Guide to Farming Red Iris Flowers
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Lakeside County is the most convenient place in pre-Searing Ascalon to farm for Red Iris Flowers because you will always find five flowers and the monsters are low level. You can farm all five irises (less than 5 minutes) or go after a single one (less than 1 minute).
Red Iris Flowers are mainly useful for:
- Professor Yakkington, who wants a lot of them; and
- getting the Tapestry Shred from Gwen.
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[edit] Walkthroughs
[edit] Five Iris Run
This run can be completed in less than 5 minutes provided you do not ever stop to fight. Yield is about 60 irises per hour.
- Start in Ascalon City.
- Head northwest to Lady Althea's Stage; the first iris is located north of the stage and east of the gate to the Northlands (but is sometimes unreachable).
- Head southwest past the Bull pond to the Worm field; this iris is located in or near that field, between the pond and Ashford Abbey.
- Continue south past the abbey entrance; the third iris is located inside the village of Ashford.
- Head east and then north through the river; the next iris is on or near the river, from the skale lake (near the windmill) to as far north as Gwen's Broken Flute (sometimes even spawning on the path around the village, making it appear that there are two village flowers).
- Continue north and, if necessary, cross east past the devourer cave toward the entrance to Regent Valley; the last iris can appear anywhere on the river, on the devourer banks, or near the River Drake.
- Warp back to Ascalon City after picking up the final flower.
- A video of this run
[edit] Four Iris Variant
Some players prefer to start in Ashford Abbey and to skip one of the irises in order to save time. This takes less than 4 minutes, also yielding approximately 60 flowers per hour. Some also choose to rezone through Green Hills County rather than warping back to Ashford Abbey, with the expectation that it will be quicker to instance a zone rather than load an outpost. However, on a reasonably fast connection any advantage is probably more than outweighed by the extra distance that needs to be covered on foot.
[edit] One Iris Spam
This is perhaps the quickest farm in the game (less than 30 seconds): exit Ashford Abbey, head directly to the village, grab the iris and /resign or warp back to the abbey. Repeat until bored. Even if you lag while zoning, this method yields over 100 irises per hour (if you can stand the boredom).
[edit] Notes
You can speed up your search for the irises using one of the following methods:
- constantly hold the key that highlights objects, [Left Alt] by default.
- create a hot key to target nearby items and spam it constantly
- use [F11] to bring up the game options panel and choose the Control tab. On the left, select, Targeting: Next Item and choose a key to use.
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