Obby Armour

chris da warrior

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2007

Ok, i want to superfarm like nonstop to get money to afford obby armour.

I got a warrior and ele, please tell me the best places to farm with them which will get money fast. I have most builds,Thanks in advance

P.S im aiming to do this in 2-3 week so there ya go

P.S #2 I dont want to go around selling things and looking for groups, thanks.

Government Flu

Government Flu

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2007

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Paradoxa Zoloft Asylum [PXZ]

W/R

It took me 3 months to get a full set of obsidian armor for me, but then again I don't have that much time on my hands. If you don't want to sell anything to other people, I would recommend you ecto/shard farm. Break up the tedium doing a few dungeons in Eye of the North if you've got the expansion. There's always the chance a hidden treasure or dungeon chest will drop a gemstone.

FrAnt1c??

FrAnt1c??

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2007

Belgium

Legion Of Sacred Light [LSL]

Mo/

Powertrading is also a good option, got a couple of friends that had been powertrading for a week, and raised 900k +xx ectos, with only 100k and a few items to start with.
But in general I would also say, farm the globs and obbies for yourself, for ele there are solo builds for fow and uw, and offcourse the W/Rt or W/Me UW-farm for warrior.

Wickie

Wickie

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2006

The Netherlands

W/

Took me 5/6 days to get full set,with just Terra tank UW build

This was BEFORE the lootscale nerf/change, and my droprate is horrible..

so I think everyone can do this lol

SotiCoto

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Linksys
It used to be that the Scroll Trader will buy Urgoz scrolls for 750gold each. After doing hero FFF, it was 3.75k plus 7.5k each half hour or so. Now they only pay 100g per scroll. I guess too many faction farmers got the same idea.

Now you can still do the same if you know Hero FFF. You get more for one run of the quest alone than you do for selling the scrolls (which each take at least 3 runs to get). There are much more efficient farming methods than that... sorry.
Admittedly others might not be quite so effortless...

Al 0.o

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2007

Mutants [MU]

Mo/

It wont get you a full set , But do the 'Hidden Treasures' around Nightfall on all your chars. You get around 20k + Golds which you can sell Un-Id for 1k Each. You can also get Diamonds, Rubys etc. If you have 10 chars thats around 200k.
And they reset every month or so.

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

SotiCoto

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Linksys
What I'm saying is you get 1k more, so instead of 3.75k, you get 4.75k if you don't care about double faction points for the kurzick title track. Why would anyone be FFFing NOT for the double faction points?
That is 80% of the reason I do it, the other 20% being so my characters can get their PvE skills.

Linksys

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

Fine nevermind then, sheesh.

chris da warrior

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2007

i have all the games, i will sell stuff but im not going to go and farm for just one item such as ele sword. I dont want to merchant either, can anyone tell me like a few places i could do this? thanks

SotiCoto

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

You could do Droks Runs if you're into that stuff...

chris da warrior

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2007

nah, i wana kill :d

chris da warrior

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2007

Hey so please can someone recomend something, best upto now looks like uw, fow and dungions every now n then

Hey_homies

Hey_homies

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

W/

All i gotta say is try Dont feel no pain's W/me 12-15 min smite run. I've gotten 10 ectos in 2 days farming there.

thor thunder

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2007

Mass

Cellestial Guard

W/E

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...3040991&page=2

great ideas there id sugjest my mintor build tho its most recent and its very stable its a steady income if your willing to farm a bit.

Friar Khan

Friar Khan

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

California

When there's favor do UW or FoW, when there isn't do something else from the new solo build list or open Dungeon chests.

You'll notice that the list was created a month ago and is still updated regularly. Since you don't want to spam wts you can filter out builds things like "Farming Elementalist Sword" pretty quickly so that'll slim down your options. Of the top of my head I'd say that farming Hulkings fits all your criteria and has multiple builds for W and E.

Also note that the build list is a sticky.

jimmyboveto

jimmyboveto

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

US

Legion of Avalon

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wickie
Took me 5/6 days to get full set,with just Terra tank UW build

This was BEFORE the lootscale nerf/change, and my droprate is horrible..

so I think everyone can do this lol If i remember correctly, ectos and other rare materials were except from the loot scale nerf. Well... at least wiki says they were I wouldn't know as i rarely farm

blue.rellik

blue.rellik

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2007

Melbourne, Australia

None

W/

Rare crafting materials are exempt from loot scaling. It was stated in the update the day after HM came out

hotman

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

I was thinking of getting this armour for my male paragon, but i dunno, im going to check out the differet looks

AuraofMana

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Georgia, US

Power merchanting is probably the most efficient way to get rich. However, you have to have at least mediocre knowledge of the the market system and how it works, and have to have at least some basic resources to start with. Another problem is you might end up losing money. So unless you have a good grasp of the items (what people want, how they want it, and its general price and worth), you probably want to put this off since it takes a while to learn it (relatively speaking). Another thing, if you want to learn how to power merchant, it's best if you learn from someone who has done this for a while. I guess someone COULD write a guide for power merchanting, but a lot of it comes from experience. When you farm or run, you can ask for a build and probably find someone who you can watch doing it in action. However, with power merchanting, every case is unique.
Speaking of which, someone probably should write at least a basic outline of power merchanting. Most people don't even know what it is.

kenichiukiya

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

Rt/

I think someone wrote a basic guide to making money in GW long time ago...which included a pretty comprehensive guide on power merchanting. But i cbf to dig the guide out lol

Ultra Ranger

Ultra Ranger

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

R/

In my opinion, power trading is the fastest way.
I started with mini palawa joko and in 2 weeks i ended up with 100k+140e.
Thats how I got my FoW .

AuraofMana

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Georgia, US

Someone needs to rewrite the guide really. Most people have no idea what it is and thinks the only way to get money is by farming or running, which is rather sad :/

??Ripskin

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

I know what power trading is, I just get bored as hell.
Once upon a time, I got a 15^50 inscription. I found a fool who would buy this 15^50 inscription for 10k, with that 10k, I used 7 of it for a shield handle +30 hp. I sold the shield handle for 15k, and bought a 20/20 sword hilt for another 15k. I sold that for 25k. And on and on.
After that I bought some ectos from this one guy for 3k a piece, I had gotten about 6-7 of them. Ecto prices were 6k each, so that's about ~20k profit.
After that night I was 60k richer.

Dallcingi

Dallcingi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2006

USA

The Black Parades [死人死]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by «Ripskin
I know what power trading is, I just get bored as hell.
Once upon a time, I got a 15^50 inscription. I found a fool who would buy this 15^50 inscription for 10k, with that 10k, I used 7 of it for a shield handle +30 hp. I sold the shield handle for 15k, and bought a 20/20 sword hilt for another 15k. I sold that for 25k. And on and on.
After that I bought some ectos from this one guy for 3k a piece, I had gotten about 6-7 of them. Ecto prices were 6k each, so that's about ~20k profit.
After that night I was 60k richer. But how do you find all the nice deals? All I ever see are "wts ecto for 4.8k" and like "wtb 20/20 for 10k" Is it mostly luck? Where do you find your buyers? AND, where do you buy? forums? in game? both? yarr.. I tried power trading but no one buys my stuff... I try selling 4x shield handle for 10k each (got for 6k each) and like 2x +30 hp sword hilt for like 15k (got for like 8k?) so ya... begenner guide would be awesome! (I have like 200k+ in my bank too...)

Zomgyogi

Zomgyogi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

In a park

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dallcingi
But how do you find all the nice deals? All I ever see are "wts ecto for 4.8k" and like "wtb 20/20 for 10k" Is it mostly luck? Where do you find your buyers? AND, where do you buy? forums? in game? both? yarr.. I tried power trading but no one buys my stuff... I try selling 4x shield handle for 10k each (got for 6k each) and like 2x +30 hp sword hilt for like 15k (got for like 8k?) so ya... begenner guide would be awesome! (I have like 200k+ in my bank too...) Just sit in LA/Kamadan or search around in the forums. One time i got a perfect req 9 stormbow for only 40k, about 10 minutes later sold it for 100k+20e, you just have to be patient and lucky. I used to do that alot and made a ton of gold, but now that most of the things went down so much in price i really dont do it anymore.

ghostlyfenix

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

W/

look out for non-insc low req and perf mod items for cheap , but takes a little patience to get used to power trading tho

chris da warrior

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by AuraofMana
Someone needs to rewrite the guide really. Most people have no idea what it is and thinks the only way to get money is by farming or running, which is rather sad :/ i know what it is, never said i didn't did i. If you actually read what i said, i said i dont want to sell anything. So read in future because when u dont its rather sad :/

Deadly Eyezz

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

i do elite tomes.
Just bought 5 monk tomes for 10k each..
Gonna try to sell them for 13~15k each.

Nemo the Capitalist

Nemo the Capitalist

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

Trust me you dont want to know my Chasms of Despair

Zaishen Brotherhood

N/Me

Beg u can make some good moeny 50 gold every 5 minutes = 1k

ghostlyfenix

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

W/

how about just farm scar eater(monk) in HM 2-4 elite tomes per hour/10-25ish golds per hour
30secs-1 min per run
sell elite tomes 10-12k each for fast sale
and thats just the tomes not including scrolls and items

Savor Silversword

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2007

Sweden

Arrogant High [rank]

Mo/

What build do u use when u farm scar eater? E/A build ??

kobey

kobey

GW Retiree

Join Date: Nov 2005

Sg Unknown [KATE]

W/

Ever considered running missions? with heros now, u dun have to split ur profit with anyone

fir

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2007

In my chair

Wooting The Woot For The Woot

If you want your armor fast there is only 1 thing i would recomand go 55 at gates of kryta (hm), outside droknar the toundra giants (hm) and doe the uw/fow solo thingies with a ele and war! and what Al 0.o said wasnt a bad idea eihter with the treasure chest's. yust flip your brain to zero and farm but remember dont stay farming at the same spot but switch a bit or you wil get bored fast xD GL with getting your obby armor

Rushin Roulette

Rushin Roulette

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Right here

Ende

On the topic of powertrading


Why the hell do people look specifically for non-inscribable weapons and pay more for them than identical ones with an inscription slot? Is there a reason for this apart to show it doesnt come from GWEN or NF, seeing as the inscribable ones have more modding capabilities and variation possibilities for a relatively minor additional cost (seeing as inscriptions go for between 500g and maybe 6K)

Trueslash Noobfoot

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2007

None - I'm a backpacker, I don't have a guild :)

W/Mo

Maybe it's because the non-inscribable weps are rarer?

chris da warrior

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by fir
If you want your armor fast there is only 1 thing i would recomand go 55 at gates of kryta (hm), outside droknar the toundra giants (hm) and doe the uw/fow solo thingies with a ele and war! and what Al 0.o said wasnt a bad idea eihter with the treasure chest's. yust flip your brain to zero and farm but remember dont stay farming at the same spot but switch a bit or you wil get bored fast xD GL with getting your obby armor thank you, someone that didnt actually go on about powertrading

Savor Silversword

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2007

Sweden

Arrogant High [rank]

Mo/

what do the toundra giants drop and what do the undeads on gates of kryta mission drop stephis axes??

lennymon

lennymon

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Seattle

Odin's Hammer [OH] - Servant's of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

dungeon run for voltaic spears in slavers.... very very popular (and rare)

novawhiz

novawhiz

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by kobey
Ever considered running missions? with heros now, u dun have to split ur profit with anyone If ur gonna run this is definetly the way. Droks runs definatly are not worth time now. 2k a run. 5 ppl. 10k~30-45min(depending on how lucky u r with ppl.)

But with missions, i set up scheldules with clients and run missions that take like 15-25min for 15k. Never have to worry about spamming in chatto get ppl.
Running all kinds of mission across Factions and Nightfall(barely in Tyria) i make usually around 30-40k per hour. How muchs obby these days? 600k? 800k?
Thats like 20 hours runing maybe? Run an hour a day(not bad at all) maybe 2 hours on saturday and sunday and you got urslef a set of fissy armor in 2-3 weeks. Pas mal, pas mal

AuraofMana

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Georgia, US

Quote:
i know what it is, never said i didn't did i. If you actually read what i said, i said i dont want to sell anything. So read in future because when u dont its rather sad :/ Just because I commented on your thread doesn't mean I was commenting toward you. Next time you want to get all defensive, determine whether the other person is actually talking about you and then run a spell check.

It's call topic digressing people :/ That's how spams and happiness are created.


Back on topic:
Well, mods are relatively harder to sell off because a lot of people have them. You have a better luck power merchanting high-end items since they sell fast if your price isn't _that_ ridiculous. This is because high-end items are so coveted and yet rare (that's why it costs a lot).

As for making money other ways, the list goes on. You can probably be hitting millions doing say.... drawing people's characters :O

As for Voltaic Spear.... good luck on that one :/

If you want to farm for money, solo UW (or dual if you like having someone else around) is a good place to start, since Ecto price is relatively stable right now and it is popular.