Guild Wars 2

Farming dragonite ore is the most boring thing I ever did on an MMO. Edit: and probably on any game I ever played.

Doing events is not what bothers me, they can be fun. The problem is I spend the majority of my time now:

1) wandering from place to place trying to find an event that spawned, even with the help of timer websites
2) Actually trying to find people to do the events with. Since you killed the District system of Guild Wars 1 in favor of an outdated 1999`s style EverQuest server shard, we have a hard time being in a full place.

You guys went out of your way to make events as hidden as possible from users to organize themselves and do them, mostly relying on finding by accident. And now you expect us to farm a lot of events just to get dragonite?

I`m already tired of wandering trying to find one to complete. It is really boring logging in to a game to do nothing and not known when you`ll do something. If GW2 was a subscription based model, you would be seeing this forum raging with every user. Nobody pays to do nothing and waste their time, and we don`t like wasting our time with a no monthly fee game either.

Either start awarding significant amounts of dragonite through other ways, or refactor your event system completely to allow players to know when to do them.

Finally, allow us to overflow by choice. That way we can always be on crowded areas with lots of people doing events.

30 Dragonite ore per temple
Balth + dwayna + lyssa + grenth + Melandru = 150 Dragonite Ore

Fort Aspenwood finishes all the temples every night, more than welcome to guest

Ive also seen Northern Shiverpeak do all the temples every night at reset.

Claw of Jormag
Inquest Golem Mark II
Tequatl the Sunless
The Shatterer
Champion Drakin Cinderspire
all give a random # from 15-25ish

http://us.gw2stuff.com/en/events/fort-aspenwood
is what i use for events, seems to work fine for me o.o

Borlis Pass has cookies! Oh yea and temples.
http://borlis.org/

They added a “30 minute spawn window” to most events so you can never guess before hand exactly when to be there to do then.

Who was the person who thought it would be a good idea to force us to do a lot of these uncertain events?

Guest to BG, TC, NS, FA, JQ or any other top tier server (personally I recommend BG).

Go to http://us.gw2stuff.com and select the desired server (you can monitoring your home server and the other servers you chose). Event with a yellow timer are “in windows”. Events in a yellow frame are ongoing.

Do all temples and dragons (and the karka queen).

I did it for 1 week and ended with 2500 DO’s and like 150g

Nore: It was boring, really boring (I did it 1 week but it feel like a month). It took hours every single day but well, is finally over.

The basic issue here is the amount needed… 500 dragonite for every vision crystal (the only part of ascended weapons that can’t be bought whole or even in part via the trade post).

If you are insane and frankly kinda OCD about character appearance as I, making a full set of ascended weapons for the skin, stats or both is enough dragonite to keep me bored and not enjoying my time spent in game for a very long time.

When this stuff first landed I personally threw away anything over 1 full stack of the ascended mats because “250 should be enough to go on, right? Yea.” NOPE…to make a set of asc weapons just for the skin (seriously, why did the healing stat get the white/gold theme?) for a warrior (yes, fml) you need something on the order of 6000 dragonite…maybe 3000-4000 realistically for the weapons you might actually use, and coming in 30 at the time (if you can catch the temples running), or 150-ish per night is just too slow.

The stats/skins thing mixed with the fact that the increase in effectiveness is almost null (5% was it?) means I’ve started only making the healing skined ones to transmute onto exotic quality weapons because there is no way on earth I’m making 2 sets for stat/skin.

Just pointing out that I agree with the OP, the rates this stuff is gained vs the headache/boredom of spending all my time in game chasing world events I never really cared for is uncalled for. I wish the stuff would appear in other places, drop a whole lot more off the smaller(ish) events that give it (aka-15-30 for things like the jungle wurm, sb, golem etc which give so little that your time is better spent browsing the guesting menu to find active temples and dragons), or reducing the amounts needed in the recipes themselves. Preferably less needed and more places in general to get it (my favorites are the dungeons (except fractals), jumping puzzles, and those weird semi-puzzle type places littering the explorer tree of the achievements pane)