Jacxx's Crazy 250 Crafting Material Goal...

I just thought of a nice goal. I want to get 250 of each crafting material... WITHOUT buying any of them. I'm planning on doing it mainly either on my warrior or my dervish. If I become desperate, I may make a monk or something like that. All I need for this is builds... And where to farm... Any suggestions, post here, pm me on guru or in game. Warmaster Jacxx is the name.

EDIT: YES, I will try to get EVERY crafting material, including rares. How I'll get gems, jadite, and amber is beyond me. Whatever. I'll do it.

Is this including rares? A lot of rares you can craft, just need the basics and the money.
Normal ones are easy, got over 250 of all of them, but rares less so
Fur, best bet is probably the wardens in echovald forest. Silk maybe jade brotherhood, tho can be variable, got some from corsairs just now

Others rely on very much luck. Rubies and sapphires, probably best to just buy if you want them, as low odds of dropping, tho can salvage from respective djinn essences

I'd support you, but I doubt you'll be able to do it.

250 Ectos will cost you alot...not to mention Deldrimor Steel Ingots, and other rares like Rubies, Sapphires, and Diamonds.

Good luck man....Balthazar is on your side...I think.

If you want an old family secret. (not sure if this still works) Outside of Augury Rock, there is a Collector ,[wiki]Fenster the Golden[/wiki], that takes minotaur horns for collector armor. If I remember correctly, these things salvage crafting materials like no tomorrow. If this still works, you can get like 6-10 linen per expert salvage. I also depends on what armor type you get. But if you notice, he take minotaur horns. Obviously there is a mission nearby that TONS of 55 monks farm, and they usually sell the horns to merchant. If they are human, they will usually sell a stack of horns for under 2-3k, and there you go, just bring some friends of every profession and see what you get. Someone please test this! /Hush!

i have no idea how you're gonna get 250 charcoal...

you get a lot of linen and silk from jades/outcasts.

Good luck with 250 rubies/sapphires/diamonds charcoal shouldn't be difficult in sanctum cay mission the fire imps drop alot of charcoal.

Some of the rare materials can only be obtained from artisans or the rare trader.
I don't think there is any other way to obtain deldrimor steel, for example. I believe glass vials, bottles of ink, and damask can only be crafted or purchased as well. Maybe this will change in Eye of the North.

Good luck getting 250 of everything, but if you really want to do it, I think you will have to buy some of them.

the hulking stone guys outside serenity temple drop charcoal

I know u can swap trade contracts for Sapphires, Rubys and Diamonds... so u can get a few just from doing the quests ^^

Farming Slaves Spirits in Nightfall with 55 Mo/Me in hardmode can get you quite a bit of materials. Before for HM I used a Shockwave Ele to farm slave spirits, and I usually stayed out there until I used up 2 full Superior Salvage kits and atleast 1 full Sup. Ident Kit. I came back with atleast a full stack of tanned hide, Bones, Iron, wood, cloth, dust and atleast 20 steel. I had a character full of stacks of materials, and made quite of bit of money selling them for cheap. Eventually i got tired of seling them and just merch'd them. But I have a stack of almost all the usual armor crafting materials, with 3 and half stacks of steel which is 50k for each stack. And got most of them from farming slave spirits this past winter. Even though farming areas don't drop as much stuff as before HM, still get alot of materials farmin Slave Spirits, along with dead swords, and other gold items.

good luck on the clay brick and other 2 materials that are no longer available (can't remember the names)... some people have some, but I doubt you'll get 250 of each... hats of to you if you even get one :P

Steel Ingots: farm anything and salvage everything
Jade: Jade Brotherhood / Alliance Battles (if that counts)
Amber: Anything in the forest / Alliance Battles (if that counts)
Ink/Glass Vials: Salvaging the stole shipments that Corsairs and Yeti drop

The elementals outside serenity temple in Hm, they are piss easy and drop granite slabs and charcoal likes theres no tomorrow.

~A Leprechaun~

don't know if u are able to farm outside Aberstone/Althrum Ruins, but if u are the Wardens drops tons of "Tanned hide".

Just outside of bergen in hardmode will get you a ton of bones and the orrian armour will get you some leather and cloth

O-O believe it or not i have the same goal
but i allow myself to buy some materials if and only if i have 1 mill in storage and 100k on all my chars
the easiest as some1 allready said is converting common materials into rare ones from those artisans its a real money saver
this is wiki place u can look at the list of what they offer
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Artisan
some of those materials though cost more when u trade with the artisans than they do when u just buy from rare material trader so make sure too look at the current prices before going through with it


i'll post a scrennie on how much i have done so far when i get home =P
(guru = great time waster at school =D )



this is what i got so far
still got a long while 2 go

Kappas & Afflicted drop the most Monster Claws, Eyes and Fangs ( kappas no fangs)

And you get a lot of Plant Fibers from farming Dragon Moss

Also combine farmed plant fibers with the glittering dust from the Ecto& Shard collecting for making damask

Do 250 round of AB for the Luxons and 250 rounds for the Kurzicks and you will have your Jadeite and Amber

for quick wood, do the deep, and after you kill kanxai, (make sure you take 2 or more salvage kits) run back and start salvaing every white/blue items. Lots of wood and iron/steel.

Lots of silk from spider webs of the spiders on noob island in Nightfall

Gonna have to kill alot of Fire Imps to get charcoal. (Emphasis on ALOT). They're the only enemies I know that drop it; though wiki might state otherwise.