2025 Q8 Farm Discussion Thread

    Thought I'd make this thread given my love for Q8 Farming + the lack of new info on Q8 farming in quite a while..

    What has been your experience with dropping Q8s? I have spent a good amount of time opening Kaineng/Elonian/Maguuma/Kournan chests while also farming 18-21 mobs in NM/HM.

    Best for OS Q8s: Missing Daughter - by far

    Best for Insc Q8s: Destroy the Ungrateful Slaves

    I personally dont really find it worthwhile to chestrun/farm OS Q8s because the chance of dropping a good dual mod in Q8 is like 1/9999999. Swords are OK but even then you run the risk of a 14% or some crappy inherent. Moddock Crevice has dropped only garbage for me over hundreds of farms.

    Have you guys found any success mass solo farming Q8s from NM mobs (more mobs, lower rate in NM)? Thinking of EOTN in particular for insc swords/shields.

    Any luck with other quests? I have had some luck with Anger of the Stone Face (Lvl 20 Cultists in HM). I have tried farming Fish in a Barrel but the mob aggro is messed up.

    When it comes to chests, Barbarous Shore is pretty solid for insc drops and I have had some luck there.

    Let's discuss here !!

    ungrateful slaves do not give any other gold sword than dead sword right ?

    farmed a big bunch of lvl 17-20 NM foes too but never had luck, gave up after 2-3k hours with no drops except purple shield

    tried really hard to drop vabbian skins as q8, i will share my spot for the lvl 20 foes if anyone is crazy enough to try this 2 gold per hours farm :

    outside vehjin mines in nf (might offer crazy skins for shields)

    also did a very big bunch of lvl 20 HM charrs in eotn, noticed it is highly... "frequented" (q8 fds/fellblade/longsword/oaken aegis)

    yes a group of charrs in the first room at CoF is lvl20 in HM, run takes 40sec to kill 5-6 charrs lvl 20, had some pretty close call but never ever had a gold q8 max after prob 600h in here over the year i gave up, the spot offers some crazy potential skins for insc swords/shield

    Only had luck for sword (dropped only 2 within in my gw life 12k hours and 2 on the same spot within short time) recently by chest running plagueborn at budked, found out the loot table is very small with only plagueborn items compared to am fah that drops 2 differents armor skins, many differents wands/focus/staves/hammer/daggers and all the crappy items we don't want as chest running in nm

    My opinion after ruining a big part of my life hunting q8 : most ungrateful farm in game and not profitable for the time invested, this is definitively a bot job

    IGN : Alchimist Derv

    I have had them drop other swords but overwhelmingly they drop dead swords.

    Recently I have tried farming the tengu in Alcazia Tangle (they are all lvl 20). They are pretty manageable with vow of silence. What build are you using for the first group 20 HM Charr in COF?

    My all-time favourite Q8 Chest run is Barbarous shore: 3-5 chests in just under 2 mins that can drop cool swords like briar / bramble / colossal with derv: