Curse

Hyper Cutter · May 13, 2009, 06:08 PM // 18:08

I just got the usual (tonics, rock candy, fireworks) and some Mysterious Summoning Stones.

Still no Spider Egg, though.

Fril Estelin · May 13, 2009, 06:09 PM // 18:09

Honestly, it's not that difficult to get the gifts this week. I'm slowly getting roots for gifts for my 2nd and 3rd account by afking most of the time in Arkjok ward (with sabway+devona+menhlo). I rarely get more than 4 roots, but got a white dye and a few golds. It's no revolution, but well afk doesn't cost a dime.

exploiter · May 13, 2009, 07:52 PM // 19:52

farmed 15 roots, bought another 30 for rest of my accounts...sold 14 gifts, opened 1 - 5 mercantiles...like only useful summon

nkuvu · May 13, 2009, 08:03 PM // 20:03

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Originally Posted by Lonesamurai

and not because you could have it set up differently?

Nope. I don't use the IDS much, but I have nothing against the 15>50 inscription. Changeability is nice, but I'm not so attached to the IDS skin that I can't use a different sword if I want to swap out the hilt/inscription.

Lonesamurai · May 13, 2009, 08:52 PM // 20:52

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Originally Posted by nkuvu

Nope. I don't use the IDS much, but I have nothing against the 15>50 inscription. Changeability is nice, but I'm not so attached to the IDS skin that I can't use a different sword if I want to swap out the hilt/inscription.

thats fair enough

I love inscriptions on the weapons now, means I can switch out anytime I need to change one (if I don't have another weapons of course)

Laraja · May 13, 2009, 09:00 PM // 21:00

It took me 6 runs to get 15 roots in NM with H+H... well 1 run was with a guildmate and we still only got 1 root. Oddly, at about the 4th run I started getting multiple root drops per run and the last run I got 4 and after making the cakes I went back to Nick, killed more Mandragors along the way and got 4 more roots.

It's really not at all difficult, mostly tedious, way more interesting then getting those juni berries, and there's a silver lining. I made over 10k, 2 green dyes, 1 brown, 2 red, got three gold drops including 1 perfect req9 Gladius. All in all a prosperous endeavor. I am not complaining. Plus I sold the extra cake and have 1 root left. I may go back out to get more and sell the cakes since so many people are lazy about farming the roots.

As for the gifts. Nothing special. I really do want a keg of ale. But I love those mysterious summoning stones. They're fantastic to use on HM missions and vanquishing.

Icy The Mage · May 13, 2009, 10:36 PM // 22:36

Woot, finally got some mercantile summoning stones, and to my luck I got 2 gifts full of them

!

Waiting for a pve-event item weekend then... gogo endless kegfarm

sportacus · May 13, 2009, 11:09 PM // 23:09

wait wait wait... are mercantile summoning stones valuable?

Lonesamurai · May 13, 2009, 11:17 PM // 23:17

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Originally Posted by sportacus

wait wait wait... are mercantile summoning stones valuable?

they are to farmers, especially for keg running, etc where the only reason to leave the area is to merch all the crap

Red Sonya · May 14, 2009, 02:24 AM // 02:24

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Originally Posted by Falynn Firestorm

It took me 6 runs to get 15 roots in NM with H+H... well 1 run was with a guildmate and we still only got 1 root. Oddly, at about the 4th run I started getting multiple root drops per run and the last run I got 4 and after making the cakes I went back to Nick, killed more Mandragors along the way and got 4 more roots.

It's really not at all difficult, mostly tedious, way more interesting then getting those juni berries, and there's a silver lining. I made over 10k, 2 green dyes, 1 brown, 2 red, got three gold drops including 1 perfect req9 Gladius. All in all a prosperous endeavor. I am not complaining. Plus I sold the extra cake and have 1 root left. I may go back out to get more and sell the cakes since so many people are lazy about farming the roots.

As for the gifts. Nothing special. I really do want a keg of ale. But I love those mysterious summoning stones. They're fantastic to use on HM missions and vanquishing.

I discovered the sequence of the killing and now I get 6 or 7 per run everytime. You've got to know what to kill and in what order I found out. I'm now making a fortune selling them for 1k each as fast as I can get them.

Oh and btw I'm running with 3 heroes and 2 henchies.

zwei2stein · May 14, 2009, 06:16 AM // 06:16

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Originally Posted by Lonesamurai

they are to farmers, especially for keg running, etc where the only reason to leave the area is to merch all the crap

It might be better to sell merch stones for ~5k and save inventory slot; kegging downtime is no that bad (and you do want to access to storage every so often to deposit unid golds or salvaged mods and similar items).

Imho, its more of caravan vanquish thing where you really, really, can not leave map to merch loot and where ally is useful when you are done selling stuff (he follows party, right).

Lonesamurai · May 14, 2009, 07:20 AM // 07:20

maybe a Xunlai Storage Summon would be useful too

malevolence · May 14, 2009, 09:04 AM // 09:04

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Originally Posted by zwei2stein

It might be better to sell merch stones for ~5k and save inventory slot; kegging downtime is no that bad (and you do want to access to storage every so often to deposit unid golds or salvaged mods and similar items).

Imho, its more of caravan vanquish thing where you really, really, can not leave map to merch loot and where ally is useful when you are done selling stuff (he follows party, right).

Sorry for going offtopic , but what is the kegging farming ? lol , I didn't play gw for months and just came back few weeks ago.

Thank you.

Stolen Souls · May 14, 2009, 09:59 AM // 09:59

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Originally Posted by Lonesamurai

maybe a Xunlai Storage Summon would be useful too

A xunlai chest following me around would be so epic.

glacialphoenix · May 14, 2009, 10:29 AM // 10:29

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Originally Posted by Stolen Souls

A xunlai chest following me around would be so epic.

I'm imagining the Luggage from Terry Pratchett's books here... complete with awesome ass-kicking abilities. XD

tasha · May 14, 2009, 10:54 AM // 10:54

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Originally Posted by glacialphoenix

I'm imagining the Luggage from Terry Pratchett's books here... complete with awesome ass-kicking abilities. XD

Would be awesome, as long as it doesn't decide to eat a team mate along the way :P

shadows of hob · May 14, 2009, 11:23 AM // 11:23

10 gifts:

40 hunters ales
10 green rock
10 red rock
10 summening stones

Still waiting for the egg.

KiLLi4N · May 18, 2009, 07:04 AM // 07:04

Did he move already, or is he still collecting mandragor roots?

therangereminem · May 18, 2009, 07:28 AM // 07:28

he wont move for like 8 hours. we go thourgh this every week and every week its the same thig nhe moves at 10am cst as every week now

Elephantaliste · May 18, 2009, 08:08 AM // 08:08

one great usage of merchant stones I have been suggested is for zaishen drops selling.