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forester007 · Apr 25, 2009, 06:12 AM // 06:12

Howdy y'all

I'm pretty new to this game and I'm still trying to understand a few things. I have read all the beginner threads there and I have a basic idea of what farming is.

Right now, I'm in proph and I'm just planning ahead to farm with my warrior. Although, I don't know where you get all these skills I see in farming builds and such. Also, I assume when "farming" you just go anywhere (the harder the monsters the better right?) with a lot of monsters so you have the best chance to get a good item.

Another thing. Can anyone farm or does it take really good gear to even begin to farm (obviously better gear makes it go faster..). If you need a heck of a lot of $$$ just to begin to farm then I'd say the heck with that, but I'd just like to know the answer to these things ahead a time cause I'm weird like that. xD

-forester

Kerwyn Nasilan · Apr 25, 2009, 09:55 AM // 09:55

Max gear is very easy to get in GW so yes you need that.
Every part of your skills are easy to change so you do not need to "plan ahead".
Farming is only done in certain areas with specially made builds for generally soloing a certain group of enemies.
Warriors are bad farmers in general. Monks and Assassins are currently on top, with Eles and Necros below that. You will want every campaign for all the skills though.

Oleg · Apr 25, 2009, 10:05 AM // 10:05

If you are planing ahead I'd take Kerwyn's advice above. Warriors are fairly bad at it. They can farm certain things but it generally isn't worth it. Either the rewards aren't great or other chars do it better. Are you just farming for money, something you just want to try or are you looking for something else?

riktw · Apr 25, 2009, 10:24 AM // 10:24

well max gear costs about 10K or so, runes and stuff another 3 or 4K
the best farm for warriors is the underworld imho, but take a look here for nice farming builds and spots:
http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Category:G...farming_builds

forester007 · Apr 26, 2009, 02:56 AM // 02:56

Oh, I was just told that you can get faction and nightfall skills even if you play in proph lol. I have the first 3 games, but I'm looking for eye of the north so...

My warrior is the highest lvl so I just thought I'd go with him for farming. I was just gonna farm for the $$ so yeah that's my reasons...

dr love · Apr 27, 2009, 12:51 AM // 00:51

eye of the north has the best farming locations imo. and warrior has one of the best and fastest farming builds. however, all round is best to go with an assassin

kdz · Apr 27, 2009, 10:24 AM // 10:24

I use my warrior to solo mainly 3 areas: Raptors to farm event drops, UW smite run if I have free 15 minutes, and FoW spider run...

occasionally I farm some materials (granite slabs from stone elementals, feathers from avicara, fur from warden, bones and dust from undead, etc.)

the others just don't worth the time IMO

SimplyAmazing · Apr 28, 2009, 08:34 PM // 20:34

I would definitely follow the above advice, Scrap your warrior, they have very very limited uses, only a minuscule range of areas that they can farm well. And, even some of the places that they farm well, aren't worth it, as the rewards are near useless or make very little money. Personally if it were me, i'd put your warrior on the back burner until you're more experienced and know what to use him for. For now, you said you had all 3, campaigns, unfortunately you don't have eye of the north, which i recommend you should get immediately as it's the easiest way to level characters, as you can get to level 20 within 3 hours, even w/ little experience and the help of WiKi and/or this forum. But, make a Monk or Assassin in _Factions_ campaign (factions is the second quickest route for leveling characters) i would suggest monk first, as for me, this was how i gained most of my experience in guild wars, and it's probably a bit easier to learn/grasp the concept of farming, and what to farm, and how etc. Assassin is a good choice, because currently, they have many many uses, and are extremely "powerful" especially for farming. Save up every gold coin you make, every material, once you have a few bucks, i'd say 20-30k, you can buy max armour it wont be elite armour, but it'll be max, and if you get a proper set, it wont look too bad at all. with the rest of the money, you can buy the weapons/tomes/other gear you may need to start "farming".

Also, especially if you chose a monk, which i again stress, you should.
but, if you happen to chose a monk, as soon as you reach Kcenter "Kaineng Center" in Factions, it's the main outpost/hub for the campaign, You will receive a message about traveling to Elona(NightFall Campaign) , i would highly recommend you do that, asap before progressing any further in factions, as you will receive heroes, which are henchmen that you can control/customize their builds/weapons/armor everything, and they are EXTREMELY useful/handy for farming, some farms require that you have hero, or a second person, but you'll learn that sometimes a hero is more profitable for yourself, depending on what you're doing.

Anyway, sorry to lay all this down on you, i hope i did not confuse you too much, and if you'd like send me a private message here with your IGN (in-game name), and i wouldn't mind helping you a little in my free time, whether it's with a warrior, or not. Either way.. good luck and have fun, and have patience, to successfully make money, it takes experience, and patience, and the will to try new things.

Potential Murder · Apr 29, 2009, 09:44 PM // 21:44

Whilst I don't think that Warriors are extremely good at farming (though the W/E farming build for raptors is pretty godly) I must say that having a Warrior and even investing money into one isn't ever a bad thing. For starting people, I've viewed them as a very sturdy class and help people feel the learning curve of Guild Wars, including the importance of good equipment and builds from an early start. Even if you were to run to the end of a/many campaigns with your Warrior and invested lots of money into him, it wouldn't be bad.

The problem with farming is it takes money to fund the characters that do it well. You'll either be paying for runs to ____ or buying equipment to get through ____ mission easier. Aside from that, what has been said still applies. If you have a W/Rt or W/E then there are a few spots you can farm throughout various campaigns and a quick journey to PvX or Youtube would tell you where you should be going and what you should be packing.

_Nihilist_ · Apr 30, 2009, 01:07 AM // 01:07

Warriors have 3 decent farms:

Underworld - Smite Crawlers ; you'll get Globs of Ectoplasm / chance for Phantom Chests
Fissure of Woe - Cave Spiders ; you'll get Obsidian Shards / chance for Obsidian Chests
Riven Earth - Raptor Nestlings ; you'll get Dye and tons of Gold Items / chance for Locked Chests

Both the UW and FoW farms cost you 1k per run, and you may or may not get the Ecto/Shards you are going for, but you'll get plenty of merchant fodder.

The Raptor farm is mindless, quick (less than 1 minute/run), and makes insane cashflow during Events that have event drops. If you aren't partial to your Wisdom Seeker title track, you can also sell any gold items you get unid'd for 5k/7 golds.

If you want other items than what you can get from these farms, you'll have to go with a different primary profession. Many of the farms that Warriors can do just don't return enough money per run for all the "get-rich-quick" whiners.

S_S · May 19, 2009, 12:33 PM // 12:33

Glad I checked here.I also wanted some info on farming with a Warrior.I can see that I may have picked a poor Char,ahh well,time to start a new farming Char,Thanks for all the info guys,it was very helpful.
S_S

neoezekiel · May 21, 2009, 04:11 PM // 16:11

I would be more than happy to teach you some of the basics of farming. Feel free to PM me in game my IGN is: "The Neoezekiel". I can teach you how to farm with any class, but as said previously some classes are better at it than others.

Broni · May 21, 2009, 06:48 PM // 18:48

I'd say Warriors are pretty decent farmers, they're not as good as a Monk for the amount of places they can farm, but the builds are pretty simple and earn you money. The one major problem I have with farming as a Monk is the requirements needed for some builds, and I don't like using a different sets of armour to farm in, I like having one set of armour that can be used for all of the builds.

A very good place to learn the basics of farming as a Warrior is the Plains of Jarin on HM using the VwK build.

Follow that path from the Sunspear Great Hall, and make sure to get the bounty on bugs from the guy at the resurrection shrine just outside. You'll get +4 Sunspear points per bug kill, and you end up with usually around 64 bug kills by the end of your run. You can get even more points from the resurrection shrine in the lake, which gives you +4 Sunspear points per Scale kill.

I usually get gold/purple drops, collectable items, lockpicks, loads of merchant meat and 1.5k+ just from gold pick ups. It's a pretty good result for a run that is really easy.

A VwK build is here, get the skills/equipment, and keep your eye out for any places that you could farm with it. The Plains of Jarin is a good place to start though.

Hanging Man · May 21, 2009, 06:59 PM // 18:59

Unfortunetly you picked the wrong profession to go farming with.
Warriors can farm but like everyone else said it usually isn't worth your time.
make a sin and do perma farms. it is by far the easiest way to farm anything

Coney · May 21, 2009, 11:09 PM // 23:09

Warriors are the fastest raptor farmer class, bar none. Assassins are more of an all-purpose farmer, but slower than specialized classes.

By far the best farmer class ATM is the FOTM 600 monk and smite bonder monk duo. These can 2-3 man pretty much every dungeon in EotN in HM (some charging 6 players 8-14k each for a 30-40 min run), with no other class really able to do the same. And now, the 600/smite build is pretty much mandatory for farming luxon/kurzick faction, as well as for vanguard faction (6-8 players split into 3 teams to farm vanquish ~2-3x faster).

Zeff Nut · May 22, 2009, 12:10 AM // 00:10

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Originally Posted by Coney

Warriors are the fastest raptor farmer class, bar none. Assassins are more of an all-purpose farmer, but slower than specialized classes.

By far the best farmer class ATM is the FOTM 600 monk and smite bonder monk duo. These can 2-3 man pretty much every dungeon in EotN in HM (some charging 6 players 8-14k each for a 30-40 min run), with no other class really able to do the same. And now, the 600/smite build is pretty much mandatory for farming luxon/kurzick faction, as well as for vanguard faction (6-8 players split into 3 teams to farm vanquish ~2-3x faster).

I've had my war as my main from day 1, a little over a year ago I was talked into making a monk and 600'ing to farm, and I really enjoy it. Recently I've seen ppl saying wars have the fastest raptor farm build bar none, would someone be kind enough to share that build with me or point me to a link where I can find it myself? The only raptor farmer build I have is one I made myself, it's solid and effective but slower than the second coming of... Anywhooo it'd be greatly appreciated, Asura is my last EOTN rep title to max and haven't been able to bring myself to do it after all the others (only need about 38k pts) Thanks in advance.

_Nihilist_ · May 22, 2009, 01:49 AM // 01:49

Max Sword, then Strength, enough Tactics for Wary to last 4-5 seconds.

Sprint
Protector's Defense
Dolyak Signet
Hundred Blades
"By Ural's Hammer!"
Wary Stance
Whirlwind Attack
[optional]

For the optional slot, some take Enraging Charge for permanent IMS Sprint>EC>Sprint, etc, or Endure Pain.

Run to the Cave, gather all the Nestlings on the left side (ignore Broodmother's group), make a stand, pop Protector's + Dolyak + 100 Blades + BUH! + Wary, wait for WW Attack to charge, WW attack, pick up drops.

kdz · May 22, 2009, 09:06 AM // 09:06

I use the next build for farming raptors+boss in HM:

Strength: 11+1+3
Earth magic: 12
tactics: rest+1

[mental block] [sprint] [to the limit] [defy pain] [wary stance] [Ebon Battle Standard of Honor] [air of superiority] [sliver armor]

run to the cave -> mental block -> sprint, and aggro all the raptors except the boss group -> to the limit -> defy pain -> aggro boss group, and run between the skeleton and the wall -> wary stance -> sliver armor -> air of superiority -> ebon battle standard of honor...
in 1-2 minutes they're all dead
...
profit

oh: and use knights armor, +20 enchant wep, +10 vs piercing shield

there you go

afya · May 22, 2009, 09:06 PM // 21:06

you can try killing smites in UW, W/Rt is fairly easy.

for gears, its cheap after NF came out, and the introduction of insignia. I remember I had to save money for my 55 gear. those 5 runes r like 10k each, and also need specific armor.

now you should have enough money for gears after finishing a chapter.