Curse

Age · Jul 05, 2008, 08:22 PM // 20:22

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Originally Posted by manitoba1073

Same here. Had my first set by sep 05 for my monk.

You lucky devil you I wasn't a farmer back then and not to much even today.I wasn't interested in Fow armour untill a little over a year ago as someone said My Monk would look good in set as mine look diferrent than most Monks in the game and seeing a few like mine with that changed my mind.I was hoping to get mine by doing runs Droks mostly but that does take time and commitment.I don't forsee getting a set at this stage of the game as it is getting old and there are less ppl playing it.

I may wait and see what happens when GW 2 comes out and see Anet makes any changes to the UW and FoW.I am still not sure what is a good alternative to FoW armour.I mostly want to do it by clearing The UW and FoW and grouping it but not with a lot of Ursans.I guess I am a groupie but like 55ing for fun.

crazybanshee · Jul 05, 2008, 08:30 PM // 20:30

I got my fow by farming the hell out of fow and uw for my materials, crafting the deldrimor steel instead of buying, and farming doa and selling armbraces.

tmakinen · Jul 05, 2008, 08:45 PM // 20:45

I have the necessary stuff for one FoW set stashed away solely for the unlikely event that ANet makes the decision of linking some GW2 unlock directly to the existence of a FoW set in HoM instead of any five prestige sets.

If that happens, I will buy one set, record that in HoM, then recycle it. If HoM is confirmed to work as I expect it to work, I'll just give the stuff to anybody who wants a FoW set. Personally, I find the set unbearably ugly regardless of profession (save possibly female mesmer, but mine prefers elite Canthan anyway).

About the question itself ... it's just one million here or there, who cares?

vamperik · Jul 05, 2008, 08:48 PM // 20:48

Farmed Ettins for golds back when super abs n Vigor was 100k .... seems like an age has passed since then.

took about a month to get the money ... ectos were about 14k each then >.<

Age · Jul 05, 2008, 08:50 PM // 20:50

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Originally Posted by tmakinen

I have the necessary stuff for one FoW set stashed away solely for the unlikely event that ANet makes the decision of linking some GW2 unlock directly to the existence of a FoW set in HoM instead of any five prestige sets.

If that happens, I will buy one set, record that in HoM, then recycle it. If HoM is confirmed to work as I expect it to work, I'll just give the stuff to anybody who wants a FoW set. Personally, I find the set unbearably ugly regardless of profession (save possibly female mesmer, but mine prefers elite Canthan anyway).

About the question itself ... it's just one million here or there, who cares?

Give me your ectos and shards that is all I need if you don't want it as I have all the rest.

englitdaudelin · Jul 05, 2008, 09:12 PM // 21:12

Never had a set; likely never will. I'm not going to claim it's ugly...but it doesn't do anything for me, at least as far as my two major characters are concerned. Ranger and rit armors...meh, there are better elite sets.

Nainoa · Jul 05, 2008, 09:31 PM // 21:31

Yeah, I think most people buy it because they have way too much time on their hands to make money (by entering cheatcodes for permasin, etc builds). Like-minded individuals with too much time to spend on a game think it's the "in thing" so people continue to waste their money on it to show off.

Carboplatin · Jul 05, 2008, 10:34 PM // 22:34

bought it from the forgemaster.

Rohan · Jul 05, 2008, 11:02 PM // 23:02

We didn't have enough online for GvG at the time so I decided to join a couple of my guildies on a HM FoW run, monking for usranway. I ended up getting a Req. 9 Voltaic Spear from the end chest.

Pretty lucky for only my second time actually completing FoW.

Oh, I did have some gold/ecto sitting in storage from selling Zaishen Keys.

Bryant Again · Jul 06, 2008, 12:12 AM // 00:12

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Originally Posted by R Langdon

bought it from the forgemaster.

Ha ha clever.

Scarn · Jul 06, 2008, 12:45 AM // 00:45

Chaos Planes farm on my ele, long before the SF sin craze. Got all the mats and money in about a week.

Griff Mon · Jul 06, 2008, 01:43 AM // 01:43

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Originally Posted by R Langdon

bought it from the forgemaster.

me too. I also farmed all the Shards for it and traded and farmed the ectos for it.

This was back when Prophecies was the only game around and Factions was just coming out. When Factions first came out certain items had a lot of value like Chittin Fragments, Red Dye, and other strange materials used for Factions armour crafting so I made a lot of money farming that back then and earned enough to buy the armour. For some reason everyone wanted to dye their Assasins armour red back during the Factions release.

Only have one set for my female necro. My other chars which I rarely play do not have it.

Mister_Smiley · Jul 06, 2008, 01:49 AM // 01:49

Did a enuff runs in DOA to afford it and then beat Duncan in HM and got the Bow, sold that and got Fow armor.

Holly Herro · Jul 06, 2008, 01:57 AM // 01:57

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Originally Posted by Winterclaw

I was going to wait until ectos dropped to 1K and get it the lazy way, but then the twits at anet got involved.

Lol me too.

I got all my sets by asking people if I could see their armor in my inventory, they said yes, so I salvaged it for the ectos. I repeated this process until I had enough ectos for my 4 sets of FoW.

Or atleast I wish >_> <_<

Queenie · Jul 06, 2008, 02:14 AM // 02:14

First set - bought for by two people.
Second set - bought for by boyfriend.
Third - bought for by boyfriend.
Fourth - Two or more months of farming CoF.

hurdlebeast · Jul 06, 2008, 02:19 AM // 02:19

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Originally Posted by Dzan

I paid for my first by prot bond 55 farming UW way back in the day. My trip to get the armor was also my first trip ever to the FoW.

Since this was well before heroes and I was in a pvp guild at the time I had to pay people on my friends list to come make a party.

Also, back then America only had favor for like 2 hours a day, so I basically waited all day for favor and then had to pay all these people to come get it with me. It sucked, but made it feel like an even greater accomplishment in the end.

^^that's the kind of guild wars i know and love. Stories like that

To answer the question, I haven't/won't get the armor yet, but if i did, it'd have to be alot of farming, and a lot of saving. Every gold counts.

the bourne hells · Jul 06, 2008, 02:34 AM // 02:34

Powertrading and the occasional UW/FoW run.

masta_yoda · Jul 06, 2008, 03:10 AM // 03:10

first set in 1 months playing time, had 100k to start with and power traded

ectos @ 8k
shards @ 3k

shoyon456 · Jul 06, 2008, 03:16 AM // 03:16

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Originally Posted by Queenie

First set - bought for by two people.
Second set - bought for by boyfriend.
Third - bought for by boyfriend.
Fourth - Two or more months of farming CoF.

Wow, ok do you just take handouts from everywhere? I mean at least you bought ONE set yourself (not really cause you just got ran for that one). Kinda sad how some ppl want things but don't take the initiative to get it themselves

1st set- Occassional uw runs (oldschool, back in 06),... didn't like the look of the ele= delete GG.

2nd set- New ele, and this set came from elona reach running and other sorts of runs and prot bond (and then prot spirit) smite solos

3rd set- Rit, came mostly from powertrading

4th set- Derv, came from solo sandstorm ele farming along with solo rit farming and powertrading.

Queenie · Jul 06, 2008, 03:55 AM // 03:55

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Originally Posted by shoyon456

Wow, ok do you just take handouts from everywhere? I mean at least you bought ONE set yourself (not really cause you just got ran for that one). Kinda sad how some ppl want things but don't take the initiative to get it themselves

Meh, its just a game to me. I've met/known plenty of people who had their FoW sets bought for them, I don't see myself as being any different to them.