Best Place to Farm NOW, coz Anet nerfed giffing...

It's sad but true...

So what IS the best place to farm now?

TIA

Edit: er, typo on title, meant to be "griffing"

Pretty sure there were already better places.

Instead of farming, how about turning the computer off. Grinding it out on a computer out of boredom of a game makes no sense to me.

It still works alright. FoW/UW has always been better though. You can still farm outside Drok's with no problem, though the drops are crap. I heard someone screaming in LA near Gaile that you could still farm Griffons in the S. Shiverpeaks outside of Rankor. Never tried it myself though.

I think farming taking a hit like this is a good thing. Economy will take a hit which is just... well. It's awesome.

actually you will see the economy start to increase in prices now.

Weapons gained from farming go down in availability = prices up, yes.

Money being throw around goes down as well = less of a demand

Less of a demand = lower price

Oh no! People will have to make due with imperfect weapons.

Try going out of destiny's gorge. There's griffons out there to the left of the town, don tknow if scarabs are there or not.

Blessed griffons have horrible loot :/

Griffons were never the best place to farm, considering that the griffonfarming classes can solo UW...

How did they nerf it exactly?

The additions of many many little scarabs.

I am very glad they added the scarabs. Now my guildies can't use "I am farming Griffon's" as an excuse.

Nasty little scarabs, I tried a quick run in my lunch break just to see where the scarabs are, but they are right smack in the middle of the Griffo's.

Since the auto-nerf patch, the desert has never been a good place to farm good weapons. It was the perfect bot area to hoard mountains of merchant junk, and to farm cash in a slow but simple and steady fashion. Sure, the occasional gold could be worth keeping, but griffon farmers were mostly newbie/unskilled/ignorant farmers, or bot users.

The desert was a very good influx of cash for the economy. Now that crappy farmers and bots cannot gather gold so easily, uncommon items (greens, ectos...) may become harder to sell in the long run. Selling rare stuff from SF/UW/FoW/Tombs is the best option for skilled farmers if you have a large base of unskilled but rich farmers. Removing one very popular source of junk NPC fodder and cash may strongly affect the middle-range economy (read: not casual players who couldn't afford basic stuff anyway, nor insanely rich players or hardcore farmers).

Death to Farming!

i think that leaves you with no question over my position on farming issues. Really, if you get upset becuase you cant make as much money out of tedious, unskillful griffon farming, then go play another game, or better still put some of those hours into doing something else. I cant see the point in playing a game for farming, it makes no sense to me. Why on earth would you want to sit through the tedium of farming in order to get 15k, or maybe even FoW that says nothing about you apart from 'i have too much time' or 'I know how to use PayPal'

Personally i had to solo farm griffons by trapping, thats where i got a fair bit of cash for 15k armour. Other than trapping in UW (with 2-5 man teams) there is very little rangers can do to farm solo, or in reduced groups. The vast majority of my money came from selling things i had accumulated over time, that I got from missions etc, and not from farming. Mesmers have it worse, and necros dont have a good situacion either. Elementalists to, have also been unable to farm as effectively since they nerfed aoe. Thats is why it gets my goat when people complain when they can no longer gain a frankly unfair advantage from their choice of proffesion.

I think if you want to make money it should be done in teams, with other people, possible doing quests or missions. Its far less boring than killing for moneys sake, and although it may take longer, things you enjoy tend to fly by, things that are boring just seem to take for ever, so there is a psychological aspect as well. I salute ANET therefore for taking griffon farming out of the picture, despite the fact that it was my main source of income from a farming point of view. I could do UW, but I have had nothing but bad luck (save a very lucky break which allowed me to obtain spider) I went down 15-20 times, and never saw an ecto. I also decided to stop because I want to PLAY gw, and not do it because it is a chore. Some people like grinding, personally I think they need a full frontal lobotomy, but that’s just my opinion.

While they nerf griffon farming, lets put in chilblains to piss of those 55hp monks as well. Who cares if those poor 55hp monks lose a substantial source of gold that other professions never had. If the professions are equal in pvp, then doesn’t it make sense to make them equal in pve?

Right, I have finished ranting. I am primarily a pvp player, so these things don’t concern me much. However. When factions arrives I intend to go back to PvE, until it gets boring, so these things may start to matter more to me.

I think the introduction of green weapons had a larger inpact on the economy for gold items (other than upgrades) or rare skins that you didnt find in the desert anyway. Chest running in FoW seems popular these days with groups of warriors, but it takes patience and lots of keys before you get anything worth finding. I forsee an increase in chest running due to this update.

Griffon farming outside Destiny's Gorge is easily as effective (and sometimes more so) than Augury Farming. The number of griffons you can reach quickly is spawn-dependant and Rockshot Devourers can come in groups of 3-5 sometimes but otherwise there are no problems.

You can easily find groups of 4-5 griffons close to each other, similar to Prophet's Path. If you get a good spawn, the run is much shorter.

I can solo:

Labyrinth/Vale/Smites/Unwanted guests in UW
Small parts of FoW
Griffons (blessed and previously desert)
Trolls
Minotaurs
Avicara
Forest Titans
Hydras

Nerf me! Nerf all mesmers!

Because I can. And that's the ideological rift between me and you, that we will never bridge. Don't start on it.

Me. Because warriors can solo more than monks (and they got BUFFED in the recent update, Racthoh is happy ><), mesmers and necros use 55hp to solo rapidly as well, eles have earth armors, rangers... have stuff. If you nef 55hp, you leave warriors once again the premier class of guild wars, soloing FoW, UW, avicara, perdition rock, RoF, and everything else that moves. You economically demolish 3 classes in comparison. So how about no.

mountain trolls in the cave outside of droknars forge.

Geesh..your as much an idiot as you are a nOOb, to suggest everyone who farms has too much time os uses pay pal is short sighted and incorrect.... there are lots of good reasons to farm... I have lovely FoW armour to show for my farming and it gave me a reason to play the game for months as do many other games that reward dedicated players. Building up resources is an essential part of any game, so stick to your little teams and let those who do enjoy an certain aspect of the game get on with it. Also its a bit hypocritical flaming farmers when your own income was mainly from this....did you have too much time on your hands then and do you use PayPal?

At the beginning of the kryta mission theres a house to the left. If you go behind it and kill the hellhound a bunch of monsters appear. If first you run up to the top of the small hill where the ascalon farmers are running away from the baddies it triggers more monsters behind the house to appear when you go down there. It's turns out like 700g in a couple minutes if you do it fast and sell to the merchant.