Guild Wars 2

Since noone on my server could answer this question or cared not to, why do people prioritize Grenth over other temples? What does it offer over the others? Is the armor that much better? Does it open more farming opportunities? As far as I can tell, this is what each temple being uncontested gives us besides armor…

Balthazar – Obsidian shards, opens up ember farming spots (molten lodestones)
Lyssa – opens up multiple type elemental farming spots (various lodestones)
Dwayna – opens up air elemental/spark farming spots (charged lodestone)
Grenth – opens up ice elemental farming spots (glacial lodestones)
Melandru – opens up earth elemental farming spots (onyx lodestones)

You would think, seeing how easy Dwayna’s is and how much the charged lodestones are going for, that players would keep that one uncontested consistently, and thus make that top priority. Then 2nd priority would be Melandru to open up the earth elementals farming sports for onyx lodestones. Glacial lodestones don’t even sell for nearly as much on the TP.

What am I missing that makes Grenth so important?

Crap ton of spawn.

Grenth is important due to it’s choice of gear.

Grenth has ALOT more PVT (Power, Vitality, Toughness) gear than the other temples (Except legs, no temple has PvT leg gear, only through dungeons can you get the PvT Leggings).

PvT Gear is prioritized on being important due to its defensive stats for particular builds and classes.

Grenth also has more adds spawning at a time on several stages of “Cleansing” the temple to open it up which could also be a potential (And was) farming spot.

Grenth, also, has the 2nd most (Quickest way) organization needed due to the Shades spawning, you will see several guilds there communicating with each other to open it up and get tactics ready, which in turn could help in other temples & WvWvW.

Although Balthazar needs more organization, in order to get there it takes far too long, hence why people choose Grenth for organization.

That is why grenth is important

Ok, I can see the PVT for light armor. Medium armor though, it only offers 34 pwr, 80 vitality, 168 toughness. Light armor – 180 pwr, 128 vita, 224 toughness. Then there’s melandru that offers…

113 pwr, 176 vita, 128 toughness for medium
Light armor is worse
236 pwr, 200 vita, 192 toughness for heavy which is actually better for each stat than Grenth’s (Grenth’s has 68 pwr, 168 vita, 176 toughness)

I also prefer Melandru’s as a defensive armor set for the reduced duration of conditions the rune set offers. Grenth rune offers condition damage and chill, yay. Not saying you’re wrong, but I just don’t see it being better except for light armor compared to Melandru’s.

Ok, I can see the shades spawn tactic as well, although not really that hard – you just need to be paying attention.

Don’t agree on the farming part though, since people would just let the event fail so they could farm the cleansing stages over and over again. Completing the cleansing stops that, which then you’re stuck with ice elemental spawns (oh yay glacial lodestones).

BTW, got my data from the wiki:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mortal_armor_of_Grenth
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aurora_armor_of_Melandru

roostapro.9827:

Grenth is important due to it’s choice of gear.

Grenth has ALOT more PVT (Power, Vitality, Toughness) gear than the other temples (Except legs, no temple has PvT leg gear, only through dungeons can you get the PvT Leggings).

PvT Gear is prioritized on being important due to its defensive stats for particular builds and classes.

Grenth also has more adds spawning at a time on several stages of “Cleansing” the temple to open it up which could also be a potential (And was) farming spot.

Grenth, also, has the 2nd most (Quickest way) organization needed due to the Shades spawning, you will see several guilds there communicating with each other to open it up and get tactics ready, which in turn could help in other temples & WvWvW.

Although Balthazar needs more organization, in order to get there it takes far too long, hence why people choose Grenth for organization.

That is why grenth is important

Actually, for my Guardian, it was the helm that wasn’t available for PVT. Melandru had it for me. I had to spend AC marks to get the helm for me with those stats. Lodestone farming or not, it’s a rarity to see any Cathedrals open these days with everyone running Fractals.

What makes Grenth so important (on my server – Far Shiverpeaks) is that the fight can be turned into a farming spot.

1. Aggro boss and get the ice elementals to spawn.
2. Keep the boss busy.
3. Farm the infinite number of spawned Ice Elementals for Claws and Lodestones.
4. If any player wants to complete the event (i.e. Priest of Grenth is on low hp), shuffle towards Jonez and get him killed.
5. Rinse and Repeat.

Just my feeble attempt at trying to get everyone to do it, so ANet can pay some attention to this exploit that existed since launch.

Chance at a precursor perhaps? Besides that, I dunno. Lot’s of loots and such I guess.

the lodestones you could farm in grenth events were the corrupted lodestone not the glacial, and now thanks to people that exploit the endless farm as it was for jormag i couldn’t see a lodestone since ages…
this is so unfair…

I wish they tried to complete it on my server. No one ever goes near it. In fact Cursed Shore, Malchor’s Leap and Straits of Devastation are pretty much dead zones now.

Which after completing the story feels weird. Seems like Zhaitan won in the end.