I’m always finding myself needing tar more than anything for steelfire. What locations would you recommend for farming ?
Thanks
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Savanah. Skin elephants and rhinos. Put hides into armour bench and stretch hide. Each skin becomes 3 hides
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If you’re lower level and don’t want to challenge the rhinos, mammoths, and frost giants, you can clear out the hyenas. The area in between western side of newb river and UC will net you 500+ hyena pelts. If you have higher tier skinning knife you can probably leave with around 1K pelts. I don’t remember if you get extra by stretching the hyena pelts though. Loads of bark you can collect in that area also while you’re there.
The Den is pretty good, between the human enemies and werehyenas there’s plenty of hide to be gathered.
You can also put coal in a fluid press, and if you have the darfari witch doctor (thrall not feat) he can make tar on the fire bowl cauldron from raw ash and resin.
I usually run up and down the rivers farming crocs and hyenas at low levels. Higher levels, the savanna is good for both regular and thick leather.
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The yog instans is good to, but as all other resourses its Always depwns on wher you live and whats Closes to you!
Jhebbal sag dungeon, run the dungeon. Skin everything. Up north, kill mammoths too.
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The summoning place along with asura cave are amazing places to kill human npcs and skinning them, rinse and repeat every 15 minutes you’ll have more leather than you know what to do with.
Well what ever that are Close to youre base is ….
Savanah is the best, make sur you good the good upgrade on your skinning knife, and if possible black tool + oil for better harvest, you can do it easily in farm spe if you got a npc with you, otherwise, the jehbal sag dungeon give lot of hide and variety.
Yes max uppgraded Tools is more important then the location!
Jhebbal bug 
what you mean ?
Savannah is my go-to place, too. Rhino and elephant hides have uses for crafting thrall armor, too, but you get a lot of thick hide (as well as feline pelts because those suicidal tigers always try to interfere with my hunting trips) which you can turn into regular hides for leather, or tan into thick leather which you’ll also need.
And thrall training sessions in the jungle against gorillas and grey apes will also yield good amounts of hides and thick hides.
I’m reluctant to use human skin in my clothes. I may be a barbarian (admittedly, I do not speak Greek) but I’m not a savage.
The thing that’s really nice about the Savannah is that it doesn’t matter if you are trying to craft the level 10 armor or the level 60 epics. It still drops what you need.
I feel bad killing them.
That does not, of course, stop me from killing and skinning them. I just need to be careful so as not to annoy Thunderpants or whats-his-name-alpha-elephant-that-makes-me-go-splat while doing it.
Using elephant hides to make tar is actually not a good idea. Elephant hides are far too valuable as they are needed to make flawless epic heavy armors. You will need a ton of elephant hides if you wish to outfit a lot of thralls for your base.
Get Survival 30 and just run the river loop around the summoning place taking the crocs and a few hyenas.
Alternately if you need thousands, 30 survival and go with a friend to the midnight grove. Let your friend do the killing while you do the skinning.
PErsonally, the reptile hide is the best. IT has the best tar to bark ratio, requires no splitting. i can usually pull 5,000 pretty quickly running around the jungle. the Pink Rhino’s give reptile hide, as well as the salamnders.
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While a lot of the suggestions here will get you lots of hides, most of the suggestions here are going to set you back by resulting in poor OVERALL farming efficiency. What do I mean by that?
Ideally you don’t want to farm for just one thing at any particular time. You want to pick farming locations that result in 2 or more HIGH VALUE resources for the time you invest. Especially on PvP servers.
For example someone commented earlier that location does not matter, only the high tier tools matter. Not true, in some areas the mobs are spread too far apart and that lowers your farming efficiency right there. Also the idea of farming the jungle rhinos mentioned earlier is a poor choice. So are the suggestions of hyenas and crocodiles. Sure you will get a lot of hides, but that is ALL you are going to get. Farming the summoning place is poor for several reasons. Main reason is there are not many humans there and you will have to wait for respawns. Another is the thralls you can acquire there are substandard.
You want hides? Farm areas that will get you tons of hide AS WELL AS other HIGH VALUE resources at the same time. For example:
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Mounts of the Dead.
This area has some of the highest hitpoint and highest damage named thralls in game (Dalinsia and Cimmerian Berserker namely). So while farming the humans for hides, take EVERY opportunity to grab these named thralls. Plus the T3 crafters here as well. Also since gods are returning, you should be farming for manifestations of zeal items which you can ONLY get from humans. Finally you also get a fair amount of crystal and steel. So farming this area, you are getting more than just skins and vastly increasing your OVERALL farming efficiency for the time invested. You are getting 5 high value resources at the same time: hides, zeal, thralls, steel, and crystal. -
New Asagarth
The boss that drops the Frost Giant Bodyguard pet spawns here. It is extremely rare and one of the most overlooked pets by just about everyone. So farming tons of hides here will eventually net you one of these awesome pets for base defense as well as steel, crystal, and zeal. -
Set City
You will get tons of hides but not so great on things like steel and crystal. However two of the best archer thralls in the game spawn here so you will definitely not do bad in this area.
There are a several more places that are overlooked and I plan to do a video on this topic in the next week or so.
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