From what I researched, this relic can only be dropped by the deathstalker. There appears to be only 1 per run through the grove. At 1 skel key per run, that is a pretty high price to farm for it. Maybe I’m mistaken and there are other locations are more than one per grove?
This would be a very helpful relic for my non-class character who uses primarily bleed equipment. I’d used nemesis, but this would be better. I plan to do the AoM on ultimate with it when I get it.
No other way aside from grove. Is it that hard to farm? Asking seriously cause I got blueprint on first try anyways it’s actually easier to farm compared to most other relics that you get later cause you know where to farm it. Other relics might drop easily if you don’t have anything yet but the ones you get later will be the hardest farm in the game.
It’s both, hard and easy to farm. It’s expensive if you don’t farm, but easy because only one monster can drop it that always spawns and you know where. Also, by hunting this qt, you also farm because you go for Gargabol too.
The relic is very strong though, so I’d say it’s a super fair item. I farmed it for like maybe 12 hours, but damn, how much fun I had. I farmed other stuff, got a ton of legendaries and 5 Gargabol pistols (3 blue). I’d estimate over 200 legendaries during this time, if not more.
The relic is very strong though, so I’d say it’s a super fair item. I farmed it for like maybe 12 hours, but damn, how much fun I had.
Yeah, I think this is a very fun roguelike to run. Best surprise of the whole game:
I was farming that Deathstalker while pretty squishy and one run it was in the middle of plants and those rock-throwing Earth Golems. Simultaneously the Crab boss came from behind…and then Kuba also showed up in the rear! Pure pandemonium ensued for a while. (lesson learned = watch the minimap!)
Good for a variety of components too. I usually have good luck in loot, but I’m in some kind of insane dry spelll currently. But worth the run just for the fun, nevertheless.
The relic does seem interesting. The Deathstalker as an enemy always has a sound/darkness tell when it is in range.
P.S. Probably the most expensive relics to farm are anything random after you have 90% of the relics. So hard to get those drops! DS relic seemed like a breeze compared to this rng. Expensive in grind time, I mean.
Also, the DS relic will not be seen in the drop if you have already learned it …so that is why it would be expensive to trade. I probably should have never learned the first one that dropped, as I don’t need it; I suspect I’d have a few by now.
I think it’s a great idea to farm other things there, but for me, I only need 24 blueprints that are in the 90th level range, none of which are on my bucket list.
I’ll keep farming the deathstalker as a long term thing, just like I did the bosses of the outcast and hidden path. I’ll probably do it a few times a day.
I really hope to get it so I can dust off my non-class character and finish AoM on ultimate.
I got mine on the first kill as well, so it may not be as rare as you think.
Grimtools says it has a 6% drop chance, there may be other factors involved (such as the blueprint rerolling) that raises this though.
This is like five patches (a.k.a. an eternity) old news.
And it never really increased my average. I merely thought of this as a minimum guaranteed reward for the entry-cost. I average around 2-3 legs/run. And it has been like that for ages.
Done a few AG runs the last couple of days to get the relic, and I´ve gotten more relics then in the other 3 rougle likes, then again, AG is tiny compared to them and probably the easiest/fastest to get to. RNG is always a factor and I hear Zantai mumbling something about a “too small sample size” in the background.
AG runs are quite fun though, especially since they don´t take much time.
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Finally got it. Took about a dozen runs. Well, kind of. I´d say taking in account all runs with various chars, still less than thirty.
Just dropped for me recently. Since I only have my Conjurer on Ultimate and around the Ugdenbog I had to use him, and he has a hard time surviving the death room as simply put, even with full Aether/Chaos resists the environmental damage kills me, not the monsters. Took about 5-6 runs to get the relic finally from the kitty, so my Blademaster can have a new poison/bleed-resistance-lowering pet. I just wish there was a way to check the HP of these “scales by player level” pets.
anyways it’s actually easier to farm compared to most other relics that you get later cause you know where to farm it. Other relics might drop easily if you don’t have anything yet but the ones you get later will be the hardest farm in the game.
