Guild Wars 2

I know this has been said here before but after the wardrobe update I wouldn’t be surprised in the least bit if that farm gets nerfed since it will in essence make buying those stones unnecessary. I may be missing something from the update like trans crystals being the currency for lv80 changes but imo it’s just better to do it now just in case.

Happy Farming!

Roll alt, DR>RS>TG in less than an hour once you learn it, 9 trans stones.

I roll asuran warrior and run rata sum makes for 3 every 10min or 18 every hour if done right.

Seerstrange: If you would, to satisfy my curiosity, describe your Rata Sum map completion circuit that you can complete in 10 min, including the time it takes to get through the initial starter event to kill the golem. The latter usually takes about 5-6 minutes alone from rollup to completion, as far as I remember, and I can’t imagine how you can do the completion circuit in a sum of just a few minutes. Maybe there’s a way to just skip the initial golem encounter I don’t know about. I’m also curious about how you can even do the circuit alone in 10m without speed buffs, since they’re not offered in Rata Sum like they are in the other starter cities (maybe you’re using some other buff?).

Rata sum savage leap spamming. from the first load in run past the first guy to talk to, you don’t need to stop if your quick enough, to the second then to the portal, you can get your mail for the banker during this time. kill the spawns of inquest with savage leap they cant even get to their golem’s, bring the last mob down to 1/2 (bleeds kill him) savage leap to he boss before the cut scene and you can kill him before he finishes the first attack. after that its just optimization of the path i take to map, savage leap spamming the whole way. Tomorrow ill post a video if you still want more.

I forgot to include the time it takes to make the char so tack on like 1:30 for that.

some tips: on the lowest floor no need for bridges you can leap the gap. and use the absurd amount of WP’s to your advantage (like on the second level tele to the middle after each wing)

I thought they confirmed in the livestream that city exploration would continue to grant a transmutation charge (which is what three of the lesser stones will become after the patch).

They did confirm on the livestream that you will get 1 transmutation charge for completing cities.

I prefer the Grove over Rata Sum. It’s just as small and has less instanced areas that slow you down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffwgmmuxyuc

Guhracie.3419:

I thought they confirmed in the livestream that city exploration would continue to grant a transmutation charge (which is what three of the lesser stones will become after the patch).

They did indeed, so basically there is zero reason to rush it.

Not getting removed but still getting nerfed and thanks Khairiya that ones faster then the one I’m using atm.

Seerstrange.4723:

Not getting removed but still getting nerfed and thanks Khairiya that ones faster then the one I’m using atm.

How is it getting nerfed? Cities will still give a charge. 1 charge = 3 stones and cities currently give 3 stones. So… unless I’m missing something, nothing’s changing?

Lothirieth.3408:

Seerstrange.4723:

Not getting removed but still getting nerfed and thanks Khairiya that ones faster then the one I’m using atm.

How is it getting nerfed? Cities will still give a charge. 1 charge = 3 stones and cities currently give 3 stones. So… unless I’m missing something, nothing’s changing?

Afaik, you are correct. Nothing is changing and no need to rush it. It did motivate me to do actual map completes in the zones though.

Unless you have a whole bunch of pre-80 items to skin before the 15th it’s really kind of pointless.

They confirmed that cities will still give them but no word on maps.

Treebeard The Swift.9620:

They confirmed that cities will still give them but no word on maps.

Well, the topic of this thread is about farming city maps.

Seerstrange + Khairiya: Thanks for your description and vid. This may be academic now with no real change to the rewards being confirmed, but it’s still interesting to see how quickly these sorts of things can be done.