Okay so I have spent half the day yesterday doing Cthonian Trove runs. First i warp the Mountain Deeps, check three spots, warp to Fort Ikon, get to the Cthonian Rift, check five spots, get to the exit, loop around Obsidian Throne, kilk BaneGargoth, exit and warp to Blood Grove, to Ashen Waste four spots.
Sometimes three spot Mountain Deep does not have Trove(or there is another spot? I only check three). Ashen Waste and Forsaken Waste never failed to have Trove.
Sometimes BennJahr is there, drops are great. BaneGargoth never dropped anything relevant, his drops suck.
When I do my loops, I tend to ignore super tanky mobs. Obsidian Spikeys, Flesh Hulks, Aetherial Crystal Abominations. I also ignored the"spread out" trash paper mobs, I only kill them when they lump together.
I only stop if there is a hero/boss. The heroes actually die faster than Flesh Hulks and Obsidian Ravagers. The Purple Names, i try to fight them near trash mobs, they die faster because Mobs make my %chance when hit higher.
I have max Cadence, maybe Cadence is just a terrible trash killer? I have 1 point in Blade Arc(and transmuter and modifier) and 1 point in Force wave (And both modifiers).
Tl:DR
Do you guys do this when you farm heroes and bosses/ routes. Ignore Trash Mobs? Just get to the Trove/Heroes?
I’d say skipping trash and overly tanky enemies is probably pretty standard for most farming runs, but it depends where I am really. Places like Valbury have a pretty high MI drop rate so I’ll usually kill a lot of trash mobs while I’m there, but then other enemies like Chillmanes are often so far down my can-be-arsed-to-kill list that I don’t even bother with them when I’m still levelling and going through the game normally. Asterkarn pretty much becomes a sprint through the mountains every time I get there.
Wasp enemies are way too satisfying not to kill on my way past though, even the trash. Squish squish.
I kill most monsters otherwise I find it to be boring.
And the treasure troves chest in the Mountainn Deeps ALWAYS spawn… and yes there is at least 4-5 spots.
I think a few extra spots were added to the Mountain Pass trove a few updates back. I’m not sure if some of the old guides or topics that had the original 3 spots have updated to have the extras or not which is probably where the confusion is from.
I have found a couple in the special hidden chests in the little secret areas. Never in any lower quality chests, and certainly not in a crate, heh. That’s in ~1700 hours played
Kay I found the fourth Mountain Deep Spot. That spawns it always now.
Also Ashen Waste’s Rag’Nadar, the Great Maw drops a lot more useful stuff than Bane’Gargoth. Bane’Gargoth sucks except that one time where he dropped a blueprint.
Regards to the crate thingy, i had a legendary from one of the boxes outside Crowley’s bridge.
I found the new spot too, it’s near the area where we find the girl corpse for the side quest ( don’t recall her name) and i think there are only 3 spot like always, they just changed the Devotion shrine spot for the corpse girl area.
Sorry can’t explain better, have hard time with English.
