Curse

hallomik · Aug 22, 2012, 02:51 AM // 02:51

There was a farm I did for months and months after the release of Factions that I never saw discussed on Guru. That isn't to say it wasn't discussed - just that I never saw it.

When you first get Cantha, you get a quest with Menhlo and Cynn and other NPCs who assist your group but do not share loot. I would solo a variation of the Minion master build with vampiric horrors for healing and bone fiends for damage. With Menhlo and the other npc's, you could get a swarm of ten minions rolling and fill up your inventory with drops in minutes running around Bukdek Byway. This was pre-loot scaling, and because you weren't re-zoning very often, you got a decent number of golds.

The problem with the farm, of course, was that you couldn't advance through Cantha if you kept the quest that allowed the farm to continue. Also, Anet had just added the elite Flesh Golem, and resisting that new skill was hard for any MM.

With the advent of loot scaling, I doubt the farm is viable any more since it was based on sweeping across a zone and killing as fast as you could, but it was fun while it lasted.

BenjZee · Aug 22, 2012, 07:06 AM // 07:06

A guildie of mine only found out you could flag on the mini map recently, i assume there may be others that didn't know.
I was surprised to hear a trumpet noise too when joining a new guild.

Snograt · Aug 22, 2012, 07:49 AM // 07:49

Echo dusting Stygian Vale - I absolutely loved those massive clouds of ouch numbers when they hit

HealingBear · Aug 22, 2012, 12:42 PM // 12:42

My best farming spots over the years:

55/SS is hands down the most fun/skill ive needed in an mmo. I think 55's agree that it took plenty of skill before it was nerfed and assassin was introduced. Killing 15-20 smite crawlers and having so many -3's it lagged out my game was awesome.

'Secret Farming' Spot:

Back when farming master dungeon guide was popular, I ran Arachni's Haunt for 25k each and people were paying consistently for it. I used an E/A build (for increased dodge) and never shared, but eventually just like with every build, some1 would figure it out. Basically the same build with egg and candy cons.

Yol · Aug 22, 2012, 01:11 PM // 13:11

55ing Fahranur in HM (for dust and golds), and VwK rit farming Khepket (for greens).....not the most profitable farms by any stretch of the imagination, but I loved the music that played in those maps. SoS rit farming in UW was good for a change of scenery every now and then.

tghoodoo · Aug 22, 2012, 03:41 PM // 15:41

Rhea's Crater Outcast Farming

Back before SF got its latest nerf in late 10'(ish??), i used to farm those two spots with a custom build and get loads of outcast gear. the top area was on that part before the bridge where the oni spawned, and i used to get 20ish outcast, also spawn the 6 or 7 oni there, and just wipe them out

those were the good days. Rezone in top left port, then repeat. the bottom one was about 18 orso outcasts, and it was just alot quicker. (die by warp, then get rez to shrine in the middle) best drop- q11(?) 20/20 Blood outcast staff. best shield +27 +10vs.piercing, if i remember correctly. Now outcast gear doesn't go for as much, and i dont understand why. its never been easy to get. just chest runs for the most part now. Damn Deathhands cast strip way to often to solo farm....

Anyone else farm these areas in the past? besides you Vendetta Rae, :P

Oh Yeah! just remembered this one too...

Secret Lair of the Snowmen

Now before u say "yeah i farmed there too" there was always a bit more then anyone, i knew, knew about . i only told a couple people and told them not to tell anyone :P but yeah ok obviously the first mob, bringing about 25 kill average. the second spot was by the second rez shrine, had to shadow step to foe cuz they block u if u used the bridge access. that group was about 35ish. but the last group was the biggest and Best by far. into the room with the jingle moas on the right, u collect Both of the groups of snowmen. had to be careful for the avalanche. but altogether that was like a 50 foe drop. one time i got q9, q10, and a q11 Brute sword dropping the last big group at once. it gave me some insight into the loot drop system. Not so random... it just moves Very fast. the last boss was doable too. but it wasn't worth it imo. Ill try and find a screen-shot, but i dont think i saved those.
Best farming spot for event drops, Ever. way better than viettir imo. All monks, so the monk weapons i got were perfect for gearing up my 3 heros for all 9 toons.

edit: i forgot to mention. since sf nerf, i was Not able to perform the full run. the snowmen, from in the second group, started interrupting. plus the obvious SF nerf. it May be possible if someone was so willing to put the effort into researching. but i'm not.

found this in photobucket. it was from the chocolate bunny events, (i forgot the name of them) i took it because of the amount of golds i got combined with the candies.

Zaph · Aug 22, 2012, 04:05 PM // 16:05

....speed clearing dungeons with a guild back in 2008 when r9 Silverwing was 200+ and r9 Storm daggs 40+.

..farming Keiran mini-missions to max out Vanguard on my necro (and I ended up farming it for money actually, necro now has 450k in vanguard..).

for Nostalgic... I still enjoy random chat in Ascalon ad1... lol

carnage-runner · Aug 22, 2012, 05:49 PM // 17:49

My best kept secret. Clearing up to the first tower in FoW with 4 accounts... Payed for my Fow armor in shards, got a lot of dust from remnants. Way back when before Rasti auto ran you used to be able to do the same down on the beach/caves and get tons of shards/saphires but not anymore... I do it once in a while, but I used to do it a lot. It was my cash maker instead of doing dungeons, UW, or DoA. Shard drop rates have always been very good.

Loot Junkie · Aug 22, 2012, 09:58 PM // 21:58

Proudest moment: beating Thunderhead Keep and beating Prophecies with henchies back in the day(2005) when the game was way more challenging. I remember running a blood necro and using every enemy corpse I could for wells to regen my henchies.

Fave farms: Ettin farming for gold armors, hoping to get a sup rune of vigor which went for 100k back then. The original 55 monk build that used prot bond for only 5% damage. I still have a req8 15%^50 gold wingblade from griffon farming in the desert. Farming the chaos plains for stacks of ecto in the summer of 2008 - man I hit that until I couldnt take it anymore! Solo farming Jaya Bluffs in HM for feathers and the ever elusive gold Bo Staff. My absolute favorite though because it was so much fun was keg-farming vaettirs..BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM...

Hyoga_Of_Ice · Aug 23, 2012, 11:28 AM // 11:28

Hmm I really don't have any secret farms. =/

It was interesting when voltaic spear farms were constant and I sold like 100 diamonds for 500g each... lol
Of course I also remember my first farm, was a totem axe farm. A friend and I would get so excited to see those green letters!
And I agree with Loot Junkie, keg-farming vaettirs was very fun. My inventory literally had stacks of unids.

Bright Star Shine · Aug 23, 2012, 12:51 PM // 12:51

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Originally Posted by Swingline

A good chest farming spot is in Rhea's Crater. Make sure you have more kurzick faction than luxon, leave from Aurios Mines then die. You will rez in the middle of the map and in that area you can find 1-2 easy outcast chests for the taking. It helps a great deal to bring a few Incoming and Fallback heroes to ensure that you don't die from outcast mobs while getting them. Easy to do in HM

Did this with 3 accounts at the same time for a while, and showed it to a close friend who did it with 4 accounts. Best Outcast item farm ever, hands down. There was a chest in your immediate proximity about 60-70% of the time, and with each run taking about 45-50 seconds, that was little about 150-170 outcast chests per hour I opened on average. The friend who did it with 4 accounts did it differently. I took the lazy approach, but he ran all the way north, opening another 1 or 2 chests there. He could clock in 250 chests/hour no sweat.

Another thing he did was quad account farming froggies with a friend. Each of them loaded up 4 accounts, and they went froggies farming all day, both completely baked usually. I know he earned about 1000e/week at one point in time doing that shit. I also know the friend he did it with made well over $1000 dollars selling his in game money over his entire GW career. Each Froggie run would take them 6-10 minutes. So that's 24-40 froggie chests they opened per hour.

Also, dual account chest running Pongmei was fun as well. Each run taking 4-5 minutes tops and getting 8-10 chests/run was pretty good money.

I knew of several ways to rezscroll glitch your way through pretty much any dungeon, but I wasn't the one experimenting with that shit. Most of the credit goes to a couple of friends of mine who could clear most dungeons in about the time it took you to run to the end with cons up. This wasn't a really economically viable thing though, the amount of money you wasted on scrolls and cons gravely outweighed the money you made doing the dungeons.

14 hero glitch was the most fun I ever had in this game. I would curbstomp any mob in the game, and usually 3 of them at a time. I shat on WoC HM when it first came out, having made a special build, specifically made for 14 heroes.

Most of the casual players have no idea, but there are tactics to clear all of DoA in roughly 13 minutes. Credit mostly goes to [Zraw] for those. The tactics have very little success rate though. But casual tactics could, with a decent team, if you don't RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO up, easily get you 24-26min clears. Made some hardcore money in that area... But that's general knowledge anyway..

Rifky · Aug 29, 2012, 10:57 AM // 10:57

@Bright Star Shine - what's a 14 hero glitch?

Bright Star Shine · Aug 30, 2012, 11:28 AM // 11:28

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Originally Posted by Rifky

@Bright Star Shine - what's a 14 hero glitch?

There used to be a glitch, that was very easily abused, which got viral in early '11 and was fixed subsequently because it got to Anet eventually. I know it has always existed, because I knew of a couple of guys that had been doing it for a long time. It has to do with how the game treats disconnects, and Anet's incapability of fixing that issue.

Basically, how you used to do it was that you loaded up 2 accounts (or 2 players) and zone into an explorable area from a town. Once there, one of the people purposely disconnects (this was most easily achieved by opening task manager and simply ending the gw.exe program) and once he disconnected, the other person zoned back into the town. When the second guy comes back, the first person loads up 6 heroes, and the other guy does this as well. The non-disconnected person then invites the other guy to his party, and because of how you got disconnected, for some reason the game used to think you didn't exist, and you were able to make a party of 14/8. In fact, it was possible to go up to 20/8 (we VQ'ed Varajar Fells in 16 minutes doing that), but that got fixed in the first update. After the first update, the general public that had gotten wind from the thing (mainly due to Zraw using the glitch to get a 14min UW) wasn't able to do the glitch anymore, but the fix Anet implemented was incredibly lazy, and it was still possible to use the glitch for at least a month or two after the first fix, but a lot less people knew about it then.

Basically, how I did it was loading up a second account I had access to and loading up 6 heroes on both accounts. Although you only had 12 heroes, it got named the 14 hero glitch because you made 14//8 parties. I cleared a lot of stuff on my assassin that way, just for fun. I didn't get GWAMM on my ssin that way. I already had GWAMM on my ele way before 7 heroes even got implemented and I had no intention on doing it all again.

The glitch doesn't work anymore, I've tried countless things to get it going again, but they fixed it completely now.

HayesA · Aug 30, 2012, 03:51 PM // 15:51

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Originally Posted by Snograt

Echo dusting Stygian Vale - I absolutely loved those massive clouds of ouch numbers when they hit

THIS and dual and solo trapping UW back before trapping got nerfed, and they added crap to UW.

I remember when our guild first speed cleared FoW and UW. Then doing that every night was tons of fun.

Another posted about how much fun NF was when it first came out - I agree heartedly. It WAS a lot of fun.

Beating Thunderhead keep with guildies and henchies.

FoW beach farming with my Dervish was a lot of fun. So was farming the FoW forest.

Running people to Ascalon from LA with my Dervish was a lot of fun. Didn't make a whole lotta money,, but it didn't matter. 10k/ea at first, then it dropped to 1k each so very quickly. But it was still fun.

T1Cybernetic · Aug 31, 2012, 07:18 PM // 19:18

Underworld Protective Spirit Farming!

God I must have spent half my guild wars life farming there with those old 55 builds

Ghengis Kwell · Aug 31, 2012, 07:48 PM // 19:48

At weekends I like to wear womens clothing

Edit - oh you meant GW stuff...oops

pham · Aug 31, 2012, 07:55 PM // 19:55

AFKing Glints challenge on multi accounts when cloths of the brotherhood sold for 10k easily, and very few people knew about it. Easy 1 million gold a day for AFK.

shambolica · Aug 31, 2012, 08:08 PM // 20:08

When Ghial's Staff dropped for the first time with a warrior farming build I was so happy.

Most mental challenge was three of us (tnx Dev & Crassus) trying to do all of Prophecies in a single weekend. We went from pre to Thunderhead Keep (2 out of 3 with no deaths - both got to survivor lvl 1) but just ran out of time and couldn't take any more gaming anyway, we were so burned out. We made a judgement call and popped over to Kamadan in order to pick up a few heroes: Had Koss as our minion master, called him Blackula

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Happy Days, thank you Guild Wars

Morticia of Cyana · Sep 04, 2012, 09:31 AM // 09:31

Farming Koosuns Fire Staff on my ele and selling them for 100k each. That was the easiest money I ever made. I also farmed his friends, but their weapons sold for a lot less.

I've spend hours doing 55/ss duo in UW. It was so much fun (before they nerfed the loot-scaling).

There were so many happy days in Guild Wars. Can't name them all.

kbs8014 · Sep 04, 2012, 03:42 PM // 15:42

I tried many farming spots over the years but got bored quickly... I tried farming Griffons/Hydras/Smites/Vettirs/Feather farming. None of these farms lasted long because it seemed like work.

The only farm in the game imho that was fun and didn't seem like work at all was Glints. It's quick 10-15 minutes in length. You can solo/duo or have a big team. You also get to race against the clock and end up on the scoreboard if your time was fast. Getting the chest was guaranteed so you get paid everytime.

I farmed that area for 5 years, never getting tired of it. The money was the best in the game, reaching a peak when the HOM rewards were announced. You couldn't farm it fast enough and Cloths of Brotherhood were selling for up to 25k each. Prices dropped immediately when PvX showed the AFK build.