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Toilet Monster · Sep 02, 2006, 11:27 PM // 23:27

this is SILLY.. i have my own ways to make up to 400k / hour.. (NO ILL NOT GIVE YE MY SECRET) Just make something up for yourself, it is still possible! be creative, dont say u can't make 100k/hour =O

HawkofStorms · Sep 02, 2006, 11:42 PM // 23:42

Whine Whine Whine, I'm not rich and am mad I don't have FoW.

Ryld Baenre · Sep 02, 2006, 11:48 PM // 23:48

I think the time it takes to get FoW is reasonable. If your determind to get it you could get it in a month or 2 from 0g. Myself it took me 3 months of on and off farming to get my complete set (This was January-March).

eternal pho · Sep 03, 2006, 01:10 AM // 01:10

Buying and reselling ftw. I made a huge profit from doing that a while ago.

anonymous · Sep 03, 2006, 02:02 AM // 02:02

Wow, I cant believe some people are too dense to realize that you dont need FoW armor.

xDusT II · Sep 03, 2006, 02:11 AM // 02:11

ANet put the FOW armor in most probably because everyone would start complaining after they got there 1.5k armour because there was nothing left to do.
FOW armor is not a necessity, it's more of a personal challenege. It's kind o like grandmaster cartography, you could argue they should make that easier to get so you dont have to grind for it.

If they made FOW armour easier to get people would complain that there is no challenge item in the game and then ANet would make a challenge item and people would complain the challenge item is too hard to get...

Addone_Abaddon · Sep 03, 2006, 02:20 AM // 02:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Herbalizer

farming for 10k an hour.

OMG!! People get 10k an hour, it takes me a weekend of non-stop gw to get 10k.

gr3g · Sep 03, 2006, 03:13 AM // 03:13

I think the OP has the ghost of a point because working for FoW armor is currently pure grind. I would not be sad to see a little bit of skill worked into it.

How about giving 1 ecto/shard as reward for the really hard quests in the UW and FoW? I'm thinking quests like Terrorweb Queen, Restore the Monuments and Four Horsemen int he UW or Khobay, Slave of Menzies and Gift of Griffons in the FoW. This would also force people to clear more than the first few areas of the UW/FoW, which would revitalize interest in one of the best designed areas in the entire game.

Isaac Lunoa · Sep 03, 2006, 06:14 AM // 06:14

What everyone is missing is that it is still possible to make quite a bit more than 100k per hour...

Kais Unduli · Sep 03, 2006, 09:11 AM // 09:11

Can't wait to see the OP try and come back to this.

As for FoW armor, I was saving up for a set at 1 point, but instead decided to spread the money around all my characters, which I ended up enjoying much more. Of course, all the money is gone now, but it was fun buying and selling sets of 15k armor and weapons instead of buying 1 set of armor.

Bolygo · Sep 03, 2006, 10:50 AM // 10:50

You can still make 100k an hour anyway.

sLiceR · Sep 03, 2006, 10:53 AM // 10:53

I made 60 ectos and 60 shards just by farming FoW and UW in the last seven days, I don't play 8 hours a day... only 2-3. I'm not a trader and I usually end up merching valuable items so.. FOW Armor does not take too long

Gorebrex · Sep 03, 2006, 11:19 AM // 11:19

FoW armor, imo, is just a way to "show off", it doesnt do anything but look different than Droks armor(same AL). Hell I wont even go to FoW, because it cost gold to get in(Yeah, Im too cheap to put up 125g). For some people, it DOES take "too long", for them, because they dont have the same level of in-game marketing/farming, ect skill that some people do, and it takes thm a long time to make money. Ive had a couple sales jobs IRL, and will NEVER do it again, as I probably couldnt sell a cure for cancer. Dont know why all these people think FoW is so great, but to each their own, I guess...

extra bacon · Sep 03, 2006, 11:29 AM // 11:29

my first set of FoW armour took me 1 week to obtain from the time i decided to get it. when i made the decision to go for it, i had about 400k or so sitting in storage and figured, what the hell, why not? it's not like i was doing anything else with it, and at that time, FoW armour was still pretty uncommon. this was months and months and months ago just before prot bond got nerfed. so with the 400k-ish i had in storage, i made a monk for the sole purpose of farming the UW with the 55hp build. monk runes at that time were incredibly pricey but it was a justified investment for the potential return. ectos at that time were hovering around 9-12k per if i recall correctly. so anyway, i farmed the UW for the ectos i needed and bought shards using those ectos and had almost collected everything i needed (was about 20 ectos short) when anet released an update which nerfed prot bond.

but as we know, that didn't stop the invincimonk, minor variations were made and i farmed the last 20 ectos i needed, and got my first set of FoW armour for my warrior.

2nd set of FoW armour took a bit longer, but i had everything i needed for my ele within 2 weeks.

so, is there grind? depending on your chosen method of raising funds for materials, probably yes (although i must admit that first week of solo monking was lotsa fun as it was something completely new to me). did it take long? no. was it worth it? to me, hell yea.

eternal pho · Sep 03, 2006, 01:00 PM // 13:00

You just need skill at marketing.

Vahn Roi · Sep 03, 2006, 05:46 PM // 17:46

You can buy "FoW Kits" on ebay now (100k, 120 ecto, 120 shards)

FoW isn't impressive anymore.

JR · Sep 03, 2006, 06:07 PM // 18:07

This thread has a distinct lack of redeeming qualities.