New World Corrupted Fragments Farm Guide - How To Clear Corrupted Breaches (Portals) & Get Major Breach Caches Fast?

In this New World guide, we will talk about the fastest and the most effective ways to farm corrupted breach caches in order to get corrupted fragments that are required for crafting Expedition Tuning Orbs.

Best Corrupted Portals Solo/Group Farming Tips - How To Farm Major Breach Caches & Corrupted Fragments Efficiently?

Make sure to read the guide till the end, because we will share several tips and tricks on solo/group corrupted breaches farming that many people do not know, apart from that we will also give you some tips to farm corrupted fragments faster and more efficiently!

1. Gear Preparation Tips for Farming Corrupted Breaches

No matter if your farm breaches in the group are at a low level, there are several things that you can do to speed up the process:

• All mobs in portals are corrupted, so it's a good idea to have a weapon with corrupted bane and preferably enchanted perks, for example using the Brash Crystalline Bow of the Ranger. 

• Corrupted combat trophies placed in each house that you own provide another decent bonus to your damage, such as using three basic trophies that increase your damage against the corrupted by 12 in total. 

• Another great thing to use is corrupted coatings, they're not expensive and can increase your damage up to 15 for 40 minutes, so spending 10-15 New World gold for having this buff is definitely worth it.

• Powerful and strong honing stones might be expensive, so it's totally fine to use weak or common honing stones for extra 45 damage, using all these bonuses can easily increase your damage against the corrupted by 40-50 percent. 

• Having corrupted tinctures in your inventory will make your farm much more comfortable and cheaper because you won't have to waste your potions to heal the damage that you take from corruption. Infused may be expensive and it's better to use them only on high-level breaches, so consider buying tinctures of lower tiers.

2. Solo Farm Tips For Corrupted Portals

Usually, players farm low level portals aside but they can be farmed for corrupted fragments too. If you are level 60, you won't have any problems with destroying level 25 or 35 minor and major corrupted breaches so low. Having a couple of players in your group will obviously speed up the process, but if you have a good weapon with all damage bonuses that we mentioned earlier, it wouldn't really matter. 

Here are the advantages of Solo farm:

1). No need to wait for anyone - You can farm breeches solo pretty much any time, there is no need to spend time looking for a group member or waiting for a portal train announcement.

2). Availability - Low-level portals can be found on many territories: Windsward, Everfall, Cutlass Keys, First Light, and so on, you will get azed after destroying every breach and this will allow you to use spirit shrines and fast travel options to move quickly from one place to another. 

3). Rewards & time consumption - This is going to be a small spoiler but whatever the chance and amount of corrupted fragments that you get from caches seem to be absolutely the same regardless of the breach level. So it makes more sense to farm low-level portals that can be destroyed solo in like 30-60 seconds, and you will always get cash as a reward which is good because sometimes you might not get it during a portal train if you didn't contribute enough. Apart from that, you don't need to waste gold on health potions or repair your gear if you die.

3. Group Farm Tips for Corrupted Portals

Apparently, there are some advantages of joining corrupted portal trains too:

• Level 66 portals are the only way to obtain Amethyst Gypsum

• You can loot le chest if you're doing that in Meerkat

• You can also get obsidian gypsum for killing named mobs in high level corrupted breaches

Here are a few tips for Portal Trains in New World:

1). Always have enough consumables - Tinctures will significantly slow down the corruption timer and you won't need healing that often, but it doesn't mean that you shouldn't have health potions, always make sure that you have some just in case.

2). Always revive other players - Portal trains are usually formed of on flag groups which makes it possible to revive players of other factions, make sure you do that every time, especially if that's a healer, because you're all on the same side while fighting the corrupted.

3). Make sure you contribute enough - Always be quick and don't stop to gather a random wire fiber note, if you will be late then you might not have enough time to deal a sufficient amount of damage to the mobs, and as a result, you will not receive cash. If you came late, just spam your AOE skills to deal as much damage as you possibly can, or try to destroy the portal with your asian stuff. When you are attacking a hive with three veils, players usually destroy one of them to get in, so if there are no mobs around try hitting the remaining veils to deal damage.

4).  Don't miss the drop from named mobs - Keep in mind that the named mobs in major portals can drop obsidian gypsum. This type of gypsum has a limit of 3 drops per day, so if you accidentally miss one then you will not be able to craft a gypsum cast till the next day.

5. Don't aggro the mobs by yourself - If you're not a tank then make sure to keep the number of mobs on you as low as possible, this mostly applies to light and medium armor users. It's much better to hit mobs that are already being attacked by other players and have like half hp instead of hitting a full hp mob and getting his aggro.

Time-Saving Tips For Farming Corrupted Fragments - How To Farm Corrupted Fragments Faster?

Farming corrupted fragments is very time consuming but there are two things that you can do to save your time:

1. Make sure you have level 200 of stone cutting because in that case, you will have a 20 chance to craft additional fragments

2. Consider buying a stonecutter set or at least the cheapest parts that you can afford, this is one of the best refining sets and a good investment because you can use it not only for basic stone cutting but also for gems and corrupted fragments. The full set provides a 10 bonus (many players don't realize that this is actually a lot), which does not only apply to each of the four refining steps but also applies to the additional items that you obtained during the previous steps.

If we compare the difference between refining slivers to load stones with set and without set, we can realize that having it on will increase the final amount of lodestones by 38, which means that you will end up having the same amount of lodestones after two hours of harm and refining the fragments in stonecutter set afterwards, and three hours of farm without using it.