Curse

**cosyfiep** · Mar 26, 2007, 03:40 AM // 03:40

tried another trapping group today in the uw--9 hours....we got 3 ecto, 1 blue dye, found 2 chests--one gold item merchable ...did clear the chamber, wrathful spirits, the demon slayer...and cleared the smite area (forgot to go back and kill the dryders there, ooops)....and the vale, twin mountain, part of the bone pits (didnt do so well there so we left)...cleared the chaos plains....and then wasnt fast enough to kill all the dreamriders and the wailing lord before the reaper died....but we got an ecto from one of the mesmer guys there--that was pretty good.
netted abou 3plat from it....ok, but could do more in any other place---had fun either way.

garethporlest18 · Mar 26, 2007, 03:42 AM // 03:42

Meh nothing too extraodinary. 4 Ecto, about 10 shards or so and some gold items. But I wasn't really trying to farm.

Pure Disasta · Mar 26, 2007, 03:48 AM // 03:48

Yeah in terms of going out there and collecting myself then id say its junk in the 3 days i netted like 4 ecto, 3 shards and a black dye along with a bunch of weak yellows,purples and a crapload of whites with various bad dyes and moneys of course. I did manage to buy +65 ectos and +45 shards at a good price.

Carboplatin · Mar 26, 2007, 05:42 AM // 05:42

in about 4 hours on and off i got..

16 ectos
4 shards.
a gold fellblade that had no inherent mod that pissed me off.

Shadowfox1125 · Mar 26, 2007, 07:17 AM // 07:17

Event's over, now to count the earnings..

10 Ectos, about 27k in drops/gold, Gold 15^50 Storm Bow req 11. >

I didn't even play much this weekend. Too much work.

arcanemacabre · Mar 26, 2007, 07:26 AM // 07:26

All I gotta say is: I hate the Underworld....

Now Fissure of Woe is fun, kinda, but UW.... ungh so borring. How in the world can people stand to farm it?? Over and over and over. If I ever see the UW ever again, it will be too soon.

Vandal2k6 · Mar 26, 2007, 07:51 AM // 07:51

Doing a W/Rt solo in the UW yesterday, in about 10 runs I got 11 ecto, 3 black dyes (I'd never had one drop until yesterday!) and various golds (about 3). I personally thought they'd increased the drops for the weekend. All in all I made over 100k yesterday, so one is a happy bunny. :P

Saelfaer · Mar 26, 2007, 09:02 AM // 09:02

it is misleading indeed,
if you go out with a group of 4 Players, you see lots of good drops (most of them for the 3 others)
but if you go with 3 heroes and you = also 4 players though 1 real and 3 heroes, you dont see what drops for the heroes, thus you think all loot is bad.
maybe all the good drops were assigned to your heroes...
try soloing... might be better.

Milennin · Mar 26, 2007, 09:11 AM // 09:11

Tried to farm Smite Crawlers without using Factions skills (why must every UnderWorld build use at least 1 Factions skill -__-), and practised a lot.
Had 1 gold Chaos Axe req 9 drop, but for some reason he didn't pick it up when I clicked on it and died a few seconds after.-___-
12 Ecto drops (my first soloed Ectos ever XD).
1 Sapphire.
1 White Dye.
A few other golden items with crappy mods.
A few Phantom Key drops, but only got crappy Purple/Golden items from the chests
Second day soloing UnderWorld was pretty bad. 1 Ecto in more than 2 runs on average.=\

dr1zz one · Mar 26, 2007, 09:27 AM // 09:27

I got a few ectos, but more importantly I upgraded my pet. Capped a few spiders for my heroes. Good event.

ryanryanryan0310 · Mar 26, 2007, 09:45 AM // 09:45

Went into UW just to try out the W/Rt built. 2 ecto's, 1 gold item and 15k out of 12 runs. The gold item was not max. I wonder how elite area drop non-max gold items.

Guildmaster Cain · Mar 26, 2007, 10:13 AM // 10:13

I think it is just weird to see 9 districts in ToA, just because it is free to enter UW and FoW. Is paying 1k really that big amount? I often pay for my whole party, usually a guild-team, and whichever realm I go to, I usually get my money back from it. My guess is that this weekend attracked all the broke UW/FoW-virgins, and now they are complaining they got bad drops from a stuff that usually costs money to enter.

Don't go with small teams with heroes or stuff. You either farm it solo/dual or you go in an organized team, being 5-man or even faster: B/P (7-8 man). You can pretty much clear whole FoW in 2 hours time, netting at least 20 shards for the whole group.

Well I did took the time to try various solo builds for UW, but my conclusion is that dual 55/ss with the right person still is the fastest way.

Rockby Quickfoot · Mar 26, 2007, 10:48 AM // 10:48

I saw up to 17 districts. I think the reason that a lot of people showed up is the fact that favor didn't matter. Usually America gets favor very very late at night, or really early the next morning. The only time I can stay up that late is on a weekend, so I, for one, can't come play it all the time.

Ares Moonlight · Mar 26, 2007, 10:54 AM // 10:54

In stead of fowing like a mental lunatic I spent my weekend at the primeval kings' tomb.

I made:
10k from stuff
1 ecto
4gold items
20 purples
and about 700 planks

Undressed · Mar 26, 2007, 11:00 AM // 11:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rockby Quickfoot

I saw up to 17 districts. I think the reason that a lot of people showed up is the fact that favor didn't matter.

Agree, that's the more important reason.

1k can add up for beginners or lesser experienced players failing some runs. If you have it, enjoy but please spare them your leet opinions on gold accumulation.

I tried 8 runs on Saturday morning with no ecto at all. 24h later I get 6 ectos on 3 runs.

Yuca Dolitae · Mar 26, 2007, 11:45 AM // 11:45

I was so gutted when I heard this weekend was announced - being a poor player, I've always been intrigued to try FoW and UW but didn't want to have to pay 1k each time to test out builds to see if I could do it...and then this weekend was announced! Joy! - you'd think...but alas, I'd be away from my computer for all of it... ;_; Oh the woe...

NJudson · Mar 26, 2007, 12:54 PM // 12:54

I just want to give a BIG thanks to Anet for this free UW/FOW weekend. I have not played much GW in last couple months because I pretty much have got burned out on the game. This event has renewed my interest in the game (at least for a little while anyway

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Up until this event I have only been in FOW 2-3 times and never been in UW because America rarely has favor when I'm on so it was really cool to be able to go in and play these areas. Not knocking the favor system...just saying it was cool to finally be able to do them (and free too) !

I played FOW 1-2 times and UW about 10 times in various groups which were mostly 3-4 person trapping groups. I tried the speed trap solo and could barely get it down right to kill a few ataxes. Gave up on it after a little while though. I received 1 ecto and 2 shards and the rest was white/blue/purple junk i merchanted. I saw about 5-6 ectos drop for other players this weekend as well and several golds.

One thing I never saw was a UW chest. I saw a number of FOW chest though. Is that normal?

* And as a side note I thought it was funny that even with 10+ districts full it was still difficult at times to get into a group.

Ares Moonlight · Mar 26, 2007, 12:58 PM // 12:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by NJudson

One thing I never saw was a UW chest. I saw a number of FOW chest though. Is that normal?

Yes it is,UW chests are more rare then Fow and give more purple items.Where you can find over 3 chests in one run of fow you may just find only 1 in and uw run.(If you're lucky)

Destinyy · Mar 26, 2007, 01:08 PM // 13:08

LOL...

5 or 6 runs, 10 ectos, 100K worth of gold and sales, AWESOME fiery dragon sword for myself, a few storm bows, eternal bows and shields for my heros...

All in all... an awesome event for me... PLUS, I learnt how to use the W/Rt build an wont mind paying 1K next time.

blood4blood · Mar 26, 2007, 01:21 PM // 13:21

Overall, the event was a nice change of pace as I don't go to FoW or UW often at all (we usually only have favor when I'm asleep). The loot is mediocre at best, and the chests range from nonexistent to empty to worthless in my experience, but still a decent event just to go there. As for loot this weekend, I got one shard, one ecto, a purple 13^50 shadow blade, and a purple 17% while hexed chaos axe that I might give to a hero. I also got a black dye, but that was in pre-searing (better drops lol).