Earning Your FoW Armor

I suck at farming those harder areas to get the materials so for me to earn my fow which I want to do... is going to take forever...

I do earn my RL money though so technicly to buy something on ebay with my money, is earned

So far, I've been soloing/two-man-teaming UW for the ecto's and doing your run of the mill FOW runs with whichever character I want to play. I've got 28 ecto and 24 shards. Only 2 of the ecto were given to my by a guildie, everything else I have "earned"-meaning they were all drops, I haven't bought any.

With prices these days, I could farm hydra's and make enough to buy them all within a couple weeks time...but there is just some personal satisfaction with knowing that I earned my FOW armor. Even if no-one else in game knows and they all assume I Ebayed for it. I know, that's what matters.

I suppose I could have my armor by now, except for that pesky little side-effect of actually playing the game (4 characters completed so far). I can only farm for so long before I go off on other activities.

i haven't gotten my FoW armor yet, but thanx for making this thread because it helped me too.

the best way to get fow armor is to get good in pvp and farm hall of heroes. I got my fissure that way. ^^
One of my best weeks i got was around 20 sigils and gold items in one week which is like roughly 500k or so.

Farming greens have netted me well over 2mil in gold and I only had a measely 60~80K in storage before I started doing FA runs. I haven't had the heart to rip into my gold cache to buy myself fissure armor (yet) but whoever said to milk the newest hottest craze is right.

Currently, SF greens are next to worthless.
IDS runs are far from being profitable due to the decreased drop rate and the time consuming nature of the run.
Tombs farming CAN be good if it lands you a Victo's Bulwark but again, it's highly time consuming and the other greens that are dropped are hardly worth the effort as well.

The first 100K is the most difficult to earn. The rest comes in easily if you're good at trading. =)

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Ok, no wrong answer here...here is my methods...I have had my warrior fissure set for quite some time now and have several millions on top of that right now.

First of all, solo monk IMHO is an absolute must...Why? Well, they can solo almost everything, and yes I mean almost everything all over Tyria. I use mo/war and I never have to change secondary proffession, I farm out of the way places...such as black curtain, or the villainy quest (hill giants included) , or inferno imps in Talmark, forest minos, you name it, I farm it with my monk, fog nightmares are awesome just outside TOA, as are the 9 or 12 tengu elites. Some tips, change mobs and areas alot, always carry a sup ident and sup salvage kit, salvage everything, sell wood at 10 gold each, when charcoal drops from the inferno imps, go craft deld steel, this is huge profit, buy low on high demand perfect mods...zealous axe and sword mods are very nice. I really believe people underestimate what farming weird areas can provide, everyone thinks UW and FoW are the be all end all, they are great but not the only place to go, materials can make you tons of gold very fast, I spend very little time selling anything...once you get the hang of farming with your invinci monk, the world is yours to discover and I use the same build for pretty much everything. Good luck and if you have any more questions about specifics I will be happy to help...oh ya, one more thing which I feel is huge, I hear people all the time say a farm run longer than 10 minutes is no good, I disagree big time, I go on runs that can last 1-1.5 hours, but I clear several zones which does wonders for anti bot farm codes And the net gold gain is well worth the time

My first few mil came from griffons, so I farmed my storage to get the money for my pants and boots :P

Desert Running while there were few doing it, Duoing UW as the ele (pre AOE nerf), 5 man Green farming (got 2 Mals sheilds and a Razorstone when they were going at 100k+ within a few days). 2 months of not that intensive play time later.. full fissure armour for my monk .

Now I do the new tombs, FoW with 5-8 man teams and am torn between buying warrior FoW or saving for chap 2

Farm Hall of Heroes with Spirit Spam, could hold about 50times. Imagine the Sigils and Weapons you get from That ^^ When Sigils were worth 60k Each, you could make 750k from 1 run.

I got my Fissure Armour from couple of reasons, I basically bought perfect weapons of people for cheap back in May/June time. The times when ppl in EU didn't know what perfect weapons meant. And Partially I got my armour because of the EU market Crash 4tw! I wish the market would fluctuate like that more often, miss them days
Bah! Sorrows Furnace put me out of business, as soon as people start realising what perfect weapons look like, Traders lose all there Custom..

I abused people who though SF greens where the s*** when they came out.
I sold 20+ greens withtin the days that they came out for over 1000k.

I also killed spider in cave for shards. (ty racthoh)

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Well my necro fissure:

Lucky buy, bought a 15>50 req 8 shadow in frontier gate (???) for around 30k, obviously sold for alot more (exact price cant remember, but it was a fair few ecto)

Then i farmed griffons constantly for around a week (1.30 hours a night say), this was to purchase my Necro fissure. During this time i made alot selling axe's and swords' from drops.


My next fissure (not complete yet) is my Mesmer, farming constant trolls + griffons for about 1- 2 weeks (1.5 hours a night etc). Few Drok runs here and there, then got a lucky 11>50 Crystaline from teh old strongbox. This bumped me up slightly, still got a few ecto to go now, should have my second set soon. This will be my last set, unless i get a drop worth 105 ecto + 105 shards :P.


All in all, my first set was mainly due to the shadow bow purchase, with not *that* much farming, my second set was half and half.
These people with 4 sets plus either had a few lucky drops, or they ebay, but i dont accuse everyone of ebaying like some people on here do.

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Farmed most of the ectos needed to make Monk and Ranger FoW through solo 55 monking, then to 55 and SS. Farmed Tombs a few times when it came out and speeded up the process (30 Ecto for Victo's Bulwark to complete Ranger's set).