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Croco Clouds

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2007

Montreal, QC, Canada

Divine Illumination [LaZy]

E/A

03 Sep 2007 at 02:37 - 561

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chthon

Sad to confirm that this doesn't work.

Put my first diary in storage and beat Zho --> no new diary.
Destroyed my first diary and beat Zho --> no new diary.
Looks like it really is 1-to-a-customer.

At least I got 5 bison tokens out o the deal...

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So, let's take a moment to look at what it would take to get a pet on a throwaway character, the same way some people "farm" -50hp foci.

You can get the egg on another character.
You can harden the egg on another character.
You can get the herring on another character.
You can get the berries on another character.
You can get the honeycomb on another character.
You can get the nesting material on another character, thanks to Firebaall's trick.

The throwaway character needs to beat Zho in the tourny.
The throwaway character has to get "rushed" through the canthan mission up through Gayla Hatchery so you can craft the incubator. (You can farm the luxon faction on another character.)
The throwaway character needs to get run to SF and taken in by someone with Final Assault.

That doesn't sound impossible. A few dedicated players could probably rock through cantha pretty fast, and a shiverpeaks run isn't too hard in this age of dervishes. If you made the throwaway character a Mo/N, you could pick up SV south of leviathan pits, toss on some runes, a totem axe, and a -50hp focus (if you've leveled high enough you need it), and beat Zho easily. (Then just recycle the runes and gear to the next throwaway char.)

While not impossible, moas would have to command very high prices to make this sort of effort worthwhile. Hmmm.... Thoughts?

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On the topic of farming spiritwood. Yeah... wood and dust are both super-easy to come by. Just do about any old farm out there and salvage your whites.
You can also farm spiritwood pretty reliably off the plant monsters in the forest. When I use my earth ele, I always get 10 or 15 spiritwood accidentally in the time it takes me to get a scar eater.

Yo thanks for doing the nasty work

I have all materials on another char but I haven't done a single quest in Faction

But the busy of Katharine is definitely a bug (According to my QA point of view lol) since Captain Juno said she got some Incubator Kits

Hope they gonna 'Fix' this... I feel a little regret for selling my Moa Chick for 100k

WildmouseX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

N/R

03 Sep 2007 at 03:21 - 562

the problem with getting a run in cantha, is that many of the places have big gates on the doors when you try to run to them... i had to work my way to get the eggs hardened and i tried to run every town i didn't have, and was forced to do missions and quests that were compleately pointless to do (biggest reason why i hate factions to being with).

WildmouseX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

N/R

03 Sep 2007 at 03:26 - 563

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hailfall

I am having so much issues trying to get the skree wings on my necro.. cant seem to get any while doing that run that's posted here..

Any tips?

i go with a full team of hench, and running a OoU mm build... if only go up to the korman boss, you get 1 every 2-3 trips... if you go all the way to the huge mob of skree on the hill, you can get 2-3 each trip but it does take more time... they probly equeal out.

Firebaall

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

03 Sep 2007 at 08:05 - 564

Quote:

Originally Posted by A11Eur0

Proven? Evidence? If so, then I'm in!

My GFs character that hasn't done nightfall has her black moa. I personally place my nesting material into that incubator.

Don't believe it? Go try it.

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

03 Sep 2007 at 11:37 - 565

I have someone in the process of farming me some skree wings and getting me nesting material right now. Well, he's sleeping now, but he'll get to it tomorrow.

He's got two so far..and I have everything else ready but the Final Assault.

lucifer_uk

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Nottingham, England

The Venerable Truth [TvT] The Venerable Alliance [TvH] [TvL]

R/

03 Sep 2007 at 13:53 - 566

Anyone wanna be kind enough to swap a moa egg with a hardened moa egg for a luxon?

I'll pay you for the trouble.

Bubba

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

Netherlands

port sledge snow cones [COLD]

03 Sep 2007 at 14:43 - 567

I'll give you one. No need for payment though. Give me 15 minutes and then find me in Cavalon English district 1

lucifer_uk

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Nottingham, England

The Venerable Truth [TvT] The Venerable Alliance [TvH] [TvL]

R/

03 Sep 2007 at 15:59 - 568

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bubba

I'll give you one. No need for payment though. Give me 15 minutes and then find me in Cavalon English district 1

Thanks again

How much is the current market price for the minipet then?

Esprit

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Dvd Forums [DVDF]

E/

03 Sep 2007 at 16:19 - 569

Cool thing for Anet to do.

Sort of sucks the Zho hardly spawns, meaning nearly never.

Good job Anet for coming up with another way to make your player base play more by teasing us with a cool minipet, but making it hard to acquire, not because it's difficult, but because you've made the spawn chance for Zho be ridiculously low. </3

Chthon

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Apr 2007

03 Sep 2007 at 17:24 - 570

Quote:

Originally Posted by WildmouseX

the problem with getting a run in cantha, is that many of the places have big gates on the doors when you try to run to them... i had to work my way to get the eggs hardened and i tried to run every town i didn't have, and was forced to do missions and quests that were compleately pointless to do (biggest reason why i hate factions to being with).

That's why I said "rushed" instead of "run." You'd need a friend (or two) to power you through the canthan mission quickly. (And then you'd need to split the profits.)

Imaginos

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

03 Sep 2007 at 19:39 - 571

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bubba

Artisan? 50 times 100g, 5 wood and 10 glittering dust. So 5 platinum, 250 wood and 500 glit dust if you don't have any spiritwood planks at all. Are you telling me that takes a long time to get?

All the other prestige items like elite armor and elite weapons also take time, effort and grinding to get. So why should this be any different? I know, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the little ball of feathers either, but there's nothing wrong with having to spend some time to get it and it really isn't that much time invested when you do it efficiently. Just get the stuff for the spiritwood planks while adventuring, it doesn't seem like the moa will run away

Did you even read this thread? I'll recap for you.

My friend is one of the "average" players in this game. He falls well into the statistic of less then 20k. He has roughly 2 hours he gets to play most of the week and maybe another hour or so on saturday or sunday.

After finishing the factions, over a year+, he has 4 spirit wood planks. and some dust/wood. To craft this stuff will take most of his money OR he can farm spiritwood planks, which you seem to think is easy to do with your offhand comment on farming. So go farm me up 46 wood planks and see how good the drop rate is. Or find me a great farm a casual player warrior can do to earn 10-15k or so.

Of course with the crap drop rate on spritwood it would be easier to farm up another 250 dust and finish off what little wood he may be missing but then he'll still need 10k which as I said is most of his money.

Imaginos

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

03 Sep 2007 at 19:42 - 572

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chthon

On the topic of farming spiritwood. Yeah... wood and dust are both super-easy to come by. Just do about any old farm out there and salvage your whites.
You can also farm spiritwood pretty reliably off the plant monsters in the forest. When I use my earth ele, I always get 10 or 15 spiritwood accidentally in the time it takes me to get a scar eater.

Tried the plants on my rit solo for a few hours and didn't get one to drop. The drop rate on them is pathetic.

Imaginos

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

03 Sep 2007 at 19:45 - 573

Quote:

Originally Posted by Firebaall

My GFs character that hasn't done nightfall has her black moa. I personally place my nesting material into that incubator.

Don't believe it? Go try it.

Can totally confirm this. Thanks for the trick, Expect it to get nerfed soon when they figure how to nerf it.

On another note even if you have the stuff to buy more then one incubator Katherine won't sell more then one to you. With the window open if you click the number counter up she says shes out of that item. If you buy one and don't close the window she says basically the same thing. So it is one per customer for incubators.

Imaginos

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

03 Sep 2007 at 19:46 - 574

Quote:

Originally Posted by Esprit

Cool thing for Anet to do.

Sort of sucks the Zho hardly spawns, meaning nearly never.

Good job Anet for coming up with another way to make your player base play more by teasing us with a cool minipet, but making it hard to acquire, not because it's difficult, but because you've made the spawn chance for Zho be ridiculously low. </3

Tell me about it

Took me 38 tries to get Zho. Fortunately my friend only had to do it about 10x.

ValaOfTheFens

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2006

Warrior Nation[WN]

03 Sep 2007 at 19:54 - 575

Quote:

Originally Posted by Imaginos

Tell me about it

Took me 38 tries to get Zho. Fortunately my friend only had to do it about 10x.

That's weird. During the preview I fought Zho 3 times out of the 5 times I tried to beat Magni before giving up. *shrug*

Pevil Lihatuh

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Yorkshire, UK

R/Me

03 Sep 2007 at 20:19 - 576

The spiritwood really isn't so bad to get. Just from trying to get 10k faction to befriend the kurzicks, i've ended up with 20 of them, over maybe... 10 hours play at most. Still not fantastic, of course, but not only are those from drops, but i expert-salvage everything too. Got some from rods and staves etc.

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

03 Sep 2007 at 20:27 - 577

Quote:

Originally Posted by Imaginos

Did you even read this thread? I'll recap for you.

My friend is one of the "average" players in this game. He falls well into the statistic of less then 20k. He has roughly 2 hours he gets to play most of the week and maybe another hour or so on saturday or sunday.

After finishing the factions, over a year+, he has 4 spirit wood planks. and some dust/wood. To craft this stuff will take most of his money OR he can farm spiritwood planks, which you seem to think is easy to do with your offhand comment on farming. So go farm me up 46 wood planks and see how good the drop rate is. Or find me a great farm a casual player warrior can do to earn 10-15k or so.

Of course with the crap drop rate on spritwood it would be easier to farm up another 250 dust and finish off what little wood he may be missing but then he'll still need 10k which as I said is most of his money.

Get your friend into the Fissure of Woe, he'll have enough gold, dust and wood from salvaging shadow staves and bows, dark remains and various other wooden and magical drops to make 3 or 4 incubators in a couple days' time. Have him make a smiter bond monk for a 600/smite duo and head in there with a pro tank on hard mode...bingo bango done.

Croco Clouds

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2007

Montreal, QC, Canada

Divine Illumination [LaZy]

E/A

03 Sep 2007 at 21:54 - 578

Can we make more than one incubators in 1 shot?

If yes then I'll get my plant+dust ready

Bubba

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

Netherlands

port sledge snow cones [COLD]

03 Sep 2007 at 22:59 - 579

Quote:

Originally Posted by Imaginos

Did you even read this thread? I'll recap for you.

No need for this. Just because we disagree doesn't mean I don't read your replies.

Quote:

My friend is one of the "average" players in this game. He falls well into the statistic of less then 20k. He has roughly 2 hours he gets to play most of the week and maybe another hour or so on saturday or sunday.

So he can't play much, so it will take him longer. Not exactly a weird thing if you ask me. Again, the Moa is not unattainable for people who play less, it will just take longer for them. I guess you just don't agree with the way Anet offered it. Let's agree to disagree here then, because this discussion is getting nowhere.

Quote:

After finishing the factions, over a year+, he has 4 spirit wood planks. and some dust/wood. To craft this stuff will take most of his money OR he can farm spiritwood planks, which you seem to think is easy to do with your offhand comment on farming. So go farm me up 46 wood planks and see how good the drop rate is. Or find me a great farm a casual player warrior can do to earn 10-15k or so.

What offhand remark on farming? I said it's not difficult to get wood and dust. You make it sound like wood planks are really difficult to get. Do you even use salvage kits? There's plenty of white bows and staves in GWEN which you can find while adventuring which will salvage into wood. There's wood plenty out there and it really is not hard to find. Same goes for the glittering dust.

And for the gold part, a lot of the quests in Gwen pay good money. Don't buy keys and just do quests in Gwen.

Divinitys Creature

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Somewhere between the Real World and Tyria ;P

The Gothic Embrace [Goth]

04 Sep 2007 at 00:01 - 580

OMFG 29 pages and none of you worked out the recipe for hair dye remover using moa eggs yet :-( nubcakes.

Imaginos

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

04 Sep 2007 at 00:46 - 581

Quote:

Originally Posted by ValaOfTheFens

That's weird. During the preview I fought Zho 3 times out of the 5 times I tried to beat Magni before giving up. *shrug*

Funny thing is in the preview I too fought her about 3 times in 10, but not during GWEN going live

Imaginos

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

04 Sep 2007 at 01:05 - 582

Quote:

Originally Posted by Croco Clouds

Can we make more than one incubators in 1 shot?

If yes then I'll get my plant+dust ready

Katherine won't sell more then one to you. With the window open if you click the number counter up she says shes out of that item. If you buy one and don't close the window she says basically the same thing. So it is one per customer for incubators.

Thanks everyone else for suggestions to pass on to my friend for his pet.

thelessa

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Texas

Purple Puzycats

R/Mo

04 Sep 2007 at 01:49 - 583

I have everything but the nesting material. Can't seem to get the Skree wings to drop for me. lol, if i ever get the nesting material, all I then need is someone to take me with them when the do the FA quest in Sorrows Furnace

If anyone needs their eggs hardened let me know. I wonder can you harden more then one egg at a time?

fRag_Doll

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2006

Australia

Prid of Ankh Morpork [Prid]

W/E

04 Sep 2007 at 03:14 - 584

You can do more than 1 egg per trip, you just have to click on the spring once for each egg.

I'm wondering if anyone has tried it with a devourer egg from pre.

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

04 Sep 2007 at 03:49 - 585

The nesting material transfer works...did it today. Gots muh moa, and resisted the temptation to sell it. I'll just craft and sell spiritwood for 3-5x the cost instead.

Zahr Dalsk

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Canada

04 Sep 2007 at 03:55 - 586

I have tried the nesting material trick and it does indeed work.

Now I just have to farm some gold to get my ritualist run to Sorrow's Furnace (I never have gold on me) and finish the quest.

vergerefosh

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2006

Englishmen Don't Drink [Tea]

W/R

04 Sep 2007 at 07:49 - 587

Quick question, can you give the journal to someone else, and still have them capable of purchasing the incubator?

But yeah, the whole nesting material thing works, my sin got the incubator, got the material on my war and running it now.

If anyone needs hardened moa eggs, let me know, got spares

Mordakai

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

W/

04 Sep 2007 at 14:08 - 588

Just to confirm:

There is no way to get to Katherine without completing the 10k Luxon faction requirement, is there? I finished Kurzick with my char, but never Luxon...

Chthon

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Apr 2007

04 Sep 2007 at 17:11 - 589

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mordakai

Just to confirm:

There is no way to get to Katherine without completing the 10k Luxon faction requirement, is there? I finished Kurzick with my char, but never Luxon...

Think so.

There's those gates at unwaking waters that seem like they ought to let you walk backwards through the Luxon side, but I've never been able to open them, even as a Luxon.

Fortunately, the addition of the Luxon Blessing should make 10k faction much easier to get.

captain_carter

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2007

England

The X Viles [TXV]

R/

04 Sep 2007 at 19:46 - 590

im pretty sure you do, you'd have to have done gyala hatchery, which you can't get into until you do the quest after befriending.

Firebaall

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

04 Sep 2007 at 21:04 - 591

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mordakai

Just to confirm:

There is no way to get to Katherine without completing the 10k Luxon faction requirement, is there? I finished Kurzick with my char, but never Luxon...

This will make you smile then:

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/FFF

I got 10K luxon in under 1 hour.

Cherng Butter

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Maryland

The Mirror Of Reason [SNOW]

E/Mo

04 Sep 2007 at 21:36 - 592

Bought: (took me about 2-3 hours, with farming Skree, doing Chuno quests)

1k Volcanic Rock
500g Honeycomb
500g Herring
750g tip for run to Camp Rankor
1.5k run to Deldrimor War Camp
10k or so for the Incubator?

I'll get on later to get a ferry into SF

sassoonssamson

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

06 Sep 2007 at 11:01 - 593

YAhooo Got my mini pet MOA awww its so cute

By the way u need 1 person who has the final assualt quest
Alse he needs to be the leader and he is the one who should enter the sorrow furnace

I do feel bad for the person whio is trying to complete the quest as others just abandan him after get there mini pet

Happened with a monk who had the quest all promised to complete the quest
by the time we got the pets from the falling lava only 2 of us were left

Pevil Lihatuh

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Yorkshire, UK

R/Me

06 Sep 2007 at 22:51 - 594

Finally got mine, a week after I started trying. He's so adorable! Just the Wintersday Moa for me to get now...

Cherng Butter

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Maryland

The Mirror Of Reason [SNOW]

E/Mo

07 Sep 2007 at 02:47 - 595

Quote:

Originally Posted by sassoonssamson

YAhooo Got my mini pet MOA awww its so cute

By the way u need 1 person who has the final assualt quest
Alse he needs to be the leader and he is the one who should enter the sorrow furnace

I do feel bad for the person whio is trying to complete the quest as others just abandan him after get there mini pet

Happened with a monk who had the quest all promised to complete the quest
by the time we got the pets from the falling lava only 2 of us were left

Same thing happened to me

...a couple people in our group thought we were gonna kill the Iron Forgeman or w/e, we almost all left after getting Sorrow's Flamed, then decided to help? Too bad we had the LOUSIEST team composition ever...1 ele w/ healing breeze, 1 with mist form, some chinese warrior who didn't know english, talkora w/ breeze...etc etc...it wasn't pretty

Firebaall

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

07 Sep 2007 at 06:32 - 596

Quote:

* Fixed a bug that allowed players to add and remove items from an Incubator Kit that was customized for someone else.

Soup Nazi says: "No more nesting materials for you!".

lol

revelation

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

14 Sep 2007 at 00:22 - 597

Did anyone have problem with getting black moa chick? I have all 6 materials, incubator and Zho's Journal. I was doing Final Assault and was standing near Rage Binders, affected by burning and I just couldn't get mini moa... Maybe problem was that I didn't talk to Captain Juno before getting incubator? I just ran to Katherine and took it.. Hmm

Mork from Ork

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2007

14 Sep 2007 at 02:01 - 598

No - I did not talk to Juno either and it still worked.

I remember when I did final assault the egg disappeared and I did not see the mini moa. Turned out that the chick was so dark against the background that I couldn't see it. As I ran my mouse over the spots in my inventory I finally found it. Also - just being affected by burning at binders may not be enough - I think you have to be hit by the giant golem's heat spell specifically.

Cherng Butter

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Maryland

The Mirror Of Reason [SNOW]

E/Mo

14 Sep 2007 at 02:58 - 599

You have to be damaged by "Sorrow's Flame"

The icon of some flaming skull, i think, will show up in your damage history. Getting set on fire from the rage binders won't do anything.

WildmouseX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

N/R

14 Sep 2007 at 04:25 - 600

Quote:

Originally Posted by revelation

Did anyone have problem with getting black moa chick? I have all 6 materials, incubator and Zho's Journal. I was doing Final Assault and was standing near Rage Binders, affected by burning and I just couldn't get mini moa... Maybe problem was that I didn't talk to Captain Juno before getting incubator? I just ran to Katherine and took it.. Hmm

you have to have everything inside the incubator when you get hit by the flame