Emp Key

[Satarus]

After hours of senseless camping in ssra, I finally got my emp key! In a week, after we get the bane weapons, we will be ready to kill the emp.

[Foromir]

grats! and after ya kill emp ya get to start the time sink of time sinks the VT key!
btw a will prolly like VT once ya get there only place i know that ya really have to keep on your toes or ya end up with a free one way ticket to bind :)

[Mordican]

Okay... VT SUCKS!! Sure the loot rocks and all that but my god its a pain to clear... I pray that you have some really on the ball chanters and pullers... 5-6 of the shards can be done within a day or two mostly solo... The rest of the shards are a pain

ME - 8+ hours minimum for this one... I swear its an ultra rare drop. We had people camping this shard in excess of 20-30 hours...

SSRA - 1 grouping it sucks... AE the whole damn area and be done with it

Fungus Grove - Streaky at best, but look to spend a few hours there easy

The Deep - Get a solid group and you can get several shards within a few hours... Again it can be streaky.

The rest are fairly easy and usually require an hour or two at most. The Dawnshroud shard drops off of hoppers or the cavemen, just matters which spawn is up. Best o luck bud... your going to need it. Average time camping shards is probably a good 30+ hours or more... I am not lying when I say we had some guild members with 100+ hours of shard camping. I got lucky in that I am a mage and was designated primary mage for the first blob... Basically I died and got dragged to the first spot where we had a necro camped to rez me. CotH the raid and go from there.

Also if your guild has spare mage twinks... Look at perma camping a few mages in there to help move the raid, at the very least plant one at the very first blob to save some clearing time. (Any rezzer will work since the mage can just /duel someone and get dragged by a keyed rogue)

[Satarus]

I solod the ME shard no problem. Took me 2 hours mostly cause i didn't quite know what to look for. Got ssra easily because they drop like candy compared to bane weapon pieces. FG sux though, camped it for 3 hours and nothing. Deep was also a pain to duo with a shaman, but I got that one. Still need akheva and acrylia ones still as well as FG, but you are right. VT key is a major timesink, but at least we have enough mages to make CotH easy.

[Mordican]

ME is purely luck... you need one of the named cavemen up to get the shard... we had a few people who just happened to be in the right zone at the right time and were lucky on the pops. Akheva is best done by a group... park yourself in one of the corners and just pull the stone grabbers and the 4 arms. You can get a decent robe and a few cool looking weaps from that area. As far as the frame goes just get uber guild SK_1 and your good to go. Acrylia has changed since we did our VT rungs, but the shard still seems semi common from what I have heard from others moving into VT right now.

A note on the ssra shard/bane drops again AE is your friend here if you can swing it... One of our guild bards managed to pull every single skelly in the basement on one run... we had 3 AE stunners 4 AE wizzards and 2 AE mages... HAve warriors on stand by to shield the chanters and have targeted healers just incase and the basement is a snap. They also drop that nice summon fang item that monks tend to love.

If you have questions/need help let me know and Iw ill answer as best I can :)b