thank you. I'll update that section.