What did YOU farm the most to get YOUR FoW armor.

Voltaic Annihilator

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2008

E/Me

I did hours of smite runs got 0-3 ectos per run at least this is recent

Ambuu

Ambuu

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

I'm UWing it with my W/Rt.

2 runs just now = 4 ectos, 3 golds, an abundance of whites along with some coins.

canto

canto

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2007

Bay Area, California "WEST SIDE!"

Archangels of Tormented Minds

E/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by topdragon147
i havent got mine for my ranger yet, but i find that 'buy low, sell high" works when you have nothing else to do

I've thot of myself as a farmer mostly, but in the past month i've gotten the patience and trader knowlege to do this, ive made bout 200k in the past 4-5 weeks. If u know prices on things, this is a really good tactic. Expecially with farming spots being nerfed every 3 seconds.

masta_yoda

masta_yoda

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2007

most hated players in the [game]

R/Mo

farming newbs in la and kamadan for good deals

SimonTheMaster

SimonTheMaster

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Qc.

Looking for one...

Mo/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by masta_yoda
farming newbs in la and kamadan for good deals Same for me aswell.

Recently made 50e by reselling a Crystalline sword

Mr. Undisclosed

Mr. Undisclosed

I phail

Join Date: Mar 2007

Phailville

D/

Quote:
Originally Posted by max_rulez
CoF running pre nerf got me my first set for my para.
Now i barely make any money except for on the event weekends because my ecto luck is very bad atm >.< eh, nerf? When did that happen?

Azora

Azora

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2007

Portugal =P

We Need Fame [sOz]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Undisclosed
eh, nerf? When did that happen?
Reversal of damage now triggers with "i dont remember what" wich makes ur smiter lose health...

EroChrono

EroChrono

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Netherlands

[WitB]

W/

I farmed real life money, by working, bought a magazine, entered a contest, won a mini Vizu, sold it and bought my FoW ingredients :P
However I got my Chaos Gloves (no, not on the same char as the FoW) by farming Magmas Shields.

English Warrior

English Warrior

LEET HAXXOR!

Join Date: Feb 2007

Random Arena

N/A

im farming UW A/Me style for a friends FoW

hurric

hurric

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2006

BC

Quote:
Originally Posted by EroChrono
I farmed real life money, by working, bought a magazine, entered a contest, won a mini Vizu, sold it and bought my FoW ingredients :P
However I got my Chaos Gloves (no, not on the same char as the FoW) by farming Magmas Shields. You would still need to farm after you sell a vizu? shouldn't that pay for like 10 FoWs?

Boone

Boone

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mo/E

Farmed SF lots - suppose I got really lucky as I only farmed 4-5 hours a day and I got enough money within 4 days (ectos at 5k ea, ranger fow)

Trading rago's flame staves for 30 shards each ftw :P

Darkstar The Legend

Darkstar The Legend

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2006

The Boat Crew [boat]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Azora
Reversal of damage now triggers with "i dont remember what" wich makes ur smiter lose health... Reversal of damage now correctly triggers when the damage is dealt by an indirect source (ie retribution/holy wrath), this didn't really nerf the run, just means the smiter needs some kind of healing.

Screensaver91

Screensaver91

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2007

[PhD]

Didn't farm, power traded ^_^. But before I started to trade, I farmed teh Griffins to get my first set of 15k armor, which I did salvage a few months later. Hehe

The Bard

The Bard

Metal Machine

Join Date: Aug 2006

Scions of Carver [SCAR]

xunlai tournament house, bet on the games, won lotsa points, traded for z-keys, opened chest, got everlasting tonic on first day, sold it, bought fow simply because i didn't have any other use for all them ecto

Spider Pig

Spider Pig

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2007

Pirates of the Searing [YoHo]

E/

I currently have 105 shards, 13 ectos and 200k in storage...

All of the shards+the 200k I got from farming raptors in Birthday Event.

I can't find a way to get good money, since the only thing that worth a lot are rare minis, everlasting tonics, Crystallines, Eternal Blade, Obsidian Edge and Celestial Compass.
The chance of me getting one is really low.

I'm farming the UW in 600/smite, but I gain a small number of ectos and it will take a lot of time to get all the ectos...

And waiting for the next festival is not an option, since it will take ages until it will come...

I thought of maybe doing DoA full runs or UW full runs... what will net me more ectos/money to buy ectos?

TechnoSword

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

International SuperStars

W/Mo

farmed UW with w/rt till i got all needed ecto, then continued farming ecto and sold to buy shards, also raptor farmed as well

runite ringleader

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2007

Mystic Spiral

W/

I farmed potatoes and sweetcorn in old ascalon when I just had enough for fow when lv 2 charr came and raped all my crops

Tokolosi

Tokolosi

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

England

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by runite ringleader
I farmed potatoes and sweetcorn in old ascalon when I just had enough for fow when lv 2 charr came and raped all my crops Damn those mean Charr!

RotteN

RotteN

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

W/

I farmed tombs in the summer of 2005 (sigils going for 80k-ish <3 ), as well as pre-nerf riverside (runes) and gryphons (gold weapons). Got my fissure armor (~ 2,5 mill gold) pretty damn fast.

Spider Osiris

Spider Osiris

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

Cymru...(Wales)

Sentinels of the Rift [SotR]

N/

Currently in the process of getting it.. Farming UW A/E.. 70 ectos in 3 days (:

The Meth

The Meth

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

R/

I don't have FoW because its dreadfully ugly, but I farm noobs in kamadan whenever I have free time and usually get good drops.

MonkofHell

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2008

Mo/E

I never thought I'd get my Fissure armour - took too much time on a busy schedule of mine.

I was in UW Hardmode Clear (UR), and I opened the end chest and there was a nice Eternal Blade for me ... Sold it the same day for a great offer, than got my armour the same day

faraaz

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2008

India

Hey Mallyx [icU]

A/

I don't have FoW Armor but I could afford 1 set for any of my chars and could get 1 more set if I farmed for a little bit..would only need around 100-200k more for the second set.

As for how I earn money:

Running
Power-trading
FoW/UW Clears
UW Ecto Farming

All there is really.

Harakiem

Harakiem

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2006

Team Legacy

A/

I got my FoW and torment in about a month of farming.

When DoA first came out, I PUGed for a while, doing 1 or 2 zones a night, and selling gems for ridiculous prices (100k+ each, <3 gold buyers). I found a few nice drops in the chests out there, as well. When I was around 1mil, I joined a guild dedicated to DoA. We got pretty good, and used to do full clears almost nightly (back then that was almost 1mil a night). When all was said and done, at the end of the month, I had full FoW, my torment, and a few mil to spare.

unfortunately, this doesn't help you at all, because after that month was up we'd flooded the market with gems, and a few solo builds had popped up... now gems are more or less worthless.

baltazar knight

baltazar knight

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2007

Belgium

The Myth of Phoenix [Myth]

W/

wanna know?rockshots for 2 weeks vernim 1 week and rest general pve took me a year to get fow farming is lameeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

royal mercenary

royal mercenary

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

Glob Of Ectospasm [GoE]

Me/Rt

well currently i run in an HFFF guild, i am only r10 kurzick and bought 5fow armors of my runs so i guess that will be a easy way to do it !
(Including guild events every 2weeks which made another extra 100k cause i won them )

N1ghtstalker

N1ghtstalker

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2007

E/

ectos with VwK

sororitygirl

sororitygirl

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2007

Quality Control [QuCo]

Mo/

Okay, well I got my fow in about a week. Here's what works for me... I seem to have a steady cashflow from it.

1) I 600 CoF. If you charge 2k per person and bring a hero smiter you can make at least about 15k per run, plus you get golds, lockpicks, chalices, relics, tomes, etc, and it takes under an hour. If you want to be more ambitious, try to learn to 600 Ooze pit or Kathandrax - Kathandrax is 90k in about an hour, but CoF is crazy easy to learn to do. Kathandrax and ooze take a more experienced 600.

2) In my free time I play dirty merchant. Buy low, sell high - especially when you know something will mess up the market, like when the shadow form update made ectos cheap or if a holiday is coming up and theres tons of party/alcohol/sweets points to sell. I made 60k in about half an hour just by farming stacks of collector items when the last new mask came out. And if you don't know the market yet - use Price Check here and compare prices to Kamadan ad1. you will find many good deals you can resell for profit.

3) Sell anything you don't need - just remember if you want fow more than the black dye you just got, or the elite tome or w/e, you might as well sell that and buy your ecto. For example: I'm not going for the lucky/chest titles, so I sell all lockpicks instead of using them. I sell golds 7 for 5-6k since I'm not using them.

4) Farm Balths faction. There's many farms, mostly involving trapping for the Zaishen elite, where you can get long streaks of wins that will award, at the max, 6k balths faction. This is enough for a Zkey, which is about 5k, and the runs only take half an hour.

5) This is the most boring thing ever but learn to farm faction. If you take 3 customers, you are making about 450 gold per minute doing this. Just look up the build for farming kurzick faction from Lutgardis, and advertise Running HFF 100g ea and people will pay you for a quest run that only takes about a minute to complete with your heroes.

6) Salvage everything that might give you bone, dust, and feathers, and make consumables sets. Sell them for 7k from Temple of Ages. Feathers are usually the hardest to get - you can 600 birds for them north of Bergen. Just farm straight north to the next zone, and return.

Mr.Kotte

Mr.Kotte

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Me/

I got my second FoW set now, basiclly from raptors and UW
Just sell golds 7=5k, you can easily get 10k every 30 mins this way.

Light of the Shiverpeak

Light of the Shiverpeak

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2008

Uppsala, Sweden

The Aatxe Pirates [YaRR]

P/

I just got really good and I farm UW and FoW with my necromancer, because I personally think that 55ing is slower since necros got SS which does more damage and results in a slightly faster farm. Farming with 55 necros is harder and more advanced than farming with monks, since you need to have some great button-mashing skills and some fast fingers/mouse-clicking. Anyways, I have more than enough for the armor, but I think the necro armor is hideous, so I bought a pair of fine looking Chaos gloves, with the matching color for my profession. I'll get Asuran armor, since it's really cool.

Jag hatar FoW necromancer rustning. Skitfult.

When you have enough ectos to buy the armor, do it. If you have some more, don't waste 'em on Chaos gloves, it IS proven to be a waste, unless they are pretty, pretty, pretty ^_^. Though I bought it because i didn't like the necro FoW armor. All other ecto = sell! But you should wait for the ecto to rise in price (lol it rhymes), then sell it, because I don't like the recent price drop.
But I, keep them in my storage, good ol' storage, for the future.
Lotsa ectoes.... They are like the marijuana of Guild Wars...

Mr.Kotte

Mr.Kotte

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Light of the Shiverpeak
Jag hatar FoW necromancer rustning. Skitfult. Unfortunately, I have to agree on that point.

MisterT69

MisterT69

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2007

Scions of Carver [SCAR]

E/

First set of FoW I bought w/my ele. 2 months straight of UW w/my monk, usually 600 or 55 (w/e I was in the mood for). After that I decided I wanted to get him some chaos gloves as well, and thankfully at that time SF was buffed so I farmed a set of gloves for both my ele and monk

b3rt_d4ni3l

b3rt_d4ni3l

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

R/Rt

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.Kotte
I got my second FoW set now, basiclly from raptors and UW
Just sell golds 7=5k, you can easily get 10k every 30 mins this way. when you said selling golds 7=5k, those are un-identified golds right?

Risus

Risus

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2007

56min UW HM post-2/25 I win

FDR

A/

My friend got 230k from the Cinco de Mayo festival where they gave free alchohol. Was supposed to be 5 each but I just ran in circles trading the 4 people and got around 450 points of alchohol. My friend got 230 in a trade probably because the guy misclicked...

Fuzzy Taco

Fuzzy Taco

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

Level Twenty One [HAX]

N/

Cons.

12chars

scythefromunder

scythefromunder

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2008

CA

Tears Of The Ascended [ToA]

Quote:
Originally Posted by b3rt_d4ni3l
when you said selling golds 7=5k, those are un-identified golds right? yes thats what he meant

gw_poster

gw_poster

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

so cal

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by sororitygirl
Okay, well I got my fow in about a week. Here's what works for me... I seem to have a steady cashflow from it.

1) I 600 CoF. If you charge 2k per person and bring a hero smiter you can make at least about 15k per run, plus you get golds, lockpicks, chalices, relics, tomes, etc, and it takes under an hour. If you want to be more ambitious, try to learn to 600 Ooze pit or Kathandrax - Kathandrax is 90k in about an hour, but CoF is crazy easy to learn to do. Kathandrax and ooze take a more experienced 600.

2) In my free time I play dirty merchant. Buy low, sell high - especially when you know something will mess up the market, like when the shadow form update made ectos cheap or if a holiday is coming up and theres tons of party/alcohol/sweets points to sell. I made 60k in about half an hour just by farming stacks of collector items when the last new mask came out. And if you don't know the market yet - use Price Check here and compare prices to Kamadan ad1. you will find many good deals you can resell for profit.

3) Sell anything you don't need - just remember if you want fow more than the black dye you just got, or the elite tome or w/e, you might as well sell that and buy your ecto. For example: I'm not going for the lucky/chest titles, so I sell all lockpicks instead of using them. I sell golds 7 for 5-6k since I'm not using them.

4) Farm Balths faction. There's many farms, mostly involving trapping for the Zaishen elite, where you can get long streaks of wins that will award, at the max, 6k balths faction. This is enough for a Zkey, which is about 5k, and the runs only take half an hour.

5) This is the most boring thing ever but learn to farm faction. If you take 3 customers, you are making about 450 gold per minute doing this. Just look up the build for farming kurzick faction from Lutgardis, and advertise Running HFF 100g ea and people will pay you for a quest run that only takes about a minute to complete with your heroes.

6) Salvage everything that might give you bone, dust, and feathers, and make consumables sets. Sell them for 7k from Temple of Ages. Feathers are usually the hardest to get - you can 600 birds for them north of Bergen. Just farm straight north to the next zone, and return. /marry me

j/k but this is good solid advice if u don't want to fow/uw farm all day (especially ursan'ing)...I might add, too that a good place to pick up feathers/consumable mat's is in the off-the-beaten path outposts where beginners or others who don't know/care about cons sets might be...I've gotten a lot of feathers this way. Iron/dust/wood you can get anywhere still pretty cheap considereing your return on investment

Elder III

Elder III

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jan 2007

Ohio

I Will Never Join Your Guild (NTY)

R/

does ferrying from Kamadan to LA count?

Aiden_Madrigal

Aiden_Madrigal

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2008

Hey Mallyx [icU]

I farmed elite tomes. In less than a week I had all the money I needed for all the materials and for crafting, plus I got around 30 scrolls for FOW and 30 for UW.

Mourne

Mourne

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

North Carolina, US

The Arctic Marauders [TAM]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Aiden_Madrigal
I farmed elite tomes. In less than a week I had all the money I needed for all the materials and for crafting, plus I got around 30 scrolls for FOW and 30 for UW. Mind if I ask which boss?

Oh..and I got my FoW set from Zkeys and monthly predictions. Not to mention the gradual buildup of gold through some PvE. Now to finish off my Ranger's bows and gear so I can get back to spending all my time on my Warrior ><.