Is it possible to get ~10K an hour with a warrior solo farm?

matthew5276

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Hi,

I am looking to do a bit of farming over the next few weeks, I would preferably like to get about 200K, and I was wondering if that would be possible in 20 hours with a warrior solo. I have tried a few farms, HM raptor (half the time dosent work for me, so havent been able to test the K/hr rate), Hm elemental farm (between 4K and 8K an hour depending on drops, but incredibly boring:P) Destroyer core farm, etc.

I can access all areas apart from ares in factions after kaineng city. I can use whatever skills, armor combinations and weapons you need aswell. Preferably, I would like the farm to be fairly easy to do, and, if possible, have a chance of dropping a few golds, or rare skins aswell.

Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks in advance,

Matt.

rose of zg

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solo UW ?

ecto is hmmm 4,5?

Jumping Is Uselss

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thats if your lucky even to get one ecto a run these days. The smites have been hit hard by the farming nerf awhile ago.

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Ive never tried it, but stick to the elemental farming by the looks of things, u aint gonna get that much better. hit uw once or twice, not more than that though otherwise its a waste.

Chrono Re delle Ere

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If I were you I would just go UB way in DoA to get some easy cash....if you are enough lucky, you can get around 60k per run.

Sir Pandra Pierva

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spider farm fow
net 4k per run in just merch food drops
not counting stuff i can sell
and obby shards

25-30 min run

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FOW spider farm and ghial work for me. Easy 10k/hour on FOW and ghial (people still want his staff).

What's this about UW nerf on ectos? % drop rate on wiki still works fine for my ranger and I farm it a lot.

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above options are good i would have to suggest exploring the other professions like monk 600\smite fow hm but thats probally not an option for you so otherthan whats listed power trading is good.

MrSlayer

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I'd say UW. People keep telling me "Smite ecto drops are nerfed."

I have never seen evidence of an update which says "lowered the drop rate of Ectoplasm off Smite Crawlers". I'll happily lift my hat to anyone who can link me to this on the wiki, because honestly, after getting 6 ectos in 2 consecutive runs, I can say that this is rubbish.

I would quote the guy who linked someone to the wiki article on variance, but I'm too lazy.

Other than that, FoW or get Ursaning DoA. DoA clears take around 2 hours, and you can make anything up to 30 or 40k in them if you succeed (my first run netted me 5 gem sets (including killing Mallyx) which is 5 x 12k to sell. Do the Maths :})(Yes it was HM).

Real money is in gems, ectos and shards. Outside the FoW/UW, you'll be hard pressed to make more than 6-8k an hour. Which I guess is still fairly good...

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not really the normal farming... but try HFFF. Not only do you work on your title, but if you take 2 other people with you, you will be rolling in the cash. 350g/minute run. Let's just say you get around 45 run in an hour, that would still be over 15k. Probably the most boring thing possible, but it is very efficient as you are making straight cash while doing it.

edit: farming elite tomes is also a good method to make some fast cash, it managed to pay for my skill hunter titles. Soloing scar eater only takes about a minute with the A/E. Not sure what the probability is for elite monk tome drop, but i found i usually got around 2 every hour.

Antithesis

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Most decent farming locations appear to be capped at 8-12K / hour in merch food during normal everyday play. I don't bother selling perfect weapon mods, and valuable weapon drops are few and far between. You could make more bucks if you have the patience to sell your wares. Elite areas like FoW / UW / DoA are your best bet to exceed that cap.

I made my first million by farming Raptor Nestlings on the 3 recent event weekends. You can average between 25K-50K / hr depending on speed, skill and boredom. Get in early as demand and prices tend to go down around 12-24 hours before the event ends.

Don't forget to grab your hidden treasures in Nightfall once every 31 days or so - with 10 toons (one of each class), that's a free 100-150K per month for 10 hours work.

HFFF with multiple accounts (meaning multiple quest rewards + mule accounts get Amber for Kurzick Faction) is my cashflow backup, I make 20K+ / hour doing it.

For those with the skillz to run missions / dungeons, there's a stack of cash for the taking.

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Kiragi Yagami

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from what i see you have a few options.

continue what youre doing (glints, elementals, and the like.).
UB DoA (acronyms FTW!)
and... farm FoW/UW.

and dont forget, if you ever get that raptor farm working, theres GREAT money to be had farming event items. just ask my brand new Party Animal title, and the 90k+ in my bank from selling party items at about 200g-ish-each.

Ambuu

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I have been UWing with my W/Rt for quite some time

I've gotten plenty of ectos (average of 1-2 per run). But some runs I get 0 and a few runs I got 4 ectos

drey2k

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QUOTE: Don't forget to grab your hidden treasures in Nightfall once every 31 days or so - with 10 toons (one of each class), that's a free 100-150K per month for 10 hours work.




Can someone explain this please?

thibault the monk

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Again, if you have access to 600 monk, i make 15k per run, 45 mins per run running CoF on my 600. If not you can always pay for runs, CoF usually gives people 8-12k per run minus the 2k for paying runner gives u about 10k every 45 mins. This should get you to about 10k/hr

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Originally Posted by drey2k
Can someone explain this please? http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hidden_Treasure

they refresh every 30 days.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiragi Yagami
from what i see you have a few options.

continue what youre doing (glints, elementals, and the like.).
UB DoA (acronyms FTW!)
and... farm FoW/UW.

and dont forget, if you ever get that raptor farm working, theres GREAT money to be had farming event items. just ask my brand new Party Animal title, and the 90k+ in my bank from selling party items at about 200g-ish-each.
^^paid for my primeval armor on my war, plus a ruby djinn piece for my ele. terra tanked about 3 hours worth, plus selling 66 party items (max per party) at 200 gold each, 12~13k depending on buyer. plus all the loot i got from farming, made 8k in one run....


HM, terra tank, minotaurs outside of Ice Tooth Caves. :P

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Covah
http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hidden_Treasure

they refresh every 30 days. FYI, those are the Light of Deldrimor Hidden Chests.

These are the nightfall chests.
http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Treasure_Chest

They don't require a key and give gold pieces and gold item/gem drops. The harder the area, the better the loot.

They supposedly reset about every 30 days to 6-7 weeks. People seem to find that the more often you hit them, the quality of the loot declines (less money, start getting purples).

Antithesis

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31 days is the safe bet for digging up NF treasures. Do them in descending order from high-end zones to low-end for the best returns.

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some people alrdy given sugguestions. You can run ppl through Missions, or if you have 600hp Monk do solo/runs in CoF(Cap you around 10-15k+ hour), If you have exp in 600hp do SoO Runs 10k-15k per person so 80k+ in 3 hrs(This is if you alot alot of Exp in 600hp, Been Warned). Ya Smites are good sometimes if you want cap good Ecto drops 600hp/Smite Duo in Etneral Wastland average 2-8e+ per run. This I aint kidding iv seen and heard my friends gotten 8e in 1 run from doing Etneral Wasteland. Proof my friend gotten 14e in 1 run by duoing it. That good money.

masta_yoda

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ecto usually drops every 2 every 3 runs or so and takes about 10-12 mins

probably around 20k an hour not including merch food

and above, screenshot or it didnt happen 14 from smites?

Antithesis

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Originally Posted by masta_yoda
and above, screenshot or it didnt happen 14 from smites? C'mon, it's Exico...his friends always do cool stuff way beyond the rest of us. No proof required.

I'm assuming he's talking about more than just a smite run....i think...not quite sure where the Etneral Wasteland is located
If it's just a smite run i'm calling a big fat BS.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Antithesis
C'mon, it's Exico...his friends always do cool stuff way beyond the rest of us. No proof required.

I'm assuming he's talking about more than just a smite run....i think...not quite sure where the Etneral Wasteland is located
If it's just a smite run i'm calling a big fat BS. I'm pretty sure by Eternal Wasteland he means the Chaos Planes. And it's not uncommon for mindblades to drop ridiculous amounts of ectos.

Abedeus

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I think OP wanted a SOLO and WARRIOR farm.

matthew5276

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Thanks for your responses.

Does the raptor farm work well when it is not party items frop weekends aswell?

Thanks,

Matt.

drey2k

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Since you can't kill broodmother on HM, the raptor farm is pretty crappy for warriors.

With my warrior i makely make $$$ by doing dungeons, UW, hulking stones.

You can also do runs from Ascalon to LA, and other places too.

W/Rit is a great farm for UW, because it's very safe. So you can take your chances there and get some ecto drops.

Smokin elementalist

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back to the ecto + smite nerf, yes, there is no evidence but we know its been nerfed because it used to drop 1.5-2 times as much, and could drop in sets of 1-3. i dont know what u guys are talking about though, maybe ur just unlucky because i get anywhere from 1-3 ecto a smite run and cant remember the last time i didn't get 1 ecto at least. so id see how the warrior/rit UW build fares for you, its easy to learn and quite protfitable. otherwise you could try farming luxon sins with vwk / splinter weapon/ glad defense. havent tried farming them with a warrior but it should work

Bukaj

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Smokin elementalist - so you are lucky. I get my first ecto after 9 full smite runs... And because I have have my notebook at the service, this 9 runs i make in last cca 6 weeks, but get only one... Don't know why, but before the "favor of Gods" raise to the monstrous numbers i get 1.5ect by run

Mr.Kotte

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Antithesis
I'm assuming he's talking about more than just a smite run....i think...not quite sure where the Etneral Wasteland is located
If it's just a smite run i'm calling a big fat BS. Doing a full UW run as ele (ice wastes, chaos planes, spawning pools) have given me several ectos (7-12) PER RUN.
Just search up Donut's guide.

drey2k

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Smokin elementalist
back to the ecto + smite nerf, yes, there is no evidence but we know its been nerfed because it used to drop 1.5-2 times as much, and could drop in sets of 1-3. i dont know what u guys are talking about though, maybe ur just unlucky because i get anywhere from 1-3 ecto a smite run and cant remember the last time i didn't get 1 ecto at least. so id see how the warrior/rit UW build fares for you, its easy to learn and quite protfitable. otherwise you could try farming luxon sins with vwk / splinter weapon/ glad defense. havent tried farming them with a warrior but it should work In my last 5 runs, I got 3 ectos..

You need to be really lucky to get at least 1 per run.

drey2k

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.Kotte
Doing a full UW run as ele (ice wastes, chaos planes, spawning pools) have given me several ectos (7-12) PER RUN.
Just search up Donut's guide. Could you please provide a link of some sort?

I tried searching but couldn't find it.

kosh

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Originally Posted by drey2k
Could you please provide a link of some sort?

I tried searching but couldn't find it.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10259823

Mr.Kotte

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http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10259823 Not the one I was talking about.
This is the one I was talking about

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Not the one I was talking about.
This is the one I was talking about well that is one more

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.Kotte
Doing a full UW run as ele (ice wastes, chaos planes, spawning pools) have given me several ectos (7-12) PER RUN.
Just search up Donut's guide. Thanks Kottis. Does it really take 2 hours to do the run?

The return over time seems roughly the same as a smite run. I haven't done a lot of smite runs myself but it was easy to get it under 15 mins. Assuming you get an average of 1 - 1.5 ecto / run, that's 8-12 ectos as a UW n00b. If you know what you're doing a smite run can be as low as 8-9 mins. Let's assume 10 mins, thats 12 runs in the same time for 12-18 ectos.

I guess the difference is you don't have to pay the entry fee more than once, more merch food etc, but if ectos are your objective and you're not impoverished, that's not really a problem.

Destro Maniak

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Originally Posted by MrSlayer
I'd say UW. People keep telling me "Smite ecto drops are nerfed."

I have never seen evidence of an update which says "lowered the drop rate of Ectoplasm off Smite Crawlers". I'll happily lift my hat to anyone who can link me to this on the wiki, because honestly, after getting 6 ectos in 2 consecutive runs, I can say that this is rubbish.

I would quote the guy who linked someone to the wiki article on variance, but I'm too lazy.

Other than that, FoW or get Ursaning DoA. DoA clears take around 2 hours, and you can make anything up to 30 or 40k in them if you succeed (my first run netted me 5 gem sets (including killing Mallyx) which is 5 x 12k to sell. Do the Maths :})(Yes it was HM).

Real money is in gems, ectos and shards. Outside the FoW/UW, you'll be hard pressed to make more than 6-8k an hour. Which I guess is still fairly good... but they did.

Mr.Kotte

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Originally Posted by Antithesis
Thanks Kottis. Does it really take 2 hours to do the run?

The return over time seems roughly the same as a smite run. I haven't done a lot of smite runs myself but it was easy to get it under 15 mins. Assuming you get an average of 1 - 1.5 ecto / run, that's 8-12 ectos as a UW n00b. If you know what you're doing a smite run can be as low as 8-9 mins. Let's assume 10 mins, thats 12 runs in the same time for 12-18 ectos.

I guess the difference is you don't have to pay the entry fee more than once, more merch food etc, but if ectos are your objective and you're not impoverished, that's not really a problem. Reason 1: It gets really boring doing smites over and over again.
Reason 2: I never get ectos from smites anylonger :P
Reason 3: If you start with killing the smites, you can decide weither to go on or restart.
And one run takes about 90 minutes when you are new to it, and about 60 minutes once you know how its done. (full run)

Antithesis

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.Kotte
And one run takes about 90 minutes when you are new to it, and about 60 minutes once you know how its done. (full run) 2 hours sounded a bit steep, 1 hour would be a decent return on investment.

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Originally Posted by Destro Maniak
but they did. Don't make baseless claims.

I usually get 4-10 ectos per hour doing smite runs as well as merch food, random grapes, and golds. So yea, I usually net more than 10k/hour with smite runs. Too bad smite runs are B-O-R-I-N-G. I do about 1 hour of smite runs before I do something else out of boredom.