Daggers of Xuekao - the easiest green

[Daggers of Xuekao]

The Daggers of Xuekao are simple to obtain. Below are maps that will guide you to XueKao the Deceptive. He has strong assassin attacks - but a warrior could easily solo this, as could several other builds I am sure. I took my elementalist with Devona and still got 3 sets of daggers in only a couple hours of play. Be warned - if you run it too much he stops dropping anything - they even give you a little pop-up hint about that now.

The run can be made with a henchie and without encountering any enemies until you get to XueKao.

Here is the run:



Solo you can make a shorter path narrowly avoiding many of the Jade Brotherhood. There are some tight squeezes - but you can get through without agro'ing anyone.



After a while - you must fight through the area a few times to 'clear' the board and reset the drops - during these clean-up runs I suggest leaving XueKao alone.



Although I don't know if you have to. The daggers are quickly dropping in selling price due to their ease of acquiring them, but this may soon be changed by the Man.

Good luck.

The Drunkard

[Xu Kaiwen]

Thanks for the maps! I got to Maaku keep and promptly went out and slaughtered the poor bloke 3 times. Got lots scrolls, but no daggers. (I took the short way each time. I managed to get there with only killing one thugee on the way each time.)

But after I killed him 3 times, count 'em, three, he stopped dropping completely. So I left and did a mission. Then failed a challenge mission. Heh. Came back and he still wasn't dropping a thing.

Did he stop dropping that fast for you, Adam? I'll try and figure out a way around it.

Oh, and my warrior build. I just got a new elite, auspicious parry. for one adrenaline, it blocks the next attack and gives you four adrenaline, one second recharge. Sooo, I thought, hey, riposte takes four adrenaline to charge, and came up with this vicious build:

auspicious parry, riposte, deadly riposte, standing slash, galrath slash. I brought shield stance and healing signet, but they are unnecessary because Xuekao basically kills himself on your rapid fire ripostes before you can count to three. Just make sure you block his first "unsuspecting" strike. 123 damage. ouch

[kyln]

I have a sin build that works well against him too. My first build was very problematic, but this new one is quite stable, though i imagine not as easy as a tactics ripose build. If anyone wants the skills just let me know. It is essentially based around using wild blow to keep critical defenses up continually and using way of perfection for life gain.

[Xu Kaiwen]

Wild blow... that's pretty clever!

[vlekje]

This run has now been "nerfed". It is no longer possible to solo farm the daggers because attacking him not only brings in every Jade Brotherhood in the area, but it also spawns about eight more Am Fah. This quickly turns into a turf war with you trapped in the middle.
Very deadly very quick

[drunkard]

I've noticed that myself - it might drive the price of the daggers up actually. I think we should still include it, however, in our farm runs where we use 3-5 people. If we get Kyle, Randy, Kevin, Kathy, and me together sometime and all at the same point in the game - we would tear it up (or anyone else who wants to join - but we are the most active in the guild I think . . .

Adam

[kyln]

xuekao is still soloable. when you trigger the groups, just run out and they will fight each other. Wait a couple of minutes and you can then pull xuekao away by himself once the fighting is done. He can be pulled alone relatively easy. Rest of run is same as before