Farming Embers
Always fish! Always dig!
For fallen embers, the best way to get a lot is to make a new character and realm. The drop rates are much higher for low level characters. I once got 4 fallen embers from one fishing spot.
Check bounties and challenges daily. They can reward embers.
Various vendors can sell them
- Grinnich general goods (worth upgrading to lv 3)
- Finley, the jailed npc in nameless pass that appears in sacrament between 8 and midnight after you free him
- The vendor half way through the crucible
Plagued areas can reward them at max corruption. Burn 2 torn sinews to plague an area or more to max the corruption before the boss and only have 3 debuffs. The shallows, mariners keep, orban glades, and black trench can all be cleared very quickly. Feel free to do this on multiple realms.
Memorize where medium and large chests generally spawn. Grab them in a normal zone, plague it, and check again.
Fallen Ember Low Level Drop Rates
Fallen embers drop a lot more when you are low level. For example, fully clearing the shallows, mariners keep, and orban glades before moving to sacrament leads to 20-30 fallen embers. You can make this quicker and easier by creating a maxed out lv 1 armor set. For example, a fully upgraded lv 1 leather armor set gives you around 70% mitigation across physical and elemental damage, and will not exceed a lv 1 characters max weight. Throw 4 health gains gems in and you are essentially immortal. You can do the same with mesh, but will need at least 1 weight reduction gem to not be encumbered with weapons above 20 weight. Once you have created this set, you can simply make a new character, get it from your main realm, and then use it in a new low level realm to farm. Once your character levels up enough for the fallen ember drop rate to reduce, i.e. when you start seeing the other types of embers, just drop off your farming gear and make a new realm and character and repeat.