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SilentWhistle · Jul 27, 2008, 09:33 PM // 21:33

Hiya.
So, i've been SFing the UW for a while now. I know that it is a profitable run etc etc.
But because of no.1 The boredom of it & no.2 How lonely I get, lol, i'm considering 600/smite'ing the UW instead, mainly because I'll have someone with me to make it abit more fun.
My question is, Is 600/smite really that much less profitable than the A/E SF?
Will I be missing out on lots of £$&Ecto? Or not so much?
Also, I understand that the 600/smite run is alot quicker.

Thanks for reading.

Also. Say I did 4 hours of UW 600/Smite a night, how long, on average, would it take me to get enough ecto/money for FoW?

Alexandra-Sweet · Jul 27, 2008, 09:47 PM // 21:47

People still use SF? I thought it got nerfed into an oblivion.

Harvester of Sorrows · Jul 27, 2008, 09:48 PM // 21:48

Well, I think loot scaling would have a factor. I'm not positive on how it works though. I do 600/smiting in UW occasionally, It's only fun if you get a nice 600/smite to run with. I've had a few really terrible ones.
Also, my first smite run with a friend yielded 3 ectos (We did the first quest and went to smites.) Not sure if loot scaling helped or if it was purely luck.

SilentWhistle · Jul 27, 2008, 09:51 PM // 21:51

Yes. You can still SF UW.

AKB48 · Jul 27, 2008, 10:05 PM // 22:05

you can pretty much SF anywhere in GW nowadays(even after the so called "nerf")

theonetheonlybruce · Jul 27, 2008, 10:05 PM // 22:05

you get about hlaf as much asuming you split 50/50 rare materials are excluded from loot scaling so you get sligtly less a run but as u said its faster but you get about the same per hour maybe few less doing 600/smite but you can hm 600/smite so u get more rare drops

Da Rk Bl Ad E · Jul 27, 2008, 10:09 PM // 22:09

600/Smite is still pretty profitable, but your question about how long it takes to get fow is pretty much impossible to answer imo.

drops will be different depending on the person.

farmerfez · Jul 27, 2008, 10:17 PM // 22:17

yeah but you can HM 600/Smite

mistokibbles · Jul 27, 2008, 10:27 PM // 22:27

SF is a lot more profitable. 600/smite takes a lot longer

Big_Daddy · Jul 27, 2008, 10:29 PM // 22:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by farmerfez

yeah but you can HM 600/Smite

If his main goal are ectos then HM or NM is not an issue here, he can use NM and get the same ecto drops as in HM.

Go with SF, you get more ectos for yourself that way, and less hassle about getting a "partner".

Brimstonez · Jul 27, 2008, 10:44 PM // 22:44

I've often contemplated this myself. SF does tend to get boring and lonely.

While SF is more profitable for youself, there is a lot more you can farm as 600/Smite...

N1ghtstalker · Jul 27, 2008, 10:45 PM // 22:45

i prefer 600
cuz 600 doesn't get pwnt by spells like [shockwave] or things like [flame trap]

Lest121 · Jul 28, 2008, 12:46 AM // 00:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by N1ghtstalker

i prefer 600
cuz 600 doesn't get pwnt by spells like [shockwave] or things like [flame trap]

But I thought SF was god mode.......not to mention you can VQ many areas with 600/smite

uzumaki · Jul 28, 2008, 12:58 AM // 00:58

HI.

SF is definetly more profitable, i used to 600/smite uw all the time i did potentially thousands of runs until my bestestestest freind stopped playing ;( , with 600/smite we usually cleared the smites only and sometimes the chaos planes too although we could clear many other places it just prolonged the run and made less ecto for the time farmed.

The most ecto from one smite run was 7 and for doing both the smite run and choas planes up to 15 but the choas planes takes much longer with 600/smite because you can't just agro all dreamriders at once since you cant maintain sb forever like sf and you risk being wiped by the mesmer spawns so the run is slower

usually 600/smite runs would take 40mins-hour whereas an sf run can take as little as 25 mins an yeild up to 10 e and considering you would be spltting you'd probably be making less than half of the ecto you could if you spent the same time sf'ing the planes.

In all honesty though i would much prefer to be farming the uw with my bestestest buddy super duper bestest 600/55 in the whole world than soloing.. aaaah it's much more fun, i miss the old days ;/

And your fow question .. hmmm a tough one but ill attempt to answer it.. we used to average i'd say around 5e each per hour after splitting so 20e per night for you, fow is ~700k/200 e which would take you 10 days but more realistically around 2 weeks because drops vary alot.