Guide to Item of the Week Farming

Background
Every week, Nicholas the Traveler requests a different item in exchange for Gifts of the Traveler. These items of the week end up being very valuable for a short period, since the gifts can usually be sold for – (and opening the gifts yields valuable items). Veteran players usually have no trouble farming the item using advanced (although standard) builds and they have access to the ideal farming locations. This guide, however, is designed to help the relatively new player, who has fewer skills and might need to unlock the farming area.

Solo farming builds
These are the most common solo farming builds referenced in the guides below. The links go to the build articles on PvX Wiki.


 * 55 monk and 600/Smite team
 * Terra tank
 * Permasin degen, Permasin daggers, and Permasin sliver
 * Spirit spammer
 * 130 dervish

Summary

 * Item: Saurian Bones
 * Dropped by: Raptors, Raptor Nestlings, Tyrannuses, Angorodons, and Ferothraxes
 * Found in: Tarnished Coast

Farming locations

 * Suggested Farm #1: Exit east of Rata Sum into Riven Earth and travel south to the nearby Raptor cave.

Threats & recommended skills

 * Threats: Be aware that Raptors will often interrupt you with their Disrupting Stab and are able to block attacks by using Critical Defenses.


 * Tactics: If you farm the Raptor cave, be sure not to aggro more groups than you can handle, Raptors are usually patroling around so careful pulling is recommended.


 * Recommended skills: General anti-melee skills are especially useful this week, consider taking Blinding Surge or similar skills to make the enemies less effective. When you are getting interrupted too frequently, you may also bring an anti-interrupt skill such as Mantra of Resolve.

Solo farming

 * The Permasin sliver build mentioned above can clear the cave in a few minutes.

Summary

 * Item: Maguuma Spider Webs
 * Dropped by: Maguuma Spiders
 * Found in: Maguuma Jungle

Farming locations

 * Suggested Farm #1: Southeast half of Reed Bog. A group of 2-3 spiders spawns just north of the portal to The Falls (right before the vine bridge), and 5 groups spawn in a short corridor to the east.  If you're feeling adventurous, keep going, and you'll find 4 more groups on the way to the Ettin's Back portal, all of them spawning underneath vine arches.
 * Suggested Farm #2: The Wilds has a large number of Maguuma Spiders in the western half of the area.

Threats & recommended skills

 * Threats: Bleeding and Burning from Maguuma Hunters on the way there may surprisingly kill you. Maguuma Spiders can poison, but it is generally not threatening.


 * Tactics: As always, be careful not to aggro too many foes, especially groups of Jungle Trolls and Moss Scarabs.


 * Recommended skills: self-healing and/or regen helps counteract the poison

Solo farming

 * Spirit Spam works easily.