Shadow Bomber

A Simple Farmer

A Simple Farmer

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2007

ECTOS

E/

ANet has added a delay between Budger handling out keys and the efficiency of this farm has been severly reduced - Marty


Right so this is an easy peasy farm, It'll solo clear Drakkar lake for sure & likely all areas connected to Drakkar Lake (if only you could take Budger in a dungeon).


I took it over to Jaga Morain and cleared the Vaettir in 1 minute *yawn*.

Because of the massive AOE you'll only get golds and such, but it's a good mindless farm - a bit too so for me but may be usefull/fun for others
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how to:
pay 100g to Budger Blackpowder outside Sifhalla
cast up shadow form, agro, press v on your keyboard (target nearest ally) then space (get a barrel), then <F1>(drops it), space, <F1>, wash and repeat.
watch your SF and make sure to F1 before casting again.
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MercenaryKnight

MercenaryKnight

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2006

Wolf of Shadows [WoS]

P/

Would have been good to use during the grog event. Hopefully if it doesn't get nerfed then I can use it for the next event. Should help a lot by speeding up runs as fast as raptors, while getting extra glacial stone drops.

Assuming that you have to run from outside sifhalla to the place inorder to keep the black powder keg guy with you.

Scarn

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2007

Nice find. Looks entertaining.

Torrent

Torrent

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2008

Celestial Twighlight

E/Mo

Haha. Nice find buddy.

MisterT69

MisterT69

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2007

Scions of Carver [SCAR]

E/

LOL. Keg make big boom! Vaettir go down

majikmajikmajik

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

SATown~Tx

Guild Hopper!

R/

should of kept it to yourself, next update: 3sec. delay on bomb dropping lol

MercenaryKnight

MercenaryKnight

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2006

Wolf of Shadows [WoS]

P/

Yeah, it will suck if the nerf right before the next big event weekend is gonna have to do with the bombs. But I do kind of hope I can abuse it because I really need the money after spending like 200k+ on grogs.

sportacus

sportacus

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2008

Burninating the countryside

D/

I run the first 2 levels of HoS doing the same thing.

Avatar Exico

Avatar Exico

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Way to Cold at Home:Illnois and School:Iowa.

We Trip Hard On [AcID]

N/

interesting idea. Thought of something like this awhile back but couldnt do it without taking dmg. Nice idea anyway.

ashes

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2007

Beertown ;P

RoP

E/Mo

Is it worth "paying" 100g for a set of purple gilded daggers?

Typozzz

MisterB

MisterB

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Planet Earth, Sol system, Milky Way galaxy

[ban]

W/

Neat trick, but expect an update. Should be an easy way to get Norn points over the weekend, if anyone still hasn't done it.

blackknight1337

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

USA

Mo/

and the cat is out of the bag.....

Luminarus

Luminarus

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2007

Sydney, Australia

Haze of Light [pure]

R/

It takes you a minute to do the vaettir for one drop... i can do it in 6 and get way more then 6 drops. May be faster, but from the immages, doesnt look worth it.

ReZDoGG

ReZDoGG

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

Indian Township, ME

Nativ War Party (NWP)

Rt/Mo

I have actually known about Keg Farming this since two weeks after EoTN was released. I found out about it soon after HoS was nerfed. I used to run HoS solo with sin in about 6 minutes flat. After that got Nerfed, not too much longer after I ran into the other keg guy in Drakkar, and was pretty excited when I found out he had kegs. I Immediately started farming with him when I found out, and eventually took him to Spectrals. So I have been using this keg guy to farm Spectrals for over a year now for farming Golds and Festival Items. I actually kept this farm as one of my best kept secrets in GW, even though I knew there was a very few who was also doing it. I was planning on releasing a guide on it sometime this fall or winter. It's kind of disappointing to see it be revealed, and it will be sad when it is gone. Kind of a wrong move on your end to be honest, especially if you use the keg guy alot to farm, cause it will get nerfed just like the keg guy in HoS, and it will no longer be useful for farming. Better enjoy it while you can. Sorry to be bummed out, but of course I am going to... I been doing this for over a year and I am 100% sure it will get nerfed within a month of reveal, maybe on next update in beginning of october. Well I guess it is a good thing I don't play GW as much anymore anyways. But now Sifhalla will be full of A/E Keg farmers, and people will cry again for a Shadow Form nerf as well. The main reason why I kept it to myself was because of that... it most likely will ruin the keg farm, and maybe shadow form along with it. If Anet didn't constantly take the fun away from us with nerfs, I would have told people about this a year ago, unfortunately they always do.

I also have some ways off getting more drops from keg farming... It is best not to spam as fast as you can, or even drop more kegs than you need to kill the group of enemies. I mainly control my keg drops only with spectres. I actually count the number of kegs I need to kill off a group instead of spamming away... I figured out that Spectrals have exactly 600hp in HM, and it used to only take exactly 12 kegs to kill them without the overkilling. But since it is now 33% damage, I count exactly 18 kegs. This will significantly better your drops, and it is highly noticeable. I know that would be of some debate, but I have been doing it for over a year now, so I know what I am talkin about I know it sounds kind of odd, but it works. I used to get 2-5 golds and up to 12-14 festive drops in one of the two groups, the bigger group. I used to come back with atleast 50-70 festive drops in alil over an hour. I usually stay out there until my bags are full of golds, usually 20+ golds, and the rest being just tomes, stones, and materials. I usually take a full Superior Salvage kit, along with Superior ID kit... sometimes I take two of both to be safe. But yeah, I usually stay out there until I can't possibly hold anymore stuff, and eventually forced back to town. Usually takes around an hour and half to two hours to fill up. I have also used this to Solo Vanquish all of Northern ShiverPeaks and one Asuran territory. It is also good to farm Reputation with it also.


Well here is the build that I use for my Keg Farming:

Glyph of Swiftness
Deadly Paradox
Shadow Form
Dark Escape
Dwarven Stability
Mindbender
Feigned Neutrality
Ebon Escape

ReZDoGG

ReZDoGG

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

Indian Township, ME

Nativ War Party (NWP)

Rt/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Thargor
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So you knew about it for a long time now, good for you!
Now explain to us how it is a bad move for the original poster to reveal this but it would have been fine for you to release a guide yourself.
Sounds like someone is jealous that they wont get the credit for finding this...

Thanks to A Simple Farmer for sharing!

Nah, its not about that. It's just about how Anet handles the game to be honest. I mean we all know what happens when something is revealed, and eventually considered an exploit... but I am glad it is out anyways, I really dont play anymore anyways... well maybe only during festival drop weekends. This will give some people a bit more to do, other than what Anet gives us. But of course they will take it away from us soon enough


Well here is some old screenshots that I posted on a thread along time ago, that people went crazy over. I got alot of pm's when I did this, and I almost slipped up about it then.

As you can see in one of the images, the damage is 50 like it used to be, long before the damage reduction nerf to Shadow Form. I also was using the old A/ME perma builds, but now A/E is alot easier for KEg farming. I am sure some people will recognize the pictures, when I posted them, and blacked them out so people wouldn't figure it out I know I know, it was kind of me teasing people and being an ass, but I wanted to farm it for aslong as possible.




Popcorn Devil

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2007

Australia

[CLK]

D/

Nice one OP... nerf is going to be soon now .

Fishmonger

Fishmonger

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

P/W

*watches for the nerfbat to home run this*

hey as long as long as they give up octoberfest or double rep weekend, nerf what u like

take that back, don't do that

ReZDoGG

ReZDoGG

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

Indian Township, ME

Nativ War Party (NWP)

Rt/Mo

it would have been nice to farm some festiv items this next Halloween and Xmas, but guess that won't be happening... not with kegs anyways. I was planning on revealing it most likely after GW2 came out...that way I wouldn't care about nerf. heh

shaygo

shaygo

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

N/

did anyone try ( and made it ) to use another bulid, maybe obsidian flesh- based ? if it is going to be nurfed ( and it is ), why should only sins enjoy the last moments of glory ?

monk of the godss

monk of the godss

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2007

Melbourne, Australia

All Hail The P I N K [BeVr]

A/E

I asked for help because i couldnt run there.. then he said no dude, you suck and ignored me... can anyone help

neo the tyrant

neo the tyrant

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2007

Balamb Garden

TIGG

Me/

Wow, I would like to try this...

chessyang

chessyang

Not far from Elite

Join Date: Apr 2006

Florida

W/

Lolz this sure if FUN!! oh man to bad he can't be taken anywhere else or the dude in SF could due the same effect.

=(

thanks for the post Simple Farmer

ragnagard

ragnagard

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2007

In Spain, of course

Gamer Espa??ol[GE]

N/Mo

Tried!, Easy & fun as promised :P.

If only drops were as good as they were...
Thanks for sharing this .

I dont think that is gonna be nerfed soon, as adding time to get barrel will only be the same as Rezz described above: 18 barrels.No matter what time.

And you still have to travel through zones (hate modnirs' stomp ) and got no uber-drop + uber-points, just few items (maybe more if you dont getdropgetdropgetdrop so fast). Vaettir drop no voltaic spears lol.

Still good for 2*reputation weekends.
Thanks again.

PD: using the fast method i still got about 1-2 golds per run so it doesnt hurt to do it the fun way.

furanshisuko

furanshisuko

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2007

R/

Holy s#!% must try asap !

stretchs

stretchs

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

Untimely Demise [Err了] - SOHK

It's sad to see a guy like Rezz now so jaded that he wont post builds for farming, something that we as a community have appreciated over the years because of anet's nerf policy

CE Devilman

CE Devilman

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

hell

Do U Trust Anet

N/Mo


Max HP = Less Drops (so I set myself on fire)
use 9-10 high salv insc...to get all the iron dust wood

A Simple Farmer

A Simple Farmer

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2007

ECTOS

E/

Nice ss Devilman

Just had a thought for Vaettir, you could count off 17 Kegs (1 away from Death). Then Cast Sliver Armor to finish them off 1 at a time...
should help improve drops.

Something like this...
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MercenaryKnight

MercenaryKnight

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2006

Wolf of Shadows [WoS]

P/

I really want to test the whole max hp= less drops thing then. I really don't think that max hp should affect it any, but then again who knows.

lordheinous

lordheinous

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2007

tbh, I don't think that keg dropping rates effects items exempt from loot scaling; I tried both exact numbers of drops to kill the vaettirs and super-keg spam and got around the same average of golds and tomes, which is the only reason I'm doing the farm in the first place. I don't even bother picking up the whites, blues or grapes; the iding and salvaging takes more effort, and the mats end up taking up some more of the spaces that could be used for golds. Not that I really need the merch food either; a full bag of golds has averaged about 9k in merch value for me after iding, even without any notable mods.

tarmongaidon

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

Knights and Heros

Mo/W

It is sad to see that this farm run will get nerfed by anet as rezzdog says, at least i was able to make some money off it before the cat was outa the bag.

I believe it will get nerfed for this reason alone: anet wants people to be playing for the next 1-2 years until gw2 comes out and to do that they need to slow down the rate at which everyone farms for titles thus the reasoning of only wknd events. If people have played thru all the quests/missions with as many toons that they can then titles are all thats left too accomplish and once people finish with that then they will likely move on to another game (unless by some luck Anet decides to add some more content in the furure) but thats just my theory.

All in all it is a good farm for golds and event items.

Apok Omen

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Commence Aggro [BaMf]

Mo/E

I've done the run a billion times, but the modniir bastards keep hitting me with Trample. I don't get KDed because I bring Dwarven Stability and 3 stacks of Grogs, but how do you get there without run skills/anti-kd and manage to use Burning Speed and Frigid Armor?

And I know you must use those for running, but how do you avoid the Tramples? Any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance.