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: Phantom Residues
 * Dropped by: Mindblade Spectres, Smite Crawlers, and Banished Dream Riders.
 * Found in: The Underworld and Tomb of the Primeval Kings

Farming locations

 * Suggested Farm #1: Farm the Tomb of the Primeval Kings. As you enter, kill the Group of 1 Grasp of Insanity and 2 Scythe of Chaos to the left. Move to the left end of the bridge and trigger the popup group of 3 Grap of Insanity.  Move back to the entrance stairs.  On the right, 1 group of 3 Terrorweb Dryders and 1 group of 3 Banished Dream Riders have overlapping patrols.  Time your advance so the Banished Dream Riders get into your agro bubble, then reposition on the entrance stairs.  They will come most of the way across the bridge.  Move to the left end of the bridge and kill them.  Exit and repeat about 3 Banished Dream Rider every 5 minutes.
 * Suggested Farm #2: Farm the Smite Crawlers in the Underworld. Don't go in unprepared because of the 1K entry fee, and the high level of difficulty. See the PvX wiki for some builds capable of doing this.
 * Suggested Farm #3: Farm the Chaos Planes in the Underworld. Don't go in unprepared because of the 1K entry fee, and the high level of difficulty. See the PvX wiki for some builds capable of doing this.

Threats & recommended skills

 * Threats: general threats like hex, condition, environmental effects etc.


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


 * Recommended skills: skills like anti-kd, hex removal etc

Solo farming

 * Suggest builds that work well here

Summary

 * Item: 3 Intricate Grawl Necklaces
 * Dropped by: Grawls
 * Found in: Southern Shiverpeaks

Farming locations

 * Suggested Farm #1: Team up with a friend and run any/Rt and any/R in the center of Witman's Folly northeast of Port Sledge.

Threats & recommended skills

 * Threats: Enchantment removal and condition return are abundant, so relying on either won't work.


 * Tactics: The /Rt runs in with some tanking skills up and pulls the 4-6 mobs in the center of the area, the /R runs behind him without aggroing the central mobs and drops Edge of Extinction (EoE) and Quickening Zephyr (QZ). Chain Vengeful Was Khanhei (VWK) forever due to QZ and kill everything with an EoE bomb. This takes about 1 min.


 * Recommended skills: As /Rt you will need anti-KD and some way to take less than 29 damage a hit so that you get healed from VWK. So you have to bring a tanking skill from your main profession coupled with IAU or some other anti-KD. As /R you need some run skills to break aggro if there are mobs in your way while running to the spot.

Solo farming

 * The /Rt with VWK can work without the /R but it's a lot slower.
 * Terra-ele with Obsidian Flesh and Dwarven Stability works here. Mind you energy toward the end of fights.
 * Spirit Spam works easily.
 * Warrior/any with Dolyak and Defy pain