126256-renown-farming

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			Are solo shiphands still the best way to farm renown? Which ones? Do i need gold or is speed running bronze enough?	
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If you get gold you get bout 6 tokens if I'm correct; each gives like 200 renown or something. I forgot how many bronze medals give, but it's probably 2. Never bothered seeing which is better for farming renown.
I think the fastest ones are Outpost M-13 (or whatever number it was) and Infestation. You'll get very bored very quickly that way, however.	
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Are solo shiphands still the best way to farm renown? Which ones? Do i need gold or is speed running bronze enough?
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			Gauntlet is pretty quick also, less than 10 minutes if you're moving at a decent clip. The only "tough" parts are the splorg explosion/token collection phase and learning the possible spawn locations of the golden skulls, but it seems like they now have more than 10 every run so you can miss a few early ones and still finish with gold.	
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			if you can it's also a good idea to drag a buddy along for the extra kill renown and faster clear times.	
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Gauntlet is pretty quick also, less than 10 minutes if you're moving at a decent clip. The only "tough" parts are the splorg explosion/token collection phase and learning the possible spawn locations of the golden skulls, but it seems like they now have more than 10 every run so you can miss a few early ones and still finish with gold.
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			You can also farm renown with the expeditions on your housing plot. I think they give 500 renown for gold, and you can get gold on the Skeech one in about 3 minutes, then rinse and repeat.	
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You can also farm renown with the expeditions on your housing plot. I think they give 500 renown for gold, and you can get gold on the Skeech one in about 3 minutes, then rinse and repeat.
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wow thats actually pretty solid advice. I like it, will do it a bit if I get time tonight.
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Ok I will try to remember to post my "gold recipe" here when I get home. The expedition is basically putting a bunch of ingredients in a pot in a certain order and I've got a list that will give gold 100% of the time.
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For Gauntlet...
 
You can setup Perspective to show the skulls.  It turned out to be pretty easy (though you do have to remember to hit 'enter' at the end of fields).
There are always 12 skulls.  4 in the first room, 1 between the first room and the galley, 1 in the galley, 1 in the side room or in it's stub of a hallway, and 2 in the dance-off, arena, and waiting combatants wing.  That brings you to 9.  There are always 3 in the final room.
 
For renown farming, if you have some friends, I'd suggest as many runs of Fragment Zero together that you can stand.  Take a renown flask, and stay loosely grouped up, and killing all those skeech will net you a good 10-15k renown per run not counting the merit rewards.	
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For Gauntlet...
 
You can setup Perspective to show the skulls.  It turned out to be pretty easy (though you do have to remember to hit 'enter' at the end of fields).
There are always 12 skulls.  4 in the first room, 1 between the first room and the galley, 1 in the galley, 1 in the side room or in it's stub of a hallway, and 2 in the dance-off, arena, and waiting combatants wing.  That brings you to 9.  There are always 3 in the final room.
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			OK, so the list is: slime, shell, squishy egg. wriggling egg, stalk, roe, blubber. You add those ingredients in that order and keep the pot cool and you'll get gold. Takes me about 3 mins.	
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Can you elaborate on this?  I love Perspective to death but I haven't been able to get it to point lines at those damned skulls.
 
(Go.  Hunt.  Kill Skuls.)
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			I thought going through with 5 people gave much better renown. Is that not the case?	
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			Yes.  Like I said in a post up higher, Fragment Zero with 4 other people (a total of 5) gives phenomenal renown, if you stick together (there is a radius on the renown gain and if you spread out to the four corners of the earth, you'll minimize it).  It's just due to all the skeech killing, per mob.  Basically the same situation as the old renown train (lots of easy mobs in rapid succession).	
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Sure.  Okay, it helps to just have a vet shiphand run you don't care much about, or just do it normal, no timer and you can wander around a bit and experiment.
 
Get Perspective open.  Either /perspective show or esc-click perspective.  
Helps to have a golden skull in your view just for testing purposes.  
Click "New Category"
Run your mouse over the golden skull you can see, and make sure the tooltip popup says "Golden Skull".  I'm pretty sure that's the name, but you know, can't hurt to verify me :-).
In that first text field in the new category dialog box type "Golden Skull".  Hit ENTER.  That part is actually kind of important.  I guess the LUA doesn't have a way to check a field's contents without that?  I'm fuzzy on the specifics, but it's not the only addon I've seen using text fields that insists on having an enter.
If you want to put this in one of Perspective's categories, in the second text field type "Quests" or "Miscellaneous" or whatever you want it to actually be filed under.  I think I usually put it under Miscellaneous.  You also don't have to do this step.  But if you do change the text field, hit enter.
Then I forget exactly if there's an "OK" button, or if you just click Perspective's "back" icon at the top.  However, basically close the box.
You should have Skulls now marked with a little icon marker, the inverted teardrop.  The default I believe is blue with white lines.  You can go back and customize this, but the color picking requires another addon.
 
And that's about it.  Finding the skulls the first few times in Gauntlet is kind of fun, but if you're just trying to get it done, the Perspective markers really help streamline it.
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			Very welcome. For my next trick, I'd like to get Perspective to mark the Explorer run flags but those are harder and I've not been able to get the search phrase just right.	
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One of the best ways to farm renown is to farm the fragment zero ship hand with a group.
 
going solo is a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of renown one fragment zero with a couple other people will get you.
 
edit: because words are hard.	
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Are solo shiphands still the best way to farm renown? Which ones? Do i need gold or is speed running bronze enough?
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Not Fragment Zero, in which there is a nonexistent black box.
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			You get 1 Vet Shiphand Stipend for bronze, 2 for silver, 4 for gold. Each one gives 320 renown, and 4 gold. So in order to make bronze/silver worth it, you have to cut completion time in a quarter/half. That's not really feasible, seeing as most of the optionals are completed alongside the main path. Infestation it's make sure you "tag boxes" that are right there, and make sure you seal the bulkheads that you HAVE to seal anyways soon after they open up. Space Madness, just avoid exploding Rowsdowers and finding datachrons and saving people that are right along the way anyways. In M-13, just make sure at least a few crystals stay and make sure you hit all the floating points you can hit in one area. Those take up maybe 20-30% of your time on the ones that are the most out of the way, and besides that they're all so easy to hit along the way that they maybe add an extra 10% to your time needed for the run. Heck, some of them even push you to run faster. Btw, if you're on US Entity on the Exile side, add me in game and I can help you with getting gold in all the shiphands.	
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