55 Factions Farming 101

I'll be posting up another (more profitable) area to farm with your 55 as soon as I get my friend's consent to release the area (as he is the one who told me about it) as well as his build and my build for farming the area. It should be up before I sleep tonight.

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And yes Age...I am very bad

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I got the go-ahead to post the area. *Construction In Progress*

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Updated! Nahpui Quarter Farming!

Tips: - Don't take on more than two of the Lights at one time, they will spike you with an attack that does -50 damage (ignores Pspirit). That is what makes this run really a hit or a miss.
- Don't attack the turtle boss (2nd boss if you're starting from the goat thing on the far left orb) it has enchant strip.
- Bring canthan keys on this run, they're cheap and you can get celestial stuff much easier than drops from enemies. 3-4 chests per run.

This is the celestial item I got from 5 or 6 full runs:

EDIT: Here is the pic of the celestial staff and shield.

Its ok for a spot this early in the game but its not exactly easy, with each mesmer packing 2 interrupts and the ritualists healing, it takes forever to kill them.

for the people that want something more easy, try aborstone (outside tanglewood copse) 4 groups with lots of enemies and no interrups, still purple and gold drops, give it a try

Close this thread please. This is not what we want. The farming is over. If you farm the places other people wont get the chance to get good stuff. Close thread!

Quote: Originally Posted by dkatz

Quote: Originally Posted by Nanii

I've been tinkering with alot of areas and build's with my 55 and I'm rather surprised at the amount of areas that can be solo'd. I'm not saying cleared but theres alot of mob's that are fairly easy. I'm still in the trial and error period but factions looks very promising for 55's, well at least for the time being.

Quote: Originally Posted by Mako Its ok for a spot this early in the game but its not exactly easy, with each mesmer packing 2 interrupts and the ritualists healing, it takes forever to kill them. This is not hard at all, even for the standard Mo/W build. Just practice a bit if you're having trouble, I'm sure you'll get it. Quote:

Originally Posted by Nanii Close this thread please. This is not what we want. The farming is over. If you farm the places other people wont get the chance to get good stuff. Close thread! Obviously the farming is NOT over, so what's your point? And how does your opinion account for "we" in a general sense? lmao

Tried Arborstone: pretty good, a lot more reliable than the ones that have been posted so far. Tons of tanned hide...Got 100+ in 2 runs

Quote: Originally Posted by dkatz

Nice job man. I was wondering where 55 would be useful around these parts. Thanks for the tips.

ow i forgot to tell you guys that in aborstone you get like 500+ tanned hide squares, armor, fur squares and other things, try it
build:
1. PS
2. healing breeze
3. SoJ
4. bonetti's
5. optional slot, not needed, one round of SoJ will kill them all
6. blessed aura
7. baltazars spirit
8.mending

just to verify even more...It's not dead. Yesterday I got 5 purple runes 2 gold runes 3 gold items and a couple blue runes. Lots of silk,linen,jade bracelets..
pretty much close to clearing docks and Bazzar area. Boss/Rit in the square couldn't kill, came close but no go.
PS,HB,Cyclone,Bonettis,Zealots,Mending,Balths,SOJ
yes mesmers are a problem but just try and kite everyone so they ball up. Zealots/cyclone/soj will affect em all. Use bonettis to cast your spells under. Healing breeze with fail quit a few times but you have plenty of tim/w 18+ PS and my 18%enchant 10%furious axe.
ps..watchout for the rangers in the area I normally just run from them. Takes to long and they have a skill that goes through your setup.

I dont know if it's just me, but I am now officially sure that Naphui Quarter farming is pointless. I waste by far more money than I gain.

The birds never drop golds, and VERY rarely, they might drop an occasional crappy purple. All I get are tons of feathers, RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOatrice staves, and koi scepters.

I was thinking that mabe at least the chests could bring some prophit, but nope... I was wrong there too. The only things that drop from chests are crappy purple items. Only one time, a gold celestial staff dropped, but it was a shitty non max one.

In conclusion.. About 30 runs made... 20k gold wasted.... 1 gold celestial staff found.
Was it worth it? Nah...


PS: Not trying to bitch or flame. I'm very thankful that you people even bother to share your farming spots.

Ya on my first run in nahpui i picked up 5 rares and countless purples with my necro. The run isnt even hard but it seems anet cranked anti farm up higher then it was in prophecies. Runs after the first weren't even mentioning, and the chests are almost always purple since my first solo trip

Nightmare weapon is a joke. I regularly take on 2-3 of the ritualists at a time there without a problem as long as you keep melee and rangers alive you shouldnt have any problems, I don't think going as a solo monk with soj you can keep them alive to feed you energy vs multiple ritualists. Run is easy with solo necro you can even kill the bosses too. The little bosses that spawn after killing the main ones do drop purples and rares. The turtle is probably killable if you go full health w/o enchants and just use breeze to counter siphon and vampiric swarm. The turtle does use gaze of contempt, the only way you are going to manage taking him out with enchants on is if your health is consistently under 50% and by doing this your asking to get killed by life steal going with low hp's.

55 hps for melee and rangers, 105 for ritualists.....i hope I'm not the only one to think of this. It works but there's really no demand for these items atm in game. Can't get rid of perfect stat celestials for anything in game. This may be due to the fact everyone is overwhelmed with all the new skins and perfect modded weapon drops.

Think about anet did kill farmers. Yes you can still farm many areas but whats the point in farming these areas when almost everything that drops is perfect no matter where you go. In a short while the only thing people are going to want are the diamond skinned items from alliance owned areas which the vast majority of us will never see drop in game unless they change the mechanics of the high end area so the people that paid for the game can have a chance too.

maybe its just me being stupid and blind this late.. But, the farming place that Thrice found.. where is that? You just say enter mission far as i can see... you dont say what mission it is? :S again, maybe me that missed it, but cant seem to find it..

~Shadow

Quote: Originally Posted by ibex333 PS: Not trying to bitch or flame. I'm very thankful that you people even bother to share your farming spots. hehe it's ok man I know it's frustraiting. But yes, after the first couple runs droprates decrease significantly (ANet up'ed the anti-farming code).

Quote: Originally Posted by Shadow-Hunter

what to do with the ritualists they dont want to die ffs!!!

ah, Thanks ... Gonna try that place now..
just tryed the other one (the one you found) And the mesmer interupts is a Pain!:. and since i saw a fairly low use for Bonettis i tryed Mantra of resolve.. worked pretty neet.. The energy cost Of MoResolve wasent a big deal since you get alot of hits ...

~Shadow (Good work )