Your Favorite Zone For Farming

Salt flats and witmans folly with my ranger.

Theres nothing better than rounding up over a dozen storm kilns and watching them kill themselves with your whirling defence.

Man if you got that lucky you should have dropped everything, got on a flight to Vegas and made some real money.

Griffons/Minotaurs in Prophet's Path, simply because I can do them all in two groups, it's easy once you learn how to time things, and the money is decent.

Hydras in Skyward Reach, a lot more enjoyable than the Griffons because you have to pay attention to their Meteors, timing it wrong could mean an interrupted Protective Spirit. Only problem is I don't make anywhere near as much as I do from the Griffons.

When I'm feeling lazy, Mergoyle Wavebreakers and Mergoyles in Watchtower Coast (I usually get at least one gold weapon per run and two or three purples). This isn't that efficient really, but the views are nice .

For basic materials like wood and iron, I farm Nolani Academy and the Undead outside of Beetletun. I sometimes get a rare from this.

I used to farm Ettins in North Kryta Province, but it takes too long now.

That's it really.

Hacks.

dunes, gold, exp, solo.
RoF, Items & gold, EXP, solo

Retribution X

P.S. Sf farming aint' too hard... mineral ain't too bad either...

I get bored pretty quickly, so I change farming spot often.
For profit my favourite are griffons outside Augury, trolls outside Droknar's and Minotaurs in the first part of Elona's.
When I'm bored i kill hydras outside Augury, sand drakes outside Elona's and some occasional runs to the siege wurms in Dunes of Despair.
Sometimes I clear Whitman's Folly, but drops there are pathetic.
I like farming fierce/braves in Mineral Springs too, but most of the times I die in Tasca's Demise.
And i go often in uw with small trapper teams (3/4 people max, usually 3).

two words Char hides
found all over ascolon we all know what you can get for 4 of them.

A w e s o m e !

Seems that the Hide drop rate has decreased alot.They have been replaced by char carvings -- junk unless you need Monk tats.

I farm war camp, with 5 henches, n/mo, take around 6 keys and fight every grenths boss, rinse and repeat.

truly depends on luck, but alot of the times luck pays off, 30k in 1 hour last night.

I farm trolls outside droks. Why? Higher XP than minotaurs/griffons.
I'm getting the last 6 skill points now with him, and i want to speed it up as much as possible. 168 xp per troll, 2 dozen every 5 minutes is nice.

Mmm. Gotta love that 4,032 exp. Indeed!

--The Shim

I still love farming divinity coast ^^

The drakes drop atleast 1 gold per run and the ettins drop atleast 1 rune per run and with all the mergoyles i can rank up to 2k per run (50k when i found a perfect item)

Last time i whent there i got a almost perfect longbow with 15-27dmg -_- sundering 10/10 and +5 armor always.

The Great Northern Wall ftw. I got my 60k for armor there in only a few days.

0.0 wtf how? You only get crap items there im sure of that.

Then you aren't sure. The great northern wall can drop some nice runes. Runes are the majority of reasons to farm in Ascalon. DROP drops are better elsewhere, as they won't be max, but I've gotten a sup abs from that mission.

--The Shim

xD are you sure show me a screenshot then because i dont believe that annything over there would drop a superior absorption.

I'm quoting you for this simple fact: Drops for runes ARE NOT reliant on area. If I screenshotted it, I would gladly send it to you. Drops for runes can occur anywhere, at any interval, with anything from minor to superior.

Now regular drop drops, like weapons, and other things, definitely not max. But can get some nice mods <I've gotten two +20 hp bow grips, I can screenshot that for you, if you like!> :P

--The Shim

Ok ok i believe you but i didnt know that the charr had that much money

I mean a superior absorption those charr really are rich xD

I farm the Desert mostly, but after a few trips it gets boring.

Favorite zone for group farming: Fissure and Perdition Rock. Normally I go there with random pug's, but sometimes I go with guild mates.

Favorite zone for solo/two man farming (money maker): Sand Wurms for bleached shells, and Underworld.

Ettins, Griffons, Hill Giants, FoW, UW..Pretty much everywhere, and almost all done solo.

i usta farm tengu now i mostly farm fissure and outside droks

i love solo farming monitars (get this) in black curtain. Y? its fun to watch 20 of them pound on you getting nowhere, they die fast, and a quick rezone into kessex peak and you get to do it a gain, yay fun. i dont really do it for money, more for self confiednece and to take a break from uw and fow. i also like to help people with villany of garneth. we get to that part and i tell everyone to stand back and watch. and i love it when they say something like "omg how are you not dying" and i just flash the wolf and say "fm". and they say "whats fm?" and i say "effing magic. now bow down!" lol j/k

ettins, undead hordes, UW, Tombs, FoW

but i prefer running as my way of generating gold

I prefer to do the Ettins East of Beetletun over past the Ascalon Settlement.

I use this build. Works for me:

Dismember
Penetrating Blow
Executioner's Strike
Sprint
Cyclone Axe
Berserker Stance
Gladiator's Defense
Mending


Healing Prayer - 8
Strenght - 8 + 1
Axe Mastery - 9 + 4
Tactics - 11 + 1


Superior Vigor
Full Gladiator's Armor
Victo's Battle Axe (Customized)
Grognar's Defender


I have been sorta of farming the ring of fire area lately. Alot of guildies finally got past Thunderhead and needed the missions.

--nvm

Fissure all the way

best farm spot for me is the prophets path with 15K an hour. Kinda boring now and gonna try new spots. Thanxz for the new places.

Some personal observations of mine with regard to solo-farming (<-- so you really want to go all alone into the big, big world; dated Feb 9, 2006; these can obviously change in the future):

Augury Rock, west exit, griffons - takes a long time, 1-3K per run, decent XP

Augury Rock, north exit, hydras - takes a long time, 1-3K per run, decent XP

Droknar's Forge, north exit, trolls - takes a long time, 1-3K per run, lovely XP

Bergen Hot Springs, north exit, lots of undead (avoid mesmers ) - very quick, 1-3K per run, poor XP (if at all)

Rune farming north of Lion's Arch (read up on the path that uses the exits west of the settlement and in the northeast of the map) - can take long, kill the boss at the beach if available for extra morale, identify, only expert-salvage what you want to sell as runes (read: don't salvage superior runes that sell for 25 gold) - made about 150K in 4 hours recently (not normal, I would expect xxK as a standard), poor XP (if at all)

Arid Sea (area) various monsters - takes time to get there, 2-4K per run, good XP

Iron Mines of Moladune (mission), various monsters - takes some time, 2-4K per run, good XP

Titan quests, various monsters - very decent drops, you may have to work on your builds, 5-10K per run, excellent XP

Gates of Kryta, north exit, mergoyles - very easy, approx. 1K per run, poor XP (if at all) ... I train pets there and make about 20-30K per pet trained ...

Denravi's Refuge, south exit, various monsters - can be tricky at times, but you get free AI help (think about how you will keep them alive the longest ), nice drops incl. various high value perfect mods, 2-4K per run, mediocre XP

Ecto farming in the destroyed tombs - it requires a unique build but can yield some ecto, think about killing the enemies without being in their vicinity, perhaps the ecto price is not too excellent, but it is a fun run

Bleached shell farming, either at the end of your griffon/minotaur run or separately in the southern part of Vulture Drifts (Dunes of Despair, south exit) - not worth it; you can quickly accumulate a decent amount of shells, but I found that the market for selling those is reasonably small; buyers are not willing to pay an appropriate amount that would coincide with earnings on different farming endeavors.

Icy dragon sword farming, north exit of The Granite Citadel - takes a long time, unreliable with regard to the outcome (i.e. too low a chance of the drop)

Chest farming (no key), Dreadnaught's Drift - I do not consider that a viable farming option as it takes a while to get there, the drops do not warrant the effort; as such, it's more of a reward for a runner doing his or her warm-up jog

Last but not least ... my advice ... visit the unknown. With the exception of Ascalon City and Lion's Arch, if a town has more than 2 districts, chance is that heavy farming is going on. Go to the outposts in the middle of nowhere with 1 empty district, venture outside, figure out how to deal with your opponents, and the gold will just keep on coming.

PS: I don't want to hear "you farm too much" now ...

PS II: Somebody was saying that posting farming spots renders them void by bringing them to the attention of Anet. I disagree. On the one hand, Anet certainly knows what is going on in the game. On the other hand, as they say, "there is much more where that came from" ... finding a spot is rather ... em ... simple.

Alone inside furnace... 1 run per day, bad luck? 15k 30k... luck? 50k 70k... good luck? 130k 2 hours rush...
Sadly i start just at weak that prices start to drop.. very very very sadly i will make easly 200k 300k per run...
P.S. I need a good video editor to join the videos of my play... need erase sound and put a new soundtrack and a good capture program, i get a trial of fraps... whant to record all trip and put soon i complet my green collection and get 1000k need 2 necros and victos shield ...

awww please tell everyone soon, my ele isn't doing anything

i used to chest farm here very often for the chest that drops armor and the chest that drops weapons before there was keys... are those chests still there to farm? i farmed 2 crystaline swords(1 purple and 1 gold) from there... id bring tons of salvage kits and id kits and salvage stuff to sell to the trader at droknor fordge... easily make tons of money quick! those chest dropped every type of rare imaginable... this was all pre SoF

My Fav. Solo Farm = Fissure of Woe / Defense NKP + Defende Denravi Mission / Mineral Springs / Droknars Forge / Snake Dance / Chest Run's Outside Thunderhead Keep

My Fav. Group Farm = Sorrow Furnace / Ruins of Tombs / Underworld !

Ember Light Cmap is easily solo-able with a warrior and yields plenty of golds. Trading Magho Claws for scrolls rakes in the money pretty fast too.

I would have to see this to believe it!
What classes do you use? I"m assuming E/mo. hmmm?

I'm glad to see people actually sharing this information. I've been out of the game for a bit and it's good to see that despite all the nerf-phobias, none of the old tried and true areas have been beat down.

Personally, I usually grab four henchies and go through Grenth and SF. Don't get any greens, but managed to get a superior vigor and two major vigors on one short run of grenths.

"Gates of Kryta, north exit, mergoyles - very easy, approx. 1K per run, poor XP (if at all) ... I train pets there and make about 20-30K per pet trained ..."


I have never heard of that before, you can train someone else's pet and then give it
back to them??

pretty cool.......but strange....

hmmmm, maybe I should open a pet store....

No, I train my own pets ...

ples excuse my ignorance.. but what is UW and Fow?

Underworld and Fissure of Woe. For more reading:

http://216.86.149.248/wiki/Underworld

http://216.86.149.248/wiki/The_Fissure_of_Woe