Guild Wars 2

What’s the best method to farm this? Doing the Mad King mini-dungeon (very small chances to get key and skins, takes about 10-15 min depending on group) or farming personal story to lvl 10 for a Black Lion Key (you only do the personal story quests and nothing else, takes about 20 min if you solo). If you buy keys you’ll have to buy 2£ which is a huge money sink (some people have opened hundreds and haven’t received a single skin). I’ve done over 12 Mad King kills and only got green loot. Opened 10 Black Lion Chests and 5 Mad King Chest …. no loot at all.

Farm gold, buy from TP, most certain and propably easiest way.

Strang.8170:

Farm gold, buy from TP, most certain and propably easiest way.

Greatsaw Greatsword is up for 43 gold on my server and dont say I’m gonna farm that. I think it may be easier to buy it from gold selllers (50 gold for 27.45 USD). I want to support ArenaNet but its not my fault they made drop chances too low. People dont wanna waste hundreds of dollars and get nothing in return. They should make it possible to buy it from Gem Store.

It´s supposed to be a rare skin.

If you don´t want to work to have certain access to it, you can just do the lottery things, and wish you get lucky.

Psst, TP is game-wide.

You CAN buy it from the gem store. Buy gems, convert to gold, buy on TP. If you’re gonna spend $100 on gems for keys why not just make sure you get it for that money.

The drop chance for the skins is lower then the crafted items. You can easily tell this if you watch the TP. The crafted items have fallen overnight as more and more hit the TP. The skins (which came from BLT chests) are still rising in cost. Last I checked they were sitting at 43g.

Short story is, there is no best method.

PS there is no server TP, the TP is shared across all servers.

Vargos.6987:

You CAN buy it from the gem store. Buy gems, convert to gold, buy on TP. If you’re gonna spend $100 on gems for keys why not just make sure you get it for that money.

50£, is it worth for a skin that can only be used to ONE of your weapons?

Simon.9752:

Vargos.6987:

You CAN buy it from the gem store. Buy gems, convert to gold, buy on TP. If you’re gonna spend $100 on gems for keys why not just make sure you get it for that money.

50£, is it worth for a skin that can only be used to ONE of your weapons?

For some people it might be, obviously not for you, but luckily nobody is holding a gun to your head untill you buy it.

I got that spider bow (and 3 random lvl 78 exotics) amongst seas of greens for farming like… 6 hours? I only had 40% mf from food too. It seems to be very consistent for me… not many blues or whites at all, heaps and heaps of greens, no yellows (ignoring the junk material stuff) and maybe an exotic per two hours or so.

I didn’t time our runs but after a while of single-run groups a few of us settled for a while with 5 lvl 80 warriors (later 4 and a mesmer) so it wasn’t taking long by then. I’m not sure what chance the sword you want has, but if you keep going and get a few others like the bow, you could probably sell those (after the prices become stable! You don’t want to pay listing fee for 25 gold or whatever they’re at now only to find nobody buys it) and buy the sword.

Get a job, buy gems, sell gems for gold, buy skin using gold.

The chance of getting that particular skin from a Black Lion Chest is incredibly low. Low as in you could open HUNDREDS of chests and not get that particular skin. You might get other skins that you could sell, but in the end it’s a gamble, a game of chance, and just like any gambling, the house always wins.

Let’s look at the numbers.

Level an alt to 10 for a free black lion chest key. This takes around 30 minutes to do if you know what you’re doing and you have support from other people doing it with you. Black Lion Keys can be bought from the TP for 450 gems for 5 keys, 800 gems = $10, so 1 Key is worth ~$1.12. Doing this equates to spending an hour of time for $2.25 worth of game items. You’re basically playing the game, and grinding something “unfun” at the rate of $2.25 per hour.

Mad King’s Ascent. This takes around 10 minutes per run with a good group. More likely to average out to around 15 minutes when you include starting/stopping emptying inventory, and everything else. So ~4 runs per hour. I haven’t seen any sort of hard numbers on the drop rates in here, but from personal experience it seems like you get 1 random exotic every 10 runs. Because of the huge range of exotics you can get, exotics average out to around 1 gold each. You get other loot as well, let’s say 10 silver worth per run. So, in 2 1/2 hours you would, on average, get 2 gold worth of loot. 2 gold is currently worth ~$4 using gold<->gems conversion rate on the trading post. So now you’re working for ~$2/hour. Here you’re doing something that’s more fun than low level alt grinding, but you’re making less per hour.

Farm Orr. With a good group and a good rotation Orr can net you 3 gold per hour. Using the above Gem<->Gold conversion rate 3 gold is worth a little less than $6. So farming Orr is $6/hour, but you’re also gaining karma that can be used for other things. Fun level is arguable, I have a lot of fun doing Orr for a few hours with guildees, but that drops off quickly after doing it for a while.

Work a minimum wage job. Current US minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. Doing a Gem<->Gold conversion, this is around 3.5g per hour. Most likely this is the least fun option out of all of them.

So, if we consider that the price of the Greatsaw skin has adjusted to its real market price (Currently 42g or $84):

Alt Farming: 37 hours 20 minutes
Mad King Farming: 41 hours
Orr Farming: 14 hours
Minimum wage job: 11 hours 35 minutes

Do the skins even drop from the mad king’s chest I know the exotics can but have an exceptionally low drop rate, but if the skins could I’d be expecting to see the price drop;

Indeed, according to the trading post API, supply of the greatsaw skin is lower now than it was last week though there was a brief rise as of last night but it’s also been snapped up quickly, I presume people selling exotics used that money to buy greatsaws

How much is the ghastly grinning shield going for atm?

Do the skins even drop from the mad king’s chest I know the exotics can but have an exceptionally low drop rate, but if the skins could I’d be expecting to see the price drop;

Yes, but they are incredibly rare. I’ve gotten 4 exotics but never seen a single skin.

How much is the ghastly grinning shield going for atm?

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/36339
23-24 gold.