endgame/ TSW

TSW – Signets guide

Dulfy 26 Comments Aug 10, 2012

Hey everyone, this is my TSW signets guide that I have been working on for a bit for the past week to collect the various data. It is a list of signets currently in TSW and a list of spots to farm/acquire them. Special thanks to Double-Dodge/Shiva for verifying some of my data!

 Navigation

• Signets – what they are and why farm them
• Signet list
• Signet Quests
• Signet Farming Locations
• Signet Farming theories

Signets – what are they and why farm them

Signets is part of the endgame gearing in TSW. You will start to see signet slots on your QL10 gears. It is something to can acquire outside the Nightmare dungeon lock outs when you are doing endgame gear progression. Signets right now are divided into three types: green, blue and purple. It takes 10 identical signets to form a blue signet of the same name and 10 identical blue signets (i.e. 100 green signets) to form a purple signet.Alternatively, lair bosses will drop a blue signet when killed and regional bosses will drop a purple signet when killed (these bosses require extensive lair pattern farming to spawn).

Signets are randomly dropped by Nightmare and Lair mobs (drop rate is fairly low so it can be a bit of a grind). There are also 7 quests with a 68 hour cooldown that guarantee one signet per quest completion. Due to the low rate rate and the fairly tedious method to acquire them, signet prices are skyrocketing and it is not uncommon to see people asking 4-6 million for a green Signet of Violence (+47 attack rating for major talisman).

Signet List

Head

Name	Effects	Drop Location
Signet of Corruption	Your affliction effects deal 5/10/15% more damage.
Signet of Discipline	When you are glanced you gain a 62/124/186 defense rating for 8 seconds. 10 second cooldown.
Signet of Order	When you block you gain a 10% block chance for 4 seconds. 10 seconds cooldown
Signet of Reinforcement	When you are glanced you gain magical and physical protection of 47/94/141 per stack for 4 seconds.
Signet of Resilience	When you block you gain 31/62/93 block rating per stack for 4 seconds, up to 3 stacks.	Kingsmouth Lair

Head/Weapons- Heals

Name	Effects
Signet of Benediction	When you heal a target there is a 20% chance they will gain a barrier that absorbs 40/80/120 and lasts 10 seconds.
Signet of Temperance	When you heal a target below 50% health they are healed for 24/48/72 every 2 seconds for 8 seconds.

Head/Weapons- Tank

Name	Effects
Signet of Cruel Delight	When you hit a weakened target you have a 5% chance to be healed for 47/94/141 every 2 seconds for 8 seconds.
Signet of Valour	When you critically hit a target you gain a barrier that absorbs 40/80/120 and lasts 10 seconds.

Head/Weapons- DPS

Name	Effects	Drop Location
Signet of Abuse	When you hit a target you have a 10% chance to gain a damage increase of 7/14/21% for 5 seconds, 11 second cooldown.	Blue Mountains Quarry
Signet of Aggression	When you hit a weakened target you have a 15% chance to gain 5/10/15% damage increase for 6 seconds. 10 seconds cooldown
Signet of Breaching	When you penetrate a target you have a 33% chance to make your target take 10/20/30% more damage from further penetrating hits for 7 seconds.
Signet of Castigation	When you hit a target you have a 10% chance to make your next 4/8/12 hits never miss. 10 seconds cooldown.	Kingsmouth Lair
Signet of Fury	When you achieve 10 hits you gain 3/6/9% damage increase for 6 seconds, 6 second cooldown.
Signet of Laceration	When you critically hit a target, you gain a critical damage increase of 6/12/18% for 15 seconds. 15 second cooldown.
Signet of Opportunism	When you hit an afflicted target you have a 20% chance to hit them for an additional 48/96/144 damage.
Signet of Sadism	When you hit a target you have a 10% chance to hit them for an additional 80/158/236 damage.

Head/Weapons – Hinder/Impair

Name	Effects
Signet of Detainment	Your hinder effects last 10/20/30% longer.
Signet of Extrication	When you hinder a target you are healed for 40/80/120.
Signet of Interdiction	When you impair a target you are healed for 26/53/78 every 2 for 6 seconds.
Signet of Obedience	When you hit an impaired target you gain increased damage of 1/2/3% per stack for 5 seconds, up to 3 stacks.

Major

Name	Effects
Signet of Amelioration	Your heal rating is increased by 47/94/141
Signet of Violence	Your attack rating is increased by 47/94/141
Signet of Vigour	Your health is increased by 165//.

Minor – DPS

Name	Effects
Signet of Assassination	Your Strike attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Barrage	Your Blast attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Cleaving	Your Focus attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Distortion	Your Chaos attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Execution	Your Assault Rifle attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Flux	Your Elemental attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Liqudation	Your Pistol attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Rage	Your Frenzy attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Recursion	Your Chain attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Serration	Your Fist attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Shards	Your Shotgun attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Shattering	Your Hammer attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Storms	Your Burst attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Swords	Your Blade attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage
Signet of Subjugation	When you land a critical or penetrating hit you reduce your offensive target hate towards you by a small/medium/large amount, 15 seconds cooldown.
Signet of Tomes	Your Blood attacks deal an additional 1/2/3% damage

Minor – Heals

Name	Effects
Signet of Serenity	When you critically heal a target you reduce your offensive targets hate towards you by a small/medium/large amount. 15 seconds cooldown.
Signet of Echoes	When you critically heal a target they gain a heal over time effect, healing them for 7/13/20 health every 1 second for 5 seconds.
Signet of Equilibrium	When you critically heal a target they gain a 5/10/15% damage increase for 5 seconds. 15 seconds cooldown
Signet of Thirst	When you critically heal a target they gain a 5/10/15% leech effect for 5 seconds. 15 seconds cooldown.
Signet of Harmony	Your Healing effects are increased by 1/2/3%
Signet of Hunger	Your Leech effects are increased by 1/2/3%
Signet of Security	Your Barrier effects are increased by 1/2/3%

Minor – Tank

Name	Effects
Signet of Rejuvenation	When your health is below 50% you are healed for 50/100/150 and affected by a heal over time effect healing you for 19/38/57 every 2 seconds for 8 seconds. 12 second cooldown.
Signet of Salvation	When you block, evade, or are glanced you gain 2/4/6% damage reduction for 5 seconds, 6 second cooldowns
Signet of Ablation	When your health is below 50% the next 5 hits against you do 9/17/25% less damage (12 second cooldown).
Signet of Fortification	When your health is below 50% you gain a barrier that will absorb up to 126/252/378 damage for 10 seconds. 12 seconds cooldown
Signet of Hatred	When you block, evade, or are glanced you generator a minor/medium/large amount of hate on your offensive target. 6 seconds cooldown.

Signet Rewarding Quests

There are 7 quests that rewards signets. They are all located in the first and second zone in Transylvania and all have 68 hrs (~ 3 days) cooldown. Each of these quests are guaranteed to give a signet reward bag, which tend to give out green minor signets (on rare occasions you may get blue signets, one of my cabal mates got two blue signets in a row from the Wild Hunt reward bag).

Besieged Farmlands

• Foul Banquet – Father Lucian
• Ripples – Vampire Hunter
• The Girl Who Kicked the Vampire’s Nest – Zaha

Shadowy Forest

• The Cellar Door – Silviu Dimir
• The Wild Hunt – The Iele
• Fungal Fireworks – Luminita (near Milosh)
• Crossroads – Mosul

Signet Farming Locations

Signets only drop off Nightmare and Lair mobs off each zone (if you see them drop outside these mobs, it is a bug). These mobs are all QL10 and have special buffs that indicate their Nightmare/Lair status. Nightmare mobs can be soloed while Lair mobs tend to have a ton more HP (i.e. 45k) and it is more efficient to form a group to farm for them instead. The list below is taken from try1t’s excellent Signet and Lair Farming Guide

Nightmare mob farming locations

Nightmare mobs tend to drop minor signets although very rarely that can drop non minor signets as well. They have ~7k to 21k HP with 14k HP usually most common.

Zone	Anima Well	Location	Map	Coordinates	Notes
Kingsmouth	Kingsmouth Municipal Airport	South of Airport		885, 650	My personal favorite place to farm
Savage Coast	The Fairgrounds	South of the map		550, 190
Blue Mountains	Wabanaki Sacred Site	The Quarry		600, 500	Lots of mobs but a lot of people farm here as well
Scorched Desert	Forsaken Oasis	Sol Glorificus		170, 650	Lots of slow moving mummies
City of Sun God	Vulture’s Pass	La Salle de Discipline		500, 620	They heal on glance they are fairly annoying to solo if you glance a lot.
Besieged Farmlands	St. Haralambie	St. Haralambie Church		850, 1250	Ghouls, quick and easy but may be camped
Besieged Farmlands	The Perch	Mara’s Field		254, 703	Vampires
Besieged Farmlands	The Perch	Giant’s Table		640, 900	Scarecows, mob a bit too scattered for efficient farming
Shadowy Forest	Mirewood	Mirewood		910, 460	Fungal mobs and Fata mobs. Fungals are easier to solo and don’t have a lot of HP but they do put on a nasty DoT on you
Shadowy Forest	Mirewood	Chapel of the Prince		790, 590	Undead mobs, a bit annoying to kill as they don’t take much damage and they impair you a lot.
Shadowy Forest	Hell’s Pass	Hell’s Row		540, 421	Hell soldiers and dogs
Carpathian Fangs	Repentance Cavern	Monastery of the First Mother		1112, 290	Undead mobs, their AoE can impair you if you don’t get out of it quick
Carpathian Fangs	Zana Springs	Zana Springs		770, 530	Zmeu mobs, they have 21 K HP and tend to heal a lot but their attacks are slow.
Carpathian Fangs	Zana Springs	Roman Baths		720, 360	Undead Roman mobs, they do periodic Filth damage but not too bad.
Carpathian Fangs	Chasm Entrance	Red Hand Compound		940, 730	Cryo mobs

Lair farming locations

Zone	Anima Well	Location	Map	Coordinates	Notes
Kingsmouth	Kingsmouth Municipal Airport	North of Airport		850, 180
Savage Coast		South of Overlook Motel		780, 700
Blue Mountains	Agartha Entrance	Golden Wigwam Casino		300, 810
Scorched Desert	Orochi Retreat	Western Scar		350, 1130
City of Sun God	The Juncture	Al-Ghasr		470, 320
Besieged Farmlands	Hermit’s Crossing	Our Lady Monastery		1300, 310
Shadowy Forest	Mirewood	Mirewood		1100, 460
Carpathian Fangs	Chasm Entrance	Installation 10		1140, 1050

Signet farming theories

There was a theory proposed by Drinkfist (leader of the Goon Squad) that he posted on the Testlive forums. This theory of unique zone drops has being disapproved but it is still good info. I copy and pasted his info here. Instead of this theory, what a lot of people found is that certain zones have higher chances of dropping specific non minor signets.

 

Originally Posted by Drinkfist

I have noticed a trend in the way Signets drop and wanted to drop a thread to help you all in your search for the signet that is right for you. Here we go.

Now in my lair farms I have see a few signets that are only dropping in certain zones. This includes the Nightmare Spawn of each zone so I am going to set up a trendy guide that I will update with all kinds of fun Maps and the like for you all to track the signets that drop in each zone as I see them. First off I need to clear up how this works. There are a few types of Signets:
– Head
– Head and Weapon
– Major
– Minor

Now if you kill a Lair Mob or a Nightmare Mob (When you look at a mob you will see a buff that says either Nightmare or Lair on them if they are the ones you are looking for) you have a chance to get any minor signet to drop along with (From the look of it so far) three zone unique signets. The Unique signets are always in the Non-Minor Signets Classification. So for example if you are farming Savage Coast’s Nightmare spawn the mobs will have a chance to drop all types of minor signets and a possible chance for "Signet of Vigour" "Signet of Order" and "Signet of Resiliance". The three signets I have just said are what I am going to call "Zone Unique Signets" because they will only drop in Savage Coast

Nightmare and Lair mobs.
So here is my current handy dandy list as I know so far for Zone Unique Signets:

Kingsmouth.
Signet of Castigation – Head or Weapon – When you hit a target you have a 10% chance to make your next 4 hits never miss. 10 Second Internal Cooldown.
Signet of Abuse – (I forgot but it was really good I swear)
Unknown / Forgotten

Savage Coast.
Signet of Vigor – Major – +165 HP
Signet of Resilience – Head – When you block you get 31 block rating per stack for 4 seconds. Can stack 3 times.
Signet of Order – Head – When you block you get +10% Block Chance for 4 seconds. 10 Second cooldown.

Blue Mountain.
Signet of Sadism – When you hit you have a 10% chance to Hit for an additional 80 Damage. Head or Weapon.
Signet of Breaching – When you penetrate you have a 33% chance to deal 10% more damage on penetrating hits for 7 seconds. Head or Weapon.
Unknown / Forgotten

Scorched Desert.
Signet of Fury – 10 hits gain 3% dam 6 sec. 6 sec cool. Head Wep
Signet of Interdiction – Hot on Impair 26 tick 2 second 6 sec last. Head and Wep.
Signet of Obedience – Hit impair, +1% dam. 3 stack 5 second. Head and Wep.

City of the Sun God.
Signet of Opportunism – When you hit an afflicted Target you have a 20% chance to hit them for an additional 48. Head Wep
Signet of Detainment – Hinder effects last 10% longer. Head and Wep
Signet of Extrication – When you hinder a target you are healed for 40. Head and Wep.

Besieged Farmlands.
Signet of Aggression – 15% chance when you hit a weaken target you gain +5% damage for 6 sec. 10 sec cool. Head or Wep
Unknown / Forgotten
Unknown / Forgotten

Shadowy Forest.
Signet of Benediction – 20% Chance on heal to apply Barrier to target for 40. Last 10 SEconds.Head wep.
Signet of Amelioration – Increase Heal Rating by 47. Major.
Signet of Discipline – When you are glanced you gain 62 Defense Rating for 8 seconds. 10 seconds cooldown. Head.

Carpathian Fangs.
Signet of Valour – Applies Barrier for 40 for 10 seconds on Crit. Head Wep
Signet of Corruption – Increases Afflict by 5% dam. Head.
Signet of Laceration – When you crit you gain crit damage increase by 6% for 15 sec. 15 sec cool. Head or Wep.

Missing Signets:
Signet of Temperance When you heal a target below 50% health they are given a HOT.
Signet of Cruel Delight When you hit a weakened target you have a chance to be healed
Signet of Reinforcement When you are glanced you gain magical and physical protection up to 3 stacks
Signet of Violence Increase Attack Rating