Wayfarer's Marks: worth farming?

Willie Lumpkin

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2011

Canada

Sandwalkers of Ascalon

E/Me

The drop rate for Marks seems to be game-wide but extraordinarily low - on the order of a few percentage points at best.

Problem is, I really really REALLY want to finish up GWAMM before GW2, and to do that I need party/sweet/drunk points.

So do you think it's worth killing thousands of enemies to grab a few points here and there, or is my/your time better spent elsewhere?

Skyy High

Skyy High

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2006

R/

Definitely better spent elsewhere. Just do any profitable farm and buy the points, it'll go much faster. There should be plenty of sellers still.

Relyk

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

W/

They drop from vaettir, so everyone farm them from that.

Kook~NBK~

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2005

A little chalet outside Drok's

Natural Born Killaz

The drop rate seems to be the same as other festival items. So if you think that farming those things during their respective festivals is worth your while, then Yes, it's worth your while to take on the raptor/vaetter/whatever farming while they're dropping.

But like Skyy said, it'll be faster just to buy them from others if you can afford it.

Raging Ranger Bob

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2005

Ireland

R/

I have been doing the vaettir farm and the drop rate for these thing is very low from it.

Can go 3-4 runs without 1 dropping.

So yeah, imo, its not worth farming them.

ranger rothers

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2008

Don't worry about finishing GWAMM, if the current trend continues ANET will be giving it away with the next update.

Ailina

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2010

Whats Prot Spirit [FoR]

R/

Oddly enough, I've been having a fairly high drop rate of Wayfarer's marks, consistently getting around 10 per ~15 minute feather run through Jaya Bluffs. However, as others said above, still not worth it compared to other, more profitable farms. (I just do this one because I find it fun).

LordDragon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2010

Dragons Den

E/

I figured the marks would be worth far more than a 1 point item considering how close we are to the GW2 release. Not that I need anymore as I already have a GWAMM and 50/50.

mrmango

mrmango

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Southern California

Charter Vanguard [CV]

Me/Rt

Quote:
Originally Posted by ranger rothers View Post
Don't worry about finishing GWAMM, if the current trend continues ANET will be giving it away with the next update.
Don't be daft.

PCGamer1980

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2012

London

R/W

I already got 11 of those wayfarers marks on my run in at pre-searing.

Age

Age

Hall Hero

Join Date: Jul 2005

California Canada/BC

STG Administrator

Mo/

I am not sure why this ended as it was alot like bounty hunter and my toon weren't even fineshed.

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

the 'event' ended, and just like other events where you have event only junk (tokens) when its over...the collectors leave and if you failed to finish up the quests or still have these in your inventory....you are stuck (though I doubt this event will be repeated, so not only stuck but sol).
Though I would hope that the collectors would have stuck around for a bit afterwards like other events...but alas...yup, me sol too

Charrbane

Charrbane

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Canada

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Age View Post
I am not sure why this ended as it was alot like bounty hunter and my toon weren't even fineshed.
I got 3 of the 4 stones proofs and only had 2 things to do in the Eye Of The North quest to get the last proof. I then had internet connectivity problems for days, then got Guild Wars 2 and my internet got fixed. So I played some Guild Wars 2, never having played any beta things, so it was all fresh and cool to me. By the time I got back to the Wayfarer's thing and finally got it finished my time had run out by some hours on that extended period. Why can't they have a reward NPC or something where you can only cash in your rewards from these event things. Plus I have a stack of those mark things that I'll have to dump in the garbage. My fault I didn't finish sooner, tho my net connection got so bad I couldn't load Google at times. They extend it for 2 1/2 days and I still miss it. Now that sucks. Bah.