Ectoplasm Spasm And More!

Sup Monk Runes -> 50k+
Black Dye -> 10k+
Ectoplasm -> 15k+
...Getting 6 Globs of Ecto in 45minutes = Priceless.

There are some things gold can't buy. For everything else, there's farming.

And now for your regularly scheduled rant.

OMFG WTF. Who is tinkering with the in-game economy. It's like a Guild Wars Enron scandal or something.

I first started GW the day it came out. I wasn't an Alpha tester, a Beta tester, a Gamma tester or whatever. Just a lover of MMOs. It was great. I played to my hearts content. Going through the game, I EARN a decent amount of gold. I bought things at traders constantly, like all bipolar affective people do. Superior runes were no more than 1k. Black dye was dirt-cheap in comparison to current prices. It was bliss.

Now I've turned to the dark side of the Guilds. I have tasted the fruit of demise by farming to provide my Guild members (friends IRL) with useful items. I paid 70k for a storm bow. Wow. I'm a sick bastard, too. I took advantage of finding black dye on the US servers for 1.1k at 3am (was skill capping) and bought 250 of the suckers. I'll sell it to you for 2k if you want.

Been to the ToA lately? 95% of the people there are morons. I get blind invited as a monk by 4-5 people right when I zone in.

I think the nerf on the farming in UW was like this: the more cautious you are, the less you get. I got three globs from one mob of Aataxes. I agro'd like 8 of them with a 105 smite monk. Ever since I started playing my new PvE warrior (another character), I just have this urge to run in and wreak havoc! My advice to you other farmers: LET LOOSE.

And to whoever is manipulating the market, F U. Why do I have to farm and contribute to the problem so my poor guildies can get the things that I got on my own?

This isn't supply and demand, it's Rockafeller vs. the homeless.

The real issue? Item price : gold drop ratio is way off. NORMALIZE!

I agree with your ToA statement, its horrible when i got in as my smite monk, tell the group im smite/prot, and get bitched at when teh whole team dies because i dont heal

Yeah. I was a healer monk in a FoW and they only took me. When one person died they all blamed me for it and started cursing at me. I said "if you don't stop cursing, I'm going to stop even attempting to keep you alive." Well they didn't stop. They made it about 1 minute more, and as it turned out, 4 obsidian shards fell with other peoples names on it (that were dead). I just went into a safe place, danced and told them next time they will be nicer. Now I have four more shards

Regardless, that's just wrong.

I gave them away though If I typed in what they said, all you would see is *'s anyways... they didn't deserve those drops.

Wrong, but who cares, it's freaking hysterical. Healing Monks are born leaders.

you gotta lovely people that don't listen! i don't blame you for waiting it out and applaude you because i think thats hilarious! i think you should've posted a screen cap with that.

I would have done the same thing, dont you feel guilty! They're upset because they curse at monks too ; )

Oh, people just don't respect monks. One idiot warrior starts complaining and sometimes I forget how to click their name. ^.^ If they would just do their job, I'll do mine. No one needs someone who's never played their class trying to tell them what to do. Letting specific people die is one thing, but drop napping is dirty. I'm just glad you gave them away.

I farm UW because I want specific drops. I don't trade, I don't sell, I don't interact with the idiots running the economy. Why would I pay 10k+ per ecto when I can find all 105 on my own? It's common sense people aren't going to pay the same prices as eBayers, yet they expect casual players to anyway. >.> I find eternals/storms and I toss them to lvl 4s in Ascalon. They're of no use to me, and I don't trade. :\

Good for you. People like that need to stop looking for a scapegoat when they learn they can't pull like crap, and when they don't realize the group is still recooping on energy from the last run. If people die because I'm no where near to heal them, or if they pull a group that I know will kill us, I hang back and wait for the deaths to rez them. If they flip out and pull the six year old fit because I didn't heal them on time, tough luck to them. What's the worst they can do? Amaze me with their expansive vocabulary of the same one syllable words tied to a string that is somehow supposed to make me feel dumb? Go ahead and try. Will they try and spam me as being an asshole and not group with me? Sure, go ahead, I'm sure people are going to listen to someone venting in all caps about how retarded someone supposedly is.
Hats off to you Zehly.

Sounds like the fissure group I was in a month ago. Im a ranger though. There was a warrior with ascalon city armor. And a few superior runes. And he kept dieing and blaming the monk. Then the other warrior was going all out aggro. So I told him "You need to watch your radar, be a bit more careful." And he says "You have no room to speak, you are a waste of space. Rangers suck and you are not doing anything."

So I told him next time he got attacked by 2 abbysals and our monk is dead. Ill just forget about blinding them.

That is hilarious. I almost hate logging in as my monk. Every area I log in I instantly get 1-3 blind invites. I used to be scared with my farming build. Only grab 3 Aatxes at once and it took forever. Then one day I accidentally grabbed 3 Aatxes and 6 Great Darknesses. I thought I would die, but actually it was 10x easier to kill all of them. Now I try to at least have 5-6 Aatxes. If not I keep runnin till I have more.

When It comes to smites I grab 4+ smites and at least 2 coldfires. Without the smites I could not easily kill the coldfires. I am thinking I just need to start UW by taking the lost soul quest so things will move faster. 3 Aatxes and about 10-12 Great Darknesses.

The only reason I farm is cause somebody posted that there are plenty of farming places and it was my fault that I didn't have money. Well now I farm when I need money. I drop tons of stuff to my Guildies and can even supply them with superior monk runes if they need their own farmer build.

There is just no love for the monks. The thing is everyone hates monks, but do they think that is the only class we play. My Mo/Wa was my third char that I made for farming. I had already beat the game with my Ele/Mes and was 2/3 done with my Wa/Ra.

Just remember to love the monk since they are rich now. ROFL. And to all the people getting po'd about the price of monk runes and are blaming all the monk farmers....

Why do you want all those superior monk runes?

I think it's more like 99%. I just can't find a PUG anymore that doesn't self-destruct 30 seconds into the FoW. Guess I'll stick with solo UW farming. Boring, but better than listening to the whining bitchiness of massive numbers of fools. I'm glad ANET put in a mechanism for Monks to make up for the complete suckiness of enduring it for oh-so-many missions.

CMB

wait...did you just say you'd sell me black dye for 2k? I call 50 of them....

Ecto=15k????

How did I buy 1 for 10k then and 4 more for 11k a piece then (was last night).
Oh ya and your theroy of being more aggresive and taking like 8 aataxes at once. I do it all the time. Have you tried 8 grasping darkness and 4 aatxes at once and no ecto. I find the opposite since I find my ecto in groups of 3 aatxes. Meaning its completly random

Not fair Whenever I go down there, I get none to two Ectos at most a run.

Seriously... what's with all the elitist attitudes from the Monk players? oO You guys aren't the only ones that A) get blind invites B) wind up grouping with idiots or C) know how to play your class. I easily see just as many half-ass monks of all specs as I do half-ass non-monks.

LMAO!!!

This is starting to remind me of eve online.

Hey look i have billions of isk and decide to sway a game in my favor. Why do i have billions of isk? Because i have been playing for a long time and have nothing to draw the money out of me over time in signifigant quantities. Then the next day the forums are in uprise as something npc provided is no longer available till the next patch.

(note: i dont have alot of money in that game, but its a somewhat common practice there, even if it is not a complete buyout situation. Fortunatly, the market there is large and diverse enough so that the entire game isnt wrecked by it.)

I would like to agree with this post

Not every w/mo or r/me is horrible... and i have had my fair share of worthless monks,

(dont tell me i dont know how to play it, i have had 2 monk chars and am a monk in pvp very often)