Is there a fast way to gather it? So far I've been just running around killing the various soldiers/champions/butcher demons, but I've only got like 250ish so far. I also just got the 3 items to make the weapons today. The event is ending soon, so I'd like to try to get them. What's a good way? I saw a method of standing at the gate and sniping them as they go in to your camp. Is that better?

 

Also Is the armor worth getting at my level or would it be better to just get xp lamps?

You can easily get ~600 fragments in the time it takes to gather the 3k daily tears through killing mobs.

Just run around the battlefield killing everything in sight.

Also used 'node find' fc they will call metal nodes to hop to for fast gathering.

 

If you devote enough time u can clear 1k in a day.

The killing method only really works if there is no one else on your world killing, if you cannot see any available mobs after running around the battlefield in 1 lap, hop onto a much lower population world.

 

The FC should only be used if you really are that desperate for the metal fragments, since getting the same amount of fragments using the FC takes much longer than killing, and is only really useful for getting past the limit.

Stand near the archers at the "entrance" of your faction and tag all the runners, you'll get way more tears/metal fragments that way.

If you choose Emax's method, it is highly recommended that you use dual wield magic or ranged for their higher autoattack frequency.

what do you do with those things once you have them?

You will find the weapon parts on the battlefield randomly (skilling or killing), which consists of: Icyenic Bowstaff, Staffhead and Hammerhead, and Infernal Bowstaff, Staffhead and Hammerhead. Click on the weapon part with 1000 fragments in your inv, and you will be prompted, click on yes, and that weapon override will unlock, and the item and 1000 fragments will dissappear.

The weapon parts are a lot more common when killing npc's than when skilling metal resource points. I got all three Sara parts in about an hour and a half of killing, and I know people who have been getting every metal resource spawn they can for the last couple of weeks and have only gotten one or two.

are these weapons worth getting? What do they compare to?

are these weapons worth getting? What do they compare to?

 

 

and that weapon override will unlock

Yeah, they've increased the drop rate for Sacred metal fragments.

You can now probably expect to have 1k fragments by the time you reach 2k tears obtained (I had 1004 fragments at 1791 tears.)