Is FoW worth it?

I got it for my female necro and am quite happy with it. Although I get some comments from time to time that people that have FoW armour "have no lives and farm all the time" or are buying "e-bay" armour.

I know I earned it by farming, a little help from guildies with price breaks on Ectos and Shards, and lots of FoW and Underworld runs.

I bought a lot of the ectos and some of the shards with in-game cash that I earned by farming and salvaging everything for rare crafting materials. I also got some lucky drops from Ettin Farming like Black Dye, Superior Absorption Runes, Superior Monk Runes, and some other things that sped up the process. The release of Factions helped as the market price of certain items like Chittin Fragments and Plant Fibers went way up and I was able to cash in.

I will be buying a new FoW piece soon as I want blood-stained boots for my Necro and although I currently use the Droks Blood-Stained for my MM build, I want the FoW piece to keep the look consistent.

I occasionaly get complimented on it, but I think it earns a certain amount of respect especially in-game when your game skills reflect the fact that you earned the right to wear it.

It does set you apart from other players, and if there are some negative remarks directed at you for having FoW armour, it is likely out of jealousy or some experience with crappy players who got run to the Forgemaster and bought it with e-bay gold.

For me I like mix and match. I currently have 5 of my 10 characters in 2-3 pieces of fow and either drok or 15k mixes. However my monk does have 2 seta of fow sandels,pants,and bracers..1 for healing 1 for 55 ( he earned it ) . I do need to get there sometime soon for my rit helm ( for a flintstones look lol ).
Now days its fairly cheap for FoW. when i went in for my first piece ecto was around 15k now its what 7k?

I do recomment running dual in UW as a rt/me and a spiritbond monk and seperate at after the aatxes for speed.
FoW is also best as a 2 man 3 if you wanna be safe with a monk and a necro and a 3rd monk or rit if you wish.
FoW is where its at though. 3x the cash then UW on most runs. the rit is nice cause while the necro and monk go the the forge master the rit can go to the forest and start on the beach at same time. makes quick work of a large area.

For the farming, I think that UW is better ( considering you take a group ! solo farms, that's something else )...the 55 + ss combo is very fast and easy, and you got nice money ! ectos + golds ! eternal shields and storm bows are dropped quit often ( I gett like 1 per 5 runs ) and in fow, the chance of getting a good fellblade or chaos axe is small - you have more chests tho !
( I never did a 2 - 3 man run in fow, so I don't rly know how much money per person u get )


about the fow armor ( wich you didn't ask I think, but i'll give my opinion ) ...meh, what can I say ! It costs a lot ( for most ppl - for some it's nothing ) , and some don't even look nice. It's fun tho, I got my first one yesterday ( female necro ) and i've had serveral ppl telling me I have a cool armor ! but some ppl are saying that yer an ebayer, or scammer, or do nothing but farming, wich is not true! It saddens me to see ppl like this - specially cus I worked for every penny of my armor ! I didn't scam, nor ebay it!

money could be better spent on getting your pve charecters ready for pvp.... with near a million gold you can make all your charecters pvp ready. Buying numerous strategic armors with perfect greens/golds.

I purchased my FoW Ranger Vest purely for aethestic reason... I didn't like the Druid Overcoat look.

Your mileage will vary... I personally prefer to spend my gold on making my characters PvP ready.

From what i can read of his post he aint asking for ANYTHING about FoW armor... It seems he is talking about the place as an Area. And asking if ppl think its worth the 1k gold of entering the place.. So i dont see why half of the ppl who posted is talking about FoW armor..

Now, imo then FoW is a great place.. Its a high lvl area that is a little more harder than most other places.. But it still has a few nice areas that you can solo farm... So basicley when you get to know what you are during there, then the gain will be better than the gold spend on enterance..

Edit: About FoW vs UW then i think i like UW most becouse its more like a farming area than fow is.. Its easyer just to enter as 2 man and then kill alot of it, than Starting a team with more ppl to go fow.. Also the Solo farming in UW seems like more fun to me than Forest + Spidercave

And about the best drop, hmm Shards i think xD

~Shadow

only buy if you have more cash, its not worth making yourself broke for...nobody gives a shit if you wear fow armor these days anyway

@Somebody?

What Pants would go well with Male Mesmer FoW Armor if I'm not going to by the hose?

Also, Using this thread as an ask all about the Fow is better than 4 or 5 more extra threads to clutter the forum. Let's keep using this for FoW related questions for now...

The only one that I'd consider getting is a female Mesmer FoW...that's the one set that always catches my eye and really has nothing equivalent/similar in the 1.5K and 15K sets.

FoW is very worth it just get in with some guildies doin a 2 or 3 man and let them go do the battle field while you run off and teach yurself the spider cave
fun and the drops are good enough to keep you coming back


*sidenote* the armor is all fugly all but like the guy said female mesmer

I have a set of FoW on my mesmer (same as in the avatar) really because thats what I play in gvg usually. I really wanted something that would stand out, so for roughly 16 days of the summer I grinded and grinded and grinded and made the 1.2mil (mats, dyes, runes) that I needed for it. That is not something i want to go through again, so I am probably gonna buy the money for a second set if I decide I want another. I'd just rather grind fame(which is actually fun) then farm, chest run, etc.

I solo fow and even at 3-4 shards per run, the money isn't that great. I prefer topk or just plain chest running...

if anyone says you ebayed your fow or say you have no life there just jealous and ironic..playing a game to call someone sad for playing the game lmfao cracks me up

Umm,no. I hate to say this and dont get me wrong, but the most 'noobs' I met that act all elitist and all to newbies were in FoW armor.

In my opionion,
Fow is worth it if you want to look like a bit of bling in a hairy mans chest,
but its becomeing more and more common.

i dont mind fow armor but when you only have 1 piece on warriros usually the head it sucks

I jave NO idea why the thread is about armor since the thread starter is asking about FoW in general....
I'd say it IS worth the trouble..always a chance of a shard.. excellent chests - tho some LUCK is a must or you're going bankrupt.. and I'd never go in with randoms.. too much time invested to waste it all cause some loser got a hard on and decided he wanted to leave all of a sudden. That type of thing I do only with my guildies.
and best drop I had in FoW was a hest drop - some bow worth round 200k which I was stupid enough to salvage by accident
as for farming, I did both with war solo...and I suggest FoW cause it a lot easier and refundable - as in, you can learn to farm it to regain your entrance fee back a lot faster than uw...

I think that if you have the time to farm, then by all means do it.

Guildwars is great because of the simple "No godly Items" rule... however it does tend to make things a little boring when everywhere you look someone is wearing 15k this or that. FoW allows you to look a little different then Joe Schmo. It takes time, effort and skill to EARN it, plus a little luck.

My Ele has it. Looks like a biker. So far I've only seen one other Ele wearing it and he was "looking for a run" through Thirsty. So I'm happy knowing I earned my FoW and can't wait to get the rest of my chars outfitted in it... even if it does take me the next 10 years.

see...alot of ppl play fow/uw on the basis that they will use the money gained to get fow armor

Yea thats true. Last night I had a warrior in FoW armor ask me how I emoted (/rank). He thought it was glad points. But, there are plenty of good people sporting FoW. Im a Pally and Famous are well known pvpers and have FoW. I'm in a top guild and have it. It just depends on what you want to focus your time on. I suppose if all you do is pve then its possible to be a total pvp nub.