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
 * Terra tank
 * Spirit spammer
 * 130 dervish

Summary

 * Item: Naga Hides
 * Dropped by: Low level Naga
 * Found in: Shing Jea Island

Farming locations

 * Suggested Farm #1: Raiyan Cave : The run is very easy just bring some damage and 1 heal. A run can net between 4 and 6 Naga Hides and takes about 5 minutes.
 * Suggested Farm #2: Minister Cho's Estate &mdash; from Ran Musu Gardens, head through Minister Cho's Menagerie and down the hill to the beach.


 * Suggested Farm #3: Travel North out of Tsumei Village to Lake Puang. During the 2-minute walk, you will encounter about 15 low-level naga in groups of 2-3.

Threats & recommended skills

 * Threats: Naga Wizards have Teinai's Prison @ 5 Water Magic. Unless you are using a character that is not yet level 20, no other real threats exist, as the Naga do not do enough damage to pose a threat.


 * Tactics: important tactics, for example pulling, choke points etc


 * Recommended skills: Bring attacks or spells that are affected by armor. Since the Naga are no higher than level 6, some high-powered attacks or spells can kill in one hit.

Solo farming

 * Suggested Solo #1: Run to Raiyan Cave from Tsumei Village and clear out the cave. On the way there, some of the Kappa will aggro, but you can avoid all groups on the way there, or run past them since they are not a threat. Any melee build works. Elementalists and Ritualists should spam direct-damage spells. Other caster professions can use SoS Spirit Spam.
 * Suggested Solo #2: Vanguard spiker works great. Bring Dwarven Stability and Dash and put out "You Move Like a Dwarf!".