This is a guide on how to easily obtain Jade Orbs.
Now, why would you want to find those?
Because they contain the following:
- Unidentified Earth Lunarite (who would want that? exactly! let’s continue)
- Rolled Courtesan Painting (looks nice but who cares? let’s continue)
- Sunset Portal Stone (now its getting interesting huh? you need those to upgrade various things)
- Abyssal Shard (now were talking! amounts vary)
- Abyssal Crystal – Jackpot! Last but not least, the important part of this guide. Most people will struggle when trying to upgrade mistsong weapons, obsidian gear or simply abyssal skills (implemented in 3.0) where you’ll need 3 crystals for every skill tree you want to level past lv24 of the abyssal skills (also known as hatred).
Now how do I obtain Jade Orbs you ask? You have to combine 12 Jade Orb Shards to get one of them.
How do you get Jade Orb Shards? You obtain them destroying Porcelain Jars (as seen on the picture below) in a dungeon called Mistsong Summit. The entrance to it you can find at the backside of the middle island in the center of mistmerrow. You can also directly port there with your teleport book. But watch out, you can only enter the dungeon if you are level 55!
But before we can get started, it’s advised to have shadowplay and additional if available auramancy and lv 55 battlerage. All of those give you mobility which will help you past certain obstacles in this dungeon, as there are a couple jump’n run type of routes. Most important from shadowplay will be stealth. It’s not required for most of it, but it will certainly save your life when sneaking past mobs alone.
Also note, many people that farmed jars this way before 3.0 will know you could re-enter the dungeon or relog to make the jars respawn. THIS GOT PATCHED and no longer works!
(Thanks to user ResurioxZ on discord for letting me know!)
HOWEVER: When you relog the position of the oni room jars changes so you might get the south east and north jars you weren’t able to get before!
Once inside the dungeon you will see this map, but without the nicely colored dots on it:
Dots mark Porcelain Jars, yellow arrows mark shortcuts. (more on these below)
I have added the dots to mark the positions of afaik all, or at least most of the possible porcelain jars in the dungeon.
Porcelain jars always have 3 possible spawn locations (indicated by me marking them with the same color for jars that belong together. NOTE: on the bottom left and on the east side i have only marked 2 each with the same color, i might be missing 2 dots there). Every run you will only find them in 1 of their locations, but they will always be in one of them! Once a jar is killed it will grant you 2 jade orb shards.
On the map you will see 6 different roads leading from the middle to the outer circle. The northern, southeastern and southwestern route are the Oni-routes. As you won’t be able to clear those alone, for most of them you’ll only be able to check the first room out of the 3. Only exception for that rule is the southwest route leading towards the “Vineviper Garden” aka Sojungs bossroom. The first arrow, when coming from the middle leads you to the side, and then around the gates you will encounter. For this trick you will need shadowplay + auramancy. You teleport across the water to the side, wait for your teleport cooldown then use dropback -> quickly turn your camera -> and immediately use teleport to get back on track.(this is the yellow route) This is risky as if you fall into the water you will die automatically. Alternatively you can also go along the mountain, use dropback to get higher up, then teleport on the roof and jump back on the road (red path) Do this only at own risk. The second arrow is much easier. All you gotta do is teleport on the side and then you can freely walk up the mountain on top of the roof of the house and just run off it again. Only problem now is, you can access the last room, but there is no easy way back. At this point if you are alone (make sure you are not in a group) you can just relog and log back in. This shouldn’t take any entries off you unless you were in a group and you disbanded it by logging off.
Alternatively, make sure you have enough inventory space to take off all your gear and simply hop in the water. Princess Nui will grant you a free teleport to the middle without repair costs if you jumped in naked.
Now let’s come to the southern part. To get to the outer circle taking the south route, it’s advised to have shadowstep from shadowplay. It will let you bypass the obstacle by just walking across the first “bridge” and shadow stepping to the lantern on the other side (seen on the picture below). If not available you’ll have to punch the lanterns and solve obstacle to get across. Once you reach the first room on the outer ring, there’s 2 arrows leading to either side. (NOTE: I believe theres also a jar spawn location behind the house on the south, feel free to check it, it’s not on the picture, as I’m not 100% sure of it. XL changed some spawn locations and I’m not sure if that still exists, if it does it will be in front or behind the little asian house up those stairs)
(this lantern in front of my char can be shadow stepped)
But back to the arrows. The first arrow leading to the left is a little tricky one. To explain it easier here some pictures:
Just parkour your way up on the umbrella and from there on top of the wall. Try to then move along it for a bit until you can drop off and then from there jump with dropback/teleport back on the road.
The arrow to the east is much easier and my prefered route. You’ll see a small pavilion. You can just simply run into it, jump out of it and teleport/dropback onto the road.
This way you don’t have to clear any rooms and get the keys you need to open the gates. NOTE: you can’t just behind enemy lines/float and jump over a lot of walls. You will see small green bombs called “Forbidden Bomb” along them. If you try to do any tricks they’ll kill you automatically similar to the water. That’s why finding those small tricks is kinda rare and you can’t just jump over all the other oni walls. And trust me, I’ve tried and died 😛
In the next room with the light blue dots there’s one on top of the little asian house as seen here:
One more trick for this path: You can jump on the first pillar of the next obstacle and you’ll have enough range to shadowstep the next lantern. Youll just have to autoattack it once to make a bridge of the other pillars making it easier to get across. You’ll understand why I’m giving those tips for that path in the end.
Now last but not least, the last arrows on the eastern part of the map.
See this suspicious carving (also note the position on the map). You get there by walking across the bridge in the background. You can then press F on the carving and it will take you to a house in the mountains. Walk upstairs and use the teleport again.
This bypasses another gate directly leading you to the next room along the east, when you are coming from the southern part and passing Arias Music Hall.
My personal favorite route
To finish this guide off I’d like to just give you a short explanation of what I believe is the most efficient and fastest route to take.
Start off by going towards the south east. Check the first Oni room and then continue towards the south path. Take the white jar, then the light blue jar, then use the trick to get across the next obstacle as described earlier.
Then just pass the Music Hall (Arias boss room) and continue to the short yellow arrow on the east. The short arrow leads you across a hanging bridge. Take the dark blue jar (only 2 dots marked, im not sure if it has a 3rd spawn, maybe I just forgot about it) and use the teleport trick to get to the cyan dots. Once you found that take the route back towards the middle coming across the orange jars. Again, only marked 2 dots but there might be a 3rd position. I think there’s 2 spots around the left of the 2 orange dots. Then quickly check the northern oni path for the first room, take the jar if it’s there and then come back to the middle.
Then you go back to the white jar path in the south, but this time you take the jump across to the west, take the dark blue jars there too, run your way across to the pink dots/jar. From there jump across the rocks as shown in the next picture using behind enemy lines or float both in addition of dropback or teleport. Be creative!
If you don’t have behind enemy lines or float, take off your gear, jump off the mountain and request a free teleport from our goddess nui.
After that you’ll then want to go to the north west. If you skipped it with BEL or float you be right there, if you took the respawn way, just run up and get the light green and the pink jar.
Either way, last but not least, you will want to do the trick with the south west part of the onis last. If it’s in the first room you’re done, otherwise you’ll need to take the way across the roofs and towards the last 2 rooms.
Aaaaaand there you go. This was longer than I thought but I hope I covered it all/most of it.
If you tryharded and took the last jars as well you should have found 11-13 (depending on the northern and southeastern “Oni-jars”) jars. Therefor in total you end up with 22-26 jade orb shards and can make ~2 Jade Orbs and open them.
After this you can reset the dungeon and start from the beginning. Note: This should be mainly aimed for the time while the dungeon is still to hard to run for you or your group doesn’t want to this day. You just use your leftover runs effectively with this to get some extra crystals and shards.
Good luck on the grind. If you got any further questions, send a private message to Bikaz on the Prophecy EU discord, reddit or simply ingame to me on either Kyprosa or Prophecy server.
Im german, so english isn’t my mother language. I hope most of what I have written down makes sense and you excuse possible spelling or grammar mistakes. Feel free to also send me feedback/improvements/additions in pms.
Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed the guide,
“Frontline” Bikaz (last update 12/20/2016)
External Info:
Also before I forget, theres also a youtube video about how to easily grind abyssal crystals/jade orbs. It shows a lot of the stuff explained in this video and simply shows some nice moving pictures to this, but lacking to show every single jar. All props to youtube user “MrZombie” for it:
01/01/17:
Youtube user Squanky9 now made another video about the same topic. Hes using my map but a slightly different route. However it shows most of the tricks described in here in nice moving pictures:
