Curse

phool · Jul 11, 2007, 09:46 AM // 09:46

If you have access to the /bonus bow r/w has a pretty big advantage from about level 9. I found w/r easier for charr but when I ran w/r the charr AI was easier to solo than the r/w charr AI (they had it where 1 of the charr would follow and the rest would stay behind).

TedTheDead · Jul 11, 2007, 11:55 AM // 11:55

I am fond of a M/E and farming the Skale outside Fort Ranik. You can take on all of them at once with Shielding Hands and Healing Breeze even at a lower level, and clear them out with a Firestorm. I have gotten alot of dye (including blacks) and alot of "Improved Sale Value" blues (50g+ each) from them. An average run takes maybe 2 minutes so the turn around can be alot.

DDeathblade · Jul 11, 2007, 12:19 PM // 12:19

Farming in P-S is stupid in it's own way. Orcourse it may produce some money (and if You stay there longer, Defender of Ascalon rank), but why don't you rather go to post-searing and hunt monsters that really drop something valuable.

Covah · Jul 11, 2007, 12:33 PM // 12:33

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Originally Posted by DDeathblade

why don't you rather go to post-searing and hunt monsters that really drop something valuable.

Because people can make the same or even more selling stuff in pre in the same time it takes to farm something rare and try and sell it.

BLOODGOAT · Jul 11, 2007, 08:30 PM // 20:30

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Originally Posted by DDeathblade

Farming in P-S is stupid in it's own way. Orcourse it may produce some money (and if You stay there longer, Defender of Ascalon rank), but why don't you rather go to post-searing and hunt monsters that really drop something valuable.

Because I'm sick of post?

GGNORE;GET OUT OF MY THREAD

The.D0pefish · Jul 11, 2007, 09:44 PM // 21:44

if you're fighting against the charrs the rin blade with +7 rs vs. charrs and a quest award shield with +10rs vs charr will help a lot....
+17 armor is quite nice in pre-searing :P

corey54321 · Jul 11, 2007, 10:00 PM // 22:00

perma pre chars are usualy made by expericed players and in pre ascalon its a lot less ways to farm also u never c bots and u really need 2 accounts to take advantage of pre farming i use both of my accounts to farm char 1 opens the gate then leave then i farm them and i farm the hunters ales also u can sell them for 100g ea in pre or u can save 10000 of them and move them to post for max drunkard title

So Dont Knock Pre Farming is for people that have got bored with post and have done every thing in post

oh_oh_joe · Jul 12, 2007, 08:21 AM // 08:21

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Originally Posted by corey54321

u really need 2 accounts to take advantage of pre farming i use both of my accounts to farm char 1 opens the gate then leave then i farm them

How do you use 2 accounts at the same time? o.O

Vl Vl D · Jul 12, 2007, 10:02 AM // 10:02

You can use two computers like me or I think there was a thread in community works on running two GW at once on the same pc.If you have excess to a second monitor that also helps.

Rainman · Jul 12, 2007, 10:48 AM // 10:48

you guys should try mesmers some time

ACreator · Jul 12, 2007, 12:29 PM // 12:29

can u post some quick/profitable runs for Mesmers and builds?

BLOODGOAT · Jul 12, 2007, 09:10 PM // 21:10

I'm really stuck on deciding what secondary profession to choose for my ranger. As far as I know, secondary Mesmers can't use Empathy, but they also have things like Conjure Phantasm, Backfire, and Ether Feast. Necromancer has Deathly Swarm which deals cold damage. Cold damage = double damage vs. Charr? I'm not sure... but if it does, then it could be a pretty powerful spell and would make Necromancer a fine secondary choice. But there is also the nuking potential of Elementalist. Since I have a pet, I generally use it to distract mobs, and when you get a good mob and slam it with Firestorm, the whole thing will generally die. But without Energy Storage, I'm going to be raping my energy which I will probably need, as well, for self-healing. They all have advantages but drawbacks as well.

phool · Jul 12, 2007, 11:06 PM // 23:06

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Originally Posted by TedTheDead

I am fond of a M/E and farming the Skale outside Fort Ranik. You can take on all of them at once with Shielding Hands and Healing Breeze even at a lower level, and clear them out with a Firestorm. I have gotten alot of dye (including blacks) and alot of "Improved Sale Value" blues (50g+ each) from them. An average run takes maybe 2 minutes so the turn around can be alot.

I haven't found this run very effective but it's easy and pretty entertaining. Pets are an asset in gathering aggro - you can lock your pet on a mob to maintain aggro from the south west skales while aggroing the north east skales, which speeds the aggro up a little.

silent but true · Jul 13, 2007, 01:08 AM // 01:08

I dunno if my spot is any good, but today I farmed bandits by barradins estate, at the botton left of the map and got 1 black, 2 greens and 1 purple in run.

oh_oh_joe · Jul 13, 2007, 04:09 AM // 04:09

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Originally Posted by phool

I haven't found this run very effective but it's easy and pretty entertaining.

Yea, I like seeing them all die from firestorm. I do it on my Monk/Ele also, yet I rarely get dyes.

oblivion god · Jul 13, 2007, 06:59 PM // 18:59

i personally am a big fan of pre searing my first few months of gw were in pre sear

but the bandit farm with the protection prayers quest and the bandit quest with the strongbox outside of ashford abbey really produces a lot of dyes got 2 blacks in one run with my mo/n one time

Dogma Blutlust · Jul 14, 2007, 12:52 PM // 12:52

are the presearing armors inscriptable too?

corey54321 · Jul 14, 2007, 05:20 PM // 17:20

yes they are

Human slayer · Jul 19, 2007, 01:13 AM // 01:13

i too am putting a mesmer to the pre searing title..i jus wouldn't mind having some help with builds and what not...what are good ways to level up after level five from the charr at the gate quest. that can get me to level 8 i've been told but charr farming after that? or dye farming..either one wit an idea of what to bring would be good. right now... i'm Me with no secondary and i would prefer to wait and get a secondary at level 16 so is there anything i can get without actually getting a secondary that would help me out on soloing dyes or other stuff?

Painbringer · Jul 19, 2007, 04:01 PM // 16:01

For quick experience gain farming for a Monk/Ele or Ele/Monk. I would run around and agro as many bears as I could in the folbees fair area. They follow when in agro range. Then hit them with both AOE spells firestorm and holy wraith? (Could be wrong on the monk AOE spell been awhile since I was there). Zone into the catacombs and return over and over and over.