gathering mats for the great old one

[adrian0507]

can someone tell me whats the best stages are to collect the 60 snakeskin,typhoon, shionys, and chimera talons? what would be the best approach to collecting these things. Thank you

[ilvtfu]

i heard relic ruins normal stage has those items as rare drops

[Bride of Eunuchorn]

Do honor/valor of steppes, crossing, & whatever the one before them is

[leale]

For stage 2 of the quest line I went:
Skeletons Tomb EPIC for snakeskin
Kingdom of Darkness EPIC for Shards and Talons
Kingdom of Darkness HONOR for Typhoons

I went for Kingdom of Darkness because there's less nonsense mobs to go through

[Donk]

meh,depending on your armors it could be better doing gryphon crossing for shiny shards and sparkling steppes for your talons,i found that kingdom of darkness bosses just do too much damage to your knights to be effective. its upto you. im starting to collect my phoenix feathers and hydra scales now which is much more challenging,but definately doable with 5 days to go. keep at it guys,persistance pays off

[Bride of Eunuchorn]

Part 3 it's better doing the normal stage on mid-high difficulty. Part 5 it's better to do DP4, despite the low drop rate

[Lieda]

Not to mention that sometimes instead of the material you want, the chimera for example.. Drops a retarded stone slab instead.... In 15 runs, ive got only 12 chimera talons, rest was slabs.......

[adrian0507]

does the difficulty matter if u get a talon or not? i just need the talons.. do the higher difficulty give u more? or better opportunity to get the item? i have ran it like 6 times on normal and no talons

[Bride of Eunuchorn]

Much higher drop rates at higher difficulty. 3/4 difficulty is best drop::damage taken ratio

[adrian0507]

do any of the regular monsters have a chance to drop the talon if i special attack them on the higher difficulty stages?

[busteroaf]

do any of the regular monsters have a chance to drop the talon if i special attack them on the higher difficulty stages?

No normal or uncommon monsters will drop materials higher than the uncommon mono's: cloth, slabs, coral, etc. Sadly it is all boss drops.

[Justx]

No, normal monsters only drops basic from what I remember.

Thanks for the ninja, busteroaf.

[Bride of Eunuchorn]

Uncommon Materials from normal mobs
Guardians Crossing: SA gryphons
Ship zone: SA fishmen
Roc zone: SA faeries
DP4: hydra scales
Reset the zone if none of these spawn

[Edwinz]

No normal or uncommon monsters will drop materials higher than the uncommon mono's: cloth, slabs, coral, etc. Sadly it is all boss drops.

Just go Kingdom of darkness and u can get all those uncommon material easily.

[adrian0507]

i know i will need too get hydra scales later so what is ""DP4: hydra scales" what is dp4?

[Nec772]

i know i will need too get hydra scales later so what is ""DP4: hydra scales" what is dp4?

I belive he was saying to do Kingdom of Darkness level 4 for hydra scales. You could also try Kingdom of Darkness epic and just kill the swamp Kracken and then bail over and over again.

[adrian0507]

btw thank you for the help guys i really appreciate it

[tollerach]

for hydra scales, i'm going to do just the first battle of kingdom of darkness, epic stage
for phoenix feathers, i'm going to do blazing tides

going through the entire epic stage of kindom of darkness seems just as long as an entire blazing tides run and costs a lot more HP