best kept secrets

Ok so with GW2 just around the corner was wondering if those that are leaving for pretty much good, would they spill the beans on the areas most secretly guarded for the best farming spots, for not only weapons but for that old nostalgic area that brought the wow factor into the game for them.

The Boss that rocked you in game that made you go arrrrrrrrrrrggghhhhhhhhh till you beat them.


For me even after all this time i love having a shot at that big bad ass dragon in Majesty's rest ,Rotascale, and only the other day while doing the new content the bugger finally dropped his Green Bow after years of having shots at him for the fun of it.


cheers hope everyone shares

My favorite 'farming spot' would be the old griffon farm in the desert... just running around with a warrior feeling like a champ because I was soloing multiple desert griffons haha... never got any good drops but it was fun way back then.

my favorite memory would be with my two friends from real life. One day we decided we would invade the kurzick base in alliance battles (when there was only one base defender). it took awhile, but devoting a whole team to buffing me combined with symbiosis, we managed to invade the kurzick base and i was able to just stand where they resed.

what ill miss most has long been gone. that would be the challenge of the game.

I truly think that there are no "secret farming places, just things some people enjoy more. most farming spots are known. beside the little debate bout wich one is better, there are no big secrets bout them. (with debate i mean like the debate for e.g. featherfarming. some are convinced that outside bergen hot springs is the best. other are devoted to the factions nooby-island, but everyone agrees it is this or that. I never heard bout farming sensali in asura territory for the feathers).

For the biggest Wow moment:

Well for the farm i guess it is Raptor farming, loved them dieng in like 10 secs..

Kunvie Firewing ... I just hate this boss very very much...

My wife found akelarumi's post above and directed me to it. We both agree wholeheartedly with that "wow moment." We spent more days than we would like to admit in pre, thinking that was the game -- and being pestered by this urchin who always wanted to accompany us. Then when we approached EotN much later, well, suffice it to say, we didn't see that coming. I feel sorry for those who started in Factions or Nightfall and who experience that moment without a clue as to the poignancy, so I guess it does qualify as a "secret" of sorts. (Nick's "red iris speech" at the beginning of his second cycle was similarly affecting, but perhaps again only if you knew Mary from pre and had visited the Traveler weekly beforehand.)

As to farms, any number of times, we have marched out of Rata Sum aiming for Pywatt and a quick Zbounty, when we happened to get a Hunt Rampage while still in Magus Stones, and it was off to the races. Magus Stones has to be the best vanquish in all of EotN. New foes and lots of them are never less than 60 seconds away and it has one of the highest boss counts in Eotn (two in all of Arbor Bay, really?) for when the boss bounty comes up. Combine it with an Eotn weekend and the reputation points cascaded onto the bar.

So many good times. Thank you, Anet.

Secret Farm: The Fog Nightmares in the black curtain, south of the temple of ages. They dropped like 20-30+ dust at a time, I used to hunt them on my ranger, as a trapper and as a PBAoE Fire ele. I would get stacks of dust in about 30-45 minutes, plus junk i could salvage into iron, steel, bones, plant fibers, and sometimes granite in addition to raw gold. Those things funded my first few sets of 15k armor.

Wow factor: Rurik getting whacked, seeing the view from the highest points in the shiverpeaks, finding Kormir blind in the prison, setting lose the titans, and most of hall.....

BEATING THUNDER HEAD KEEP WITH HENCHMEN!!!!! BITE ME SNOTTY PUGS MWUAAHAHAHAAAA!!!!

Also.... anyone remember Josso Essa from thirsty river.... WoH on top of his little priest with a mob that spawns every 2 minutes...

You could keep a farming build secret for a while, but not forever. Even if you stayed quiet, someone that couldn't keep their mouth shut would independently discover the approach and it would go viral. If it was a group build, eventually there would be drama and someone would splinter off and spill the beans in order to have people to farm with.

The result is that pretty much everything that can be done is already public knowledge.

As far as things that I enjoyed, I think that 55 Prot Bond in UW remains the most enjoyable farm. Some other fun, abusive ones include HM Urgoz, 4-4-4 Deep via a Rebirth exploit and the original HM UW speed runs back when no one believed we could do it that fast. And I still remember making 10k a pop for about a month running people through Sepulchre of Dragrimmar in 10-15 minutes by exploiting Shadow Form and res shrine teleporting.

I remeber Ursanway when it wasn't nerfed, everything I do, Ursan. and the game was so fun and easy .

I guess that snowball event during wintersday where I got 100k/hr was a good farm. I was a ranger with a necro hero. Z key farming hero battles was fun for me as well. I had a tanked rating and just ran some op assassin damage build and half the people resigned immedialtey after I din't roll. I guess my pve wow factors would be beating uw in nm with heroes as well as getting full guardian title (all campaigns HM + bonus/masters) purely with heroes and not one help from a human. Most missions were easy, of course, but there were a few that were a pain such as eternal grove without being allowed to have a single tree singer die.

I personally have a few high profit farms that no one has ever posted that I keep for myself. I know its hard to believe but there are a lot of very good quest spawns in the game that people either decided were unfarmable long ago or forgot about.

Well the point of the thread is to post those builds that you've kept secret, so why post saying you have some, but then not share them?

As for me, I remember the old desert griffon farms, the troll farming outside of Droknar's and some other random ones along the way. No secret builds or farms for me though Used to farm RA a ton over double balth faction weekends and walk away with a boatload of extra money from zkeys. Yes I synced like an ass!

my fave farming spots (by no means secret anymore) are dragon mosses in the forest with ranger and naphui quarter 330 rit farm. my all time fave was solo 55 UW.

would prob agree with rotscale being one of my fave bosses. big ass bone dragon. what else do you need LOL

QFT

A good chest farming spot is in Rhea's Crater. Make sure you have more kurzick faction than luxon, leave from Aurios Mines then die. You will rez in the middle of the map and in that area you can find 1-2 easy outcast chests for the taking. It helps a great deal to bring a few Incoming and Fallback heroes to ensure that you don't die from outcast mobs while getting them. Easy to do in HM

There is the good old raptor farm but that only becomes a real money maker during festival events.

You can farm almost any green weapon with a SoS rit.

The escort quest outside HzH will spawn Dragon Mosses outside Saint Anjeka's Shrine which can be farmed with a Whirling Ranger for anything that drops specifically in the Echovald forest(Echovald Shields, Gothic Shields and Ornate Shields).

Using a very similar build to the Dragon Moss Ranger you can farm Mantids outside Naphui Quarter for Celestial weapons and a few other gems such as Clouded Mauls.

This one I haven't done in a long time and forget the name of the quest but you use a 105 hp monk with prot spirit and SoA to farm quest spawns in a luxon area for Dragon Staffs and other rare goodies.

All this is super easy in HM except for most SoS rit farms. Greens should be farmed in NM.

Favourite farm was the magma shield chest in RoT during the Holding the Line quest. Made me a nice sum of cash.

Oh and running Ruins of Morah early on during NF. That was a ridiculously easy and profitable run.

Honestly, all of the Nightfall campaign was a wow moment for me. Amazing setting, scenery, story, quests, characters, ELDRITCH ABOMINATIONS, etc(though I wish Kormir wasn't useless). Playing through it was probably the most fun I've had in GW.

It is not really a secret but i doubt that not many players did this (because it was a bit slow and challenging):

* titans solo trapping in Defend North Kryta Province in HM

It kept me busy in a period where i didnt want to do quests, etc
It was challenging and fun
It gave me lots of gold drops (weapons and runes), but nothing real worthy, and many materials

I also used to duotrap UW a lot (NM)... it gave a fair amount of ecto drops and it was fun to do.

Nowadays i dont trap anymore... for whatever reason trapping got nerfed, friends left the game and i got slower :P

Farming "The Halcyon Job" is my fave farm. Lots of tomes and Jittes and Canthan Dragon Staffs. Lots of chests too. If you still have the quest active, you can farm it over and over. If you are Kurz aligned you just run out of Zos Chivros and die and it puts you at the rez shrine right next to the farming area. I used to spend hours there. Great stuff. I also like it because there are multiple ways to do it. Get creative on multiple classes.

Shiro'ken farm outside Harvest Temple was fun.

I once bought 7 UNIDs from a player in kamadan
they were all UNID armors rather than weapons

I was curious why he had 7 of the exact same UNID armors
So I looked up where they dropped and found that they dropped in the Jade Sea

So I went to every outpost looking for a stream of farmers like you might find in certain outposts. Nothing. So I went to the international districts. Went through the outposts again. WHOA. Found a stream of players. Only 25% of them or so moved like a bot. So I asked them what they were farming. One of them showed me.

I was already around 2000 into Wisdom at this point and wanted to max it. So I put into trade chat "WTB UNIDs 7=5k"

And they all swarmed to me

These players were lining up to trade with me. Most spoke broken english so I could only hope that they could understand when I told them that I need to go to my guild hall to ID and sell off my purchases.

I decided to lower my buying price since... I had a monopoly here. I was able to buy around four thousand UNIDs over about 2 weeks for 7=4k. I had run out of money though, so I had to stop.

But what made this great? The extraordinary ratio of UNID armors. I was able to salvage so many runes and insignias that I could sell to the rune trader, that I was sometimes able to break even or lose very little. I actually watched the prices of key runes and insignias fall in price over these 2 weeks.

I think they nerfed the drops sometime after.

Reminds me of when I wanted show how awesome this new 600hp/sb monk was to a friend around the time it went public. Persuaded him to let me run it on our smite farming run, despite his reluctance, and proceeded to tank and ball almost all the spiders in one go once we got to the wastes.
I can still remember his reaction to seeing me gather all the patrols and then his reaction to seeing me tanking all of them so comfortably on ventrilo.

abused perma sf way before it became popular !!