Solo Monk Dreadnaught's Drift Farming

its fun but not really worth the effort

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My guildie and I do this run for the chests only with w/mo. He gets another guildie to run with him so he doesn't get dp. I just die and zone over and over. But I don't kill anything, I just grab the chests and die. I haven't gotten anything real real good. But my guildie got a Purple Crystalline sword .

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What would be a good build to solo Dreadnought's Drift with a warrior?

I'm guessing using Shield of Judgement to deal major damage to the Tundra Giants combine with Dolyak Signet to tank the rock slide.

ehh...drops are ok alot of chaos axes and eternal shields, but no sign of a crystalline dam* but best thing i got so far was a max purple serpent axe

well some ppl know of this a long time, and as with every farming place, they arent nerfed... it just that too many ppl are farming them... a chest cannot drop unlimited amount of rares, as it was pointed in a discussion on this forum some time ago...

Chest, monsters, etc... have a drop rate... lets say 25 golds an hour... if 10 ppl are farming this, they *will* get 2.5 golds an hour... if 10,000 ppl are farming this they will get 0.0025 golds a hour, see the math... places arent nerfed, they just arent adjusted for increased rate of farming... and the ever increasing number of players... so by posting this here u just made impossible for u and the others to get good drops anymore... Afcourse u will say i got, and then some1 else will say i got this... but thats the point, those are the 25 lucky guys out of who knows how many thousends farming... and the chance u will be lucky tommorrow is 1/[number of players] farming it in that moment... very very little now....


I was running this with W/Mo last year, and got some nice drops, very rare, but as the word started to spread, drops got worse and worse...

Nowdays its just a waiste of time, u need 10 mins to get there with W/Mo and if u salvage everything u get u will get around 15k from materials and "god forbid [once in 25 days, maybe] some nice drop for a 2 hours run... I used to make 80-90k on hour last year just from gold armors... Thats 7.5k an hour of your time now...
If u go to augury rock and farm griffons u can make 20k an hour plus many gold drops... u usually get 1 good drop or upgrade an hour of farm... *usually*, not every hour, there are bad days... Thats like 40k + items for 2 hour run... way better than these chests...

Another great guide, Uber.

Good job.

I found about these chests a bit too late before all the changes that were done to Snake Dance, but the idea of a 55 monk getting there never came across then.

For all those saying it impossible to get there, simply requires practice and patience. I managed to get to the Lost Strongbox without aggroing anything (given I was lucky too). Both boxes dropped quite a few white items, nothing really notable but it was still worth the trip. Something to do while waiting for favor to come back. =)

Omfg, I would LOVE to see that in action PLS PLS PLS make a video that was f***ing great!

And this is exactly how sh*t gets nerfed, a retard tells teh whole world about it and what used to be good drops become crappy drops, tnx a lot idiot.

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Ok, Ok, no need to be angry, i just asked (a little bit strange ) for a video, and if noone wants to create one, OK. I can live with that. No need to call me an idiot or something. So ill try myself, i don´t mind. Thanks for the nice replies >.<

In the end, i apologize again for my stupidness
(sry for bad english, im not from England or USA)

And above, ok that was stupid. I didn´t mean it like this. I should have asked more friendly -.-
Must have sounded like a jerk.

This wasnt meant directly towards you, but in general. The reason i have posted is because of people always overfarm the one spot, ok it's fine to post about your own build and general area where you use it, but to say the specific spot where it's used, leads to noobs rushing to the area, overfarm, and then comes along "Anet", well.. they are repetitive farmers.. let's nerf this spot too, or well lets adjust it with more creatures for each type of profession so it cant be farmed. Then.. we come back and begin bitching and complaining about it being nerfed asking and posting to stop the nerfing when in fact it's all thanks to you for telling everyone else about it, most of us already know the places.. but unlike noobs we dont open our big mouth and tell every single person we see just so we feel superior or get praise for it.. it really is a shame.

Hm, got your point. But someone always can´t keep the mouth shut, i´m not sure if i could to my best friends. Anyways thanks for this GREAT build, i nearly made it since my first post

theres a place outside ascalon, head right to the gargoyles and farm them, youll get a crystalline sword drop often....

Nah, you´re obviously kidding

lofl crystalline swords in ascalon? dream on kid :b

And IF it drops, please show me a screen to prove it.

sign me up for the workshop =P i'll pay the 3k

it was a piece of cake + fun ^_^
but sadly got 0 golds or any special weapons got like only 3 purples
n tons of woods + iron



btw nice guide uber ^_^

& people u can kill everything in your way except summit group with heteric & a group with mesmer or monk boss..
totally in this run i made 803 woods + 294 iron i didnt leave any single red dot except the 1s i wrote above ^_^ frozen crest dropped me tonsa armor most of the times

i went there today with the help of a friend. and i opened both lost strongbox and frozen chest. but the two free chests were nerfed really bad. neither of us got a single gold, not even a purple. it's true however, there are a lot of shiverpeak chests in dreadnought's drift. but i think the lost strongbox and frozen chest are pointless because they've been nerfed.

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I was bored so i tried this, First run nothing amazing, i rezoned and got this
great guide

its weird that when u get a rare the text changes from:

Opening The Frozen Chest reveals... TO
Opening Frozen Chest reveals...

*Shrug*

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