Spiral Knights - A guide to farming candy.

A guide to farming candy.

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Thu, 10/20/2011 - 19:59

Bloodmistmirage

I do not know if anyone has made a thread stating how to farm candy yet but I'm going to make one just incase people need help. I've gotten all three masks and so have my friends that farmed with me. I will now explain what we did to get the candy in about a day.

In the Iron Serpent Gate there is a Power Complex on the first floor. So, my friends and myself just went to this floor, solo, and when we encountered a "graveyard" as we called it we would just wait until the others finished and just invite each other and then we would trigger the Punkin King. We would usually get around 2-3 graveyards per run, in which case two people got 3 graveyards, three people got two graveyards, and everyone got at least 1 graveyard. After we finished we just went back up, we did not continue the gate, and we went back down to level one and did it all over again.

If anyone has any questions you can either ask up here or add me as a friend in game, my name is the same as on this thread, bloodmistmirage.

Have fun and good luck!

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 20:01

Nodocchi

Right now there are 3 gates

Right now there are 3 gates with a clockwork level on the first depth any of those can work if it cycles to them.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 20:33

Bloodmistmirage

@ Nodocchi, thanks for saying

@ Nodocchi, thanks for saying that. We just used Power Complexes because it was one of the two places stated in the update that had a chance of having the Punkin King.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 20:42

Varja

Haha

i do my farming on the serpent gate, too.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 22:32

Evilnut

Coral Titan Gate, Tier 2

It's literally filled with clockwork levels, with the exception of one Scarlet Fortress. I went through it last night and found pumpkins on all but one of those clockwork levels. The heat, materials and crowns of a normal T2 run, plus 17 sweet candies, 11 sour candies and 8 hard candies.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 22:33

Flists

I've been farming D1 Iron

I've been farming D1 Iron serpent. Good stuff.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 22:41

Stavrosg

Is this why I've been seeing

Is this why I've been seeing so many people there that were not supposed to be in T1 there? Neat.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 23:36

Varja

But...

the chance of the power complex appearing over the CKeep is VERY slim. It's frusterating sometimes.

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 01:45

Batabii

I was going Coral Phantom

I was going Coral Phantom gate, tier 3. Not only is it littered with clockwork tunnels, but also tons of arenas.

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 02:45

Blitzwingoo

It felt like after the last

It felt like after the last patch the Punkin King spawns less now. Has anybody else noticed this or is it just me?

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 08:44

#10

Random-Thing

I noticed this too, I havn't

I noticed this too, I havn't seen him in 3 floors :O

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 08:59

#11

Kraanx

trick gives more ws

trick gives more sweets, just him him a lot and fast ( snarble barb and flourish would go well). and hell drop more after death

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 11:14

#12

Debianlinux

As a soloist...

... I'm finding it difficult to catch up to the bouncing pumpkin and actually get him dead before the time runs out.

i see this being much easier in a party.

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 11:23

#13

Rxzy

"It felt like after the last

"It felt like after the last patch the Punkin King spawns less now. Has anybody else noticed this or is it just me?"

Random is random. Last night I did two runs with each 4 of the 6 floors had candy. Then today I had one with 0 out of 6 wiht candy. And my last run had 4 out of 6 with candy again.

Coral Titan Gate --> 6 of the 7 floors can contain candy.

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 11:24

#14

Volebamus

Does anyone have hard numbers

Does anyone have hard numbers as to the most they can get from a "Trick"? Times I had Trick, I had at most 10. This is even accounting for a time when he ended up bouncing conveniently to a corner, and the four of us wailing on him, with him apparently gone just as all of us were ending our second combo. The doors then opened with the normal ones still walking around.

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 13:47

#15

Weberto

I noticed that he will

I noticed that he will usually give 5 tokens on the first 5 hits he receives, and then drop the remaining 5 once you kill him

however, if you kill him in less than 5 hits, he'll still only drop 5 when killed so you might end with less than 10 tokens

This happened to me the first time I got trick on Tier1, I killed him on 3 hits and got 8 tokens, since I already had a treat with 10 tokens, the next runs I brought my proto sword so I wouldn't kill him that fast

and it worked, I always got 10 tokens total from him the rest of my farming (where I got more than half of the tokens I needed for the authentic masks)

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 13:59

#16

Giannii

so the first five hits have

so the first five hits have to be done slowly? perhaps with a jump in between?

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 14:06

#17

Weberto

on tier 3 I use barbarous

on tier 3 I use barbarous thorn blade with max asi, so you probably don't need to wait between hits, just make sure you won't kill him in less than 5 hits

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 14:51

#18

Toastnaut

Jade Titan tier 2...

I was able to easily get all of the masks in just two days, and it only took that long because I was out all evening on Wednesday.

The Jade Titan gate, tier 2 is chock full of clockworks levels. You can go tunnel, after tunnel all the way into most of tier 3, except for one Scarlet Fortress level, and if you go into tier 3, 2 chances of getting graveyards/treasure vaults.

The payout of the second half of that tier 2 area is also good enough, that you can buy CE to keep going if you don't have to spend energy on revives.

As others have mentioned, if you are a tier 1 player, iron serpent is a good one to just repeat the first 3 levels of, then go up.

When you get to the Punkin, if you defeat him he does indeed drop 5 candies. If you kill him in 5 hits, you will get 10 (sometimes when you hit him he drops nothing, though) and if you kill him FASTER, you will get fewer.
Least I have gotten when he was defeated was 8.

Bear in mind, that you have to hit him at the bottom of his bounce. You can't hit him while he is in the air.
You can get him with guns if you time it right, but it's hard. The Pulsar or any fast sword work very well (Cutter/Striker line is GREAT for this.) You can do it with a slow, strong sword, but expect to beat him in fewer hits and get less candy.

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 17:55

#19

Maeko

ive been doing the second

ive been doing the second tier until IMF, waiting for the clockwork levels to scroll, already have 31 sweet, 21 sour and 27 hard after about an hour and a half. i would have more, but my first run from floor 1 gave me nothing until floor 14

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 22:05

#20

Arbituser

Iron Serpent hates me

Iron Serpent hates me. I never see the Punkin King there, but I see him all the time in Onyx knight. I racked up I think about 40 candies in under half an hour in Onyx Knight.

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 21:59

#21

Arbituser

Double post-woops

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 22:17

#22

Astrobug

Iron serpent be trolling

Oddly enough, I've had the same issue. I was doing great untill the last patch, then I've gone down four times and haven't seen him at all in that particular gate.. :/

To onyx knight, I suppose

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 22:31

#23

Forums-Trader

Tested it out of curiosity...

Tested it out of curiosity... results no diff with 5 hits before killing him thus, still pseudo-random.

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 22:32

#24

Arbituser

Iron Serpent

Naw, Iron Serpent hated me even before the patch. :(

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 22:32

#25

Arbituser

Iron Serpent

Naw, Iron Serpent hated me even before the patch. :(

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 23:51

#26

Toastnaut

LOL

He seems to be coming up again as often as before. I am getting him repeatedly since the newer patch (I agree that I didn't see him much after the last one...)

Heads-up though to anyone really after every last candy. He certainly seems to fit in the Undead family. I just killed him outright in 4 hits in tier 2.
The whole fight took maybe 10 seconds (it was as much fluke as skilled timing) but I noticed that I was doing HUGE damage to him.

I was using Deadshot set and Sudaruska, so v.high damage bonus vs undead and a powerful sword. If you want a chance of getting more than 8-9 candies on a Trick, don't do what I just did and overkill him. XD

Mon, 10/24/2011 - 09:16

#27

Heavy-Duty

Got one

Tier 1 ANY gates: Start a party and see if the clockworks tunnels are available at your current time at the first level. If it is, then keep fighting until you find the PK, kill him, and exit to haven. If the tunnels are nto first, get out and choose a different elevator.

Mon, 10/24/2011 - 13:58

#28

Mysticbeam

lol

i was doing the iron serpent gate, finished in 2 days. t1, and 100mist the first day, 100mist plus 70CE the second :P

i loved waiting at the lobby and unlocing party, and letting newer players in, then basking in their shock as they relized there was a full 5* player playing with them xD

Mon, 10/24/2011 - 14:40

#29

Splinter

Heres a guide: Have friends

Heres a guide: Have friends that are farming candy, wait until they find Punkin - get invite - rinse / repeat. The two weeks is more than enough time to get these masks, even if you used only Mist and farmed yourself.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 20:31

#30

Pokemanaphy

Help

Sorry, I couldn't follow...can you please explain it more simple? XD

Tue, 10/30/2012 - 08:02

#31

Snarbykiller

baisicaly

ask your freinds to invite u

Tue, 10/30/2012 - 09:47

#32

Acck

Little trick......

Drop a Shivermist after button push.
Do not hit PK until he drops 5 candies.
Then pop that punkin.

Tue, 10/30/2012 - 18:35

#33

Sketman

Power complex

The power complexs have been trolling me, as I've played dozens of "mechanized miles" and "slimeways," and only got PK once in them (the slimeway).

Tue, 10/30/2012 - 19:24

#34

Adiblopek

tnx for the tip it worked

tnx for the tip
it worked wonders for me

Wed, 10/31/2012 - 12:43

#35

Doughnut-Dude

I used the coral queen and

I used the coral queen and Iron Clover a lot.

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