Mordith

Well, since I started flopping shards last week this is what I have experienced (thanks to the suggestions after my original post). However, I have to say that I am probably below average in gear and ability as a bruiser so your mileage will vary (probably improve).

Befallen: Cavern of the Afflicted

Chest: Key drops off “a thieving jesterling”, 29, -64, -137 (Armory). He is tiny on the left side of the room. Just run in, fd next to the left wall, then stand and kill the little guy (about the size of a brownie). After getting the key, run to the room with The Bonegrinder. The chest is on the left (no agro to stand next to the chest).

2 Easy Shard Quests: Restoring the Might (click on 6 statutes), and Gathering the Fallen (click on bones throughout the zone)

Befallen: Halls of the Forsaken

Chest: Apparently have to kill a named mob or something to get the key so I couldn’t do it.

Easy Shard Quest: Finding Salvation (use Symbol from quest to click on non-aggro ghosts throughout the zone).

The Deep Forge

Chest: Key drops off “a spurned alumnus” (solo mob), which is in the first room to the right. I just run and fd along the right wall. Should be able to stand and kill the mob without agro but watch for the patrolling guy in the hallway. Chest is to the left of Firelord Kaern in the lava room. However, you have to drop the lava curtain to get there by first going to the first room on the left (from the entrance) and click on the pillars in the right order (I don’t recall the order offhand).

Easy Shard Quest: Cold Heat (click on small bronze idols throughout the zone). Locs are: (27, -6, 5 ) (129, 0, -73 ) (110, 1, 9 ) (14, 0, -51 ) (-129, 0, -41 ) (-13, 0, -250 ) (-105, 0, 21 ) (-20, -11, -157). The last one is in the lava pit by Firelord Kaern. Just have to turn both of the valves at the either end of the room (from max distance just time your fd and click).

Evernight Abbey

Chest: I found the key mob (an enraged Libant weard) in the jail area but hear he can be anywhere. He was very tough for me, but like I said I am below average geared. Pull key mob into the empty jail cell for the kill. The chest is in one of the rooms in the bottom floor by Lord Marcus Thex. It was tricky clicking on the orb to get through the magical barrier to get to the bottom floor, but if I can do it, anyone can.

Shard Quests:

Six Cense (use the Thurible given to you and click it in just about every room in the zone). The quest Hidden Agenda may be possible (pick up pages scattered throughout the zone) but I died too much since the pages are next to a lot of mobs.

Pinpointing the Cloister. Place the Beacon given to you by the quest giver on the platform in the last room in the basement.

The Crucible

Shard Quest: Picking up the Shards (small black bricks). I grab the three in the Reflection of Exile Room (first big room with mobs), (36, 0, 4), (54, 2, 5), and (-114, 0, 37). I then go to the first room on the right off of the Exile Room with the bears and grab 2. I then zone out, wait for the 30 minute timer to expire and repeat.

Chest: The key mob is a flying book (on the ground) in the library (first room on the left off of Exile Room) but it is a 3 arrow mob so I didn’t even try it.

Mistmyr Manor

Chest: Surprising that this is one of the easier chests. Go up the right stairs in the Great Hall and half way down the first hallway. Make your first left down the hallway to the Library. Go up the stairs and there is a book on the table that you click. It turns agro (81^).

I then go further up the stairs to the right and fd. There is a mob that paths there so I try to agro it further up the stairs so that it stops pathing. You can then pull the book to that landing.

To get to the chest, go down the stairs and make a right to exit the Library. Go down the hallway, to the next room and up the stairs. Go through the doorway at the top and into the round room. The chest is in the middle of the room.

Shard Quest. Stolen Apotropaics: Collect a bunch of firey red boxes throughout the zone. I personally have not finished this quest as many of the boxes are placed next to mobs that hit pretty hard. You can however, reset and continue to collect the boxes in the easy locations.

Ravenscale Repository

Shard Quest: Definitely Overdue quest requires you to run around the zone picking up 6 red books which are standing up. They are in random locations but mostly on bookshelfs. For a hard zone, it is pretty easy to move around compared to a zone like Evernight Abbey, for example.

Nikx-Najena

I too would appreciate suggestions on quests/instances for solo shard farming.

gungo

There is a lava storm sholo shard quest now ....

No seriously they been nerfing people from mass farming solo shards. It use to be places like Manor and killing the key mob. Which was fixed to give lockouts.

Now the fastest way to get shards if mentoring the level 50/60 instances and doing the zones greyed out. You can try flopping through some zones but it is MUCH slower.

They will eventually nerf the greyed out instances because seriously obtaining ~14 shards in an hour or so is BROKEN.

Then the best way to farm shards imho is doing the daily double (4), doing the x2 instance (4), or soloing the mistmoore zones and just eating the lockouts (1).

Lucritia

SoE has said that trick of using a greyed out zone is an exploit. Do it at your own risk.

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Azraël

I do Crucible(lvl80^^^) with stuckable roamer with FD, Deep forge(81^ just lame to figure out the gates unlocking order), Caverns of afflicted(81^overcon) and sometimes you have the one shard quest of the day that requires you to just click the statues..., , Evernight Abbey, and Mystmyr Manor(82^).
From what Gungo says you apparently can do Ravenscale too, unfortunatly i'm not familiar with the zone.

Scion of Ice and Anathema are not possible to do.
Befallen 2 and i guess the 3 too aren't possible either.
Najena not possible.
I haven't checked the Guks tho.

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spiky

where are you getting this info?

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Mordith

A recent post on the EQ2 boards by a red name that it is an exploit and they are trying to find a fix. I can't find the original post but here is the follow up on the status:

If it weren't for grey shards, I'd have no shards at all.

Gurt

Zones I've found with shard chests I can get solo... Befallen Halls of the Forsaken, Deep Forge, Mistmyr Manor. BTW, shard chests are dropping 3-5plat on average since the game update.

Sometimes they will have a soloable shard quest.

Befallen has two... the repairable anhk statues, and the fallen pages (skeletons on the ground).

Deep Forge has one... Cold Steel. Not sure if this was changed when the did the game update and made the hammer spawn with the named.

Mistmyr has one as well... I forget the name but they're cubes and it's not the music box one where you have to collect boxes and kill the named at the front.

Ravenscale has one... it's the one where you have to find books.

Evernight Abbey has two... the one with the censer where you click it in each room and the other mission where you plant a beacon on Marcus Thex.

Kizee

Thats kinda funny because I saw a red name say it wasn't an exploit just after expansion released. Glad all the devs are on the same page.

Disturbed

aall 3 of the cl instances can be done. Can't remember the names now but the instance that shares tomb of the mad crusader quests are very easy, all 3 can be solo'd plus if your fine with a lockout you can kill the key mob.

The middle zone has one soloable quest if i remember correctly.

The last one has two i think, i may be getting the last two zones confused with each other though.

Also the one quest where you have to run to certain rooms and use the clicky can be done, the burnt stairs or w/e their called ,

Bascially if the quests that were soloable were up on the same day you could...

Kill the 10 fallen skeles/repair statues/collect skele bodies

Kill key mob (lockout) and get chest.

Then do other two which would consist of either

Run around to certain rooms using the clicky, get 12? X2 ghosts with the clicky (you can either ghost through the bridge door or just wait for zone reset which is 30mins.

Theres one more aswell but i can't remember.

Wouldn't take me more than half an hour to do it all, then theres what gungo said aswell for the other zones.