FoW Armor or Zaishen Supporter?

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After over 5 years of playing, (and selling some rare minis), I finally have enough ectos and gold to buy FoW armor (but it will pretty much wipe me out).

Before I make such a huge investment, I want to ask people who are 50/50 (or close), and ask their opinion of what is the hardest points to achieve.

Or, in other words, how do I get the most bang for my buck?

http://hom.guildwars2.com/#page=deta...IMYAAAAAAAl%5D

Zaishen statue = 3 pts.
Obby armor = 1 pt.

So i would go for the Zaishen.

I'm saving money for obby now myself, but i alrdy have Zaishen (and gladiator) so...

r3 Zaishen would likely take somewhere between 1.5 and 1 times the cost of getting Obsidian armor, but would grant you three times as many points.

I think the zaishen route is a pretty easy way to go if you farm holidays for cash. You should be cool with all your cash being disposable before you do it though, because you might get nothing out of the zchest.

Go for the zrank... obby shards are at their highest prices so obsidian will be even more than usual. Plus the zrank gives more HoM points

About how long does it take to get Glad? 5 consecutive wins = 1 pt, so 2,000 consecutive wins for 400 pts.

Also, about how much Faction do you earn in an hour (for zkeys?)

I'm leaning to zkeys myself, but if I do that, I know I'll never get Obsidian armor (it's taken me this long to get the money, it's not going to happen again before GW2).

There are double glad point weekends which help. The difficult thing is the random element you get quitters, botters, trolls, noobs, etc... If you have nerves of steel you could do it.

It takes very long to get glad r3. It's hard for me to tell, because i mainly did pve while doing RA when i was in the mood. And it didn't help that i never played a monk ^^

With the RA zquest, u can get alot of Zkeys tho

But i think it takes less time to make alot of money and get Zaishen (and obby after that).

Actually, assuming zkeys at 5k ea it costs 1 million gold for R3 Zaishen. (200 keys X 5k)


Obsidian Armor is about 1,215,000 gold (105 of ectos/shards; assuming Ectos at 7k and shards at 4k, which I'm not sure about current prices + 60k)



Of course, I would have to trade ectos for zkeys, and I have no idea how easy that is... it took me weeks of spamming to sell my minis for enough ectos.

Go for Zrank, opening the Zaishen Chest 200 times will give you items that can be sold so you can regain some of the money you will spend.

If you ever start playing RA, the Zaishen quests will get you to either Zrank or Obby armor faster than you'll actually get gladiator. I don't farm PvE, the vast majority of my 49-pt HoM was funded primarily from zquests, and that's just from crap like RA, Codex, commander farming, and semi-weekly GvG or HA, nothing high level.

Shards r 3k/ea.

Zaishen
- 1337 emote
- gain some money back
- 3 pts!!
- 1 mill (cheaper)

Obsidian armor
- 1337 armor
- 1 pt
- ~1.2 mill (expensive)

That list screams: "GET ZAISHEN!"

On a side note, I really wish Gamer track counted for PvP... that seems a lot easier (even though you have limited time to earn it).

you can get zaichen while working for kurzick/luxon title in jq and take the armor ( that's what i did ,personal opinion tho )

I'm replying on memory of what I saw in your calc because it's not working for me now that they've moved your thread from gw2guru.

This is personal opinion of course and it isn't a direct answer to the question of FoW or Zaishen:

I think you had 33 points or so. I noticed you were missing skill hunter titles in addition to several of the other "work for" pve titles and weapons. To tell you the truth, I would not do anything in regards to spending all of your gold for those points at this time, if your goal is to get to 50. You say you have the ectos (not sure about the shards). I'd say to sit on them until you're closer to 50. I don't know where you're at for skill hunter, but with 290 that takes quite a bit of cash in itself for caps. The weapons are going to cost a bunch unless you have the materials already. Others are going to take some gold as well.

You have several titles remaining that will need completing. I'll assume that you've made good progress in them but finishing can still take time. So, as just opinion like I said, I'd do everything else first.

Are you currently at 0 points for Zaishen? Maybe work on that slowly as you do other things rather than trying to hit 1,000 points in one go.

You'll recover at least *some* of what you put into the Z-Chest. Some meaning between 100g per open (20k) and maybe half of what you put in if you're very lucky. For a long while, I broke even on the Z-Chest, but I had some incredible luck a few days too.

Obby is good stuff, and I'd go for it still. Just play casually and save everything.

Personnaly, I would get the obsidian armour.... the reason for this being this....

Zaishen emote is NOT a 1337 emote like someone suggested, z3 is super common now, not much to run around wearing in towns, and its a measly bronze spear.... emote only becomes cool at z7 (trust me) z4 was HUGELY disappointing.

Yes its 3 points, but getting 30/50 should not be too hard, and actually all the titles beyond 30/50 are far less cool than GWAMM which gets carried across, so tbh, id spend time getting GWAMM rather than 50/50 (although u will certainly get clsoer to 50/50 going for GWAMM)

Obsidian Armour is like a present for your toon, it might sound stupid and whatever but these characters are YOURS, they are YOUR toons. If you think they would look good in obsidian armour go for it, dye it your own colour, pimp it out with specs or dread mask or something and that will be with you when out doing missions with friends and stuff.... that is 100000000000x > than a measly bronze spear....

If you are on 27/50 and want 3 to get to 30.... I WOULD STILL get obsidian. There are many more easy points to get at that level to push you to the magical 30.

if you get Z title, you will regret it.

The obsidi armour might look worse in terms of ur HoM.... but its not JUST for your HoM, its for when out with guildies and stuff.

Meh, 2 cents

gl and Grz on earning 1 mil always satisfying.... i just blew 800k in 1 morning.... *cry* feeling very poor now

I will say once you get the hang of RA within an hour you will hit a good group and get about 10 consecutive wins. So after you have become seasoned about 4-8 points every two hours depending on your luck with your groups.

This is on the right track however your time will be better spent on the luxon side of FA because the wait is less and there are more npcs dying which accumulate more balth faction.

Get the obby while you have the cash, you need it anyway. Then grind out the Zkeys using one of the above methods.

It takes serious time every holiday though. I agree it would be a good way to go if they supported it but they have settled on kicking sand in the face of anyone who bothers with it lol.

Depends on your taste. I've always found obby armor bland looking, and I don't see anyone wearing it where old players actually play. Might as well just wear what you like from whatever place these days, there's not much thing as "bling" left anyway when you can make a 500k farming ToT bags on a week like this.