Guild Wars 2

i’m trying to get weak blood to level weaponsmithing. i was farming trolls for an hour and got ten, it’s been another hour and i’ve only received one.

aside from that, what the heck is with this crafting system anyway? grind for karma to buy recipes or throw things together on your own and hope you get a skill up. getting the impression that this is nothing more than a korean grindfest with a western brandname.

i can see the incentive for anti-farm caps anyway. this game doesn’t have subs but it does have a cash shop. if stuff is hard to get in-game, buy gems with real $$$ and convert to gold. enough people will sink enough time into this game that they’ll know they’re being screwed but they won’t want to quit and don’t like being walled. that’s who’s going to foot the server bills.

i’d rather pay $5 – $10 a month for a well-crafted experience than a one time fee of $60 and be toyed with the entire time. are mmos even games or are they purely parasitic?

The jury is still out on that one. Somewhere in production AN stated that they would have anti farming programming in place to prevent overfarming of the same mobs over and over, but as you can see with the crafting professions, farming is certainly needed, whether you’re allowed to or not. Some argue it’s there, others argue that it isn’t. Still waiting on AN to confirm.

you know what, maybe that’s a good thing. i get the impression that this game is made for the super casual MMO crowd, maybe even people who don’t like MMOs because the grind/farm mechanic is such a time sink. noone can really get ahead in this game because the gear isn’t like WoW, farming is stupid (honestly, it’s such a waste of time) and if they have anti-farming scripts in place then i should accept it and keep playing the game they’ve laid out.

Well, that’s fine and all, unless you make a system where you have to spend god awful amounts of time farming for special items. Then you just have a bunch of frustrated players that just give up on the game and leave. AN said they wanted to get away from the grind system, but to fill out your crafting skills, you have to grind, and grind, and grind. So, we’re back to grinding again, but with systems in place to prohibit us from grinding. Lets see how well this flies.

Those who grind provide. Where do you think all those crafting mats on TP are coming from? A fairy brings them?

I think the real goal is to reach max level to craft the exotics. And that mainly because you can choose which set of stats you want. That’s the main benefit of crafting from what I’ve heard from the others. Then farming dungeons only for skin since you won’t need any other armor than the crafted one.

Leatherworker at 266 at the moment but still going for world completion and didn’t find it that hard to get there. With a bit buyin on trading post… should not be that hard to get to 400. Only thing is that that the lower stuff you can produce is pretty useless if you already leveld to 80… but maybe for a 2nd character. I don’t think it is less fun than in other games because 95 percent of the other games I played have the same problems.

They were a few ones with really nice crafting but they are rare. Were pretty much PvE only games and they failed because PvE only and bad marketing and support(Vanguard – Sage of Heroes for example I liked the crafting… they are trying to fail with a crappy F2P model at the moment).

You know what you could be doing instead of farming? Go participate in dynamic events, or do some world exploration. Then with the money you get you can buy the materials you need to get to 400. Its worked fine for me and I’m working on getting my 7th profession to 400.

This is the old GW1 anti-grind tool. Works flawlessly here.

Lemme give you a tip. There is this one mission like many others where you can kill 500 dredge per hour. What do you think will happen if the anti-grind script wasn’t here ?

What do you think will happen when all kinds of bots pop up ?

Your argument is just silly and the anti-grind thingy can easily be avoided by moving in a circle around the zone you are farming and killing all kinds of mobs you encounter.

cipher.9240:

i’m trying to get weak blood to level weaponsmithing. i was farming trolls for an hour and got ten, it’s been another hour and i’ve only received one.

There are a number of creatures in almost every zone that drop the same crafting ingredient. Try moving to another spot. The reasons why drops are decreased when farming the same spot are bots, monopoly and exploits. I hope that helps !

Have fun !

i have 3 professions at 400 now and i barely had to grind. i just did a lot of dynamic events for fun and wound up with huge amounts of sacks that contained lots of cloth among other things as well as armor to salvage.

I’m 400 Jeweler and Tailor.
To make the items I want to make, I need to find Orichalcum ore. Not a problem. Sure, it’s hard to find, but I can at least be guaranteed some ore when I tap a node. I also need Gossamer scraps for my Tailoring. I have done wide sweeps of Cursed Shore. Killing everything for two hours. I have at least 140 Magic Find.

I have 0, zip, nadda, zilch scraps to show for my effort! I salvage everything I get with Mystic Salvage kits. Why am I being punished for my efforts? I have scads of fine crafting materials. I would like to be able to use them, but I have NO cloth to use them with!

Help please! Arenanet, please make cloth a little easier to find! I am not asking for “E-Zmode” crafting. I am simply asking for cloth to be more common than fine crafting materials. Thank You.

Gossamer scraps are designed to be hard to get. Why do you think they are so expensive? You are attempting to make something at the very limit of your crafting profession its bound to be difficult. Besides the gossamer isn’t the hard part, the ectoplasm is where the majority of your time will be if you attempt to farm them.

I should be able to get Gossamer at a similar rare to Orichalcum ore. That’s what I am asking for.

Apparently mystic/master salvage kits have a 25% chance to salvage an item into higher quality materials. So using a master salvage kit on anything that normally salvages into silk should have a 1/4 chance of salvaging into gossamer. At least… thats what the tooltip implies. Personally I’ve found that to not be the case. Gossamer pops up in maybe 1/10 salvages if I’m LUCKY.

Personally, my gripe is there is little to no way to make money off of a trade. I guess they created trades so people could make their own crap, and not really to make money to spend in game.

Personally, that counter to what I want to accomplish. I expect to make money off my trade.