TSS Powersource Farming and Quest Armor

Powersources! or THE BANE OF TSS ARMOR MOLDS!!

When The Serpent's Spine (TSS) was released there was a cheer followed by a large boo. The cheer was tons of players saying, Hurrah! New expansion raid armor! and the boo was from players realizing that they needed to find many more drops for the armor.

TSS had 2 tiers of equipment (each tier split up to lesser and greater rewards). One aimed at the 73-75 crowd of casuals and the other was aimed at the TSS raiders.

TSS raids were not all that difficult. They required a large amount of time spent in the two high end dungeons: Ashengate and Frostcrypt. Now my guild was one of the earlier raiding guilds to finish their AG raiding farming... we organized the guild into doing many quest related camp spots at once, and then used mages to coh between the camps. Sadly, we didn't know that Large Powersources were important, or class related... so for the most part we rotted them all... cheer.

Flash forwards a few months and those same guild members were now farming for the powersources that they had wasted during their flagging. Was a major bummer really, and most people were already burnt out from the elongated flagging process.... I think my guild lost at least 5 people just from PS farming burnout.

Now me, I'm different, I appreciate a challenge.... especially ones that force the raiding ubers to group with whoever else is working in AG or FC. It's rare that uber raiders group with casuals... the process always leads to some sort of frustration. Usually the uber is use to slopping his way through the easy (because of gear) content. And the casual is use to the perfect group make up and is bewildered when a Berserker joins the group and says he has more hitpoints (hp) than your tank.

Well, after the ubers and casuals adjust to each other, usually you will have a pretty productive relationship. ( no not babies ) The uber should know the dungeon layout, tricks and corners pretty well... he was forced to learn them while doing all his flagging for raids. And the Casuals will usually be really good at least one camp... I mean they gotta put their time into something right?

But what happens when you just got your 4th armor mold and are still short powersources? Well!!!! BUCKLE DOWN!!

The key to fast PS farming is finding a busy day where there are multiple groups doing camps in AG. I say AG because it's easier and you are probably much more likely to find groups camping there. First priority is to figure out who is at what camp. Once you know that, try to determine who the leader of each group is... there are two really good PS camps in AG...

1. The base of west tower 1... You can pull Agril Oppressor or Brimstone Juggernaut to your camp... fast re spawn, probably gonna get 2 named an hour.

2. Safe Spot after crossing west bridge.... also know as Crying Dragon Bridge... this camp has 4 possible named that a good puller can bring the placeholders (PH) of... Galvanized Guardian, Core Flame, The Unspeakable, and Arbiter of Ash.

Now you want to make sure you know the difference between the normal versions of monsters here and the named versions. The normal version have no capitol letters in their name, and they have "a" or "an" in their names (e.g. an agril oppressor vs Agril Oppressor, see the difference?)

The second thing is you are going to need a tank that can handle these named... they are what I call difficult for most. Of course there are many ubers out there that are thinking, " pfft these named are cake"... drr... Yer an uber....

If you choose either of the camps I suggest, gg... if those camps are full... I suggest a backup tactic to forming a group... Leaching...

Find a group that does not possess any members that conflict with your armor type.. or a group that has members who do not raid TSS (and they might not be seeking powersources)... ask the group if they mind you helping them from outside the group (they should say no problem, cause free help = more exp). If you see the group clearing the named PH, then you know it's only a matter of time before a powersource drops.... if you picked the right group... no one will want the powersource and you can score it for yourself!

Things to know about ps:

Everynamed in AG of FC will drop 1 powersource... the type of drop is random... can get all 4 types from any named.

4 types

Translucent = Cloth
Flickering = Leather
Faintly = Chain
Lightly = Plate

Large PS are for TSS raid armor, the normal ones are for casual group armor.

The quest to create the armor comes from Crescent Reach...

Each armor type has a quest bit/scrap associated with it

Swatch = Cloth
Hide = Leather
Links = Chain
Metal = Plate

You need this many bits per quest armor you wish to make:

bracer = 1
gloves = 3
arms = 3
head = 3
boots = 3
legs = 4
chest = 4

Farm your powersources, it really improves the quality of your armor!