Curse

projectmercy · Dec 16, 2012, 10:11 PM // 22:11

So, I've been trying to farm up the obsidian for my armor for HoM. Since I'm a newer player, cash is difficult for me. I've noticed that it doesn't seem to pay to go in there more than once a month. Here's how my trips generally go with 2 humans and 4 Heroes. The following doesn't include the chest drops. Each trip was on a seperate day, but generally within 24-48 hours of each other.

Trip 1: Full Clear, 9 shards dropped
Trip 2: Full Clear, 6 shards dropped
Trip 3: Full Clear 2 shards dropped
Trip 4: Full Clear, 1 shard
Trip 5: Full Clear, 0 shards
Trip 6: Full clear, 1 shard

So I take a few weeks off

Trip 1a: Full Clear, 11 shards dropped
Trip 2a: Full Clear, 6 shards dropped
Trip 3a: Full Clear, 1 shard dropped.

Do I seriously have to wait a month between every trip? It doesn't make sense to me. The wiki says that rare resources are unaffected, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I saw a similar pattern when I tried farming UW.

Edit:

Trip 4a: Cleared all the shard dropping areas. 1 shard.

I wonder if there's truth to the Wiki post on "number of people in the area?" It seems when I've been doing this it has usually coincided with holiday events. So maybe the first day/run is on the opening day (easy access to FoW), and as the holiday progresses more people are farming?

Switched to 2-players + 3 heroes (5 total)

Trip 5a: Cleared all shard dropping monsters. 3 shards

voids sleet · Feb 11, 2013, 06:41 PM // 18:41

Hello there

not sure if your gonna see this with it being 2 month after your post but here it goes....

in the grand sceme of things from what ive found farming for my armor its can be a lot of hit or miss, if you go in on your own or with a full set of players it in the long run does not make a difference, well to me it didnt either way

you will find days where you get 10+ and others where you go in for run after run and maybe (if your lucky) get one

the way how i ended up doing it at the end of it is i took my charater (a sos rit) and a healer (basic UA build) and when i got in instead of going to the right i'd go to the left and start killing thing

id pin the hero to the npc at the back wall when i got in and go ahead to go around that tower at the start, i'd get anywhere from 1-7 per run (bet i had was 9) but id'd always go in under the pretext of not getting any

moldmaker · Feb 28, 2013, 03:08 PM // 15:08

as a farmer that farms every day, i belive the anti farming code is set mey several things
1. time. if you are in an area for over 20 mins. i belive the computer (anet ) does not see you as a farmer.
2. move to a diffrent country. its ammazing the diffrence it makes.

thest links may help.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/d...tml?t=10225077

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Anti-farm_code

i also belive if you leave an area for that 20 mins. also it resets time.