Curse

Arren Knez · Mar 25, 2007, 04:11 AM // 04:11

solo farming uw today got about 8 ecto finished all my fow on my war

RSGashapon · Mar 25, 2007, 04:42 AM // 04:42

I received 3 Obsidian shards and 0 Ecto before giving up due to the influx of noob players.

Myrkwid · Mar 25, 2007, 05:16 AM // 05:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

People need to remember that FoW and UW were the hardest and only true high end area of the game prior to Factions and the SF patch.
So drop items may "seem like crap" to some of you, but that's just cause you've gotten spoiled with NF and its inscribable items and free buried treasures.

Anyway, in the past day, I've goten 11 shards and 1 ecto and 4 gold items. If you want to farm to make money, learn how to do it properly with a good solo build. Otherwise, don't waste our time complaining.

Drops in UW and FoW were nerfed pretty short after release (not 100% sure on it anymore, it's been almost two years...) and since then sucked so bad, that we never cared about them again. And at those times Factions wasn't even on the horizon. The only reason to visit those places is to get shards/ectos, either for selling or for ugly FoW-armor. Going in there for the "challenge"? Might be interesting for a few runs, but is worn out fast. Go in there for XP? Bah...

This weekend ist mostly a weekend for solofarmers. Even my guild visited those areas again for farming shards. Got ~30 of them and sold them to the merchant, can't complain on those. But the other loot? Utter crap. Opened several chests and all items were gold, but without max mods and utter crap. Got some golden and purple drops also, four shadow blades that all sold directly to the merchant. Only drops I remember that was ok was a req13 15^50 chaos axe...uh...and maybe that one vial of white dye that sold for 4p.

X89 · Mar 25, 2007, 05:25 AM // 05:25

Cleared FoW with guild and the spread was as follows
10+ shards (lost track after a while)
5 gold drops
2 purple drops
5 chests in total
3 key drops
250+ dust
250+ iron
250+ bone
250+ wood
15+ seeds
20+ husks
25+ limbs
15+ legs
40+ remains

155,000 exp from quests and all purple keyless chests
The 5 chests contained mostly golds for the guild, I would say just a few purples.

The materials are a rough estimate, but should have been easily 3-4 stacks of material.

So, as a whole of the weekend to me, it's been a good time. Probably clear UW tomorrow, and I'll update.

Enchanted Warrior · Mar 25, 2007, 05:26 AM // 05:26

Went down to underworld. Interesting looking, didn't make much sense. I was too tired to look in the wiki. lol All junk. Never found a chest. I heard the best advice in game tonight.

If you have an area figured out, and you get loot you like it. If not you hate it. Pretty much the truth.

I'm a loot baby, I admit it, Iwant my damn prize I bought the cracker jacks..

Oh well I did get POE tonight, now all I need is one more for factions (mission bonus) and I will have POT, POC, POE. and I'm almost done with cartographer for all 3.

LOL

erfweiss · Mar 25, 2007, 05:39 AM // 05:39

Because I've been at work most of the event, getting 1 shard and 2500 in gold for 1 hour isn't too bad. Too bad my two chests were purples.

Jongo River · Mar 25, 2007, 06:40 AM // 06:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

People need to remember that FoW and UW were the hardest and only true high end area of the game prior to Factions and the SF patch.
So drop items may "seem like crap" to some of you, but that's just cause you've gotten spoiled with NF and its inscribable items and free buried treasures.

Anyway, in the past day, I've goten 11 shards and 1 ecto and 4 gold items. If you want to farm to make money, learn how to do it properly with a good solo build. Otherwise, don't waste our time complaining.

You've made some good points, but don't tell people not to complain. This is a discussion forum and we should be able to express when we don't like something. It may seem predictable that someone always has a problem with something, but would you really want to read nothing more than a series of love letters to anet?

Regarding UW/FoW, I think Anet need to do at least one of two things, if ever they want to make a big deal out of these areas again. Either give them drops in line with NF (inscribable and a better chance of gold) and/or permanently remove the fee. As it stands the fee is nothing to experienced farmers (from what I gather), but very off putting to casual players like myself. One weekend just isn't enough to learn a system (unless you play for the whole weekend, but many of us have other things to do).

Lafayette · Mar 25, 2007, 06:53 AM // 06:53

I didn't farm much, I get bored of it quickly, but still did a few solo runs in UW and FoW. Got some shards and ecto, plus my first sapphire drop in FoW since I've been playing. Decided to celebrate by getting my monk Razah. One thing I did get a lot of was rares. A greater drop rate than normal. Pure coincidence probably, but welcome all the same.

The free entry was nice for trying out some unusual builds as well, builds I wouldn't usually have tried because of the uncertainty of success. I'm not so wealthy to continuously splurge a 1K cost over and over to test builds.

It's a good weekend idea. Kudos to Anet.

Feathermoore Rep · Mar 25, 2007, 06:59 AM // 06:59

Ok just a small observation. Basic economics says that prices flucuate with supply and demand right? Supply is high, price should be low. Supply is low, price is high. Ok well to makes things simple if thats all that the Rare Materials Trader goes buy, why have ecto prices increased? Since UW is open to everyone that means there are more ectos in circulation. But if even a portion of those ectos go to the trader that means that the price of ectos should go down. No?

If you look through the districts, everyone under the sun is trying to sell off their ectos for anywhere from 9k to 11k. (Trader is currently at 12k) And from the looks of it, it seems not many are having luck selling. As well, I've been curious about Anet's Marketwatch. I've seen a few things here and there but nothing other than it tracks the in-game prices and supply (I believe). Could the price increase be because the supply of ectos is increasing, but none of those are being sent back to the trader?

Granted I know this isn't an economical dicussion nor do i have any sigificant economics knowledges, however i am still curious as to why ecto prices have increased for the weekend.

To keep on topic, today has been a success. About 9ectos, 1 ruby, 3-5k in drops per run, and about 4 golds scattered across 11 or so runs. A few times I got lazy and died carelessly, but i counted though as runs, as generally i was over halfway into them >.<

Exoudeous · Mar 25, 2007, 07:19 AM // 07:19

well you could aslo think that alot of people are tryng to get their armors, and others are direct selling instead of going to a trader since you make more money that way.

Rusty Deth · Mar 25, 2007, 08:09 AM // 08:09

i don't notice any difference and I do fow and uw on a regualr basis.

Only thing I hate about weekends like this is people who complain about things they just don't understand.

Want to really complain, then say you do uw and fow dailey. Not even 5 runs in a row is enough to compare the drops.

Viet Spirit · Mar 25, 2007, 09:00 AM // 09:00

did like 30 runs, I got 26 ectoes and 10+ gold with some 15%^50 stormbows and FDS. Drops are staying at around 1ecto/run for me. pretty good I think. lucky weekend for me

DarkGanni · Mar 25, 2007, 09:10 AM // 09:10

I'm happy to say I finally could do Fow with the rest of my guild (thanks to favor in international dist) Made like 1 shard per run and I'm happy.

Killin_Frenzy · Mar 25, 2007, 11:50 AM // 11:50

Finally got to trying out the Terra Tank UW smite farming build.

Did 5 runs and only got 3 ectos, a crappy gold stormbow and absolutely no chests

O well, at least a run doesn't take that long.

Mourne · Mar 25, 2007, 12:06 PM // 12:06

Well I pretty much hate you all, 5 hours of farming Friday netted me 2 ectos and 20k in cash. I didn't even go back Saturday because I was so pissed.

DRGN · Mar 25, 2007, 01:08 PM // 13:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jongo River

You've made some good points, but don't tell people not to complain. This is a discussion forum and we should be able to express when we don't like something. It may seem predictable that someone always has a problem with something, but would you really want to read nothing more than a series of love letters to anet?

No, we wouldn't want to read that. But if every person on the forum was allowed to start a QQ thread because they ran into this little thing in life known as "bad luck", but instead chose to blame it on an ANet conspiracy to nerf the ecto drop rate, while most of the community seems to be doing just fine, then I don't think we'd want to read anything. Think about it. You're basically saying: "Hey, I never have bad luck. It's just that whenever something bad happens to me, it's one of ANet's undocumented game changes." If people WEREN'T essentially saying that, threads like this would never appear.

I had a period a few months ago where I went 17 UW runs in a row(over a span of a few weeks) without a single ecto or gold weapon, even though I had been taking the normal anti-farm countermeasures. I chalked it up to bad luck, not ZOMG NERF. It sorted itself out over time and now I'm not having any problems.

The thousands upon thousands of threads like this one have come before never have any effect beyond pointless bickering, so I don't see the point in them. Trust me, I'm usually one of the first to bite ANet's head off when I think they've done something wrong, but in this case, they haven't done anything, which is a GOOD thing. Sorry if this sounded like flames. I tried to keep it as civil as possible, but I really get pissed when threads like this pop up that keep trying to blame bad luck on undocumented game changes.(I don't even know how much the OP was whining, its the QQ'ers who hijacked the thread after that who really irk me).

BTW, all you people who say UW isn't worth it, please keep that mindset. It helps keep ecto prices high. More money for us farmers.

GloryFox · Mar 25, 2007, 01:38 PM // 13:38

Personally I don't care much for farming so I'm having the same issue I’ve had for 2 years there. I still can't find a party to clear UW. Also too many noob whammo's down there who must aggro everything in sight it seems.

The Last Cruzader · Mar 25, 2007, 01:44 PM // 13:44

Been farming FoW with my derv and Duo Trapping UW, and netted about 70k in all my drops and gold. Shards drop more for me than ectos

Volitar · Mar 25, 2007, 02:06 PM // 14:06

Went on an UW trip with guildies last night and had a blast. Completed the Restore the Monuments quest and had a great deal of fun with people on both American and European server. Some had never been here before too. We didn't go for drops though, we went to quest and have fun.

MirageMaster · Mar 25, 2007, 02:12 PM // 14:12

FU damn farmers,screw your ectos,this even just sucks.