FOW/UW weekend, how are you doing?

I've made more runs than I can count and gotten junk, 2 shards, and no gold. all white and purple junk. I have done the mission and gotten empty chests each time at the temple. (went with 3 heroes).

I'm hearing about the same standing in various areas in game.

Anyone doing good? I'd like to think I'm just having no luck then to think it was designed to be a waste of time. One player said "Of course the loot is junk, GW worries too much about the economy. They're afraid a lot of good drops will kill it, with so many down their farming etc.."

Any truth to that?

"GW worries too much about the economy" This is the only part thats true.

A guildy said "It's so silly, so much time wasted on protecting imaginary items". LOL

Going with three heroes is the reason why you aren't getting many drops. Also with the quest chests, only one item drops out of those, so likely it went to your heroes. Should have sent them out of radar range before opening it.

Our guild's only UW Trap run last night (4 man) netted one gold Storm Bow, one Ecto and one Black Dye, not all to the same person. In about ten FOW spider cave solo runs with my Dervish this morning, I've gotten six Shards, a gold Shadow Bow with +5 energy, and a couple of purple shields/bows/wands that are ok. I've gotten a ton of junk/merch drops too, but it isn't that bad for not having to spend 1k each run.

Actually, your only problem seems to be that you went in with 3 heroes thinking you would be getting all the drops.

Learn to actually solo these areas and you'll notice much better drops.

Well after 3 hours of UW I didn't get a single ecto. Just loads of glitter, remains and crappy whites.

I'd get more ecto on a normal weekend run just like I get more greens when it's not a double green weekend.

I went solo.. got 10ectos, then got back to farm Domaing of Anguish, its more cool than farming UW. And ... more money. 100k in 5hours in Domain of Anguish kicks-ass.. UW , not even close. But well.. 10ectos will come in handy.

I got nothing worth talking about. I'll admit, I suck. I've only been in UW once before - as an unprepared Sin (just out of curiosity). I died inside of 10 seconds and never went back... until today.

I tried following this guide:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10120281

I couldn't get anywhere with it - no matter what I did at least one Aaxte always came with the Graspings. It was never within aggro, it just seemed to break away and come at me when they did.

So I gave up and tried FoW instead - had a better time. Ran past the Shadow army and managed to kill a few groups driftwoods and several dryders. The drops were junk, though.

I'll be trying out a few more builds/characters tommorrow, but I don't see myself returning when the 1K entry fee is back in place.

Meh, this event suck,sure you dont have to pay 1k and that is only cool thing other then that.. is waste of time.Tell ppl to solo it huh? you forgot that this areas werent made for solo! Drops are shit.. waste of time.Why do i have to get weapons and runes for heros when they get all the good drops FFS!!! Ither make drops go to me or make heros weapons and runs selectable like for a pvp character!! T_T this weekend suck!

I love this event. So far, 6 ectos, 20k in cash from selling, and ~ 40 steel from salvaging in a few hours with the E/Me UW solo. It's also really fun imo.

I'm actually enjoying this weekend event. 2 ectos dropped on my recent run and i opened a gold chest. So far i've done 7 runs and i've gotten at least one ecto per run.

While I may have put it a lil differently.. LOL I agree. The goal of those areas is to be hard and GW thinks, that we think it's fun.

WRONG. We want loot, so we can sell it and buy stuff. Plain and simple, I don't know anyone that goes because it's fun and doesn't want loot LOL

Then you now know, I play GW for fun, I do quests for fun, I capped all elites for fun and I play UW for fun. That's what it's ment to be for... fun.
Oh, and ever heared of:
1) henchies getting a share of drops and gold ?
2) Farm code ?

And on a side note, on every event, there is always someone who's not happy or who goes the 'ZOMG WHAT A WASTE OF MY TIMEZ ME WANT DROPZ' tour. Seriously... Poor A-net, having to withstand that... Some people are impossible to please I reckon.

E/Me UW Solo
3 runs - 4 ecto. I'm happy.

This is probably all luck since the weekend only changed favor and fee.

UW and FoW are horridly easy, so most people I know refuse to bother with them. Drops suck there anyway.

And there are always Anet cheerleaders :P

I must be lucky then ...

I got a total of SEVEN Globs from two Smite runs with a solo W/Rt. I also got two gold drops from one MOB during the two runs ... though their mods were maxed, they weren't worth salvaging and just merched them.

He was simply pointing out what seems to be quite obvious to everyone else but you.

The only reason to go into the UW and FoW is to either farm items for m$n$y or to work for FoW armor. Sure you can do it for fun. But after so many runs its old and quite easy if you know what to do.

But hey, ya know what i like money. So I'm going back to with my ele to the UW. ;-)

- Oh uhh about 6 runs and 5 ectos, a chest here and there but nothing great and the usual merch food.