[0:00] Hey folks, this is Kalamazi. It has
[0:02] never been this easy to gear up in World
[0:04] of Warcraft and the new content added in
[0:06] patch 1205 makes things even easier,
[0:09] especially for solo content focused
[0:11] players. You can straight up buy hero
[0:14] track gear using the new field accolade
[0:16] currency. Now, the 500 price tag might
[0:19] seem a bit steep, but there are some
[0:21] ways to farm this currency very quickly,
[0:23] especially from the new ritual sites.
[0:26] So, let's go over 18 tips and tricks to
[0:28] clear tier five ritual sites much
[0:30] easier, which will make farming field
[0:32] accolades a lot faster, so you can buy
[0:35] your shiny new hero track gear. Now,
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[0:42] Perhaps the most important tip I have
[0:45] for you right out of the gate is that if
[0:46] you're interested in farming field
[0:48] accolades for these new boxes of gear,
[0:50] you should avoid void strikes and
[0:53] assaults. They may be easy, but they are
[0:55] incredibly inefficient. If you want to
[0:58] actually get any hero gear anytime soon
[1:00] from this system, you should be looking
[1:02] at ritual sites instead. The main reason
[1:05] most players will want to farm ritual
[1:07] sites is for the field accolades
[1:09] currency and we need 500 for each piece
[1:11] of hero gear that you want to buy. With
[1:13] that being the main goal, let's talk
[1:15] about how you can increase your field
[1:17] accolade rewards first. Field accolades
[1:20] are tied to your spoils at the end of
[1:22] your run, which is also your overall
[1:24] score. You get 10% of your spoils or
[1:26] score in field accolades. So, to
[1:28] increase field accolades, you just need
[1:31] to increase your spoils. It's that easy.
[1:35] We can do this in two main ways. The
[1:37] higher the tier of ritual site you run,
[1:39] the more spoils you're going to get for
[1:41] each activity in that run. There are
[1:44] five tiers total, so your goal should be
[1:46] to clear tier five quickly and reliably.
[1:49] The other way to increase your spoils is
[1:51] to enable the challenges at the bottom
[1:53] of the ritual site screen. Each one adds
[1:56] a new obstacle for you to overcome and
[1:58] they also add a modifier to your end or
[2:01] score. Not every challenge is equal
[2:03] though. Some are significantly harder or
[2:05] more annoying to deal with and they each
[2:08] increase your spoils by a different
[2:09] amount. Grasping tendrils will
[2:12] periodically spawn green circles under
[2:14] your feet that will root you if you
[2:16] stand in them when the cast ends, so
[2:18] just step out of those whenever they
[2:19] spawn. Manifestations will spawn a
[2:22] caster who has a huge purple circle
[2:24] around him. If he finishes the cast,
[2:26] you'll take a bunch of damage if you're
[2:28] in the circle, so either interrupt or CC
[2:30] the caster or just run out of the
[2:32] circle. Whatever works best in the
[2:34] current situation. Magical alarm bells
[2:37] will spawn some extra ads when you kill
[2:38] enough monsters and you can see the
[2:40] counter for that at the top of your
[2:41] screen. So, just keep an eye on that
[2:43] number and get ready for some extra
[2:45] aggro as you progress through your run.
[2:48] Malevolent boons causes the dark
[2:50] obelisks to provide pretty hefty buffs
[2:52] to mini bosses and bosses, so you want
[2:54] to kill the obelisks to remove those
[2:56] buffs before engaging with any big
[2:58] monsters. Tainted corpses causes mobs to
[3:01] leave a puddle of gunk on the floor when
[3:03] they die, so just don't stand in those
[3:05] puddles and you'll be fine. Reinforced
[3:07] increases the number of trash mobs in
[3:09] the entire ritual site, which will make
[3:11] it harder to skip around things and
[3:13] you'll just end up fighting a lot more.
[3:15] Patrols will spawn big elite mobs that
[3:17] patrol around the area. Usually, they're
[3:20] fairly easy to dodge, so stay away from
[3:22] them whenever you can. And then embers
[3:24] causes a few buffs to appear for the
[3:26] bosses and mini bosses and you need to
[3:28] kill all of the monsters that are marked
[3:30] with a blue purple orb to disable those
[3:32] boons to make killing the bosses much
[3:34] easier. That's also tracked at the top
[3:36] of your screen.
[3:38] Now, you might expect the overall goal
[3:41] to be to run a tier five ritual site
[3:43] with all challenges enabled. That will
[3:45] give you the most spoils and field
[3:47] accolades after all, right? Well, yes
[3:49] and no. It will definitely give you the
[3:51] most spoils per run, but that's actually
[3:54] not a very good metric to go by. Your
[3:56] goal should be to earn as many field
[3:58] accolades per time spent running ritual
[4:00] sites rather than per ritual site run.
[4:04] The reason why this is so important is
[4:06] because specific challenges will make
[4:08] your ritual sites take significantly
[4:10] longer due to the way the ritual sites
[4:12] are set up. You don't really get
[4:14] anything for killing trash mobs and to
[4:16] earn your chest at the end, you only
[4:18] have to clear the required objectives,
[4:20] which mainly consists of killing a
[4:22] handful of mini bosses and bosses. That
[4:25] leads me into the next tip. You want to
[4:27] skip as much as you can. You want to aim
[4:29] to do as little as possible while still
[4:32] clearing the required objectives, so
[4:34] skip around trash mobs whenever you can
[4:36] and that will significantly speed up
[4:38] your ritual site runs. You only have to
[4:40] kill the marked mini bosses and the
[4:42] final boss to get your loot. Trash mobs
[4:45] are worth practically nothing in the
[4:47] grand scheme of things. So, look at your
[4:49] objectives on the right-hand side and
[4:51] try to complete only those with as
[4:53] little extra work as you can.
[4:56] Now, to make your runs as smooth and
[4:58] fast as possible, we also want to avoid
[5:00] taking any challenges that force you to
[5:02] engage with trash mobs. For example,
[5:05] embers forces you to kill trash mobs to
[5:07] disable the powerful buffs on bosses and
[5:09] mini bosses. All of that is just
[5:11] unnecessary extra time and the spoils
[5:14] increase doesn't justify how much extra
[5:17] time this adds to your run. Malevolent
[5:20] boons forces you to go out of your way
[5:22] to kill the dark obelisks before you
[5:24] engage with mini bosses and bosses,
[5:26] which can sometimes require clearing
[5:28] trash mobs in the way, which will also
[5:30] slow you down quite a bit. And then to a
[5:33] lesser extent, reinforced adds a lot
[5:35] more trash mobs in each ritual site,
[5:37] which just means more trash for you to
[5:39] avoid. You can run with this one if
[5:41] you're confident, but chances are it's
[5:44] still going to slow you down at least a
[5:45] little bit. So, I would run your ritual
[5:48] sites with every other challenge enabled
[5:50] except those three. You should be able
[5:52] to focus solely on mini bosses and
[5:54] bosses to clear through each run very
[5:56] quickly.
[5:58] The next tip is that you don't have to
[6:00] run these ritual sites on tier five if
[6:02] you can't clear through them reliably or
[6:05] it's just taking too long to be worth
[6:07] it. Every tier option will earn you
[6:09] field accolades faster than completing
[6:11] void strikes and all sources of field
[6:13] accolades earn you the same reward,
[6:16] boxes of champion or hero track gear. If
[6:18] you can't clear tier five, you can still
[6:21] get hero gear with tier four or tier
[6:23] three or even tiers one and two. It's
[6:25] just going to take a bit longer per
[6:27] piece of gear, but as you gear up, you
[6:29] should be able to move up the tiers to
[6:31] make things faster and easier. If you're
[6:34] curious, tier one drops around 20 field
[6:36] accolades, tier two can be around 50
[6:39] accolades, tier three is around 70, tier
[6:41] four gives you around 100, and tier five
[6:44] should net you just shy of 120 field
[6:47] accolades per run if you're running with
[6:49] the challenges I mentioned above. The
[6:51] further along you are in the renown
[6:52] track and the more treasures and rares
[6:54] you kill, the more field accolades you
[6:56] will get. And of course, if you really
[6:58] wanted to, you could enable the other
[7:00] challenges to really max this out, but
[7:02] those runs will probably take a bit
[7:04] longer, so your overall earnings per
[7:06] hour would be the same or lower. But
[7:08] ultimately, it's up to you. I will say
[7:12] that if your runs are taking longer than
[7:14] 15 minutes each, try dropping the tier
[7:17] to see if that helps. Try avoiding more
[7:19] trash mobs to speed things up further
[7:21] and revisit some of the other tips in
[7:23] this video. On my ramp paladin that I'm
[7:25] still gearing up, I can comfortably
[7:27] clear lower tiers in five to seven
[7:29] minutes while tier fives take about 10
[7:31] minutes each. Dropping down to tier four
[7:33] doesn't seem to sacrifice too many field
[7:35] accolades and it will be at least a bit
[7:37] easier to complete. At tier four and
[7:40] five, you should be able to earn
[7:41] yourself a piece of hero gear every hour
[7:44] of play time.
[7:46] Something else that can help speed
[7:48] things up is to make sure you're well
[7:50] stocked with consumables. Healing
[7:52] potions are a must-have in any kind of
[7:54] solo content, especially when you can't
[7:56] lean on Valera for an easy carry. So,
[7:59] always carry a stack of healing potions
[8:01] for those clutch moments. DPS potions
[8:04] can give you a huge chunk of burst to
[8:06] take down annoying bosses a bit faster.
[8:08] And then flasks are always useful and
[8:10] they're pretty good value if you sit
[8:12] down for an hour and smash out a few
[8:14] ritual sites in a row. And of course, if
[8:16] you don't have a lust spell for
[8:18] yourself, the lust drums can really help
[8:21] you take down those bosses quite a bit
[8:22] faster.
[8:24] It's always worth taking a peek in your
[8:26] talent tree as well and make sure you're
[8:28] taking extra crowd control, any
[8:30] defensive options you might have, and
[8:32] focus more on solo play. Not having
[8:35] Valera here makes this quite a bit
[8:37] harder when compared to delves,
[8:38] especially if you're playing a squishier
[8:41] class. So, make sure you're taking all
[8:43] of the tools you have to survive a bit
[8:44] better and longer.
[8:46] The one major mechanic that's going to
[8:48] help out with this are the green orbs
[8:50] that spawn while you're in combat. Each
[8:52] green orb you collect heals you for a
[8:54] bunch of health, even more as you work
[8:55] your way through the renown track. So,
[8:57] keep your eye on where these orbs spawn
[9:00] and if you start to dip a bit low, just
[9:01] go pick one up. I wouldn't run over them
[9:04] as and when they spawn, save them for
[9:06] when you actually need the healing. You
[9:08] can end up with quite a few orbs just
[9:10] hanging out ready for you to pick them
[9:12] up if you take a big hit, miss an
[9:14] interrupt, or just make a mistake.
[9:17] As you work your way through the renown
[9:19] track, you'll pick up bonuses that speed
[9:21] things up even further or give you more
[9:23] opportunities to earn spoils. You'll
[9:25] start to find smaller treasures
[9:27] throughout the run and these can be
[9:28] worth picking up as long as you don't
[9:30] have to fight too many monsters to get
[9:32] to them. Rare mobs start popping up at
[9:34] renown rank four and they're basically
[9:36] just extra mini bosses, so you want to
[9:38] kill those whenever you can. Two usually
[9:40] spawn per run, so make sure you kill
[9:42] both. The shrines of power will give you
[9:44] a fairly decent buff when you get to
[9:46] renown rank five, so you want to grab
[9:48] those as you're working your way through
[9:50] the runs and they'll speed things up.
[9:52] Rank seven unlocks large treasure
[9:54] chests, which give you way more spoils,
[9:56] so you do want to make sure you grab
[9:58] these every time you can. Two usually
[10:00] spawn in each run, so make sure you get
[10:02] both. And then at rank eight, rare
[10:04] elites spawn in the run, too. And
[10:06] they're just like killing another mini
[10:08] boss, so make sure you include those in
[10:10] your kill list. Most of these items will
[10:13] appear on your map when you unlock them,
[10:15] so keep an eye on your mini map as
[10:17] you're progressing through the run to
[10:18] see if a large treasure, a rare, or the
[10:21] rare elite, or one of the shrines is
[10:23] nearby. Collecting all of these things
[10:25] and killing the rares can increase your
[10:26] overall spoils quite significantly,
[10:29] which leads to more field accolades per
[10:31] run.
[10:33] If you're running tier five ritual
[10:35] sites, you should be getting over 1,000
[10:37] renown progress per run, so working
[10:39] through the renown track is actually
[10:41] very quick. And the progress is also
[10:43] account-wide, so if you want to gear up
[10:45] an alt later on, they're going to start
[10:47] with everything unlocked right from the
[10:49] get-go, which should make gearing up
[10:51] your alts much faster.
[10:53] Now, something else that makes ritual
[10:55] sites incredibly efficient just as an
[10:57] overall activity is that each tier five
[11:00] run is also going to reward you with 20
[11:03] hero crests. So, if it takes five runs
[11:06] to get a piece of hero gear from the
[11:08] vendor, those five runs will also give
[11:10] you enough crests to fully upgrade that
[11:13] piece of gear. So, you don't have to go
[11:15] out of your way to farm more crests from
[11:17] a different activity or worry about
[11:19] weekly quests and which ones you need to
[11:20] do. Ritual sites are actually all you
[11:23] need to both get the gear and fully
[11:26] upgrade it.
[11:28] Now, if you're interested in some ritual
[11:30] site specific tips in the Eversong Woods
[11:32] ritual site, I would recommend killing
[11:34] these casters as you work your way
[11:36] around the zone before the mini boss
[11:39] spawns. Chances are, if they're still up
[11:41] and you engage the mini boss, they'll
[11:43] get dragged into combat with you, and
[11:45] it'll just make everything a bit harder.
[11:46] So, I always try to kill them early on.
[11:49] For the mind flayer mini boss, if you
[11:50] have to choose between interrupting the
[11:52] curse cast or the shield cast, I would
[11:54] always go with the curse cast. It's
[11:56] called touch of apathy, and it reduces
[11:58] your attack and casting speed for a
[12:00] whole minute, which is going to make
[12:02] everything take so much longer. You can
[12:05] dispel the shield or just DPS through
[12:07] it, but that minute-long curse is a huge
[12:09] pain if you can't get rid of it
[12:11] yourself. For the Zul'Aman ritual site,
[12:13] when you're fighting the phoenix mini
[12:15] boss, make sure you soak these circles
[12:17] whenever you can. If you don't soak
[12:19] them, they're going to deal a bunch of
[12:20] damage to you, which can kill you very
[12:22] quickly. And then on the boss itself,
[12:25] always kill the ads as soon as they pop
[12:27] up, as the boss will gain a huge damage
[12:30] reduction shield while the ads are
[12:32] active, so always focus down the ads
[12:35] first. Are there any bosses, mini
[12:37] bosses, or just anything else that
[12:39] you've been specifically struggling with
[12:41] in the ritual site so far? Let me know
[12:43] in the comments below, and I'll see if I
[12:45] have any tips to help you out.
[12:48] And then to round out this video, the
[12:50] last tip I have is that tier 11
[12:52] bountiful delves are still worth running
[12:54] with your restored coffer keys. Ritual
[12:56] sites will give you a lot of coffer key
[12:58] shards, so you won't have to do pray
[13:00] hunts or other open world content to
[13:02] earn those shards, letting you go
[13:04] straight from ritual sites into your
[13:06] bountiful delves. Tier 11 bountiful
[13:08] delves give you another chance to get
[13:10] hero gear as long as you've got rank
[13:12] nine on the delve seasonal track, and
[13:14] you can earn a currency to buy hero gear
[13:17] after a few runs. So, it's just more
[13:19] chances for hero gear, which can help
[13:21] cut down your overall field accolade
[13:23] farming requirements. Unfortunately, you
[13:25] are limited to how many restored coffer
[13:27] keys you can get per week. The big
[13:29] rewards only come from the locked chests
[13:31] in bountiful delves, so delves won't
[13:33] necessarily let you gear up faster than
[13:36] ritual sites, but it's a nice way to
[13:37] change things up while still working
[13:39] towards hero track gear. But, that's all
[13:42] of our tips and tricks for clearing
[13:43] ritual sites easier and to farm your
[13:45] field accolades a bit faster. So, that's
[13:47] it for this video. What do you think of
[13:49] ritual sites from what you've played so
[13:51] far, and do you prefer the Eversong
[13:53] Woods or the Zul'Aman ritual site? Leave
[13:55] all your thoughts in the comment section
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