Bergen Hot Springs what is going on there?

It has been a very long time since I went through Prophecies as usually spend most of my PVE time in Factions, NightFall and EotN rep farming or doing dungeons etc...

However today I decided to take my Nightfall based Necro to the Temple of Ages I made a pit stop at Bergen Hot Springs to get it on my map. Good grief I have never seen so many monks in one place, they were going in and out of the portal so fast it was hard to count but must have been at least 30 of them there.

What the heck is so great there that is has attracted so many monks? Are they farming Halloween stuff perhaps?

They are basically farming the undead, for golds and Halloween stuff. Town has been nicknamed Bergen Bot Springs for a reason ^^

Lies.


I'm not a bot.

You got a lot of players in there, you can tell by the titles and local chat activity.

I wouldn't pay attention to that comment.

People are farming for trick-or-treat bags, orr emblems, and gold items. I'm doing it a lot as of late.

bergen is the prof equivalent to factions' altruim ruins. monk bots. dunno why anet doesnt do something about it, its not like the player base isnt aware of it. i take it they all have some stupid button mash name too?

This weekend, there are plenty of real players in there. Good luck sorting the hardcore farmers from the bots.

Wrong. SOME of those monks are bots. xD

Most of em are most likely trying to get emblems to trade for Halloween goodies.

Wouldn't it be fair to say "Altrumm Ruins is Factions equivalent of Bergen Hot Springs" considering Prophecies was there well before Factions?

I do miss the old bot-cities of Prophecies. Elona Reach and the Granite Citadel somehow do not have the same appeal without several dozen mini monkettes in tatoo armor dyed in different colors.

Farm more!
Farm more!
Farm more!
And make papa happy!

I LOVE how the prices of pretty much everything that I buy in this game (outside of skills of course) dropped in the last week!
Dye, runes, insignias!
Ohh baby!
Come to papa!

*drools*

What's the big secret about orr emblems? Why farm them?

Im not bot ....

Gates of Kryta Mission is much better for emblems... I will add what some may say is a secret there is sneaky little path behind Oink speeds up the havoc

Warrior / monk works great Old Troll farm build with Triple chop (This is a normal mode farm its number of kills that make it profitable)

^^that's why xD

this offends me i am no bot yes there may be a few bots there but most of time it is real people

Yeah, right. We've got a disillusioned AI here, over. Shoot on sight? Got it.
*ba-tiiiiishhhhh...- NOOOM OM NOM NOM NOM*

Target eliminated.

Seriously though, you can identify a bot if he walks:

a) same way, same path and same speed as few other monks.
b) just the same path all the time, even if it's unique to given monk.

Easy, monks with names like Gjgjg Dfdf are bots. Monks with names like I Heals For You are players.

Either way, moronic names.

QTF


On a side note, can someone explain to me what is so special with Bergen.
I mean why are THOSE undeads more profitable than say... Ettins or juvenile termites.

because on this particular event, they drop, except of ToT bags you can get everywhere, Decayed Orr Emblems, which you can trade in LA for additional Halloween stuff

to clarify it even more - they drop the emblems all the time, but only on this event, theres a collector offering Halloween goodies

its written here already seven times, but maybe this time it will work

There haven't been any organized farming bots in Guild Wars for months. It is not nearly as bad as it once was. Even gold farmers realize the GW game economy is in the shitter too much for them to make a profit. People now are just farming (like they always do for events).

The only bots you see now a days are little home grown shops run by people who want titles (HFFF bots for example).