Guild Wars 2

So, I have a question / discussion about fine crafting materials. Generally, I used to be able to explore the areas on my characters and I would find what I needed as I went; however, after the last patch that made several cooking items go from vendor purchases to drops, I’ve run into a major snag.

I’ve farmed multiple things that drop vials of thin blood and in a few hours, I’ve found less than 10. Primarily, I’ve gone after shelks and skales; is there something else that I should be killing?

Or is this a problem of balanced drops after the latest patch? I used to receive a large amount of venom sacs from bugs and now I’ve noticed those rarely drop. Ideas? Suggestions?

Thanks!

I’ve noticed a lack of crafting materials other than butter and chocolate, as well. I’ve gotten thin blood from bats before, so you try that

Allyhoo ninja’d me while I was loggin in. I have had very good success in obtaining thin blood from the bats in the orchard right north of LA. (Spiders near there give weak venom too)

Skar Hand, I’d mark you as giving me the answer (and your orchard information was very helpful!), but you are right, Allyhoo beat you to it

Thanks to both of you!

Would like to add, in the Charr 1-15 area, up the hill from the ascalon catacombs, there’s an event that happens every 15 minutes or so, where harpies attempt to steal supplies. I farmed that for 2 hours and got over 50 vials of blood

my suggest is,while the above creatures drops the items you’re looking for,farm the mats while you’re working around DEs or Hearts too…

on the other threads, i heard that MAYBE, ANet has implement some kind of anti-farming system..this happens to me when i farm small fang on gendaran (boars)..it seems the system prevents us to farm the mats by making the mats itself “rare” at some point and “reset” the drop rate after a while (an hour or so)..

so i suggest, while you farm your mats,look for DEs that involves mobs that drops loot bags as they tends to grace us with other mats as well..

good luck mate

there seems to be an influx of Butter all over the place. I love butter, I wish it were bacon, but this is clearly an adjustment in drops that will need further tweaking by the crack staff at Anet.

mbelcikuwh.1379:

i heard that MAYBE, ANet has implement some kind of anti-farming system..this happens to me when i farm small fang on gendaran (boars)..it seems the system prevents us to farm the mats by making the mats itself “rare” at some point and “reset” the drop rate after a while (an hour or so)..

I spent 2 hours farming bariccuda/krait underwater (w/ magic find buffs) primarily for small scales and vials of thin blood. Approximately the first hour was decent. But then the second hour I barely received any fine mats at all.

Prior to the Anet changing the way cooking mats were obtained I was farming over 50 vials an hour but after the change I get a lot more cooking mats than thin bloods, sucks for the people leveling up their craft consider the price of vials went up because of it.