Sup guys.


When they introduced afrits and elementals way back, i hunted em a bit, but didnt spend much time dwelling on how it worked.


I left daoc for a few years, and then came back.


Now i tried to read around on the net about how it works, but cant make sense of it...


If you go directly for normal red-con afrits, are they soloable by say, savage+bot, or do you need to focus em? How tough are master afrits? Whats this thing i read about 'weakened afrits', is that something that spawns after you kill elementals? Is it random or spawning after a set number of elemental-kills?


Please enlighten a confused soul!


/M

Elementals: Kill them, they spawn 2 Weakened Afrits, which are blue and run at full speed as soon as they are spawned. They are immune to root, snare, and mez, but can be stunned. The elementals themselves, plus the Weakened Afrits can drop essence of an afrit and random ToA loot from most of the named mobs in ToA.


Afrit: They're doable with a melee DPS and bot, but your bot is going to get A LOT of aggro, so try to keep it at max distance, which is hard since the Afrit will run around liek a retard trying to kite you while spawning yellow con weapons that aggro random people on the Afrti's aggro list. She will also drop treasure chests ont he ground, which will explode with a PBAE effect five seconds after they're dropped.


Master Afrit: These need at least 3 or 4 people, and are best done with a focus character, ignore them if all you've got is a Savage and bot.


Combine 5 essence of an afrit to create a reformed essence, which you can turn into the purple guy for loot at a rate of 1, 3, or 5 reformed essences.

 

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The easiest method of farming these is with an archer. If you want to maximize,
use a caster with stun. For example, on Alb, I used my Cabby to kill stuff, and
cleric to stun. I just alt+tabbed and that way I could kill both weakened afrits
99% of the time. You should be fine with savage+bot.

Ideally, one or both of the toons you bring will be salvagers! This is really the
whole point, imo. You get a crapload of RoG drops + occasional unique drop that
might be worth something (most aren't). If you are able to kill both blue afrits
every time you kill an elemental, it should take between 20-40 minutes to fill
packs on both toons - depending on competition for elemental spawns.

I'd stay away from red afrits. They're not worth it unless you can kill fairly quickly.
Too much aggro to worry about, and if you die, thats a lot of lost time. Your overall
take will be much higher if you stick to the elementals - they die easy, and afrits die
super easy. Consistent kills > having to port back and rebuff because you died.

In addition to the essences and RoG salvage, you can also get atlantean glass caches, that
are 100 glass ea. They usually drop 2 at a time. Check your unique items that drop, some
are worth good plats (zahur's ring, for example).

For time invested, farming afrits is the best method of getting some cash in your pocket quickly
if you don't already have 50p+.

 

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Both my toons are salvagers, so that's fix'd. I dont mind chasing weakened afrits, unless ill keep missing out double kills, THAT im afraid of doing I have a feeling ill only get 1 afrit per elemental killed, and thats a bummer. Guessing i might finish lvling my hunter just to be able to do them properly Is the red afrits killable solo with archer? Or did i missread it?

if your bot has stun, savage should rip through the weakened afrits np. The trick is, they run in different directions, the same direction, sometimes there can be los issues, etc. Stun fixes that a lot.

Archers can kill red afrits, but it takes about 10m each. You CS, SS, SS, then sprint away and re-stealth. Rinse repeat. If you get them to 40%, they just run from you, and you can often fire 5-7 shots instead of three before he spawns the artifact weapon ghost things. It drops some RoG, about 30 glass, and 3 essences, iirc.

You can still make bank if you only kill 1 weakened afrit that pops. I recently farmed with a 48 ranger and found it relaxing and somewhat therapeutic to just run one toon and have it be so easy. the 48 ranger also killed the red (grape to me) afrits with the above method. between the elemental you kill, which drops loot, and the one afrit, you still fill up
fast enough.

And just for the record, 99% of the jewelry you get is useless - it sells for 4g if you sell it to an NPC. Here's a tip tho:

Check the stats, and if the bonus level is 39 or less, or 24 or less, and it seems like a nice item, it might be worth 100g, 250, or more to the Thid/Molvik crowd. Its a niche, but since the RoG bonus nerf, its harder for them to get ToA bonuses and such, especially in thid. It adds up if you have the CM space.

 

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Some really nice tips there Morgash .. Ill add, on alb, i can kill all 3 types of afrits with a sorc/cabby and bot, but its not easy .. i usually stick to the blue/red ones .. but it is great gold and salvage if you want to put the time into it

 

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I did a ton of red Afrits with a Light Mentalist and a bot. It worked really well in some sense, in that I wouldn't really die. But in another way it was a total pain in the ass. Just about every fight was pretty much retarded. If you get no resists then you can nuke down the Afrit to 50% or less with one stun nuke plus a bit of time if takes to get to you, then I just stuck a Salamander pet on it as I ran in circles on my Mentalist, trying to heal 100% of the time through a ton of agro on my bot, but somehow in the end, it all worked out about 99% of the time. It helped that my Ment could also throw in a heal once in a while.

Anyways, the weakened Afrits are what pop out when you kill one of the OJ Afrits. Killing both of these will get you essentially 3 times the drops, so its very important that you kill them. The problem of course is that you can't root or mez them and they run damn fast. You really gotta rely on a casted stun, which maybe would be a problem with a Savage and a Shaman.

I never got much into the Purple con ones, I think maybe they're best with ML9 pets, but I dunno if you can do them with a tank or not.

I think a few times I did the same kind of thing on a Mana Eldritch, just stun and try to pbae it down to 30%, but if the red con Afrit resists about 6-7 times in a row, you're in for a really long and boring fight.

The other thing is, I don't know how much it is worth it to farm these guys anymore, since dragon gear is quite cheap on all realms. Zahur's ring is always very rare and you could potentially find one of these from the Afrits. But.. I don't think the updated ML10 stuff can drop from the Afrits? Or can they? Cuz if they can then I better get out there.

 

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i always laugh at people running around killing afrits with a bot stuck to their ass..

smiter can down the oj/red mob and two blues with out a problem.

 

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fyp!

 

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Indeed! What's the lowest RR you think a smiter can do this consistently? Seemed to me that unless you have some passives to boost your damage and casting speed, its harder than it sounds.

 

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