A suggestion for ectos and shards

thx to solo monks farming UW and Fow for ectos and shards, maybe Anet should give out ectos and shards as rewards for doing the quests in the areas instead of dropping them from mobs. What do you guys think?

If you don't want to kill the monsters in hopes of getting a drop, Anet has already placed in the game a second option for collecting the materials.

Rare material trader.

This is akin to asking for gold max damage weapons and unidentified superior runes as quest rewards, as after all us evil farming monks are farming for those as well.

No.

People Don't WANT Ecto to drop same for shards, FoW and these are not supposed to be easily gotten items, maybe the 'poorer' for lack of words of the populace will agree with you but This would devalue FoW and for those who had spent the 1.5 million or so to GET it , it would be Very annoying and i myself would complaign.

If u have not noticed the quest are re-doable , so why not just do them for 5 days and get it? pointless isnt it? FoW is supposed to be achieved through hardwork and A.net created this by basically static that this IS the cream of the crop, this IS the caviar on your table, its not meant to be made easiar to get, only harder.

And don't counter-argue saying that you're just mad cause u didnt have a solo monk, i did, it was fun, but id rather work hard for what Ecto is for - FoW- not just to make the poor rich and the rich richer

I think he means like say two ecto for the first quest as a reward or something like that and the deeper you go with quests you may get more.

That would be good since I like to say "I have fissure armor because I am skilled" and go around saying "I have fissure armor because I farm griffons non stop for hours. "

I would love to get fissure armor but the only way to get ecto and shards effectively is to buy them. Going into fissure you might get 2 shards* for every complete. And thats if everyone stays to complete the entire thing. Thusly you might actually get 1 shard every 3 runs. so thats abot 300 runs to get 100 shards or ecto. And in those 300 runs how long does it take? about 4 hours to get that one ecto? how many times did you fail a run because of the pugs inabilty to work together? or when the monk died he dropped, or one of your warriors went afk leaving you without a tank? or how long did it take you to form that good group? Now if you were that dedicated would suggest doing griffon farming. 15k every 13 runs. Which get extremly redundent and needs inhuman dedication to repeatedly do it. But it will get you that ecto alot faster, and you build your funds instead of wasting them. and there is the better chance to get yourself a nice weapon that you would eventually gone out for.

The only way to have the armor as a skill statis icon is to have a guild team of 8 go in and give every ecto and shard to the one person. But not a guilds can give that time nor are people that selfless.

In summary I find this idea fantastic. Since there is four reasons people go to fissure chance at max damage chaos axe, chance at shard, EXP, and the armor itself. 3 reason for UW, chance for ecto, chance for spider, and EXP.

even if they did make ecto or shards quest rewards.. you would still have all the same problems.. the same reason a group isn't good enough to have a good run, would be the same reason they wouldn't be good enough to beat the quest... I enjoy the fact that not everyone has FoW armor, with the exception of monks.. but hey, if they all want to look the same thats their business.. I say take shards and ecto off the traders to.

Wow, you're finding ecto in fissure??

On the more positive, I agree with you, getting fissure armor shows you're rich, not skilled. And.. until a very recent decision to consider the female fissure warrior armor, all ecto and shards I picked up went to my boyfriend, cause I had no use for it and he's saving up for it.

I agree with you. FoW is unique as it doesn't look like the armor from drok/citadel/marhans. If they actually added ectos and shards as rewards, you would see everyone including their mother with FoW armor. Besides, ectos and shards wouldn't be "rare" crafting material anymore since you can just get them from quests.

The four banshees can drop ecto, just so you know.

I think that statement is a little harsh. Prehaps the monks who just soloed it when it was beyond easy, they merely knew how to read instructions in a thread. I don't think it's fair to immediately assume anyone running around in fow armour isn't skilled.

Personally I see the armour as a sense of achievement, not wealth. Who cares about wealth in a game of skill?

Cool, didn't know that, then again, my experience with fissure is very limited.

And.. it is a symbol of wealth more than skill, anyone can copy a farming build and get the money required that way, it doesn't require skill.

Skill itself, only comes into play in getting to the forge master, and even then, I'm willing to bet that someone is willing to let you tag along for the ride.

I do enjoy the fact that if you see someone in fissure armor, you're guranteed that they're ascended.

Fissure armor is the the only PvE emote in the game

that makes no sense what's so ever... -.-

It acts as an emote on the /rank side of things. /rank +9 shows that you are a very good pvper, and/or dedicated. The fissure armor shows that you have deep pockets and/or are skilled and dedicated.

yes, forgot to add an IMHO at the end as it came across sounding arrogant. It was ment to be more of a contemplative statement. I.e PvP people have tigers etc. PvE'ers have nothing to show for hours in the game other than different clothes.

Now i know a heck of a lot of good players(most of them better than me) and the vast majority dont have fow armor. Hence the emote thought, an emote does'nt mean you are a better player all it means you have taken the time to obtain it.

Hope that sort of clarifies things

Getting fissure armor does mean in a way that you are skilled, because you ovbiously had skill to get all of that gold.. I currently have two fissure armors, I farmed non-stop! But it really pays off in the end. also, all the people who discriminate fissure for some wild reason shouldn't do that. I just think they are jealous they can't get all that money, they just give up on it, or don't have the patience to farm, and i guarentee that if they all had the money then they would buy themselves fow armor. But they still say they always have "something better to waste there money on." All im saying is it does take skill to get it and most of the people that have it are very elite and actually know what there doing.

I can see it now...

The Ambassador's Quarry:

Reward:
500 Experience
Smiting Staff (9-11 Req. 3 Smiting Prayers)
5 Globs of Ectoplasm

Getting Fissure armor through farming means you're skilled at farming, nothing more. Getting Fissure armor through Ebay means you're skilled at being stupid.

Wish fissure armors were more good looking, then i might tried to save some money for it

I don't think you read the thread properly. it would be more like:

The Wailing Lord:

Reward:
10000xp
1 Glob of Ectoplasm

the OP said as quest rewards IN THOSE AREAS. ie only in FoW and UW.

while i'm poor. i'm not sure i support this. it would not really make much of a difference. those who have the patience to spend 1000hours in FoW are really the only people who will be willing to spend 700hours in FoW. 300 or so hour decrease but most still can't be bothered to spend that much time on it.

I've never been to the Armorer in FoW, do they have Gladiator Armor there. And if they do, does it look the same as Grotto armor??

If FoW doesn't have Gladiator Armor... what a waste!!! Its the best armor in the game...IMO.. You gain +7 energy and +20 vs Physical attacks, its killer...