Sharn Ingredient Farming

[Kancamagus Lightfoot]

I checked ddowiki and didn't see an answer. Do the Sharn ingredients for Syranian weapons drop randomly across quests, or are some quests better than others for some ingredients. My party is heavy on Iron Defender and Mage Cannon ingredients, but can't seem to pull e.g., Shield Guardian Gyroscopes.

 

[ACJ97F]

https://ddocompendium.com/w/Shield_Guardian_Gyroscope

Basically all of P1-2 and the raids, but they don't seem to drop as much.

 

[rabidfox]

It felts pretty random to me (I don't know if certain ingredients are weighted heavier on the loot table or not). If you need X or Y mat, you might mention what server you're on; some of us have crazy amounts just laying around in the shared crafting bank from years of running Sharn (if you'rer on Cormyr, you might even find someone there who doesn't plan on using them).

 

[The Blonde]

Run Cogs saga. Any other farming method is inferior by orders of magnitude. Thank me later.

 

[DBZ]

Cards per minute yes

 

[SpartanKiller13]

Try to grab all opt chests you can, they also have mats and are usually not too far out of the way. Doubling your chests for 20% longer quest time is a significant increase when farming mats.

 

[saekee]

If you have a trapper, enter Members Only; do chat with butler at entrance and guy past door; Follow the walls and doors to your left until you find yourself going down stairs into a dead end room. On the left wall is a secret door to a chest. Needs search for secret door, maybe lockpicking (I cannot remember). Very fast. Ransack it 8 times anyway. Do it on R10 since no mobs are around.

There are many others like this but not as fast.

 

[Kancamagus Lightfoot]

https://ddocompendium.com/w/Shield_Guardian_Gyroscope

Basically all of P1-2 and the raids, but they don't seem to drop as much.

Thank you, I hadn’t frequented this compendium. I have it for the future now.

 

[kimberlyte]

According to the wiki, one Syranian weapon requires 1 Caustic Compound, 1 Dampening Alloy, 1 Energizing Alloy and 1 Stabilizing Compound.

Select the Caustic and Stabilizing compounds from the saga end reward list from Cogs, and you'll hardly need any ingredients. Two runs of heroic elite cogs only requires an hour or two.