Material Farming Locations

I'm currently looking for locations to farm several materials such as wood planks, plant fibers, tanned hide, glittering dust, chitin fragments, and scales. If anyone has any locations where i could farm these please post here!

Wooden planks: troll cave outside droknars; the raven staffs can be salvaged to wood
Tanned hide: wardens in kurzick area
Dust: smites in uw i think
Chitin fragments; Devourer can drop them (in ascalon), but don't know in large numbers ^^
scales: dropped by inferno imps in kryta

Thanks! hehe quick response, now i just need location for plant fibers. I have been trying the 3 groups of dragon mosses outside st. anjeka's shrine, but im getting more gold items than i am dragon roots/plant fibers. Any suggestions for plant fibers?

Tanned hide( lots) and dust (not much) u get from wardens =]

Bones, and Dust you can get from the Undead in Kryta.

When I did 55 SJ farming in HM there, I would get stacks and stacks of bones just after a few runs.

What's a good place to farm granite?

for granite, Elementals in HM outside of Sardelac

I know you can get granite and Glittering Dust (for Powerstone of Courage) together from Stone Scale Kirins outside of Maatu Keep.

what about iron ingots?

For plant fibres I just exit ToA and kill those 8 mobs out there standing in that circle. Their name escape me atm.

About dust...try out the temple of flames (though I dunno if you can solo farm that...I think you can 3 man farm that, oh well...); undeads drops large amounts of dust (35 Dust!) so you can get easy dust without having to deal with the crap 3 Dust that Smites drops. Agree with wood, though it's boring.

For plant fibers uhm...there was a place where I did drop a lot of fibers, but I don't really remember where. Cannot be helped :s

Best place for Chitin I'd say is outside Ran Musu Gardens (Shing Jea Island) in Hard Mode. There is an absolute TON of Mantids out there, and an SV 55 Mo/N or N/Mo should be able to handle them without much trouble.
It can take a while... but they're all rather prone to dropping Chitin.

Plant Fibres are rare... but I'd personally recommend the plant groups in Echovald Forest.... or just outside in Maatu Keep. They drop a lot of varied stuff.

Feathers I get almost exclusively from Tengu of various kinds across all campaigns. Hard Mode Jaya Bluffs (Shing Jea) has the proverbial ton of Sensali.

Dust comes from just about everything under the sun.

Bones are easily aquired in vast numbers from the Undead in the Desolation (Judundu rampage much). You could do Hard Mode Gates of Kryta in Tyria too if you prefer.

Wood and Iron I get from highly salvagable weapons and the like... though ordinary ones will do. Almost every weapon out there salvages into Wood or Iron.

Cloth and Hide are commonly found salvaging monster armour... the sorts that would normally have runes on if coloured. Hide can also be aquired from Wardens in Echovald and Cloth from just about anything else.

Granite comes from elementals of the earth variety... be those Nightfall-style ones or Tyria-style ones.

Scales are another awkward one... and I know Naga in the Jade Sea drop them... but I'm not sure what else might.




I'm sure I've forgotten some of the common ones.... but... well... nobody is perfect.
And if it gets really bad, you could just save up the cash from farming other stuff and buy whatever materials you still need.

Dust - Djinns in Hidden City of Ahdashim, just clear the first chamber, they drop ~30-35 dust when they drop, and you normally get ~60-80 dust per run.
Cloth - Corsairs in Moddok Crevice, ~25-50 per run
Scales - Hydras in the crystal desert, their Dessicated Hydra Claws salvage ~6-7 scales each. Also Ice Imps in Ice Floe are nice.
Feather - Griffins outside of Camp Rankor

Is there anywhere that drops lots of Spiritwood Planks?
And what sort of build for farming the area

Well spiritwood planks drop from Dragon Moss and such in echovald forest.
Not sure if u can farm them.

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For plant fibres you may also want to check the oakhearts and spined aloes on Watchtower Coast.

iron/steel farm Vermin and salvage there wand/staves they drop

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Just use Rt/Mo 330 hp Spirit Bonder + VwK and you can farm almost every mob in Pongmei Valley (except for Brotherhood Mesmers - they have nasty interrupts). Including Dragon Moss.

Plant fibre - farm Enchanted Brambles in Garden of Seborhin <salvage seeds they drop too>, easy with an earth ele with Melandru's Resilience, there are 2 groups of 3 that can be pulled easily into the center near a rock and they don't have those annoying Whistling Thornbrush paragons to support them.

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Dust, Bones: Undeads in FoW/Kryta, Djinns
Rubies, Sapphires, Diamonds: salvage Ruby/Jeweled Daggers, collectable drops from Djinns
Tanned Hide Squares, Leather Squares: Tundra Giants, Grawls

[x] Sticky or something

Charcoal: Fire Imps outside LA (HM drop lots of 5)

Scales: Jade Kirins (E/A Sliver Farm Kenrii Seasorrow and they drop up to 25 scales in HM)

Dust: Smite Crawlers, Grasping Darkness

Cloth: Luxon Assassins and Jade Brotherhood

Spiritwood Planks: Dragon Moss

I used to farm plant fibers in the area east of not berigen but that one with the undead quest. Seeds can be salvaged into fibers.

i got plenty of dust,bones, iron, steel, ths, cloth and wood planks from the ghostly slaves in nf, forget the name of the quest but it's where people farm dead swords. just salvage everything you get, bring one or two sup salvage kits and just rezone at the door (as in don't go back to town when they're all dead). plenty of gold drops too.

you could also check this thread ^^

Plant: Doing the totem axe run and I usually come back with enough plant fiber (farm isn't the best, but it is more fun then riposte/VwK all to death)
Charcoal and Slab: Hulking stone elemental HM
Bones and Dust: Undead
Cloth: Undead, salvage the orr emblems

Thank you for all of the responses, I'm thinking of making a list with the best locations to farm these materials, the average material/hour ratio and what build works best for it once I have time. If others wish to do tests for example the average amount of cloth you get from clearing the two groups of warden in Arborstone(explorable) and the amount of time it takes.