Miasma? Personally bored with farming it... Is there anything else that is relatively as easy or easier to try and farm up Paragon Chests and ML Marties?

swoop?

Maybe Thrasher in Blighted Grove?

I personally also like doing whatever named meanies I can grab in Bedlam, but that's not particularly efficient if you're interested in literally farming something.

They made Swoops a lot harder a while back so they're mostly used for dragon and cu training now.

I didn't think Thrasher, Coil, or any of the like in Blighted Grove dropped Marties/Chests.

I'd go with the 2 named spiders in the Weald, Sabrix and Lillith (I think that's their names, and no chests, but they drop Marties).

The thrashers do drop marties. No chests however. I am unsure about the coils.

Eek - Miasma is by far the best thing to farm if you're looking for chests. Not many other named monsters will drop the chest. Swoop certainly doesn't.

While I find swoop to be farm easier to farm than the other named mobs, they nerfed its artifact drop to the point where it's almost non-existant. Sometime, ask me to should you the 50K+ feathers I've farmed there without an artifact drop...

When we're gearing up for a dreadhorn run, I frequently see one person camped out at Lady Sabrix/Lissith. Presumably, the arty drop there is decent. Also, fairly low risk.

Just make sure you drop the keys to the peerless on the ground and no one will disturb your farming efforts =P

~Magister

I vote for Sabrix and Lissith as well. I would suggest you give keys to any parties who come by, if they need keys. Otherwise, fairly quiet once you get it going. Using a bard is the best bet. You can peacemake the spiders with a spider/arachnid slayer fairly easily. I was shocked how fast I got to Glorious Lord off those spiders, and the gold they drop is also amazing. It's also nice to be able to peacemake through the desert of Twisted Weald to get to the spiders.

Miasma spawns too fast for me to loot stuff, and the chests get really annoying. You can kill Miasma with a Cu or a Greater Dragon, but Chivalry is almost necessary to counter mortal. With Vet alone, it is possible, but the area isn't as safe in my opinion.

Swoop takes way too long now.

Yeah, I don't think you can beat Sabrix and Lissith. The gold is great, they have decent drops, good spawn rate, and not too hard to handle.

Haven't tried them with any other character other than a Mage myself, and EVs with a few FSs are all they take.

Go peace/mage or perhaps peace/disco/mage for the Lady Spiders. My Peace/Disco/Tamer/Mage would probably do well also, but that char is understandably limited in defense =P Much easier to run away and invis then to run away and worry about the Cu you left behind.

~M