Conset Farming :- Basic Guide

Hello; decided to edit this after the comments below, it should be alot more accurate and helpful.

A few months ago I looked at the amount of gold in my storage and gave a big *sigh*...i've never been one for farming and never had one of those lucky drops worth ectos and ectos...nope just an ordinary poor player. What i needed was something where i could keep the treasure hunter/lucky/unlucky titles going and make cash.....consets.


For a basic recipe of 50 consets you need 5000 ingots, 5000 dust, 2500 bone, 2500 feathers and 150 skill points. You will also need 1 superior salvage kit (100 uses), 1 salvage kit (25 uses) and an ID kit (100 uses). oh and of course time... approximatly 12hrs playing time.

The initial cost is therefore 2600g. All the materials can be farmed or salvaged, there is absoultly no need to buy any of the basic materials for the consets, this includes the 38K that you will need to finally make the sets.

The Salavge kit is used for salvaging common materials, the superior salvage kit is used when you want to salvage runes.

Feathers first. I farm feathers in Jaya Bluffs. A NM run may be quicker and easier however you are not going to get the rune drops that you need to make the method self sufficient. It is therefore important to farm in HM. A run takes about 30 mins. The yield in feathers works out at an average of 127 feathers dropped per run + 18 feathered crests (each can be salvaged into 3 feathers on average).This works out at 362 feather per hour (I'm intersted in figures for NM, no probaly or maybe pls, i took the time to document my HM runs to give accurate figures over a long period of time, estimations after a few NM runs is not good enough). This average was worked out over 120 runs. The highest was over 300 feathers dropped...the lowest 0 (and i was not a happy bunny on that one!).

The important thing is to look at the other "non feather" drops, they are the ones that are going to allow you to recycle you cash. First up, we are also looking for iron and bone. Bone drops also from sensali (about 30 per run), so you are going to end up with some bone directly. The rest of the bone and the iron is going to come from salvaging materials with your basic salvage kit. I've made a small list of the most common weps that drop that will salvage into either bone or ingots:-

Deadly Cesta (Iron)
Truncheon (Iron)
Sunqua blade (Iron)
Skull shiled (Iron)
Melon Hammer (Iron)
Smiting rod (Iron)
Sensali crestgaurd (Iron or Tanned hide)
Kamas (Iron)
Grim Cesta (bone)
idol (Bone)

Not a full list but just the most common drops.

The rest will salavge into wood or cloth, it is therefore probably more profitable to sell the wep to the merch rather than salvage it.

Runes come from 2 sources, Sensali Crestgaurds and Sensali Garbs. All runes can be sold to a rune trader for a minimum of 25g. However it is always a good idea to check with the rune trader before farming to see which ones have real value, these runes are the ones that are going to make you the cash. I've compiled a small list of the ones of value at the moment, this can change, so check first, some runes are just not worth it :-

Runes to be salvaged.

Rit minor spawning, Minor marksmanship
Rit minor communing , Minor healing
Knight insig, Minor Protection
Stonefist insig, Minor divine
Sentinal, Bloodstained insig
Minor strength, Minor soul reaping
Minor swordsmanship, Minor Death magic
Minor hammer, Minor fast casting
Minor axe, Minor inspiration
Minor tactics, Minor Energy storage
Minor expertise, Minor Fire Magic
Vangaurd insig, Nightstalker
Minor critical strikes, Minor dagger
Attunement, Survivor
Maj. Vigor, Minor vigor
Radiant, Blessed insig
Stalwart insig, Vitae

It should take about 14 runs (7hrs of playing) to get the 2500 feathers that you need. However if you are getting bored you can always skip and change between dust and feathers to clear the brain, this also has for effect to stop the anti farming nerf, i would therefore suggest it.

once the feathers done, you should also have around 1300 ingots and 1000 bones, this depends on your drops of course. You will also have accumulated about 20k in cash.


Next up dust. Two places to farm. Outside ToA running to the west is an area full of fog nightmares that can be farmed (approx. 80 dust per run a run being 8-10mins in NM). This is quick but the downside is that the the other drops are virtually worthless when salvaged and give you hardly any ingots...or golds. Even worse, after a short time i have found that the drops get really bad, alot of no dust runs. It becomes a waste of time after a while...and of course we can make better money elsewhere!!

So i use FoW (NM). With exactly the same build that i use for Jaya. The idea here is to collect the Dark remains which salvage into 14 dust (on average). However only the shadow army will drop these so you need only farm the part around the tower of courage. You should be able to get 8 (average again) dark remains, and about 20 dust, the most i ever got was 22, and i also got 0 from a run. More importantly you will get 2 obsidian shards on average per run. Salvage all the items dropped again. Each run takes about 15 mins. You will need to do about 35 runs...but you will get scroll drops and the conset useless materials can be sold (as can the shards), so you shouldn't need to touch the 30K you have allready made. The great thing about FoW is that shards drop...on average you will get 1 per run...so 35 shrads, thats more or less 140k.

I've done this 4 times now and i have never had to buy materials...however, if you dont have quite enough iron (which is possible because its dependant on the drops you get and salvage) you can buy some with your excess cash or simply go do a DoA run or two in a PUG group, most other players will leave the drops so you can pick up the iron containg ones as you go round.

Once the materials got you can and get the cons made up.

Personally i use alot of my sets in PUG groups, some i sell in ToA or DoA. If selling you can undercut the "material buyer" conset sellers and sell very quickly.

A final point on skill points. 150 skill points is 2,250,000 exp or the equivilant of killing 8929 sensali in HM.... From this method you will only get 65 or so skill points (2 points from the feather run and 1 pt from the FoW run....more or less if you do the first quest in FoW...). If you are short on pts i would suggest.....PLAY THE GAME!!

So with 2600g you now have 50 consets....

Have fun

Final point....my build....I am not a build whizz...but it gets me through...and i know how to use it....my best suggestion is find something that works for you and to practice , make refinements, until you are happy to play what you like...but for the record...

Runes...Superior channeling, Superior Communing, Sup vigor, and energy runes.
WEP, Halves recharge of spells and energy +5

SoS
Vampirism
Bloodsong
Shadowsong
Pain
Painful bond
Summon Spirits
Assasin support

How it works (or how i do it!!).. set up spirits close to the group you are aiming for, send in sin support (which will cause the group to bunch up), fire off painful bond once the enemies are bunched, fall back behind sprit wall, reset shadowsong, pain and bloodsong, fall back, reset SoS and Vampirism, fire off sin at almost dead targets. A senasli group killed in under 3 mins, shadow army group even quicker.

have fun

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Nice guide I would like to point out one little thing some times you can make more money by adding a summon stone with the batch of cons when you sell to make more of a profit.

Dust I have always found farming tahnaki,nahpui HM for dust and drops and the weapons sell for a fair bit too. Both missions are simple to solo in HM or NM so the choices are yours. I'm a stickler when it come to paying for entry in to places like FoW or UW when you can farm missions for the materials and lets not forget Eotn great place for most MATS dust vetiers alas your guide is not bad but you need to think of the simplicity of other areas. Yes obbys are great but do a full run of FoW to achieve much more not quick it will take longer.

SoS is the most simple farm around why not mix and match this way you will not hit the fabled drop rate nerf bat and try vabbi areas for dust,iron,cloth etc or the desolation another fun area. My point is, many areas can yeild much much more in terms of how you tackle it, but in 12hrs play time I'm sure if you was dedicated enough the time could be cut down by using different areas say jaya 1st then vabbi then say north kryta you will find after an hours farming you will have netted your self much more.

thanks for bringing this up again. However, there has been a more extensive guide up (at least) since 2009:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/u...t10391674.html

Seems its that time again and ppl want cheaper consets

hey i trolled in that one too!

On the other side just buying the mats will next you a return anyways if you plan to sell them
5 consets only cost you (10k for feathers, 12 for iron, 8-10k for granite and 8k for dust, unsure on all i dont do full cons anymore)
1set = 9k 5=45k you get a little profit on this side for more cons

Just an aside, I tend to get a crapload of dust salvaging Great Conch Shells dropped from raptors. If you stick a Measure for Measure on a Gold one you usually get like 80-150 dust from a single salvage.

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