Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Farming

The Hall of Monuments stuff is much easier to get if you can just buy it. But getting that kind of gold is hard.  Many people resort to a mind numbing but profit rich technique called farming.  Farming will get you lots of gold in a timely fashion.

Feather Farm: Any Factions char can feather farm. Just go to to Seitung Harbor with a character that can kill the Sensali bird people in Jaya Bluffs as quickly as possible. Spirit Spammers are very fast at this. All you do is pick up all the feathers and feathered crests and sell them for 8-10k per stack of 250 feathers. You do the match at a stack every 30 minute run.

Vaettir Farming: Certain monk and assassin builds farm the Vaettirs in Jaga Moraine very quickly for gold drops and glacial stones. Glacial stones can be sold for ~8k per 100 stones. Golds can either be sold in sets of 7 for ~5k unidentified, or you can ID them and salvage any perfect mods and sell those. Selling sets unidentified is really the fastest and most worthwhile way to go. This run is fast and fun in my opinion. You come back to town after ~30 min farming with about 20k worth of golds. The hard part is finding a buyer. You may have to sell at 4.5k per set of 7. That's ok though because it saves you lots of time that can be spent farming more golds. I make it a point to ask the buyer if they want me to add them on my friends list so i can notify them when i have more golds. If they say yes, never change the price unless they want to lower it from 5 to 4.5k. Anything less than 4k isn't worth your time. Having a buyer will greatly increase your time available to farm.

Consets: This farm is fairly difficult as it isn't a single area. You must farm the materials needed to make specific consumables for players that do dungeon runs. Here is a link to the wiki info: WIKI. Sell a set of 1 of each for 8k. This price is pretty much standard so i wouldn't negotiate unless they offer higher. Again ask if they buy consets regularly and if you can add them to your friends list.

Guide to 30 in Hall of Monuments

This blog is just a guide on how to get you the 30 points in HoM the cheapest and easiest ways possible.  Before we get started, my in game name is Nic The Ancient. Whisper me with any questions you have and I will do my best to answer.  

Devotion: This will cost you either a lot of time or about~150k gold. You can get a rare minipet by regularly  obtaining Gift of the Travellers and Royal Gifts, or buy the cheapest one you can find. I bought my Prince Rurik for 40k. For the green, just do the Baby Moa Chick questline. It is very simple and takes about 40k and some time. Or you can buy a cheap one for about 50k. You only need these 2 pets for the 3 points in HoM. Getting 20+ more pets is a waste in my opinion.

Fellowship: This is an easy one with a combination of both time and money. Stolen Sunspear armor is easy to obtain so do the challenge quest with a friend and some heroes until you both have every hero u can get armor for (5 heroes total). Next go to Remains of Sahlahja and do the worm challenge mission. This is all about timing but you really only need a few more hero armors. Get about 4 if you can. After that, go to Central Transfer Chamber and buy Cloth of the Brotherhoods for 9k each. Do not budge on the price. The more stingy you are with your gold, the farther you'll go with it. You can get these for every hero in EotN. That's 10 heroes! So with MOX, 10 EotN heroes, and 5 sunspear heroes, you'll have 15 armors. Do the factions campaign and you get a free pheonix which gives you a pet statue and a phoenix statue bringing you to 18. So you'll either need to get 2 more armors from Remains of Sahlahja or buy  random armors such as Ancient or Mysterious. Make sure you do not get 2 armors for a single hero, this could set u back a bit. If you get spares after you're done. Sell them for a pretty sum. 20 is as high as you need to go here.

Honor: Titles are VERY hard to get in many cases. In my experience, it was easiest to beat the 3 campaigns and beat factions' missions with master reward for a 4th title. I then bought Zaishen Supporter for 1000k gold. Now it is very hard to get that much money but it adds 3 whole points to your HoM. I suggest you take this in small chunks. You need 200 keys total at 5k each. If you have 20k to spare, go buy 4 and sell any rare skins you get to people. If you do not want to attempt ZS, you'll need another title, any pvp title will take months so i don't suggest you go for any of those, but get another conqueror title from Nightfall. If you chose ZS or got a different title, you're done with this tapestry.

Resilience: Obsidian armor is not worth the single point it brings you, get elite kurz or luxon, vabbian, and any other armor. If you didn't get the ZS title in Honor, you'll need to get 4 more sets of armor for point with 5 armor and the points for 7 armor. Armor is cheaper than the weapons so trust me when i say you want to buy the armor if you didn't get ZM title.

Other than Honor, this is perhaps the most expensive tapestry. Weapons cost 100k in most cases, it isn't worth it to buy for any higher. You'll need 3 destroyer weps, 1 oppressor, and 1 tormented. If you can get them yourself than you are a god among mortals because it is hard or takes way to long.

You're ready for Guild Wars 2! The Charr will be envious of your Fire God Vambraces as your Black Widow pet eats Asurans for  snack-time. Just sit back and hang with your Red Servitor Golem.