Farming for AD

ramza1816

Hey I'm a lv 20 TR and still pretty new to neverwinter I was wondering if theirs any good way to farm for astral diamonds I tried looking at forums and videos but apparently they are all outdated any help for a newbie like be would be awsome

tinukeda

The Leadership profession is one of the best tools you can get into at your level.
Once you get to level 60, you can farm dungeons, GG and PVP (and use the Seals from them for other items to turn in for AD as well).

The daily tasks (Foundry and PVP) are also good sources that require only minor effort.

grungebrmpk

"Minor effort", for example I spend almost 1 hour to make the foundry daily, from the 2 I have to play in a day :P

melodywhr

at level 20, your ability to farm for AD is kind of limited. when you hit level 60, a lot more opportunities are available to you.

here's a link to a post that goes into more detail.

http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?522851-Rough-Astral-Diamond-Daily-Cap&p=6464231&viewfull=1#post6464231

good luck!

nallif

Form a skirmish farm group during the skirmish event hour. Explain to the group that the goal is to run as many skirmishes as possible during this hour to receive the AD from the chest at the end. Advertise for party members in the appropriate zone and LFG channel.

pitshade

Even buying tier 3 leadership workers to speed up leveling, I've yet to get a char to rank 20 in the profession before they hit level 60. There are a few things that you'll be able to do get AD before max level, but most are dependent on the drops you get. Running the dailies will help as will running the skirmishes during the event. Prices are down from when I was doing it, but farming and selling on the AH can make you some AD if you work at it. Blue items don't seem to drop much before level 30, but from there to around level 50, they can go for a lot of AD on the AH. Beyond level 50, the demand drops as more people are saving up/wanting epic gear. Otherwise, buy skill kits and open every node you find. Auction the profession resources, fuse the enchants up to rank 3 and auction those. It might have changed but by the time I stopped messing with it, 16 rank 3 enchants sold for the same as or more than a rank 5, eliminating the loss of enchants from failed fusion attempts. This will probably change again once the next module goes live, but how is anyone's guess. Also, once you get a few more levels, you can farm gold by running around the maps and killing mobs for unidentified items. This works best once you're well over level thirty as you need to farm ID scrolls in Helm's Hold and then items to ID and sell in higher level zones. Use the gold to buy items to auction. Horses and followers used to be good profit, but prices have dropped. You'd need to research what gives a good return these days.

There are ways to work the AH, buying and selling items to increase your AD but I don't have the patience to use them.

beckylunatic

pitshade wrote: »

Even buying tier 3 leadership workers to speed up leveling, I've yet to get a char to rank 20 in the profession before they hit level 60.

It's possible to do, but fairly contingent on using Gateway all day every day on characters that don't see a corresponding amount of levelling play, and on fixating on the tasks that offer the most leadership XP, not short-term astral diamond gain. I've gotten six characters to leadership 20, the last two of which reached that point while still in their low 40s for character level. I have also speeded up levelling with adventurers, but I think it would still be possible to hit 20 before 60 on an invoke/profession character using only footmen, if you did nothing but War Games Training and Patrol the Mines during waking hours and switched out Patrol for Tactical Training overnight. (Fill in Explore Area and Chart Region as needed to maximize use of time.)

It's just hard for people to turn away from the material rewards while levelling their leadership, but it slows the progression down a lot.

pitshade

Well up until today I didn't know I could use the Gateway with my phone. I'd tried once before and it just stopped after the character selection screen. Today, it went through fine, so that's likely to change how my latest char is leveling leadership. She's already 60 though. Before this, I could do War Games and Tactical overnight and while at work. Then two 4-6 hour tasks in the evening. Now I'll be able to keep doing War Games and Patrol the Mines all day (like I do on weekends) I do admit to doing Protect Diamond Shipment in lieu of Tactical Training when its available, but that's only a loss of 40 XP per slot, or one tier 3 task for the 3 slots.

It also doesn't help that I enjoy leveling/quests far more than end game content, so I tend to level up fairly quickly. Actually I usually have to stop myself from running through zone after zone so I can prolong the journey.

syka08

grungebrmpk wrote: »

"Minor effort", for example I spend almost 1 hour to make the foundry daily, from the 2 I have to play in a day :P

If you haven't, try to get groups together for the Arena foundry. A solid group can knock out 4 rounds of it in about 20 minutes (maybe less, I've never officially timed it).

omuhao

sakaratch wrote: »

You never know till you have tried!!!

Is this a spamming bot or what is goin on here? Even promoting gold selling site in his Avatar...

vasdamas

Farming skirmishes during event is on is also good.
PvP domination daily is kind of useful too since it doesn't take too much time to do 1 or 2 matches. Oh and you can sell the asset you get from Neverdeath graveyard, usually not much ad but still...

j4k06s

omuhao wrote: »

Is this a spamming bot or what is goin on here? Even promoting gold selling site in his Avatar...

It must be... all his posts are the same stupid line!

manholio

grungebrmpk wrote: »

"Minor effort", for example I spend almost 1 hour to make the foundry daily, from the 2 I have to play in a day :P

Quick tip, try Bill's Tavern. Takes me about 12 minutes to run this Foundry. That's with a TR, so your mileage may vary, but a half hour for one Foundry is just too **** long.

runebane

ramza1816 wrote: »

Hey I'm a lv 20 TR and still pretty new to neverwinter I was wondering if theirs any good way to farm for astral diamonds I tried looking at forums and videos but apparently they are all outdated any help for a newbie like be would be awsome

If your other character slot is free... then get a character to about level 7 (might be 6, not sure anymore) and run the blacklake skirmish during skirmish bonus hour. You'll get 1000AD a run through. And it can easily be run multiple times in that hour.

You could do this with any skirmish. But the blacklake one is the best for farming AD because its so quick. If you happen into a good skirmish farming group you can get it run 11-12 times in that hour. You can't get anywhere close to that with the higher level skirmishes.

Besides that you can get your leadership up, but its a long-term goal. Leadership is my primary source of AD. But it took months to reach that point. If you got something you want to buy in the next few weeks. Then look at alternatives. (dailies & skirmish) But you'll want to work on leadership anyway as it is worth it in the long run.

mleger

don't level up leadership yet, it is super slow. You can Level up 3 others first, like weaponsmithing, leatherworking and tailoring before someone else gets leadership to 20. super fast.
Then sell your guy's you've hired and buy man-at-arms and work on leadership.

Also spent some time in the foundry and build a quest, keep it around 15 minutes long and try and collect AD from that. It may not be a lot but its a start.

Agree with everyone else, i suggest doing your daily PVP quests. Talk to lord neverember everyday, and try and do the foundry one he hands out or the pvp one he hands out.

Once you have enough glory, buy a purple item and take it apart for the AD

Also do your daily shandar dungeon quests (the key), and if you get the purple item, then you can take that apart for AD as well.

syka08

j4k06s wrote: »

It must be... all his posts are the same stupid line!

When in doubt, report it to a moderator just in case.

beckylunatic

runebane wrote: »

If you happen into a good skirmish farming group you can get it run 11-12 times in that hour.

A really good group can run it in less than 2 minutes.

stabbath

grungebrmpk wrote: »

"Minor effort", for example I spend almost 1 hour to make the foundry daily, from the 2 I have to play in a day :P

Do "tired of being a hero". To do 2 of them takes around 30 minutes. You have to spend at least 15 minutes in a foundry quest I hear though in order to qualify for the completion of the daily, so don't be too fast. If this is untrue, or been changed someone please let me know.

runebane

stabbath wrote: »

Do "tired of being a hero". To do 2 of them takes around 30 minutes. You have to spend at least 15 minutes in a foundry quest I hear though in order to qualify for the completion of the daily, so don't be too fast. If this is untrue, or been changed someone please let me know.

This isn't exactly true. Close though. Among other things a foundry quest has to have a 15 minute average time to qualify for the daily. You can finish it in less than 15 and still get credit. But it won't be marked daily qualified unless the quests average time is 15 minutes or more.

stabbath

vasdamas wrote: »

Farming skirmishes during event is on is also good.
PvP domination daily is kind of useful too since it doesn't take too much time to do 1 or 2 matches. Oh and you can sell the asset you get from Neverdeath graveyard, usually not much ad but still...

I don't always get rough ad during the skirmish events. Pisses me off.

runebane

stabbath wrote: »

I don't always get rough ad during the skirmish events. Pisses me off.

Sounds like you are doing MotH. For some reason that skirmish doesn't follow the bonus skirmish rules. Sometimes you get AD from it when its not the bonus hour. And sometimes during the bonus hour you don't get AD. Only ever experienced it with that one Skirmish though. No idea if its a bug or intended.

stabbath

runebane wrote: »

This isn't exactly true. Close though. Among other things a foundry quest has to have a 15 minute average time to qualify for the daily. You can finish it in less than 15 and still get credit. But it won't be marked daily qualified unless the quests average time is 15 minutes or more.

Good to know. I read that you had to spend at least 15 minutes in a qualified in order to be credited. I sometimes just sit at a campfire eating up time instead of finishing it.

stabbath

runebane wrote: »

Sounds like you are doing MotH. For some reason that skirmish doesn't follow the bonus skirmish rules. Sometimes you get AD from it when its not the bonus hour. And sometimes during the bonus hour you don't get AD. Only ever experienced it with that one Skirmish though. No idea if its a bug or intended.

Yup!! MoTh.

Cool. I'll do Abberant then:)

stabbath

One thing I didn't see mentioned is live events.
I made around 500k rough ad with the second to last live event. Thanks to that event it brought my interest back into the game. Other events, you can sell the enhancement runes, companions, and other items for a nice amount of ad. I got like 7 orchounds and sold them for around 60-70k each IIRC.

stabbath

I love the pvp dailies. Very often you don't have to do 4 matches, just two. Not sure what determines that. Score, glory?

runebane

stabbath wrote: »

I love the pvp dailies. Very often you don't have to do 4 matches, just two. Not sure what determines that. Score, glory?

I've been told that wins get you credit for 2 matches. Not sure though. I don't run the pvp daily enough to say for certain.

*Others are saying this is wrong. And they are probably right. Like I said, I heard it from someone else. I don't pvp very much anymore.*

stabbath

Another thing to do, if you are the gambling sort, and already have a lot of ad. Recently I used ad to buy zen, then bought keys for boxes. Got me a Pseudodragon off first box worth around 1 mil ad:) Keys are 50 percent off atm tho, (right?) is why I did it. So it's been like 47500 ad for each key.

beckylunatic

stabbath wrote: »

Good to know. I read that you had to spend at least 15 minutes in a qualified in order to be credited. I sometimes just sit at a campfire eating up time instead of finishing it.

Well, by doing that, you are helping to keep the average time up so the quest remains qualified and doesn't get downgraded by speedrun abuse.

syka08

stabbath wrote: »

Another thing to do, if you are the gambling sort, and already have a lot of ad. Recently I used ad to buy zen, then bought keys for boxes. Got me a Pseudodragon off first box worth around 1 mil ad:) Keys are 50 percent off atm tho, (right?) is why I did it. So it's been like 47500 ad for each key.

Keys are not 50% off right now. 125 for 1 and 1125 for 10 is their base rate.

It should also be noted that you got extremely lucky (if the OP doesn't realize this) to have gotten a Pseudodragon or any of the worthwhile epic things from aaannnny lockbox.

Also, if you do the math you'll typically find that it's cheaper to buy keys off of the AH than the zen store (just quick multiplication based off of the Zen-exchange.) Most of the time it's not significantly cheaper, but if you're buying bulk then the savings really stand out.


I personally didnt mention in-game events because I horde that sort of stuff, or use it for my own characters. In both the Tymora and Waukeen events, I probably could have come out far more ahead if I just sold the boxes rather than opened them. But they're sort of like free lockboxes. Really, these events are far more of a time sink than trying to play the AH, but are definitely more fun.

beckylunatic

runebane wrote: »

I've been told that wins get you credit for 2 matches. Not sure though. I don't run the pvp daily enough to say for certain.

I don't PvP much either, but my understanding is it's based on the length of the match.

runebane

beckylunatic wrote: »

I don't PvP much either, but my understanding is it's based on the length of the match.

That could very well be it. Like I said, I was just repeating what someone had told me.