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Comment by Sipder2

To craft Armored Husk you need find Soulsteel Anvil used to convert Stygia Dust and Scheggia di Stigia into Stygia Bar.

Soulsteel Anvil in the area is interactable, and when opened, allows access to a special crafting menu, called Stygia Crafting. Within this Anvil, you can currently craft two items:

Lingotto di Stigia: 10x Stygia Dust and 10x Scheggia di Stigia.
Armored Husk: 1x Soulforger's Tools and 20x Stygia Bar.

To craft Armored Husk you need a total of 200x Stygia Dust and 200x Scheggia di Stigia.
Soulforger's Tools drop from the rare Soulforger Rhovus in The Maw, after you fully translate the Codice Runico Intatto.

Soulsteel Anvil is located on the highest platform, to reach this platform you can use Domination's Calling or Door of Shadows.
To use the Grappling you need Animated Levitating Chain.

I use my Door of Shadows from /way 22,2, 67,7 to /way 22,2, 67,8

/way 23.0 68.4 Grappling 1
/way 20,5, 67,8 Grappling 2
/way 20.2 67.0 Soulsteel Anvil

How to get Bound Shadehound Mount: https://youtu.be/xIYyt0NblJQ

Comment by crcbad

As explained in Bound Shadehound Mount - Craftable Maw Mount in Patch 9.0.5 by Neryssa, you will need to craft Armored Husk.

Requeriments for Armored Husk:

1 x Stygia Dowser (Buyed from Ve'nari for 1500 Stygia, which allows you to track Stygia Nexus on the minimap.
1 x Soulforger's Tools (Dropped from Soulforger Rhovus after you fully translate the Rune Codex).
20 x Lingotto di Stigia
200 x Stygia Dust
200 x Scheggia di Stigia

Best place to farm Stygia Nexus:

Place: The Beastwarrens (You will need Access to the Beastwarrens).
Coords: 58,79 (Cave entrance).
Spawn time: From instant, to ~5 min.
Spent time: Getting all the 200 items for each material took me about 4-5 hours, with another player farming.

Once inside, you can stay aprox. at 56,60, where you can check all the posible spams of Stygia Nexus, there are five possible spawns:

66,55 (Up, just right where you're staying).
43,68 (Up, just left where you're staying).
53,66 (Up, a little more left where you're staying).
45,67 (Down, to the left).
67,55 (Down, to the right).

Therefore, there are some Stygian Cache, where you can loot some Stygia (Between 40-60 each cache), I saw two spots:

37,79 (Up, left, near the wall, close to the Stygia Nexus spawn point at 53,66).
46,67 (Down, behind a pillar, close to the Stygia Nexus spawn point at 45,67).

Comment by pokakap

This item is part of the Bound Shadehound mount

How to get the Bound Shadehound mount

Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siGXfMWdzmo

Pre-requisites: Be Appreciated by Ve'nari, have 3,500 Stygia, have learned Animated Levitating Chain. Helpful: Words of Warding is active because of Assassin's Soulcloak

Buy Stygia Dowser for 1,500 Stygia
Go to Domination Keep in Perdition Hold (approx at 23.0, 68.4), and grapple up 1 level. Go to the left, and go up the stairs to a second hook at about 24.0, 75.5.
Use your extra action button and solve the Rune Puzzle to get Crumbling Stele by making the runes above the chest match the runes on the spikes. Spike #1 was to your left grappling up and goes clockwise. You have limited attempts before being locked out for two hours. If this happens, use the time to farm
Return to Ve'nari and buy Partial Rune Codex for 2,000 Stygia.
Retrieve Rune Codex Page: Forging from the cave in the Beast Warrens located at 48.8, 84.7. The page is in the back left.
Retrieve Rune Codex Page: Souls from Perdition Hold located at 27.2, 72.3.
Retrieve Rune Codex Page: Binding from Tremaculum at 24.6,12.67. The teleport up is at 27.6,17.3.
Read all the pages by clicking on them to get Codice Runico Intatto
Pet Stray Soul in the River of souls to get Anima di Lupo Volenterosa. Go against the current and you'll eventually find him.
Kill the rare Soulforger Rhovus to get Soulforger's Tools
Spend the next 2 - 8 hours of your life farming 200 Stygia Dust and 200 Scheggia di Stigia. The Stygia Dowser will allow you to see Stygia Nexus on the minimap. On the ground these look like glowing green orbs. Stand next to one and click on the Stygia Dowser. Only one person can tap a nexus at a time. I recommend not going over eye 2 for this.
Celebrate the end of grinding
Go to Soulsteel Anvil (located at the very top of Domination Keep at 20.2,67.0-You will need to grapple hook up the side) to create 20 Lingotto di Stigia
Create Armored Husk by combining 20 Lingotto di Stigia with Soulforger's Tools
Optional: Take the Chaotic Rift to get down (it takes you to Zovaal's Cauldron)
Go to the Binding alter at 45.2,48.2 to combine Armored Husk with Anima di Lupo Volenterosa to get Feral Shadehound
Read Crumbling Stele to get the rune order
Use Feral Shadehound to get start Feral Shadehound which starts the binding ritual
Run Feral Shadehound into a cage or pillar to not have to bother with mob agro while you punch in the correct rune order.
This completes Feral Shadehound which gives Bound Shadehound
Learn the mount, brag to guildies/friends

A quick note on farming. When Words of Warding is active, as long as you don't turn it in, you can cloak easily in Perdition Hold, which makes Perdition Hold ideal for farming Stygia Dust and Scheggia di Stigia. It also makes it easier to get Rune Codex Page: Souls as well as get to Go to Soulsteel Anvil.

Another thing I noticed is that when you collect resources from one stygia nexus, another one seems to spawn almost instantly. I think there are two active nexus in each particular sub-zone of the maw. This is why camping a spot doesn't seem to work as the nexus are random. HOWEVER, I think some more more common spawn locations than others. If you are having trouble finding one, I'd check the more rare spots, which for Perdition Hold is at the very very top of Dominion Keep as well as the very southern part where your Assassin's Soulcloak will fall off.

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