Mana Tombs - the new Mechanar for Rogues?
The gold supply of WoW Rogues everywhere took a major hit with the release of Patch 2.2, as chests in the Mechanar (Wowhead | WowWiki) instance are no longer able to be solo-farmed. /cry
However, Tormentor from Area 52 recently pointed to a new video of his on YouTube that outlines a new chest-farming strategy, this time taking place in the Mana Tombs of Auchindoun (Wowhead | WowWiki).
This technique appears to be a lot less complicated than Mechanar, and you will be wearing your full equipment and fighting mobs. Tormentor shows that it can be done at level 70 with only average equipment and a 20/41/0 combat build. By all accounts, this should be possible to solo as early as level 66 or 67.
Tormentor claims to have made 100 gold from the run in the video above. Given that you can also mine in this instance and he has video proof he found at least one epic gem, I believe him. Time will tell on the consistency of the gold made using this strategy, but I think it will play out in rogues’ favor.
So will this get nerfed by Blizzard? Personally I do not think so; this is a straightforward solo-instance technique much like running Scarlet Monastery at level 60. Though there is a danger they will nerf the chest drops. What do you think?
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I’ve tried this already. This takes a LOT of getting used to to be able to do it successfully. I was able to do it with a 4/5 T4 Rogue with 2 Felsteel Longblades. Some groups of 2 are difficult and some groups of 3 are impossible if you don’t pot/vanish correctly, but all-in-all, I was able to get about 5-600 gold worth in 2 hours worth of farming the instance. Great tip, I love this site.
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There are actually more that you can solo, than are shown in the video. I found another one that was easily solo’d at 60, 34.
that might be average gear to some but its not easy to get
Its all about your luck. I did these runs and the video makes it look a lot easier than it is.
First off, the chests will spawn in 4 random locations, the video only shows the 2 easiest…the other 2….are quite hard imo.
If you see chest as you come in, good to go, i prefer sapping the non-caster first, then taking caster in the back behind big block thing, as the caster really doesnt do as much damage as the melee guys combined, and can knock down caster with blade fury, the other melee guy hits hard and fast, and enrages so its becomes a race of who gets killing blow
then quickly bandage up for next melee guy, or vanish, and pull/kill him after you sit and eat.
so after the first chest u go into the next room, go to your left and in the back there is mana wyrmlings, here is 1 of the locations not show in video.
The problem with this spot is that there is like 5 of the wyrms and each one when killed lets off a close range exploision that hits for 2k+ ish, and if you are killing multiples with blade fury, you die very very quickly. Popping evasion and cloak of shadows at the right time and you might make it, but for me, i died once and then came back and got the last 2, got chest.
K so 3rd chest is the bitch of them all, as it spawns in the middle of 3 mobs + big shadow fiend, AND a patrol that pats nearby.
The way i did this one is sap the priest, run to the corner in the nook there, and pull casters, dps hard, blade fury, everything you have, and then if you live through it and they spawn the adds try to vanish.
Watch out for patrol as by the time u get done killing 2 casters most likely will aggro them, so this one i almost always die on, its just important to kill 2 casters, run back and u can take the healer, by interupting his heals, he’s easy.
The 4th and final spawn is show in video, here you have 2 scenarios (also luck). You have a caster and melee, which isnt to bad, or you get 2 casters (also not to bad)
I sap the melee on first, then run into the back cave thingy and pull and go to your right to los him, kill, the sorcerers dont hit for anything i’m usually 90% when i kill those.
Then pull melee and kill it. Beware that the melee here will poison you so if you attempt to bandage or vasnish, well you cant, might even be useful to pull out those old school first aid skills and get some poison removers.
If its 2 casters, kill sorcerer and take on dark caster. Dark casters hit extremely hard and fast, try to kick whenever u see them cast, and pop COS and blow cooldowns, also watch out for the shadow word pain, i killed one last run and the pain killed me, COS on cooldown >
as for mining nodes, most of them are halfway through, most you can mine, there are a few that on a hill near mobs and are impossible to mine, i’ve tried distract, different positioning etc, and no luck.
So in summary, this is a fun easy run…if you get the right spawns, good luck on the wyrmlings one or the 3 pull, the other 2 are easy, if you can survive the mobs (gear wise)
My gear is
2/5 S2 (chest and shoulders)
pvp belt
pvp bracers
pvp boots
gladiator (s1) right and left rippers (dual mongoose)
Engineering epic goggles
Gloves from khara (dexterius)
Assination leggings (need t4 but i dont ever raid anymore)
Blue trinkets
Neck from Attunemen
my spec is 8/32/21 with riposte, AD, Prep, Combat Fists
Ive been doing this for a couple days now and its sick.
I made about 1,000g in 2 days.
its not hard at all as long as you vanish correctly and use sap every pull.
1. sap
2. pull
3. adrenaline rush
4. blade furry
5. slice and dice
two are dead within a couple seconds.
then vanish and kill third after medding up
the chests spawn in about 6-8 different locations.
ive been able to loot every chest so far.
my gear:
2/5 tier 5
2/5 tier 4
emerald ripper main hand
blade of the unrequited off hand.
combat dagger spec.
i really hope they dont nerf this like mech!
oh and haywood = scrub
if you have any knowledge of the game this wont be hard for you.
whats hte lock picking skill u need for this?
A Little late, but ehh how do you get 600g in 2 hours from doing this run? i guess i fail at rogue, my gear is pvp based, and i dont have a lot of experience, i usually play priest or druid.
But, when i did these runs, if you get both chests in a run, u get 5-6g per chest, then if you get both nodes of ore, and stealth back out, looking at 10-15 min a run? ok say 10 minutes…
2x 6g (max) = 12g
2x 4-5 ore (average) = 10g (20g a stack on my server, so 10g for half)
Ok so u get some greens, that if u de into dust, 2 greens average 2-3 dust per, rare for planar/shard.
So we look at 5-6 dust a run, which i dont sell dust singles, so 25g a stack (5 runs)
ok all together for 1 run lets average it at 30g which is fair.
so every 10 minutes, 30g
4 per hour (due to 5 per hour cap) is 120g ish per hour
If you somehow squeezed in 5 runs in an hour, then 150g.
2 hours looking at 250-300, with 2 stacks of dust looking at another 50g, (and thats pushing it) so 350g, 4 stacks of ore (high estimate) is 80g
so looking at 420g once u sold everything off, at market value, where does the other 200g come from? these numbers are pretty close to my server anyways.
1000g in 2 days, you would have to be in here 10 hours. (5 each day?)
well ok if u get some blue gems or blue items the money goes up a lot but it just is hard to grasp that amount of gold when i did these runs it wasnt as profitable as others, also it might not take 10 minutes, maybe if it was 5min but you’d be pushing hard to get in/out in 5 mintues, some of the ores and chests are a bit far in.
WTF is a t4 rogue doing with failsteel lolblades?
I’ve been doing this for a month now with my crappy gear:
1668AP
273Hit
23.53Crit
8314HP
S2 MH Sword/S1 OH Sword
20/41/0 PvE Raid Spec
I don’t even bother sapping. There’s always either a Priest or Melee… so, I just CS the Priest/Melee and blow all the cooldowns (keeping CloS for SW:P. Phantom Strike or if I get the Mana Wyrms). Sometimes I’ll have to stun lock the 3rd guy to avoid taking too much damage or throw in a blind for bandaging… but really, it’s not hard and I never die.
I usually am able to do it fast enough, that I reach the instance reset limit.. which gives me time to hearth and off load items to my bank alt.
I DE all the greens I get and most of the blues (because they rarely sell and end up costing me more money to keep putting them on the AH) and auction everything but the Arcane Dust. Then I create Arcanoweave Bracers with the Arcane Dust and some Netherweave Bolts and DE the bracers for another Large Prismatic Shard (which actually sells for more than a Void Crystal on my server).
With all of that, I’d say I’m able to make between 400-600 an hour depending on what drops.
all i can say about this is CRAZY xD
Tip
#show Sap
/cast Sap
/stopcasting
/cast Pick Pocket
sap everyone you pass and get some free gold vendor trash meanwhile walking
i did this for quite a while over two days and it was fairly easy my gear isnt the best but its ok
3/5 S1
1/5 S2 shoulders
consortium pants with 30 stam and 10 agi
necklace of the deep
and pvp cloak
pirmal strike belt and bracers
and S1 dagger for MH and scryer dagger on OH im a 0/20/41 sub build
i took me like 2 runs to learn how to do it right but after that all the groups were fairly easy
i dont mine btw but i made alot of money
i got 6 BoE rare armor pieces and 4 rare gems I DE crap that vendors for 4g or less and vendor if its more than 4g
i the dust and essences and 2 large prismatic shards for mongoose enchant and still have 4 stacks of dust
all in all i made around 600-900g i really didnt keep tab
the strat i used was sap the melee class ambush caster blind the third person if there is the ambush usually takes out 30-40% of the casters HP after then i use S&D and in like 10 secs he is dead then i kill blinded i use evasion the after he is dead i vanish the i kill the last out with out any CD or pots using ambush again
I just did it as the video shows, killed the mobs guarding the 2 chests which I looted and got all in all 14g, took me around 10 min. Didn’t mine or herb.
Got 1 blue staff which I will DE.
Nice video, great site!
I have 10k health and PVE spec with full T5, except 1 T6… this is NOT easy…. The 3rd spot is nearly impossible unless you are fully buffed, and well-fed, and potted.
My suggestion is to take friend, or do dailys… GL
Yes I have concluded unless you are 100% PVE spec (which I no longer am), this is impossible. All money earned will go towards the repair bill cost of dying. Vanishing is not possible, and neither is blinding becuase the mobs dot and they are dotted by my poisons.
Do NOT try this.
LOL its not that bad volotham, then u are doing something wrong, Ive died once on 10ish runs but the statement that ppl are getting like 400g per run is totally overrated.
hurray
16/0/45 2060ap 300hit 25% crit.
easy as hell
Visit my site http://www.roguesgoldguide.com I posted an entire guide to soloing all 9/9 chest spawns and 11/12 mining nodes. I make 300-400 gold per hour, and it can be done in Dungeon 3, (Assassination set) that’s how I started.
Is this heroic or regular setting becuase ive run mana tombs quite a bit and have never seen loot like that drop in reg.
subtely rouge
if needed i can post my equipment/stats just dont have right now
Is this heroic or regular setting becuase ive run mana tombs quite a bit and have never seen loot like that drop in reg.
subtely rouge
if needed i can post my equipment/stats just dont have right now