Lineage 2 Farming Guide

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Since we already mentioned the farming issue a few times, let's remind this definition once again. So, farming is hunting a certain selection of monsters for considerable period of time in order to obtain adena, materials, or quest items, at the expense of Exp (most farmers prefer staying at the same level as long as it takes, so they delevel themselves on purpose to be able to hunt the same monsters infinitely). Casual players should consider farming as a legitimate way to earn the funds to upgrade their equipment. If you disregard the farming aspect of the game and race to gain levels instead, you will end up outleveling your gear and being unable to kill proper monsters anymore.
Farming For lineague 2 adena
This is the most common, well-tried way of accumulating wealth. Generally, you have to pick the easiest monsters that drop adena at a decent rate, and hunt them until you amass enough. The so-called professional farmers usually delevel themselves to match the monsters' level so that they could hunt efficiently due to their remaining high level skills. From a casual player's point of view, deleveling is hardly an option.

 

Farming For Materials

There are two cases when one may need to hunt certain monsters continually:
- to obtain the key materials needed to craft certain item for one's own needs,
- to collect the best selling materials and sell them to crafters.

 

If you need certain material to get something crafted, find out what monsters drop it and farm them until you collect enough. If the drop rate at your current level is decent, this method works well. Otherwise, estimate how much time it takes in average to get one fragment, and see if buying the remaining fragments would be a more preferable option compared to hunting for them.

 

If you don't need anything specific, just concentrate on hunting the monsters that drop the most overpriced materials, and sell the loot. Although the probability of getting complete items as drops is fixed in each case, in practice you have much better chances to receive a full drop if you stick to killing the same monster for a few levels, ignoring the other targets.

 

Farming for materials is limited with the level requirements: when the monster is 6 or more levels below, the drop rates get significantly worse (proportionally to the level difference).

 

Farming For Quest Items

There are certain quests lucrative enough to continue doing them even when you don't match the level requirements, since turning in the quest items brings you more adena than regular hunting (for comparable periods of time). So, if you don't mind to sacrifice your leveling speed, do it as long as you want and augment your wealth gradually.

 

The following repeatable quests are worthy of mentioning in this context:

 

The Grim Collector (level 15-25);
Sweetest Venom (level 18-28);
Coin of Magic (level 40+);
Under the Shadow of the Ivory Tower (level 40+);
Plunder Their Supplies (level 52-60);
Kail's Magic Coin (level 55+);
Whisper Of Dreams (level 56+);
Supplier Of Reagents (level 57+);
Stolen Dignity (level 58+);
Legacy of Insolence (level 59+).

Lineage 2 Farming Guide