30k every 2 hours

05/25/2005 12:18 Lowfyr#1
ganz vergessen..

Go to Morhan's Grotto leave to Ice Floe run out a little bit, hold down control+alt and you should see a chest. It is guarded by a couple of imps but you should be able to make it. I have gotten an easy 30k in about 2 hours with this exploit.
05/26/2005 00:10 NyaR#2
is there a german world map i can reference? i dont think these names do not exist in the english version
05/26/2005 01:26 kalvam#3
Marhans Grotto DOES exist and this trick semi works... it is just awfully hard for every class that can't shrug of a LOT of damage as the place is spammed with Ice Imps. I mean, really spammed. There gotta be like 30 of them most of the time and even with Illusion of Weakness and Mantra of Frost the Damage is often far too high to even reach the chest.
A friend of mine, warrior, has similiar problems there, even with Endure Pain and all kind of Protection Skills he gets hit there real hard now and then... enough to take him down.
The few times this works though, does pay off the dying.

Btw, the grotto is kinda hidden and in the southern Shiverpeaks...
Near Thunderhead Keep to be exact.
05/26/2005 02:17 DarkZeus#4
Thanks for the tip. Im a W/Mo and using Endure Pain, Mending and Sprint I get there very easily. Also, the amoutn of ice imps and their locations changes everytime you go in. The location of the chest also seems to change.
05/26/2005 19:25 craiglincs#5
i can get there with my ele/necro and i can avoid most imps, a few hit me but the chest is opened and items picked up and im back at marhans before i die.
05/30/2005 22:52 kalvam#6
Just wanted to add another thing on top of that on how to maximize the gold flow from this.
This chest puts out an rightoues insane amount of staffs. Staffs translate into wood planks if you salvage them.
Taken they are highlevel versions they give up to 15 wood planks each piece. However... Wood Planks translate into Parchment.. and that into big time money on weekends. So what i did to get even more out of this.. salvage all kind of staffs except for the Bone Staff. Sell the rest to the merchant. After you got a nice sum of wood planks, beam to Sardillac Sanitarium and head out of it. There is an artisan almost right there.
Let him make parchment out of the wood planks and stack those Parchments up as much as you can. Now it takes you some patience to hit the weekend. Why weekend? Because you are selling those pieces to the trader and it is controlled by demand. And demand is highest when most people play the game. Weekend.
Those useless stacks of Wood Plank just translated into easy money. 10 Parchments sell for 700 during the week, and up to 1200 at the weekend.

Parchment - Takes 5 Woodplanks and 20 Gold to make.
06/01/2005 00:23 craiglincs#7
nice tip cal :)
06/29/2005 00:55 marcfj#8
Alright, I just tried this one with my W/Mo.

I had no trouble getting to past the imps, usually they didnt even spawn near the chest. I nearly cleaned all my bags and inventory so I had 40 slots availible for loot (fewer merchant visits). I ran for 1 hour no breaks, and only 2 or 3 merchant visits, while sprinting to the chest everytime. I made 60 runs (1 each minute approx.) and came out with 6727 gold. That's not 30k in 2 hours by any chance. But still pretty nice money anyway.

I'll try the Roll of Parchment trick later, since yeah, this chest really drops a lot of staffs.

I managed to get 1 purple bow during this hour as well.
07/07/2005 10:28 DevilsKnight#9
any1 got a estimate on wot lvl u shud b 2 do this? U rekon a lvl 12 W/E shud b able 2 do it? and were abouts in shiverpeaks is it? any1 post there run plz.
07/07/2005 12:41 stargate#10
SOUTHERN shiverpeaks - west from thunderhead keep mission

no chance with lvl 12 btw
07/07/2005 12:54 Scopas#11
Can put yourselves a screen or a link for shown the road?
07/08/2005 12:14 kalvam#12
pinning this as it still is working. I will post a screenshot of the location later after i'm done here ^^
07/08/2005 12:41 _-Ghost-_#13
heres a screenie from the german versioon/ german text

Feste Donnerkopf = Thunderhead Keep

mfg
07/19/2005 13:04 S.A.L.O.M.O.N.#14
aha thx ^^ is das in den bergen???

hat man mit nem lvl16/17 necro/ele ne chance??
07/19/2005 14:41 kalvam#15
Das ist in den Southern Shiverpeaks. Wenn du da mit Level 16/17 bist hast du wen bezahlt der dich da hinzieht ;)