The best place to farm is...

...still a secret. But for how long? All of these threads naming locations, creatures, and drops will lead to nothing but the nerfing of the very few good runs left in the game. Want a few classic examples? Riverside, Perdition Rock, and the Arid Sea.

So if you have discovered a great place to unlock items please do not post it in a public forum. Share it with your friends in the game, either through private chat or better yet, a TS server.

Don't get me wrong. I do not mind striving for rewards in GW. I am up to the acid test of soloing 6 or 8 level 24 mobs and getting my butt Fed Exed back to the nearest spawn point if I make one tiny mistake. I would, however, like to say that the rewards should be on level with challange and it's getting harder and the rewards are dwindling.

If you are looking for a good place to solo and grab some loot, the best advice I can give you is to keep moving and stay off the beaten (NERF BAT!) tracks.


Lazarus

I think ANet can easily filter their network/game activity log and figure out what zones people are solo-ing the most. Then they'll just look for particular patterns in those zones and figure out people are farming there.

Not putting farming location on a forum is good....but it doesn't really help in the overall grand scheme of things.

I agree ... farm all you want but please do realise that by making long-winded threads on what area / profession combos / builds to use etc to farm X amount of gold / runes or what have you is simply a bad idea.

True, things are able to be filtered to figure out what areas are being used other than as intended ( aka farmed constantly ) , but it's even easier to simply log into the forums and type * Farm * into the search bar

My argument either way is that I couldn't care less weather or not people farm ... at least not in theory, but at the end of the day what those people are doing is effecting the gaming experience of the general player base in a negative way.

An example : Player A farms a specific area, posts a *how to* thread complete with video etc. Enough of this activity occurs in that same area of the game, and not long after there's an announcement that the drop rates / types in that area have been changed. Then player B comes along ... they're a casual gamer who'd have liked the chance at obtaining a rune or rare item drop in that area, but it's simply no longer there. A handful of players have basically taken content away from all those who *don't* farm / post threads on methods etc ~ maybe not directly, but indirectly through their actions that's exactly what they've done.

With the overall integrity presented in the Guru site, I personally feel that all the various *Farming* threads are a very large, ugly blemish that the site could do without. Perhaps I'll have to start that petition thread I've been considering to have them removed ...

Even when you don't post it, they still get altered. Found one where I farmed fur squares for over 10k in under an hour. Probably could have gotten ~18k if fur square price hadn't declined below 3k, and I had known that I could salvage them so easily.
The day after the next day, the amount of fur squares salvaged from the items was cut in half. Instead of 4 per salvage, I was only getting 2

You could think of the people that post farming areas/builds as taking content away from future players, or you can think of them as extended beta testers, finding exploits (you can't tell me that killing 7+ lvl 24 mobs should be intended), and pointing them out to the community so they're fixed. It's similar to PvP exploits, there's a somewhat weird one now involving corpses, and how do you think it's going to get fixed the fastest? If people start winning in Tombs with it, screwing over other people. Heheh... it sounds ugly, but there's no way to get more people angry, and subsequently faster action on Anets part, than using an exploit until it's obviously a gross game error and everyone's doing it.

Just a question -is farming a bad thing? Since everything is instanced you're not really robbing anyone of kills or items. I've always though of farming part of an MMO game unless you have bots or people unfairly killing off all the beasties, driving up the price and rarity (ala FFXI).

Farming is not a bad thing. It can be a boring thing, but it's in no way evil or corruptive. It's just another thing players do when they don't want to play the missions or pvp. (aka when they have a lot of time on their hand.)
Aside from gold drops, with a fixed item drop probability, the more you farm, the more item/rare drops you'll get, and the better your character becomes in PvP and PvE. In the long run, a farming player can have slight advantage over casual players in PvP if they can unlock more upgrades than a casual player. This was something Arenanet tried to eliminate since the beginning, but they can only fix so much, since they cannot force players to give up farming. The nature of competition motivates us to farm, so if there's an farmable area, we'd swarm there.

Also, it gets more runes and items into the economy, helping new players get the runes they want.

It's not evil, but it is a bad thing. It is an arbitrary and skill-less game mechanic one must invest time into for a level playing field that should've been considered archaic long ago.

The farmer will only give un'id runes that are of classes he is very sure he never wants to play with in pvp. The only way I see a smart farmer willing to give up a superior unid'ed rune is in exchange for another superior unid'ed rune. I suppose the fallacy here is that the farmer has to understand that items and gold are almost valueless compared to superior runes. After a farmer has farmed all he wants, I don't see why a farmer would continue to farm.

But I do. He would because he's addicted to the worst enemy of us all. An entity of pure evil, which will eventually destroy the game, kill the developers one by one and make the population of the entire world a bunch of mindless slaves. It is called "Grind" in the archaic language, but bears many other foul names.

We only have the whiners to protect us, whose prophecies, alas, often stay unheard. They say a celestial entity, named UAS (which stands for United Against Skills) will save our souls

(Sarcasm mode off)

Why on earth one would reveal (on forums or alike) where he usually farm? I see no reason for that, except, of course, sheer stupidity.

Skill-less? In order to effectively farm a decent area, one must have a build that can stay alive and deal enough damage to these mobs. Not many can take on a group of 4-6 level-24's and live to tell about it. It takes skill to get the required skills to make it happen. No skill? Please. The people who take the ime out of their day to do this shoudl be rewarded for it. If you can successfully aggro a group of 8 level 20+'s, kill them and live to tell about it, you deserve the spoils.

What skill? All you have to do is look up something line, press the buttons in a specific order and thats it.

YOu need to get to the areas where these skills are found. I have had zero success with farming with basic skills that are gotten from skill trainers. Elites are what make it work.

My w/mo doesn't farm with any elites, although hundred blades would make my life easier XD. So far, I'd have to say that on average I get 1 gold armor every 2 runs XD It really doesn't take much skill either =P

Ahh, got it. I've had the impression that alot of people though farming was some sort of exploit or something. Personally I like farming, and gathering...for me thats part of the experience with other players ect. At the moment my character isn't that proficient at it like some of the vids I've seen.

All these secret farming spots with gold rune drops make my mouth water. For the love of god, someone pm me with the juicy details!

For those of you looking, just keep looking. That is what I doing.



Lazarus

The economy in these games is actually quite fragile. I bet a lot of people made money by selling fur squares before it was made easier to get them. If people stopped farming then the people who want the goods will have to pay more cos there'll be less in circulation.

However.. one thing I CANNOT stand at ALL, is arrogant stuff-heads farming till the cows come home, making a ton of cash, and then BRAGGING about it. I mean, how much skill CAN it involve in some cases where I know farming is just a matter of training a load of monsters and blasting them.
No, I know not everyone does it like that but farming becomes easy and basically.. well you get to a point where you know you can't die. So it's a breeze.

Just can't bleeping stand it when the people who do that puff themselves up and state how they make 10K a day. For some reason these people have forgotten what it's like to be low level or poor. I bet you when they were lvl 17 and seeing people selling 3 superior runes at a time, that they wished they could have as much money as them. This game seriously goes to people's heads.

I bring this up because on more than one occasion I have been trading with someone and stated that "Sorry, I don't have that sort of cash". Here are a few replys:

- Oh wow, I pity you.. here, (trade window opens with 1K as an offer)
- LOL!!! I make like 1K and HOUR. I have the best sword in the game AND a guild hall AND I have the best armor available!
- Lol wow I feel sorry fo you. Poor little noob. Money in this game is SO easy. Can't understand why there are poor people.

And all of the above got rich cos of luck. It's a computer game for christs sake, how much do they think they're choosing to be rich.

So anyway the BRAGGERS pee me off because stumbling across a good farming location seems to turn them into complete berks. I don't think there shouldn't be areas that give good drops, but I DO think they should be relocated to less obvious places and be deserved more. Maybe killing the same mobs for a certain amount of time rewards you with something. Of maybe even a way that doesnt involve brute strength for level 20's. Using your brain to do a hard puzzle from a quest or something and the reward is a minor rune or a rare crafting material. I hate the way the decent people in the game have to rely on the big "Kings of the game" to get what they want. Cos they always get ripped off. Thank god it's not everyone and I know no-one here is going to be like that. I think stringing two sentences together on a forum is a little too much for those guys.

actually, i agree with you. i make a bout 100k per day farming, however you will never hear me brag about in game. and i also try to keep the economy down for players who dont have the time to find good farms by selling most of my finds relatively cheaply

You know, I think it did make it here.

Watch people intentionally bid tens of thousands on cheap items to keep other people from having them. I almost wanna lock the threads, if it weren't for the fact that they're not breaking a rule.

I'm at level 20, I have 2k. 2,000 gold. I gave mad gifts to my family members that play, and that included my good drops. I also outfitted my mesmer with pimp stuff so I can play through and ENJOY the game without constantly chasing this piece or that piece. That was also partially out of drops. I sell off crafting materials all the time, but the rune prices are fscking ridiculous, cause people have nothing to do but throw away money, so to outfit yourself if you don't get badass drops you have to spend all you make.

This includes lots of mergoyle farming for a major expertise, and buying good bows, as I've never had a good bow drop. Maybe it's just me, but all my golds and purples are either bereft of modifiers or you're just getting cooler stuff than me.

Where the hell ever you're farming, show me. I want cool stuff too.