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Originally written 06/23/2021
Hello, here is a quick guide on farming armor vendors to try to get those perfect stat rolls. I thought I would compile it here since this information I tried to find was somewhat scattered (unless I didn’t look hard enough). Since I’m at endgame with a build that uses only 1 legendary armor, my fastest & preferred way to find perfect stat armor pieces is from vendors.
I also sometimes do the Hunter-Haurus farm method, here’s a quick video on that for those curious (likely better guides out there, this was rushed & not optimized, but it’s the general concept). I consider the “better method” as subjective and situational, so try both. You can actually do both at once by doing vendor rotation, setting a timer, then go do Haurus hunt during the downtime until the timer is up
For green/blue/purple armor pieces, this is what I’ve found to be most optimal and have had the most success with personally. FYI the lower tier the better; on a green, you get 3 options to choose from for both upgrading to blue & purple. Also note that this is expected to be done by (relatively) endgame players because of resource cost to buy (scrap) and increase rarity (leather/titanium)
The main resource that will drain is scrap. To get some easy, go to Sell tab at Tiago & sell Drop Pod Resources in exchange for scrap, the ratio is very very cheap (ex: ~11k drop pod gives ~900k scrap). If you run out of leather, you can buy with scrap from Bailey. If you run out of titanium, look up optimal farming guides, but could also buy from Bailey for scrap
Vendors & locations:
- NPC “Gregor Ram” - Rift Town (left of Eva) - 2x green of each piece (sometimes with blues)
- NPC “Rough Pavlo” - Trench Town (tent behind spawn) - 3x blue of each piece
- NPC “Mercer Acosta” - Forest Enclave (under tent, marked with !) - Video timestamp @ 1:33
- NPC “Tiago” - Travels with you - Purples
- NPC “Bailey” - Travels with you
- Tiago & Bailey travel with you only once you complete mainstory
Tiago resets every 1.5h. Bailey, Gregor, Rough, and Mercer all reset every 30m & are synced. I hope this is helpful! Please let me know if anything should be corrected or added.