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Charcoal Ann · Sep 03, 2005, 08:43 PM // 20:43

i have heard that W/Mos can solo UW.

can someone confirm this?

trelloskilos · Sep 03, 2005, 11:03 PM // 23:03

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Originally Posted by Charcoal Ann

i have heard that W/Mos can solo UW.

can someone confirm this?

Not to my knowledge. (Mind you, I'm a ranger, not a warrior) - maybe it's possible to do a solo UW run based on the same build that W/Mos used to use for Griffon farming, but one of my guildies (A W/Mo who griffon farms), tried it out, and didn't last long.

trelloskilos · Sep 03, 2005, 11:13 PM // 23:13

Brother Mehnlo - You won't really get a straight answer from anyone about where they farm, partly because Anet do tend to read these threads, and as soon as they see an increased pattern in players farming a specific area, they tend to apply the nerf bat. (Although whether this is true or not is a moot point)

Like what many people have already said on this thread, find a spot that suits your character, both in the level, and also with the skills and class that you have (e.g, if you are a W/Mo, go for the larger beasts that only do physical melee damage. If you're a pyromancer, hunt in the shiverpeaks etc.) - tweak your skills and get used to your area.

Once you have found a good spot, then farm it, and try and find another spot. One of the important things about farming is that if you overfarm, the quality of drops decreases. Just switch to another farm spot that you find, and carry on. With 3 or 4 farm spots, you can keep your drops fresh, and discover diffrent techniques to help you out.

Finally, if you do find a good spot that seems to work for you, keep it under your hat. Firstly, there is no indication that a spot that gives you good drops will necessarily give another player good drops. Secondly, if you do give away your farm spot, before you know it, everybody'sd there, and it's only a matter of time before Anet "Suppress" the drops in that area.

GuildWarsPlayer · Sep 03, 2005, 11:55 PM // 23:55

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Originally Posted by Charcoal Ann

i have heard that W/Mos can solo UW.

can someone confirm this?

Well, never heard of W/Mo farming UW but Mo/W can sure do it fine up to an extend...

Actually Mo/W can solo kill some of the underworld critters but not all of them.

Drognan · Sep 07, 2005, 03:36 AM // 03:36

where to farm is my questions, divinity, where, WHERE I SAY, please tell me or give me a map or something im clueless ive got 300hrs into the game about dont have 15k armor only had 20k in storage the only farming ive ever tried was drake runs, too long. Would someone give me the greatest post of all time!!!

I use a LVL 20 Wa/Mo with this build.......

Galrath Slash, Power Strike, Bonnetti's Defense, Gladiator's Defense, Watchful Spirit, Balthatzar's Spirit, Healing Signet, and Sprint......in that order.

1. Start with Spirits
2. Run into group, attack for a min., use Bonnetti's, gain energy.
3. Galrath then Power, when Bonnetti's is about to go off.
4. Then hit Gladiator's.

Repeat steps 2 and 3, until Glad's is back up, then hit it again.
If your health gets low for any reason, hit Healing Signet, while Gladiator's is on.

Repeat and Farm solo forever. I am up to 97k now, not to mention the numerous killer Golds I have found, and the numerous Dune Borrower Jaws and Minotaur Horns I get from the solo Elona Reach mission run (just the first part). If you are ever on, and want to see some of the stuff I collect, or want to see me in action, my main farmer is Synthia Starstriker.

Surfer12321 · Sep 07, 2005, 03:37 AM // 03:37

Just Wondering, Is Farming Suposed to take a REALLY long time? I played for about a week (5 days not 7) and about 10 hours (yes, I know, THATS A LONG TIME

) for 3 days and 3 hours for 2 days, and i only had like 6-23 of each common crafting material

! i sold everything i made a barely made it past 300G

...Am I doing something wrong or what!?

Answer please and thanks

Drognan · Sep 07, 2005, 03:39 AM // 03:39

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Originally Posted by Dice Them

My favorit farm spot is right outside augury rock in prophets path , the exit where the collector of mino horns is... if u walk a bit further u can start farming dessert griffons: nice loot

My personal favorite is the Elona Reach mission. With the right build, you can farm the minos and the dunies there with no problem at all. Nice drops and mino horns/dunie jaws to boot.

lg5000 · Sep 07, 2005, 03:47 AM // 03:47

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Originally Posted by boxterduke

Quick question, are memsers good for farming.
I have a me/mo and willing to switch to another 2nd pro if I can far with the mesmer.
I like her more than other characters and would not find to farm with her than my warrior.

If so then what are the best skills to have.

Yes, with pure mesmer skills (domination/inspiration) and it's fun... but somewhat slow, I'm still learning all about it.

One and Two · Sep 07, 2005, 07:50 AM // 07:50

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Originally Posted by Surfer12321

Just Wondering, Is Farming Suposed to take a REALLY long time? I played for about a week (5 days not 7) and about 10 hours (yes, I know, THATS A LONG TIME

) for 3 days and 3 hours for 2 days, and i only had like 6-23 of each common crafting material

! i sold everything i made a barely made it past 300G

...Am I doing something wrong or what!?

Answer please and thanks

you need some sleep. took a while to read what you had to say. crafting materials: salvage anything you dont need and surprise! gold...farm higher level areas by yourself.

Surfer12321 · Sep 07, 2005, 01:26 PM // 13:26

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Originally Posted by One and Two

you need some sleep. took a while to read what you had to say. crafting materials: salvage anything you dont need and surprise! gold...farm higher level areas by yourself.

Lol yea i was up late last night to you guys, but it was only 10 here...Also i already do salvage anything i dont need...Infact i salvage EVERYTHING (execpt for my weapon and armor lol), and i can get to higher LvLs because im only at yaks, and im a ranger so I'm a really bad soloer (or whatever lol) and everytime i try to do the mission i end up with retards that get too much arggo and we die within seconds...

Snowman · Sep 07, 2005, 02:59 PM // 14:59

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Originally Posted by Xue Yi Liang

6.) If you haven’t noticed – this method is all about preserving time (no haggling – just farming) and space (salvage almost everything you find). When you have the money – use expert salvage kits for most everything – that way you find yourself salvaging out steel, linen, leather and silk. My best salvage was a “highly salvageable” sword that yielded 10 steel!

This is surley not correct!!... salvage EVERYTHING with an expert salvage kit?

but there are so many items.. like, decayed orr sybols for example, doesnt matter if you salvage expert or normal.. you only get 3 bits of wood.

that example may not be exact.. but i have experiemented with loads of things.. and nearly everything salavages the same with a normal salvage kit.. expert kits I only use if i want to get something out of an item.. or.. as you say has 'highly salvagable' on it.

no.. expert salvaging everything is surly a complete waste of money?

EF2NYD · Sep 07, 2005, 03:06 PM // 15:06

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Originally Posted by Snowman

This is surley not correct!!... salvage EVERYTHING with an expert salvage kit?

but there are so many items.. like, decayed orr sybols for example, doesnt matter if you salvage expert or normal.. you only get 3 bits of wood.

that example may not be exact.. but i have experiemented with loads of things.. and nearly everything salavages the same with a normal salvage kit.. expert kits I only use if i want to get something out of an item.. or.. as you say has 'highly salvagable' on it.

no.. expert salvaging everything is surly a complete waste of money?

Yes. Experts are only for getting rare items and materials(leather or fur instead of tanned hides, linen instead of cloth, steel instead of iron, etc). Nothing more, but if people feel they get more, good for them.

Surfer12321 · Sep 09, 2005, 01:04 AM // 01:04

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Originally Posted by Snowman

This is surley not correct!!... salvage EVERYTHING with an expert salvage kit?

but there are so many items.. like, decayed orr sybols for example, doesnt matter if you salvage expert or normal.. you only get 3 bits of wood.

that example may not be exact.. but i have experiemented with loads of things.. and nearly everything salavages the same with a normal salvage kit.. expert kits I only use if i want to get something out of an item.. or.. as you say has 'highly salvagable' on it.

no.. expert salvaging everything is surly a complete waste of money?

I've just started farming about 2 weeks ago and I'd have to say thats not true

. Expert really is good for EVERYTHING. Even if you get the same stuff from it no matter what, you ususally get more of it, I've salvaged a sword 1 iron, then I found the same exact sword and experted it and got 3 iron, may not be steel, but its better than nothing

. Also, it was just a little 6-9 or W/E. Point is, when can, expert and anything you can.

Rogue Stryker · Sep 09, 2005, 01:50 PM // 13:50

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Originally Posted by Surfer12321

I've just started farming about 2 weeks ago and I'd have to say thats not true

. Expert really is good for EVERYTHING. Even if you get the same stuff from it no matter what, you ususally get more of it, I've salvaged a sword 1 iron, then I found the same exact sword and experted it and got 3 iron, may not be steel, but its better than nothing

. Also, it was just a little 6-9 or W/E. Point is, when can, expert and anything you can.

I have to say I think you're incorrect there...using an expert salvage kit costs you 16g per use, where a normal kit only costs you 4g...so you salvaging 2 more iron at about 5 to 7 gold a piece, you just wasted at least 4 gold on those 2 extra pieces of iron. I recently stopped using the expert kit exclusively and noticed I was making much more gold lately. I only carry one expert kit with me to salvage good runes, and perhaps salvage a gold item if I think it'll give me steel.

Also, I think you are wrong in saying that an expert kit always gives more salvage than a normal kit, because in my experience, I can still get 6-10 iron or 8-14 tanned hide squares from my salvage no matter if I'm using normal or expert kits.

I also want to say I loathe the new superior salvage kits as well, because they cost 20g per use...they're even LESS economical than expert kits. I'd much rather use up 3 extra spots in my inventory to save an extra 400 gold.

The new superior identification kits are somewhat okay...they cost 5g per use instead of 4g per use with the normal ones. I suppose that might be worth the freed up inventory slot.

salja Wachi · Sep 09, 2005, 02:51 PM // 14:51

farming is a thing of the past folks.

farming has been nerfed. now we can have our local channel back for what it is meant for. chat and finding groups

goodbye and good riddance

Rogue Stryker · Sep 09, 2005, 03:04 PM // 15:04

Nah, over the past few weeks, I've noticed much better drops and a huge increase in gold drops. I think the problem was typical farmers were feeling the nerf intended to stop automated bots -- but I think they've gotten better at determining who is a bot and who isn't. I believe it'll get even better later on.

Surfer12321 · Sep 10, 2005, 01:41 AM // 01:41

Hey guys, just wanted to say, there's always great deals around. Like 2 min. ago i got 5 fur squares from someone for 20G ea. Another person sold me one for 160G. After i bought from them I came to found that i could sell them at rare material trader for 230 ea.! I made a 1120G prophet within about 3 min. I just wanted to tell everyone that

One and Two · Sep 10, 2005, 01:44 AM // 01:44

that would be exploiting newbs, actually

Surfer12321 · Sep 10, 2005, 06:29 PM // 18:29

actually i thought thats how much they were worth...i bought from another person for that much about a month ago but i never checked the prices...

Sol Faithman · Sep 10, 2005, 06:56 PM // 18:56

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Originally Posted by salja Wachi

farming is a thing of the past folks.

farming has been nerfed. now we can have our local channel back for what it is meant for. chat and finding groups

goodbye and good riddance

Why do you say that Salja? I did 2 griffin runs last night and made approx 4k off them simply selling to the traders - on the first one I had 3, yes THREE, gold drops all worth 250g plus each.

I must admit, I don't bother with WTS on anything now, total waste of time imho, so unless the gold item is either a) useful to me or b) really really uber where I'll try and sell it on a forum somewhere, they all get sold to the trader. I'm even beginning to think forums are a waste of time as I've tried to sell some stuff here and on another fourm and not had many responses to what I think are pretty good items.

So with my policy of sell everything, I don't wholley agree with the OP re salvage everything - I only salvage when I get the "highly salvagable" message or when I know I can get a good "chain reaction" going ie salvage bows, charr carvings etc for wood => craft into parchment for 50g each => sell to rare trader (the one who buys/sells individual items not in *10) for 80-100g each depending on the market. 250 wood = 50 parchment @ 2500g => sell @ 80g for example = 4000g, profit of 1500g for very little effort.

I used to do something similar with Linen, (plant fibre from a Divinity Coast chest run or 2), craft to Linen for 200g each. But since the trader updates, I've never been offered more than 200g by the trader = zero profit.

Just my 2p's worth anyway.

Rich