New chest farming method [MERGED]

Way too many uber items floating around now...

How to generate money? I don't know if anyone pays attention... but the trip to the War camp and the Priest quest alone netted me two plat in gold just from gold drops! Them the sale of white items, at better than 50g for most of them...

Just go kill things! You'll make gold.

As for uber-items... it's not a game about items. Don't sweat it.
Give some ubers to a newb in Ascalon and feel good about it.

um, the new areas have TONS of mobs to kill. kill them, get money. its not simple, its not a 3 minute run, but it works. out of a multiple mob run of probably about 20-30 "monsters" even with an 8 player group i can see getting 1-1.5k as no problem.

*edit*
msecorsky beat me to it, damn he is smart!

OK, so all the action is in the new areas.
I jogged through the desert this morning with an avatar I'm levelling, and killed perhaps 100+ mobs. I'd say I found less than a plat of gold - gold drop rate must be down a LOT. At the same time I spent 4500 gold on keys to open chests, which gave me ten gold & purple items worth less than two plat combined.

All in all, my little jog _set me back_ about 1500 gold and didnt give me a single unlock or sellable upgrade item.

That had me worried. I have 100+ plat, but at that rate I'd soon be killing charr for raw materials to make money.

Numa, it's also easy to make money by just expert salvaging everything. I do those same type of farming runs in the desert (and the Trolls around Draks), and I average 50g per mob from either the gold drop or the materials. 250 wood is worth 2.5 plat on the Draknor player market, same with iron. Steel is worth 150 each. If you have a build that is capable of farming, 5k-15k per hour is easily attainable.

go ahead farm till your hearts content :0 there will be no buyers for your tiems since everyone can now get them just as easily.

that was the whole point.

this will stabilize the economy.

Vampiric Mods are actually pretty useless.

well i got a max armor skeleton shield last night with only 8 req strength.

an awesome item.

it is just the luck of the draw man

tanwarv: yeah, I suppose. I just have to readjust to that the items I find are worth less than the wood they're made of - and learn to ignore those chests, that's the real money sink. That's hard; years of rpg'ing has me itching to open every chest I find.

One griffon run should net you enough gold to unlock 3 or 4 chests. Combined with the purple and/or gold items you get from that run, it's pretty good for getting gold items and runes. So farming is definitely a possibility for unlocks, etc. I think this is a good decision by ANET because solo fans can still solo while people who team will also get good rewards too.

I love the idea of the keys and chests, it adds a really fun new element to the game. One thing I don't like so much however, is the sheer abundance of these chests - my storage is already starting to clog up with pretty good weapons and I can only assume everyone else's is too.

This does take a chunk out of farming, and spreads the wealth somewhat, as well as acts as a superb gold sink, but I really wish it was a bit more special to find a chest, rather than coming across them every 10 minutes or so.

I've popped about 8 shiver chests and 4 miner chests. First two runs I got lucky - sup absorb rune and sup smite rune. I got hooked and kept going. I got about 50% gold and purple. Most of the time, obviously, it doesn't produce enough gold to replace the key cost. However, even in an 8 player party, I was making enough gold from mobs (just travelling through SF) to keep up my habit (about 1 plat every 20 minutes it seemed - this may not seem alot, but ur questing at the same time, and the exp is nice). Everyone loves popping chests, and it seems like the best way to do it is by actually playing the game.

Good job ANet

The reason behind it was simple... to improve drops for people playing...

How many times have you opened a chest in the past with henchmen or a party and get absolutely nothing? I know I have many times... This way, if you got a key and you use it. you will be guaranteed SOMETHING for it. Wither with henchmen, solo, or in a large party. This removes some of the appeal for Solo build chest farmers. Thus less nerfing in the future.

The bosses in the update dropping new Green weapons that have extra buffs on them, is nice as well... They are what they are. no manipulation or salvaging them. one of the best of these are the triple buff wands... so your focus can be used and have up to 5 or 6 buffs going with % chance. That is really nice...

ingy...

PS: watch for key drops in the future from creatures in the area... It was something many were talking about among the dev team...

I found and unlocked a superior protection and superior healing rune.
the merchant payed all my keys with that.

Edit: serveral superior runes added to the Spree. Seems to be unusual, maybe its the result of the fact that I unlocked every single weapon upgrade and "only" half of all runes. I barely get ANY green weapon (its way below the 1/32 mark) and a shitload of runes from dead bosses, too.

Farming chests is kinda pointless now, isnt it? Gold items are pretty much useless now with these green weapons...

actually gold weapons still have superior runes in them. so if you have not unlocked all runes or mods they are still worth a lot to the person that finds them

some monsters already drops the keys some1 in my group got 1 in footprint

This is a non issue the chests will open for each member with a key.

I read that now, but it was unknown last night.

Yes, and I think that's a wonderful idea. Anet sure knows how to get it right.