Guild Wars 2

I’m working on The Predator for my engi right now and all I have left is the precurser and the t6/ectos for the Gift of Fortune. The ectos wont be a problem since I get rares a lot from various events and whatnot, the t6 is troubling though.

How would you suggest getting a lot of t6? I have been buying heavy moldy bags off the tp and opening them for t6 but that isn’t working very well. Should I convert t5 materials? Sorry, I’m just pretty lost and I want to complete this in a decent amount of time.

fastest way:

take out your visa => buy gems => gem to gold => buy t6 from TP

normal way:

champ bags farm , frostgore train and SE dungeon bags farm

Spread your AOE love in Orr – temples, plinx etc.
Sell stuff you don’t need and buy T6.
Wait, you don’t have the precursor yet?

Edit: The new areas in dry top seem to be good as well, haven’t done it myself though.

I just mass slaughter in cursed shore. Tons of bags, and I usually get a few t6 per dozen bags or so. Takes a while, but meh. I’m stockpiling myself.

Nub.2391:

fastest way:

take out your visa => buy gems => gem to gold => buy t6 from TP

normal way:

champ bags farm , frostgore train and SE dungeon bags farm

Champ bags are actually a pretty bad way of obtaining t6 mats. The loot you get form a champ bag is not much better than the loot you would get from killing 2-3 regular mobs.
If you want to farm for t6 mats, i would suggest to farm events/content that allows you to get alot of kills per hour of either mobs that drop t6 mats directly or heavy bags.
Usually events in which alot of players participate, also spawn alot of mobs, so more loot for you.
Look for events in Orr, they usually draw a big crowd (and dont afk at the boss spawn, do the pre events). Personally I play alot of wvw and if you are on a server where alot of big fights happen that allow you to get alot of kill tags, Heavy Loot Bags are also a good stream of t6 mats.

Right now, Dry Top also has a good droprate for t6 mats (again, go for the events that spawn alot of mobs, not those that spawn 1 champ). I would usually go to a champ event, dps the champ for 10 sec to get credit, then leave for an event that spawns alot of mobs and kill 30-50 mobs in 5 min, then go back to the champ to collect my champ bag.

You can also form your own farming party, its always faster in a party. IF you dont have guildmates interested, make a LFG Tool advertisement:

“Looking for 4 more to farm t6 mats, beginners welcome.” I would suggest to start in Orr or Southsun Cove. Frostgorge Sound is another lvl 80 map that you ckittene.

This way you can slowly gain experience to play efficiently in a party and make new friends along the way.

Rouven.7409:

Spread your AOE love in Orr – temples, plinx etc.
Sell stuff you don’t need and buy T6.
Wait, you don’t have the precursor yet?

Edit: The new areas in dry top seem to be good as well, haven’t done it myself though.

Nope, no precurser yet, I try the forge whenever I can though. I don’t have the best luck, but I’m confident I’ll get it at some point. Right now I’m more concerned with getting the actual gifts and kitten sorted out. Good point with the Orr thing, I have sort of fallen out of Orr farming for some reason. I should probably go at it again.

Well I guess that’s a good approach too, once you have enough T6 you can still continue what you are doing and sell them. Wanze has as always good advice.
Potential thought, instead of promoting T5 you can craft more rares to forge.

Buy them with laurels.

For me: Find and farm mobs that drop T4 and T5 materials in high volume/minute, sell on TP, use profit to buy T6 materials.

My anecdotal avg T6/minute rate over time has been 1 every 10 minutes of actively farming for them. At ~6/hr, that’s 3G/hr at current prices. Sure, I’ve had lucky days where they’ve dropped faster; but I’ve had days of 0 in an entire play session, as well.

Farming T4/T5 high-drop mobs (Timberline Wolves + Riders + Skelk repeatedly, for ex) can yield better than this – 5-7G/hr is completely do-able.

Anyone who can yield a higher rate of T6’s/hr will of course argue. Even in Dry Top lately, I cannot consistently exceed the rate above.

IMO farming gold and buying the items you need is the most efficient way. That was my philosophy when I was making Sunrise, and still is as I work on legendary #4.

From time to time, I run around Southsun Cove, Frostgorge Sounds or Orr killing mobs, never concentrating on certain mobs for certain types of drops. I found concentrating on certain mobs hoping for the mats I needed boring and inefficient. I farmed the sparks at Dwayna for charged lodestones (charged cores would’ve made me happy too) only to get a lot of junk and Opal. I ended up buying 75% of the cores for the lodestones in the end anyway.

Good luck!

LadyTrouble.6920:

IMO farming gold and buying the items you need is the most efficient way. That was my philosophy when I was making Sunrise, and still is as I work on legendary #4.

From time to time, I run around Southsun Cove, Frostgorge Sounds or Orr killing mobs, never concentrating on certain mobs for certain types of drops. I found concentrating on certain mobs hoping for the mats I needed boring and inefficient. I farmed the sparks at Dwayna for charged lodestones (charged cores would’ve made me happy too) only to get a lot of junk and Opal. I ended up buying 75% of the cores for the lodestones in the end anyway.

Good luck!

ty, and yeah thats pretty much what im resorting to. I run the dungeons im most comfortable with everyday now for the money, do raids with tts, and then after all that is done I go to orr. The moldy bags help a lot for getting t5 to sell to buy t6.

and thank you, im trying my best lol.

Run dungeons. Buy mats on TP with the proceeds.

My method is as follows: Do your weekly Guild Accommodation granting events. Guild Rush, Trek, JP, Bounty, w/e. Some grant accommodations, some do not. Use those accommodations to purchase Heroes Banners. Go into EotM. Check out the commander/zerg and see if the map has a solid rotation of node swapping going on. Hopefully, the map isn’t full of useless halfwits that want to zerg vs zerg on a karma train map. If it isn’t going well then switch maps. If it is going well link Hero Banner in chat and let the map know its at spawn. Coordinate this with the commander so time and progress isn’t wasted.

Utilize any buffs you can. Guild buffs, food buffs, gemstore karma buffs, etc… to stack karma increase. Then karma train like its the end of the world. Be polite to your commanders and zergs but try to keep everyone on track and avoid enemy zerg confrontations as much as possible. Maybe buy your own commander tag and learn the ropes to lead your own k-train.

The more zergs confront each other on the battlefield the more likely it is that one force will begin to turtle/defend keeps halting a great deal of progress. This can be extremely frustrating for people that have little time to play during the week and want to make the most of the game.

You can make a great deal of karma this way which can then be used to either convert into any material regardless of tier. There are a few forum posts consolidating info on karma conversion as well as some posts on Reddit that are useful. You can also convert karma into Obsidian Shards which you use to make mystic clovers. Making mystic clovers gives you a great deal of T6 mats. Even if you don’t need mystic clovers this is still a great way to make those mats in bulk.

The key to this depends on keeping people focused on karma training. Many commanders don’t understand that if you force zerg battles on EotM karma train map then the karma train will slowly jump back into WvW maps upsetting a large portion of the population that care about the scores in WvW.

This is just my personal favorite way as it seems to me to be the fastest method as long as your team can stay focused.

Scryeless.1924:

Many commanders don’t understand that if you force zerg battles on EotM karma train map then the karma train will slowly jump back into WvW maps upsetting a large portion of the population that care about the scores in WvW.

While I do think EoTM is a MASSIVE fail that’s best left as the karma train it is right now, I don’t think killing it would affect (real) WvW much. The existence of server communities doesn’t allow the kind of train we see in EoTM (and in fact it’s largely the lack of community that has made EoTM the fail that it is).

In any case… has anyone compared karma training —> T6 mats with dungeon —> gold —> T6 mats?

I see EotM as a huge success. It pulled K-trains out of WvW for the most part. It pulled a great deal of up-lvls out of WvW. Most importantly, it is an amazingly simple and quick way to farm gold, karma, materials, WvW rank, skill points, Badges of Honor, etc… All of which can be converted into yet more gold. Obviously, WvW rank cannot be converted but it helps you farm more efficiently:D

Prior to this farming for anything in the game was so much more painfully slow. Taking Charged cores/Lodestones as an example, i actually get more of these farming EotM with a smooth non-zerg vs zerg ktrain than farming CoE or Elementals. Only slightly and that slightly is very slight. Over the course of a long period of time though it edges out ahead of farming the usual spots that people have previously farmed this highly sought after material.

So far, in my experience, the only farming that beats a smooth EotM map is the Crown Pavilion Gold Farm.

Scryeless.1924:

I see EotM as a huge success. It pulled K-trains out of WvW for the most part. It pulled a great deal of up-lvls out of WvW. Most importantly, it is an amazingly simple and quick way to farm gold, karma, materials, WvW rank, skill points, Badges of Honor, etc… All of which can be converted into yet more gold. Obviously, WvW rank cannot be converted but it helps you farm more efficiently:D

Prior to this farming for anything in the game was so much more painfully slow. Taking Charged cores/Lodestones as an example, i actually get more of these farming EotM with a smooth non-zerg vs zerg ktrain than farming CoE or Elementals. Only slightly and that slightly is very slight. Over the course of a long period of time though it edges out ahead of farming the usual spots that people have previously farmed this highly sought after material.

So far, in my experience, the only farming that beats a smooth EotM map is the Crown Pavilion Gold Farm.

Constantly farming the upleveled enemy zerg gives far more loot than karma train in eotm. The train nets you more karma, ascended mats and badges, but who needs those these days?

It comes down to a personal preference. Do I want guaranteed solid source of gold accumulation via guaranteed items, karma, and badges, or do I want to gamble?

Zerg battles are atrocious for gold accumulation since they give zero karma and very few badges. It just isn’t a reliable source of income. It is also far from a reliable source of T6 mats gathering.

In EotM zerg forces are rarely evenly matched. Usually, one force will overwhelm another and then the losing force will begin to defend heavily or just leave the map. In both cases the winning force has severely kitten its own progress.

Begging in Lion’s Arch, from what I’ve seen.

I do 10 packs of Clovers. Also lots of wvw and random killing in higher areas. I like to do the clovers as I usually end up with tons of t6. Once I’ve finished my clovers I can readily kitten which I need and how much of each I need. Then I usually take my person with the most skill points at the time and flip 2 cores to 1 lode. I sell the lodes and they’re quite abundant and / or trade them for t6. I also regularly farm Frostgorge and Orr.