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Trouble Obtaining Sharp Gems

I'm currently in NG and have yet to obtain my third Sharp Gem. I already got the ones from but wasted them on equipment I won't be using anymore. Then I heard you could farm them from and despite slaughtering hundreds of the enemies that supposedly drops Sharp Gems, all I'm left with are hundreds of Titanite Shards and Large Titanite Shards, and so much useless equipment.

I'm using the Symbol of Avarice, Covetous Gold Serpent Ring and whatever Rusted Coins I've managed to scrape and still no luck. Other users said they got one in less then 20 kills, am I doing something wrong?

Posted Apr 19, 2016, 10:18 PM UTC

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The_Psyrex•

%ages are what they are. My first character got a rare weapon drop in 25 minutes with low item discovery. My second character had SUPER HIGH item discovery and took 4 hours. Keep at it and let me know if one drops. I'll start farming lol.

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BW11OPListen carefully, skeleton!•

Turns out there's one more spot I didn't know about: .

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The_Psyrex•

Nice I need a sharp for my new weapon. Just about to do abyss watchers.

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Bucklar•

Where was it? I'm desperate, please help.

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BW11OPListen carefully, skeleton!•

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Itamii•

tried to farm that fucking gem doing like 50+ runs in the fucking catacombs and im getting really sick and tired of it, can you blame me?

Its just bad game design at this point, when it forces you to farm a pretty basic upgrade material for hours, thats really not my idea of having fun, y'know?

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The_Psyrex•

I like it. Make you work if you want every weapon fully maxed out.

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Itamii•

Congrats, you're a masochist :D

I don't like to do anything that resembles actual 'work' in my videogames, but thats just me i guess :>

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The_Psyrex•

I don't mean work, but I want there to be some effort now if people want to mimic your build/setup that you are constantly destroying them with. Now they just respec and all supplies (minus +10 supplies) and then if gems were just a vendor sold them all. Then build diversity will go out the window and it turns into what the Estoc has done.

Since it takes NO WORK to get anything except maybe the weapon and the gem to drop. Don't take all the effort out. I preferred when you couldn't respec because that made choices matter and people to actually think about things. Now your setup and play-style can be copied in less than 15 minutes. You have a PVP and a PVE character.

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showtimeb•

I've been farming it for 3 hours nonstop with rusted coins and the gold serpent ring and no drops

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Itamii•

Fun as hell, am i right?

Gotta hope they add the option to buy these with a patch or in the DLC's, because otherwise i'll just have someone with CE drop me the sharp weapon of my choice.

Not really my idea of fun running through the same area for hours to get a single item...

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Itamii•

Did anyone get a confirmed drop from one of these red eye skeletons there yet?

I wouldn't be surprised if that info is bullshit, since you can pick one shard up as treasure in the catacombs. Someone got it mixed up and thought it dropped from a skeleton, and put that info on the wiki...

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Scrivver•

I can confirm I just got one here 2 minutes ago. I've been trying to farm them, went down there for a while with Gold Serpent Ring, Symbol of Avarice, and some coins, and can confirm they for SURE drop from the big red-eyed archer in that area (though I was clearing them all). I was so happy!

I've also seen a video of the same thing, and may want to check to see if they also got it specifically from the archer. If so, maybe only the archer drops it. Need people to contribute more info to find out.

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Itamii•

Yea i've seen a video of someone playing the japanese version getting a drop from the archer skeleton, so i think that might be a drop unique to that type of enemy since i never got one from any other skeleton so far...

Just sucks that there is only one on that farming route. I farmed there for like 20 times and didn't get a drop yet. Might just have someone with CE drop me a legit sharp weapon of my choice since i honestly cba to grind the game like this for upgrade material that should simply be purchasable in late game.

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Scrivver•

should simply be purchasable

Amen to that...

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