Why Your Reputation Board Is the Key to Everything
Most players ignore the reputation board or treat it as an afterthought. That's a massive mistake.
Critical warning: If you don't collect that chest before the event ends, you lose all the bonus loot you've earned. Maxing the board is just the beginning. Real farming starts once you hit 210.
The key takeaway: Rush rank 210 immediately. Everything else comes second.
One Setting Change That Doubles Your Goblin Spawns
Before you do anything else, log out of the game. Go to Options, find Network or Connectivity, and turn off Cross-Network Play.
Why does this matter? With cross-network play on, you share maps with players on console, PC, and Steam simultaneously. Turning it off limits you to your own platform only, which dramatically reduces the number of players in your map instance. Fewer players means more goblins can spawn.
Keep cross-play on if you're focusing on dungeons or group content. Turn it off only for solo overworld farming.
The key takeaway: Solo overworld farming requires cross-network play OFF. This single setting change is free and takes ten seconds.
Fast-Track Your Board Using Infernal Hordes
To quickly max your board and unlock all goblin bonuses, run Infernal Hordes. Look specifically for the Chaos Waves round that features goblins.
To make this more efficient, respec your War Plans in the Infernal Horde tree. Spec down the side that increases the chance for additional chaos waves to appear more often. Don't worry about monster level power—your only goal is more chaos waves, which is where the goblins live.
Treat Infernal Hordes as a starting point only. Don't stop here once your board is maxed.
The key takeaway: Use Infernal Hordes to hit rank 210 fast, then move on to better farms.
The Ultimate Method: Treasure Breach Nightmare Dungeons
Once your reputation board is maxed, this becomes the single best way to farm goblins. A single Treasure Breach Nightmare Dungeon can contain 30 to 40 goblins per run.
How to get Treasure Breach sigils: Equip the Goblin Fall war plan in your Nightmare Dungeon tree. This gives treasure goblins a small chance to drop Treasure Breach sigils. During the event with increased goblin spawns, they drop much more often. Players reported finding them just by running around Nahantu killing normal goblins.
Additional methods: The Altar of Avarice replaces regular altars with goblin altars that spawn treasure goblins. The Greed is Good war plan gives killing a treasure goblin in a nightmare dungeon a small chance to spawn a portal to a Goblin Retreat.
The key takeaway: Treasure Breach Nightmare Dungeons are your endgame farm. Prioritize getting these sigils.
Base Game Routes: Ked Bardu and PvP Zones
No expansion? No problem. Two reliable options exist for base game players.
Ked Bardu Loop: Start at Ked Bardu and run north, then farm through the surrounding area. There's a pretty good loop you can establish, and goblins spawn consistently.
PvP Zones: Many players report excellent results here, though your mileage may vary depending on your network server and time of day. Worth testing.
The key takeaway: Ked Bardu is the most consistent base game spot. Start there.
The Greed Shrine Technique That Changes Everything
This is the single most important technique in the entire guide.
Look for Greed Shrines everywhere. When activated, they make monsters spawn goblins as you kill them. The key is finding these shrines without killing anything nearby first. If you kill monsters around the shrine and then grab it, there's nothing left to kill and you get zero goblins.