Guild Wars 2

I’m just wondering what people have found to work better when trying to farm T6 mats. In terms of time and cost effectiveness, which method is better: farming T6 Mats directly or farming T5 mats and refining them in the MF?

Thanks for your help!

T6 Mats directly, ancient bones, crystalline dust, and most of them can be found via cursed shore enemies—and you get some t5 along the way.

Doesn’t pretty much anything that drops T6 also drop T5 more often anyway?

For several weeks, I made a handsome profit refining t5 to t6 materials. I used only TP-purchased materials and tracked the cost/profit.

Lately the price of Blood has shot through the roof. The cost to produce has similarly shot through the roof, but with a median yield of 28 t6/250 t5, the profit has been almost unchanged—the percent profit has dropped tremendously, but the value of each skill point is almost unchanged.

In this case, it is more worthwhile to sell t6 materials and refine t5 materials with the money.

In other cases, t5 materials cost more than the corresponding t6—people will use bone to make rares for throwing in the forge or salvaging for ectos, but there is no similar demand for the t6 material, and carrion armor/weapons are not in sufficiently heavy demand to carry much of a price.

So, across the board, it varies.

It really depends on your luck with the MF… in general, I found Ori to be about 10x the price of Mithril…. so, if your conversion yield is better than 10:1, you win. If it’s not, you lose.

My first time converting Mithril to Ori I came out 250:34… called it a win. My 2nd time… 250:14

Take a look at the difference in cost between the t5 mat and the t6 mat before you huck things into the forge and decide if the Odds Are In Your Favor!

yeah, that’s why i quit doing that. i got 10-16 back 4 times in a row.