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: Modniir Manes
 * Dropped by: Modniir Centaurs
 * Found in: Far Shiverpeaks

Farming locations

 * Suggested Farm #1: Drakkar Lake, south from Sifhalla.


 * Suggested Farm #2: Varajar Fells, North of Olafstead.

Threats & recommended skills

 * Threats: Knockdown from Trample, interrupt from Savage Slash, Frost Wurm popup (rare)


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


 * Recommended skills: Knockdown prevention, Heart of the Norn

Solo farming

 * Suggested Solo #1: SoS spirit spam - try to not let a spirit get targetted for Trample, because that will knock them all down. Consider "I Am Unstoppable!" to defend yourself.