wow Most Efficient Residual Memory Farm? Alts!

[Stan 5,239]

The Radiant Echoes event occurs every 90 minutes, making Residual Memory farming time-consuming due to the high reward costs. Fortunately, using alts can expedite the process!

Currently, you need 330K Residual Memories to buy everything from the pre-patch event quartermasters. One character can only complete 3 weekly quests, for a total of 4,500 Residual Memories and another 1,500 (500 per boss), bringing the total weekly up to 6,000 Residual Memories.

To purchase everything from the pre-patch event quartermasters, you need 330K Residual Memories. Each character can only complete three weekly quests, earning a total of 4,500 Residual Memories, plus an additional 1,500 (500 per boss), resulting in a weekly total of 6,000 Residual Memories.

However, you can complete these weekly quests with as many alts as you'd like since the event is available to Level 10 characters. It might even be worth creating Allied Race characters that start at Level 10 and jump straight into the pre-patch event. I'm unsure if the weekly quest gives you 1,500 memories at level 10, as I'll need to wait for the event to begin, but this method might be worth exploring, especially when the event's frequency increases, if you don't have many alts.

Residual Memories can be transferred from your alt to your main, as the currency is Warband-transferable. While the costs are not ideal, using alts can help alleviate the challenges of Residual Memory farming until Blizzard makes some much-needed improvements to the event.

Chromie Time and War Mode

Content creator MrGM shared a quick video on Twitter about farming Residual Memories more efficiently. After finishing the event on your main character, create an alt, activate Chromie Time, and see if the boss is available. If not, turn on War Mode and check again. If the boss still isn't up, try switching to a different realm, and repeat this method.

Chromie Time adds an extra layer to the game. There won't be as many people killing pre-patch bosses in Chromie Time, and War Mode adds another layer on top of that.

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[Prophet001 598]

What is the XP like for leveling alts to 70?

[Stan 5,239]

1 minute ago, Prophet001 said:

What is the XP like for leveling alts to 70?

It's not bad, but you're better off by creating a MoP Remix char.

[Prophet001 598]

13 minutes ago, Stan said:

It's not bad, but you're better off by creating a MoP Remix char.

Well they're mainline chars at 60 that I'm going to get to 70.

Dungeon spam is really fast but was just wondering how this stuff was too.

Thanks!

[swotam 19]

This is the unfortunate truth of the event unless you want to grind trash for 1-5 memories each for hours on end. The quest really should be daily though, given how many memories you need even if you only want things like pets and mounts. While I have a pretty good group of max level alts, not everyone does, and the event should be designed so that players should be able to get a reasonable number of items without feeling like it's some insurmountable cost that requires killing trash until your eyes bleed.

[TheRagingwolf 258]

So, the bosses are on 90 minute timers. The best case scenario is you kill a boss right at login and only wait for the other two. If that's the case, the first toon must wait a total of 3 hours to kill 3 bosses. The second toon and on (same realm) will then need to wait 4.5 hours. That's 7.5 hours for just six bosses.

Now, for Chromie time, that shouldn't work given the boss timers are based on the pretend time which Chromie time creates. Unless someone can prove me wrong here, which would be nice, boss timers can not be "hacked".

[wakkawakka22 0]

1 hour ago, TheRagingwolf said:

So, the bosses are on 90 minute timers. The best case scenario is you kill a boss right at login and only wait for the other two. If that's the case, the first toon must wait a total of 3 hours to kill 3 bosses. The second toon and on (same realm) will then need to wait 4.5 hours. That's 7.5 hours for just six bosses.

Now, for Chromie time, that shouldn't work given the boss timers are based on the pretend time which Chromie time creates. Unless someone can prove me wrong here, which would be nice, boss timers can not be "hacked".

The timers usually start once a boss is dead after the weekly realm restarts. So its totally plausible they are out of sync in the various "layers". Also, do the weeklies 1 alt a day for a week, 2 alts on weekends, its not so bad.

Edited July 31 by wakkawakka22

[rbedsole 0]

1 hour ago, Prophet001 said:

Well they're mainline chars at 60 that I'm going to get to 70.

Dungeon spam is really fast but was just wondering how this stuff was too.

Thanks!

I leveled up my level 60 monk with full heirlooms to 70 in the very first zone just by doing the campaign

[Prophet001 598]

19 minutes ago, rbedsole said:

I leveled up my level 60 monk with full heirlooms to 70 in the very first zone just by doing the campaign

Yeah you can do 4 or 5 dungeons and do it too.

[Raka 31]

I knew having 32 lvl70 would come in handy sometime beside TMog farming

[Swarf 110]

I'm slightly kicking myself for dragging my feet so much on doing the Remix stuff, because now there is all this prepatch currency to farm and there's no way I'll get it all done.  Oh well... better too much to do than not enough I suppose.

[Q 200]

2 hours ago, Stan said:

It's not bad, but you're better off by creating a MoP Remix char.

The only downside to MoP remix is the character being stuck there until TWW launches so you can't use them for anything outside of remix.

[TheRagingwolf 258]

1 hour ago, wakkawakka22 said:

The timers usually start once a boss is dead after the weekly realm restarts. So its totally plausible they are out of sync in the various "layers". Also, do the weeklies 1 alt a day for a week, 2 alts on weekends, its not so bad.

That's not correct. Just to be sure, I just ran an event on Ravencrest, and the timer after Rags went down was at 1:21. That means the timer starts when the event opens. That means layer hopping won't make a difference unless you're somehow able to hop before the boss is downed, which is unlikely considering the event i just did only took 9 minutes.

[AgentRock 1]

Yeah, you're not going to have to spend 330k though since the armor and weapons drop during the event... and most of it is transferable if you're looking to gear up your alts.  Plus, it ends up being more than 6000 per toon since you earn some as you participate too.

Yes, you will need to participate on more than one character to earn enough currency, but you can keep doing the events for armor drops after the fact which in turn means less currency needed to obtain everything.  Just focus on getting the mounts, pets, and heirlooms first and fill in the gaps later for the rest.