I've been saving up for a while for FoW, but it's going slowly, and by my standards: WAY to slowly. I'm on the American Servers, but we don't get favor until late night. During the week, I don't have that much time to play, as most of it is consumed by homework. On the weekend, I try to do as much UW as possible, but we still don't get favor that often.
I guess what I'm asking is should I switch to the European servers? They have favor amost always when I can play. Or is there another way to make money quickly without switching servers?
Getting Your First FoW
Rainstorm13
DAS Achilles
farm farm farm!!!!every class can farm somewheres so find a place you like. (i recomend farming dinjin with a dervish and sell all the rubies and such u salvage)
|pyro|
if you want to get fow armor fast dont farm.
Power trade ONLY way. have fun
Power trade ONLY way. have fun
Milan-V
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Originally Posted by |pyro|
Power trade ONLY way. have fun Huh?
Green farming makes VERY good money too, if you farm greenies worth 40 and with a high drop rate...well do the math yourself.
XvArchonvX
It is pretty tough to farm enough to get ectos when Favor only comes as late at night as it does for us Americans. You can switch servers and then switch back a limited number of times, so that is a valid option, but green farming might be something to consider as well, even though it is less reliable than ecto farming imo.
Power Trading can be profitable, but one bad trade can really put a hurting on you. The prices in many high value items does tend to fluctuate by a couple ectos so it is possible to sometimes get a good deal and resell for some profit, but in my experience, most people ask for prices that are way to high on everything anyways. Also, considering how long you have to spam or wait for an auction, it may at times be more efficient (and/or more fun) then to just farm.
Power Trading can be profitable, but one bad trade can really put a hurting on you. The prices in many high value items does tend to fluctuate by a couple ectos so it is possible to sometimes get a good deal and resell for some profit, but in my experience, most people ask for prices that are way to high on everything anyways. Also, considering how long you have to spam or wait for an auction, it may at times be more efficient (and/or more fun) then to just farm.
ubermancer
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Originally Posted by Milan-V
Huh?
Quoted for truth.
Quoted for truth.
olly123
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Originally Posted by Rainstorm13
I've been saving up for a while for FoW, but it's going slowly, and by my standards: WAY to slowly. I'm on the American Servers, but we don't get favor until late night. During the week, I don't have that much time to play, as most of it is consumed by homework. On the weekend, I try to do as much UW as possible, but we still don't get favor that often.
I guess what I'm asking is should I switch to the European servers? They have favor amost always when I can play. Or is there another way to make money quickly without switching servers? iwas in american servers for abouyt a year ( im english), and the onyl time i could farm WU/FOW was at weekend mornigns about 6am-9am till europ niked favour, man it took me 2 months to get about 10 ectos, it was hell. then i left my americna guild and went to europe, got favour all the tiem for me, and well got enought ectos i n2 months and enought shards in 1.5 months. so unless u only have one or 2 swaps left. id swap over for a bit, then swap back after
I guess what I'm asking is should I switch to the European servers? They have favor amost always when I can play. Or is there another way to make money quickly without switching servers? iwas in american servers for abouyt a year ( im english), and the onyl time i could farm WU/FOW was at weekend mornigns about 6am-9am till europ niked favour, man it took me 2 months to get about 10 ectos, it was hell. then i left my americna guild and went to europe, got favour all the tiem for me, and well got enought ectos i n2 months and enought shards in 1.5 months. so unless u only have one or 2 swaps left. id swap over for a bit, then swap back after
Hell Raiser
I got my first by power trading, and mostly farming. However I guess I kind of cheated, I still had 400k+ from the first market reset.
Grasping Darkness
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Originally Posted by |pyro|
if you want to get fow armor fast dont farm.
Power trade ONLY way. have fun yes youre right because im so broke from making 300k-1 mil a day farming
Power trade ONLY way. have fun yes youre right because im so broke from making 300k-1 mil a day farming
Evilsod
You could always farm Kirins outside Maatu Keep for about 50hours constantly
~1k per run with the occasional decent drop, it'd add up over time.
Grasping.... ANYONE who farms enough to make 300k-1mil a day either needs to get a life or move out of there parents house. That or stop exaggerating.
~1k per run with the occasional decent drop, it'd add up over time.
Grasping.... ANYONE who farms enough to make 300k-1mil a day either needs to get a life or move out of there parents house. That or stop exaggerating.
Butters1110
I agree with evilsod. I just got my second set of fow, (non of it ebayed) and i just basically farmed the kirin and undergrowths outside of matuu. I farm 10k, take a break for an hour or so, go back, another 10k stop. If you get lucky u might get a black dye or a ruby or saphire. Plus they drops golds every now and then which are pretty decent at times. Do this a few times a day and ull get it in about a month. If your mainly pve you can probably get it faster. I pvp more than pve so it took me a little more than a month to get. Keep at it though and youll eventually get it. Good luck
Rainstorm13
If you don't mind me asking, what build do you use to farm outside of maatu?
XvArchonvX
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Originally Posted by Rainstorm13
If you don't mind me asking, what build do you use to farm outside of maatu?
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ght=ven geful
This one.
This one.
Jk)Phoenix
try to do some gemstone farming in DoA... else the power trade is the only way... farm over 1.2 millions is long in normal ways...
sofaking
You just have to know what to farm to get the ($.$)
What i have done the last 3 weeks is titan gem farming and i managed to get 4 FoW armors out of it. Just have to be at the right place at the right time. It can take you hrs or just mins. But now the drop rate has been reduced a lot, so its time to farm somewere else.
What i have done the last 3 weeks is titan gem farming and i managed to get 4 FoW armors out of it. Just have to be at the right place at the right time. It can take you hrs or just mins. But now the drop rate has been reduced a lot, so its time to farm somewere else.
Real1ty
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Originally Posted by Evilsod
You could always farm Kirins outside Maatu Keep for about 50hours constantly
~1k per run with the occasional decent drop, it'd add up over time.
Grasping.... ANYONE who farms enough to make 300k-1mil a day either needs to get a life or move out of there parents house. That or stop exaggerating. I would say the last option applies
~1k per run with the occasional decent drop, it'd add up over time.
Grasping.... ANYONE who farms enough to make 300k-1mil a day either needs to get a life or move out of there parents house. That or stop exaggerating. I would say the last option applies
VitisVinifera
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Originally Posted by |pyro|
if you want to get fow armor fast dont farm.
Power trade ONLY way. have fun hm then I guess I didnt get THIS (<----) fissure set by ss/sv'ing for a 55er for all my ectos, then trading extras for shards
Power trade ONLY way. have fun hm then I guess I didnt get THIS (<----) fissure set by ss/sv'ing for a 55er for all my ectos, then trading extras for shards
Apok Omen
I just farm Minotaurs outside Elona Reach, get Black Dyes every 5 runs, rest is merch food and Power Trade. Never wanted a FoW set of armor, honestly. All of them (except for the non-core professions) look very ugly for my taste and the foreign armor is much cooler, better, and cheaper. But, if you do want to farm for FoW armor, use your favorite char and make them do all the farming. As said before, every class can farm for very high profits.
Mr Bartel
Green farming FTW, i make about 100-200k/h.
I drop items that wort 20-50k then i go on www.gwshop.net to sell my items without wasting (this is a french site, and as I am french, it is very usefull. I think they are equivalents for English ppls but i usually sell my items in 1-3 days)
IMO it is still the best solution, since you can make huge tons of money in one day. (u can get 1200k in on week easily)
I drop items that wort 20-50k then i go on www.gwshop.net to sell my items without wasting (this is a french site, and as I am french, it is very usefull. I think they are equivalents for English ppls but i usually sell my items in 1-3 days)
IMO it is still the best solution, since you can make huge tons of money in one day. (u can get 1200k in on week easily)
m4rk6
Wow, you have to tell us you secret to green farming! 100-200k/hour! Wow!
Oh yeah, forgot the [sarcasm] tags.. but oh well.
Oh yeah, forgot the [sarcasm] tags.. but oh well.
Real1ty
Could a mod please rename this thread to :"Who can spin the biggest load of BS"
Sorry to hijak the thread, but pleeeeaase
Sorry to hijak the thread, but pleeeeaase
Harakiem
honestly, the best way to make money is high-level power trading. unfortunatly, that's only possible if you already have the money for FoW to begin with. what people usually do (in my guild, at least) is farm their hearts out until they have around 200k-300k for keys in the DoA, then head there, chest run until they get an ele or colossal sword, and sell that to get started on their power trading. after that, they make anywhere from 3-100ectos a day, depending on how many e-bay idiots there are around.
I prefer to just solo UW on my derv and occasionally chest run for the hell of it. sometimes I'll get a sweet drop and sell it for upwards of 100k, which is always a nice bonus, but I'm not really in it for the money anymore.
I prefer to just solo UW on my derv and occasionally chest run for the hell of it. sometimes I'll get a sweet drop and sell it for upwards of 100k, which is always a nice bonus, but I'm not really in it for the money anymore.
TeeJay
I asume the concept of Power Trading is buy/sell in bulk. Buy low sell high? also known as merchanting...
Riken Chrono
DoA is pretty good if you have a Mo/E or E/Mo. go outside from gate of madness i think then use a 105 sliver armor build with spellbreaker. gather everything up then just keep all enchants on. usually 2-3k per run and almost always 1 gold item. 4-5 minutes a run usually
XvArchonvX
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Originally Posted by TeeJay
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/List_of_popular_scams
t3dw4rd0
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Originally Posted by DAS Achilles
farm farm farm!!!!every class can farm somewheres so find a place you like. (i recomend farming dinjin with a dervish and sell all the rubies and such u salvage)
I reccomend farming djinns with 130 derv for boss greens and occasionaly gold drops. Doing it only for rubies/sapphires/diamonds will take longer than what you are already doing as you might salvage one of those materials about once out of about one hundred (or more, trust me) attempted salvages. I admit that it is possible, but I have NEVER actually salvaged one. And I use 130 derv in hidden city A LOT. Best I've gotten from that is a couple golds and Leilon's Vow. Basically just run around Elona to different farming spots because of the "farming code."
CR3AT0R
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Originally Posted by Harakiem
I prefer to just solo UW on my derv and occasionally chest run for the hell of it. sometimes I'll get a sweet drop and sell it for upwards of 100k, which is always a nice bonus, but I'm not really in it for the money anymore. Elemental Swords and collosal scimitars dont drop from DOA chests to my knowledge. Ive ran about 1000 of them and never seen one.
ShadowsRequiem
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Originally Posted by Rainstorm13
I've been saving up for a while for FoW, but it's going slowly, and by my standards: WAY to slowly. I'm on the American Servers, but we don't get favor until late night. During the week, I don't have that much time to play, as most of it is consumed by homework. On the weekend, I try to do as much UW as possible, but we still don't get favor that often.
I guess what I'm asking is should I switch to the European servers? They have favor amost always when I can play. Or is there another way to make money quickly without switching servers? I'm just like you, getting my first fow... I didnt farm anything, I went chest running when Nf just came out and saved my money.
i'll pm you a really nice place to farm.
I guess what I'm asking is should I switch to the European servers? They have favor amost always when I can play. Or is there another way to make money quickly without switching servers? I'm just like you, getting my first fow... I didnt farm anything, I went chest running when Nf just came out and saved my money.
i'll pm you a really nice place to farm.
Shadows Assasin X
I farm constructs with my a/e build (no one can have it sry) i make about 200k in about 1hr so yes greens are definatly beter than farming UW, except for the ectos used in your armor of course. but it would probly be faster just to buy them with the money you made from the greens
The Last Cruzader
Colossal's have been said to drop in DoA I'm not sure about Elementals though, but I mainly chest run for all of my money.
novawhiz
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Originally Posted by Mr Bartel
Green farming FTW, i make about 100-200k/h.
I drop items that wort 20-50k then i go on www.gwshop.net to sell my items without wasting (this is a french site, and as I am french, it is very usefull. I think they are equivalents for English ppls but i usually sell my items in 1-3 days)
IMO it is still the best solution, since you can make huge tons of money in one day. (u can get 1200k in on week easily) What greens you farm??
I drop items that wort 20-50k then i go on www.gwshop.net to sell my items without wasting (this is a french site, and as I am french, it is very usefull. I think they are equivalents for English ppls but i usually sell my items in 1-3 days)
IMO it is still the best solution, since you can make huge tons of money in one day. (u can get 1200k in on week easily) What greens you farm??
My Green Storage
@ Real1ty ... lol yea
@ Shadows Assasin X -- Don't act so big and bad .. "Dont ask for my build"
I can tell you "Your" build ..
Shadow refuge (the run thing), shadow form, dash, glyph of ele power, sliver armor, shadow prison, death step/charge/whatever, and the 4 second +9 health regen skill ... oh yea, I better not let out this trade secret of GW land ... a GALIGORD's EARTH STAFF!!!!1 ... Oops.
See: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Build:A...o_Green_Farmer
Anyway ...
And yes .. I doubt you make "about 200k" in 1 hour.
I've farmed the necro, warrior, mesmer, and monk (the ele is a punk) and the necro is the only one that has dropped something after 30-40 kills of all of em ... let alone each green is 20-25k ..
So as Real1ty has said, don't spin this thread with BS.
Anyone that says they make over 150k every hour (WITH greens) is lying out of every hole they have.
MOST greens won't hit 20k .. And does this "Every hour" junk also account for: "WTS RARE SKINNED SSKAI SWORD!!!! 30k!!!! CHEAP!!!!" spamming in Kaineng, LA or Kamadan?
Anyway. Yea being in America for the favor thing isn't any fun. Right now it's 7:10pm and I know we won't get it (or attempt to) in another 2.5-3 hours.
But knock on wood (ok I jinxed myself now) I've been lucky with ecto drops.
Had 20 on Thursday 01-11-2007, 12:18 PM (Date of my post in E/Me Farm thread) and today is the 18th. I went from 20 ectos to 69-70 ectos in 7 days .. about 20-25 runs a night (And the first day or 2 I was learning it so maybe actually 4-5 days?)
Few runs of 2, most 0-1 and had 1 of 3 drops last night .. picked up about 8 last night. 2/2/3 and throw a few in for good measure lol
@ Shadows Assasin X -- Don't act so big and bad .. "Dont ask for my build"
I can tell you "Your" build ..
Shadow refuge (the run thing), shadow form, dash, glyph of ele power, sliver armor, shadow prison, death step/charge/whatever, and the 4 second +9 health regen skill ... oh yea, I better not let out this trade secret of GW land ... a GALIGORD's EARTH STAFF!!!!1 ... Oops.
See: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Build:A...o_Green_Farmer
Anyway ...
And yes .. I doubt you make "about 200k" in 1 hour.
I've farmed the necro, warrior, mesmer, and monk (the ele is a punk) and the necro is the only one that has dropped something after 30-40 kills of all of em ... let alone each green is 20-25k ..
So as Real1ty has said, don't spin this thread with BS.
Anyone that says they make over 150k every hour (WITH greens) is lying out of every hole they have.
MOST greens won't hit 20k .. And does this "Every hour" junk also account for: "WTS RARE SKINNED SSKAI SWORD!!!! 30k!!!! CHEAP!!!!" spamming in Kaineng, LA or Kamadan?
Anyway. Yea being in America for the favor thing isn't any fun. Right now it's 7:10pm and I know we won't get it (or attempt to) in another 2.5-3 hours.
But knock on wood (ok I jinxed myself now) I've been lucky with ecto drops.
Had 20 on Thursday 01-11-2007, 12:18 PM (Date of my post in E/Me Farm thread) and today is the 18th. I went from 20 ectos to 69-70 ectos in 7 days .. about 20-25 runs a night (And the first day or 2 I was learning it so maybe actually 4-5 days?)
Few runs of 2, most 0-1 and had 1 of 3 drops last night .. picked up about 8 last night. 2/2/3 and throw a few in for good measure lol
red13xx
Hey dont talk about sskai sword that way it is rare to some people like me..I farmed him for about an hour each day for last 3 days he hasnt dropped it..I have gotten 13 greens so far from other bosses and still havent got a sskai and i have farmed him the most ...
Dr Imperial
thank you for that, green storage.
Dutch Masterr
im just trying to get the fow helm for my warrior...that helm alone is taking me forever to save up for...i can hardly make 30k a day if a tried. i dont know how you people do it....considering i play nearly 12 hours a day (yeah i have no life ill admit it) i still make crap money. ive been using the a/e solo build but im only able to farm the scareater, mindclouder and stormbringer with it which isnt profitable at all. i farm outside maatu keep with my w/mo and that hardly gets me 1k a run. also, america almost never has favor so i cant even really practice any builds in UW or FOW. i do a b/p run in sorrows furnace every so often and never get much from that either.
i would really love to get full mes fow and the helm for my warrior...doubt ill ever get it...all i have saved up it 15 shards..
i would really love to get full mes fow and the helm for my warrior...doubt ill ever get it...all i have saved up it 15 shards..
novawhiz
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Originally Posted by Dutch Masterr
im just trying to get the fow helm for my warrior...that helm alone is taking me forever to save up for...i can hardly make 30k a day if a tried. i dont know how you people do it....considering i play nearly 12 hours a day (yeah i have no life ill admit it) i still make crap money. ive been using the a/e solo build but im only able to farm the scareater, mindclouder and stormbringer with it which isnt profitable at all. i farm outside maatu keep with my w/mo and that hardly gets me 1k a run. also, america almost never has favor so i cant even really practice any builds in UW or FOW. i do a b/p run in sorrows furnace every so often and never get much from that either.
i would really love to get full mes fow and the helm for my warrior...doubt ill ever get it...all i have saved up it 15 shards.. You play 12 hours a day?!?!?!??! You literaly have no life! You should be rich by now
Since you somehow have all this time you caneasily master a Drok running build or something of the sort. You can easily make 60k per hour droks running.(Ok for ppl who are gonna yell at me lets go with 40k even though its more.)
40k per hour. 12 hours a day(Im sorry but are you joking? w/e)
thats 480k++ per day. How much is FoW helm? 200k? You can a whole set of FoW in less than 3 days!!!
(PS: Dont mean to change subject but can anyone help me run droks with dervish? Pls pm me! IGN: Criss Angel Freak)
i would really love to get full mes fow and the helm for my warrior...doubt ill ever get it...all i have saved up it 15 shards.. You play 12 hours a day?!?!?!??! You literaly have no life! You should be rich by now
Since you somehow have all this time you caneasily master a Drok running build or something of the sort. You can easily make 60k per hour droks running.(Ok for ppl who are gonna yell at me lets go with 40k even though its more.)
40k per hour. 12 hours a day(Im sorry but are you joking? w/e)
thats 480k++ per day. How much is FoW helm? 200k? You can a whole set of FoW in less than 3 days!!!
(PS: Dont mean to change subject but can anyone help me run droks with dervish? Pls pm me! IGN: Criss Angel Freak)
leeky baby
u play 12 hours and u cant make enough for a fow helm...Wow thats just unbelivable....even if u constantly did trolls u would make 120k a day :P
kobey
I think everyone has their strength and weakness. I relate farming and trading to real life. Like farming is the manufacture part, and trading is like the retail part. It all goes down to what you are good at. Some are good at farming, some chest running and some good at prices (trading). I know of some rich farmers as well as traders. So i don't really agree if someone insist that only farming or only trading is the only way to get rich.
Brandon1107
I'm saving for FoW too. We never get favor but I farm when we do. (3 ectos hooray). But while i'm not farming ecto find I good place to farm that no one knows about and you'll make a reasonable ammount. I found a good place to farm 2 greens whch a 20k-30k a piece. I farm them for an hour. Sometimes I get lucky and get 1-3. Sometimes I can farm for 2 hours and get nothing. (but still get about 10k from the other drops).
Yesterday I made about 70k in an hour in a half. Today i made about 5k =(. I'm on my way. My advice is just stick to a place and in know time you'll be too rich you'll have 5 sets of FoW and can afford Tormented Weapons. Te ha.
Yesterday I made about 70k in an hour in a half. Today i made about 5k =(. I'm on my way. My advice is just stick to a place and in know time you'll be too rich you'll have 5 sets of FoW and can afford Tormented Weapons. Te ha.
MMSDome
what exactly is power trading?