Curse

RadeonDJ9600 · Oct 04, 2006, 12:20 AM // 00:20

I only have 1 FoW set (on my necro) but I also have 22 15k Sets. As far as getting the money for all of that, it required a lot of farming and a lot of luck.

I was sitting in Droks and some guy says "WTS Brute Sword - 1.5k" I walk up to him, it's 15>50 Req. 8 10/10 +5 defense, I give him 1.5k and sold it for 100k+40 ecto in Lion's Arch two seconds later. I also traded a Req. 8 15>50 non-max Sephis Axe to a moderator on GWGuru, don't remember which, for a 13>50 Brute Sword which I sold for 100k+5 ecto a week later.

As far as farming goes, I farmed Ettins back when they still dropped vigors now and then (still only got 1), Flesh Golems, Griffons, Minotaurs, Sand Drakes and Trolls with my warrior and my ele. Once I had saved up 80k I went ahead and bought my monk a 55 set. Then I farmed all of those, except the Flesh Golems, with my monk and made the money back.

Eventually those got boring and I moved onto UW. At first I was a noob at it and gave up for a couple months. Then as I was browsing GWGuru one day I stumbled across a video of Cerb doing a Duo Run and it inspired me. I watched various videos of Fenrixxor (spelling?), Cerb, Sno and others and developed my technique as a monk. I went from those hideous 45 minute smite runs down to a 20 minute or so Ice King+Smite run, which can net you at least 8k a run (ecto+drops). (Thanks to Makosi for letting me SS for him on Ice King runs to get the idea of how to do it

So, as far as obtaining money for FoW goes, I'd recommend buy low/sell high (which requires you to have a decent amount of cash to begin with but can rake in a rediculous amount of money in a short time) or mastering Duo UW runs.

Matix411 · Oct 04, 2006, 03:15 AM // 03:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xavier Lightstone

You guys are nuts, I would love some FoW armour, and if I had the money I'd definitely buy it, but the time/yawns involved is just ridiculous.

Good luck all, I'll be 500 years old when I get mine!

Amen.
Although I'm getting increasingly bored with Guild Wars, so I think I need to return to farming, even though that's what originally turned me off from it ... because I did so much. But I think I'm gonna give Dual UW and FoW runs a try, I started FoW a while ago but couldn't kick it, sooooooo I gave up ... sad I know. Alas.
I don't necessarily want FoW armor, but, 200k+ would sure be nice for general purchases, like 15k armor.

The Silver Star · Oct 05, 2006, 08:39 AM // 08:39

I farmed UW for two weeks about 5 months ago got 230 ectos.

Traded some for shards... dont farm anymore that was only time i farmed and its soo boring -_-

Lord Patch · Oct 11, 2006, 08:52 PM // 20:52

Running Thirsty and Elona. The Missions, not to them. People need to ascend....... Quicker, more lucrative, and more reliable than doing shiverpeaks or Drok's runs.

Personally, obsidian warrior armor doesn't do it for me. It's a crime to cover up any beautiful 15K set of Ele armor with the FoW trash. Monk fow I find a bit ho-hum. So......I had to start a PvE Mesmer for the sole purpose of outfitting her in obsidian. Now that's a nice set of armor......... Only set I'll probably get unless the Dervish or Paragon sets turn out to be worthwhile.

VanGrack · Oct 15, 2006, 06:00 AM // 06:00

3 Man FoW runs. Working on my fourth set of FoW now.

Two April Mornings · Oct 15, 2006, 04:16 PM // 16:16

Sand drakes outside elona pre-aoe nerf
UW aataxe and smites [ty avarre for build]
Griffons outside augury
Sand worms
Grawls, trolls, avicara, frost giants---basically the whole of talus chute

squan · Oct 16, 2006, 07:09 AM // 07:09

well i just bought fow armor no 3, now i am saving for no 4. its not that hard to farm for fow armor. in fact its a peace of cookie.
i solo fow with my warrior (beach) going to try to solo it with my necro, for much more farming then beach.
and i do duo uw runs. i mostly go with my monk, because there are to many slow monks i must say. when i play with my monk i do all aatxes, dyers, and smites. i just use the normal spiritbonder build, but i agro as much as i can. if you play with me as a monk and the SS does his job good, each run will take about 30-35 minutes.

When i am saving for fow armor, i am not only farming. i also want to injoy the game so i also play some missions and do some quests. sometimes i am lucky with some good chest drops. but that is more for fun.

but still i hope i get my 4th armor. i allrdy made my necro, monk and ele happy. next one will be my ranger, its a shame that warrior fow armor is not that nice. i will buy it, but not now. i just like kurzick 15k more then fow

Beuker · Jan 03, 2007, 12:33 PM // 12:33

I didn't really spent that much time in farming. A few months ago I only had around 64K by farming those Trolls near Droks. I was about to buy a Superior Absorption rune, at the rune trader I saw they were only 1.3K each out of sudden, instead of 22K. I spent 61K in buying these things, couldn't buy more (out of stock

). The week after that I basically was the "Superior Absorption rune trader" and sold all of those runes for 20/25K.

Some weeks later the trader sold Superior Absorption again for just 170g. These are the ones I bought and used for my armor.

Not really a farm, but it's a way of making money.

Enko · Jan 03, 2007, 07:12 PM // 19:12

Trading for me. I used to farm a bit but it got too boring so all my income now is straight trading (mostly on guru auctions)

Captain Arne Is PRO · Jan 07, 2007, 05:19 AM // 05:19

I Farm Noobs Pst

Wilhelm · Jan 16, 2007, 11:17 PM // 23:17

Bought mine pre factions, when ectos dropped like crazy, so I just spent a little while soloing the UW, then traded ectos for shards.

Toxic J · Jan 17, 2007, 11:11 AM // 11:11

It took me a month of tombs farming with b/p teams when it was new. Victo's stuff sold really well back then and I was lucky to have 5 bulwarks dropped during that month. I was also lucky enough to have plenty of ecto drop there. But it's very boring after so many runs and I took a break after getting my ranger FoW armor. Now I'm back into farming FoW for my ele and I need to get me 60 more ecto... and I'll be taking another break after that.

escoffier · Jan 18, 2007, 08:13 PM // 20:13

i farmed the market powertrading.fast money if you do it right.

Dutch Masterr · Jan 22, 2007, 07:43 PM // 19:43

damn...i would LOVE to get my mesmer fow..only the chest, legs and feet though so it wont be as expensive. no point in getting the gloves since they are just like any other 1.5k armor's and there is no mask. i have my nice ancient mask and shing jea masks dyed black+silver for illusion and an imposing mask dyed black for dom.

post nightfall i cant make shit for money. greens are no longer worth selling besides mallyx's stuff and DoA greens a select few others. not to mention i cant get good groups to get into DoA and get used to it. i would like to get into power-trading and the whole buy low, sell high thing, but that requires you already have 100k+ectos or a high end item to start with. i also want to get into soloing fow and uw with my ranger but america never has favor except for late at night so i cant even practice it. b/p runs in sorrows furnace for the last few months hasnt gotten me anywhere...just crap greens and crap golds from chests. iver recently been farming kirins outside maatu keep which also takes in crap money. ive been using the a/e solo build on only 3 bosses because i cant get it right for any others...each of them only drops a 10k staff anyway. also been chest running the desolation and realm of torment and got a few decent gold scythes but nothing special.

countreboy · Feb 21, 2007, 12:32 AM // 00:32

most i farmed in uw but now whit doa its so easy to get mutch money just do dual foundry titan gems ftw

nomercy · Feb 21, 2007, 12:37 AM // 00:37

Uhm... one day I decided to get FoW for my Warrior and the first thing I did was: start a Necro.

I went 55 HP UW solo but I messed up all the time, so I continued duoing it. Made some out of it but not alot due to chinese scammers.

So I decided to do 55 HP troll farming outside Drok. Made pretty much from that, and finally I found out about Elona Reach farming. Made ALOT from that.

Also a little Faction Green Farming on my Warrior (Sskai and the Shield guy)

That's pretty much what I've been doing in about half a year

I'm a slow farmer... as soon as I get bored I quit that's why it took so long

Physical · Mar 04, 2007, 01:43 AM // 01:43

Ok, FoW is great, but well it doesn't really mean anything..
I used to play my ranger alot, alot and alot..
When I got my male FoW for it, it began to be my least played character..
Because I had no goal for it anymore.. :P

(btw, I made money with titan gems 50/50 but price has dropped very badly.)

¿Evan¿ · Mar 04, 2007, 02:56 AM // 02:56

Farmed HoH first few months of the game
100k sigils are ftw

Ross C Anderson · Mar 24, 2007, 12:55 AM // 00:55

I'm impressed by the amount of work youput into getting that armour, maybe that's why i dont like mine, i bought a dwarven axe (req9 14^stance) purple for 75k, then sold for 1.4mill in ascalon int dis to a complete idiot with more money than sense

jbwarrior · Apr 03, 2007, 12:37 AM // 00:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Silver Star

I farmed UW for two weeks about 5 months ago got 230 ectos.

Traded some for shards... dont farm anymore that was only time i farmed and its soo boring -_-

2 weeks --> 230 ecto's..... did you farm 24/7 or something?