Stagnant Farming

KingCrab

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2009

W/E

The Glint AFK post made me think. Is Glint's the only farming opportunity where you can just leave your party in one place and the enemies keep dropping items? I know in Zos Shivros, another defensive challenge mission, the enemies don't drop items at all (I'm assuming it's to stop farming.) Are there any other missions, challenge or otherwise, where you can just dump your heroes down and then collect items at the end?

Siver

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2011

Rt/E

There is a quest in NF that enemy's swarm to your location.. i cant think of the name of the quest. The quest takes place in Fortress of Jalitas (however it is spelled). Where you defend the fortress for 5 wave of enemys. I can't for the life of me think of where you get the quest from though.

snowman relic

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2009

your just a meatsheild to me

N/Mo

I'm pretty sure it's a mission

Random Namos

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2010

Mu Tants

D/

you can try the nightfall's mission 'Nundu Bay'
I'm not sure if you can let heroes kill the Harbringers without purified water..

Cool Name

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2008

Shadowed Ones

E/A

You could try Dzagonur Bastion. Put all the whispers to one side then flag your heroes in the between the other two so they get agro (might be hard). Not sure if the enemies that keep spawning out of the portals drop items though.

byteme!

byteme!

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

On Earth

W/P

I'm surprised NO ONE bothered to mention this. MALLYX!!! Hell if you have multiple accounts you just load up a team build on each and go afk. Is the loot good?? It's random. Chance at any 4 gems, random golds, and the odd q7/15 - q8/16 shield.

Requirements:
You need to have done the 4 prior DoA quests to access Mallyx
You need to be capable of making decent builds
Having a high LB title makes things easier (duh?!)

Optional:
Equip all your heroes with +5e and 20% enchantments or +5e and +30hp depending on setup(s).
Equip all your heroes with +10 demon shields (you can buy DoA greens for dirt cheap)

Additional notes:
NO BUILD IS 100% FOOL PROOF. Shit happens and heroes die.
I've had some "lucky" runs where I would observe my heroes near party wipe and pulled through regardless.
Been doing this since the 7H update on all 10 different professions. Besides having a good build you need to be a bit lucky at times. Unless you decide to intervene in which case you're not really AFK and letting your heroes do the work. =p
If you die and return back to outpost you receive absolutely nothing. So pay attention to what's going on from time to time or attempt to fix the problem. Find out what's giving you problems (which you can easily observe since you are not doing anything anyways) and fix it.
You may want to stick to normal mode. Hard mode is a little hard for your intellectually challenged heroes. Probably no point loot wise anyways.
Last but not least. No, I do not kill Mallyx nor do I turn in his quest. There's no point in repeatedly doing the 4 prior DoA quests just to access Mallyx.

Alay

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2010

Quote:
Originally Posted by byteme!
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I'm surprised NO one bothered to mention this. MALLYX!!! Hell if you have multiple accounts you just load up a team build on each and go afk. Is the loot good?? It's random. Chance at any 4 gems, random golds, and the odd q7/15 - q8/16 shield.

Requirements:
You need to have done the 4 prior DoA quests to access Mallyx
You need to be capable of making decent builds
Having a high LB title makes things easier (duh?!)

Optional:
Equip all your heroes with +5e and 20% enchantments or +5e and +30hp depending on setup(s).
Equip all your heroes with +10 demon shields (you can buy DoA greens for dirt cheap)

Additional notes:
NO BUILD IS 100% FOOL PROOF. Shit happens and heroes die.
I've had some "lucky" runs where I would observe my heroes near party wipe and pulled through regardless.
Been doing this since the 7H update on all 10 different professions. Besides having a good build you need to be a bit lucky at times. Unless you decide to intervene in which case you're not really AFK and letting your heroes do the work. =p
If you die and return back to outpost you receive absolutely nothing. So pay attention to what's going on from time to time or attempt to fix the problem. Find out what's giving you problems (which you can easily observe since you are not doing anything anyways) and fix it.
You may want to stick to normal mode. Hard mode is a little hard for your intellectually challenged heroes. Probably no point loot wise anyways.
Last but not least. No, I do not kill Mallyx nor do I turn in his quest. There's no point in repeatedly doing the 4 prior DoA quests just to access Mallyx. That's a really good idea, I think I might give it a try.

What are you using for hero builds if I may ask? I typically run a shelter rit, a SoGM rit, two panic mesmers, a curses necro, a UA and a support necro when I do DoA and it works pretty well, but I'm not sure it'd be capable of clearing stuff without me guiding positioning and microing and whatnot.

FengShuiDove

FengShuiDove

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA]

A/

I actually thought of this in Jennur's Horde. Clear out the mission up to the final Harbinger and camp at the last single spirit while the spawns waste themselves on you. Not sure if they continue dropping loot though.

MisterB

MisterB

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Planet Earth, Sol system, Milky Way galaxy

[ban]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by FengShuiDove View Post
I actually thought of this in Jennur's Horde. Clear out the mission up to the final Harbinger and camp at the last single spirit while the spawns waste themselves on you. Not sure if they continue dropping loot though.
Quote:
Notes

Spawned Margonite groups do not drop loot or give experience, this prevents possible exploitation of farming of loot and/or experience using heroes. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Jennu..._%28Mission%29

Speaking of DoA, Breaching the Stygian Veil spawns multiple foes with predetermined paths and spawns. The foes spawned in that quest do drop items, and there's ~100 or so. If you can do Mallyx afk, that would probably be the better option, if only for the chance for all the gems.

afya

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mo/Me

Temple of the intolerable? I wonder if they spawn indefinitely. If they are, I smell hornbow, confessor's orders

Marverick

Marverick

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

R/

Mallyx is ridiculous. That freaking Enraged makes Searing Flames and random shit hit for 300+ damage. Which isn't too bad, except heroes have terrible priority for interrupts/shutdown/prot/everything. And they can't maintain Shelter either when I give them a bar with Soul Twisting, Shelter, and 6 empty skills. Meh.

I didn't even get a single non-white drop for doing the first 8-10 waves 3 times. Not worth it.