Guild Wars 2

So far as i can tell orichalcum nodes and scavenging has been removed from the game almost entirely.
Bones and poison glands are still available, but that is basically it. I have yet to find a single armored scale, despite literally days of doing nothing but underwater farming. and i have found a total of one elaborate totem and one vicious claw.

I’m still wearing lv 65 armor after multiple weeks at lv 80 because I literally cannot MAKE A SINGLE PIECE without paying the botters for the privilege.

Weeks of farming and you cant upgrade to level 80 gear? Sorry to say but you are doing it wrong.

Day.4501:

Weeks of farming and you cant upgrade to level 80 gear? Sorry to say but you are doing it wrong.

I said I can’t do it without buying mats from the TP. i am so disgusted with how the botters and market manipulators are ruining the game that I refuse to do it.

I actually want to play the game instead of trying to make a living off it, or as an opportunity to perform trading scams that have long since been made illegal in the real world. This behavior (actually playing the game) is strongly discouraged by the game mechanics.

It used to be at least possible to do this though. It was jhard and slow buty it was doable. These days if you want to play the game you actually have to pay the people ruining it for the privilege.

There are whole website communities devoted exclusively to gaming the economy. I am getting the impression that economic manipulation is the actual purpose of the game, and I was a chump buying the game to begin with and for even thinking i could actually play it.

If you haven’t even found any t5 totems or scales, you are seriously farming in the wrong places and not quickly enough. Get a couple friends so you can kill things faster, go murderate some skales or uh, sons of svanir or something, and then promote 50 of your t5 mats to ~10 of your t6 mats using mystic coins and skill points.

Mystic coins come from your daily and skill points come after you hit 80 and get more xp.

Or if that’s not efficient, sell them on the TP and buy the mats, but it sounds like you don’t want to do that, even if it’ll save you money.

I’ve gotten vicious claws killing those walking iceberg things in frostgorge. Go figure.

Also, I promise you orichalcum is still in game.

personally, i’ve never seen an armored scale drop as well. but it’s all good as i can just buy them on tp or buy large scales and upgrade them.

bombastinator.8965:

So far as i can tell orichalcum nodes and scavenging has been removed from the game almost entirely.

This makes me curious as to where exactly you are trying to farm for your mats. Orichalcum nodes were not removed or reduced but simply put on a daily timer. As others have recommended, I suggest getting some buddies and going to the high level areas of Frostforge Sound or Cursed Shore.

http://orrmaps.com/maps/1027 says your very wrong (thats for desolation only btw)

While it’s frustrating, his angst is misplaced. Botters actually make items cheaper to purchase on TP.

Purchase green gear from TP at the least

bombastinator.8965:

Day.4501:

Weeks of farming and you cant upgrade to level 80 gear? Sorry to say but you are doing it wrong.

I said I can’t do it without buying mats from the TP. i am so disgusted with how the botters and market manipulators are ruining the game that I refuse to do it.

I actually want to play the game instead of trying to make a living off it, or as an opportunity to perform trading scams that have long since been made illegal in the real world. This behavior (actually playing the game) is strongly discouraged by the game mechanics.

It used to be at least possible to do this though. It was hard and slow but it was doable. These days if you want to play the game you actually have to pay the people ruining it for the privilege.

There are whole website communities devoted exclusively to gaming the economy. I am getting the impression that economic manipulation is the actual purpose of the game, and I was a chump buying the game to begin with and for even thinking i could actually play it.

The market is loosely based off Eve’s, and while other communities hate resellers in these MMOs it’s apparently not only acceptable, but a viable way to make fast money if you know how. I’d rather stick to gathering and selling vendor trash as it’s more reliable, but some like to play the TP.

I thought they had increased the ori and ancient wood nodes as I’m finding them more than ever. Also WvW I have had most mats from, T6 Scales from the Krait, venom sacs from spiders but again go with friends for backup from enemy invaders and to kill stuff faster. MF gear also helps a bit.

Lutharr.1035:

http://orrmaps.com/maps/1027 says your very wrong (thats for desolation only btw)

website looks blank to me

HuntsForge.3260:

I thought they had increased the ori and ancient wood nodes as I’m finding them more than ever. Also WvW I have had most mats from, T6 Scales from the Krait, venom sacs from spiders but again go with friends for backup from enemy invaders and to kill stuff faster. MF gear also helps a bit.

may possibly depend on the server. I have found a good amount of ancient wood.

Armoured Scales come from Krait/Drakes in WvW, best place to farm it if you can take the risk of being in a pvp zone.

otherwise your stuck transforming T5 scales into T6 with the forge.

also Heavy Moldy Bags drop all t6 materials, albeit at a low drop rate.

Agemnon.4608:

bombastinator.8965:

Day.4501:

Weeks of farming and you cant upgrade to level 80 gear? Sorry to say but you are doing it wrong.

I said I can’t do it without buying mats from the TP. i am so disgusted with how the botters and market manipulators are ruining the game that I refuse to do it.

I actually want to play the game instead of trying to make a living off it, or as an opportunity to perform trading scams that have long since been made illegal in the real world. This behavior (actually playing the game) is strongly discouraged by the game mechanics.

It used to be at least possible to do this though. It was hard and slow but it was doable. These days if you want to play the game you actually have to pay the people ruining it for the privilege.

There are whole website communities devoted exclusively to gaming the economy. I am getting the impression that economic manipulation is the actual purpose of the game, and I was a chump buying the game to begin with and for even thinking i could actually play it.

The market is loosely based off Eve’s, and while other communities hate resellers in these MMOs it’s apparently not only acceptable, but a viable way to make fast money if you know how. I’d rather stick to gathering and selling vendor trash as it’s more reliable, but some like to play the TP.

If the TP didn’t exist there would be no bots. Botting is a giant problem in EVE as well. I am told it takes up to 4 YEARS these days to actually be able to play the game. it’s played not by actually flying space ships as much as obsessively watching spreadsheets, and buying various trading systems. EVE is basicaly nothing but a virtual stock market. The game as a game doesn’’t even really exist anymore.

If I’d known they based the economy on EVE I would never have bought the game.

Slick Ling.6451:

Purchase green gear from TP at the least

Looked at that. Rare 65 still better than lv 80 green

Obtena.7952:

While it’s frustrating, his angst is misplaced. Botters actually make items cheaper to purchase on TP.

and much much worse to sell. If you sell on the TP you sell at a cut price to the manipulators, and if you buy, you buy from the manipulators and botters both of which are ruining the game and make it impossible to play. I should support the people who are destroying me?

penatbater.4710:

personally, i’ve never seen an armored scale drop as well. but it’s all good as i can just buy them on tp or buy large scales and upgrade them.

upgrading is an option, but so far as i can tell it’s the only one. I tried upgrading mithral to ori. took a whole stack of personally mined mithral, and all the ingredients some bought from the gem store at a price close to 3 gold, and got back 11 ori.

BowmasterSol.3457:

bombastinator.8965:

So far as i can tell orichalcum nodes and scavenging has been removed from the game almost entirely.

This makes me curious as to where exactly you are trying to farm for your mats. Orichalcum nodes were not removed or reduced but simply put on a daily timer. As others have recommended, I suggest getting some buddies and going to the high level areas of Frostforge Sound or Cursed Shore.

Tried that. For days. The areas ae 2/3s bots and they make the spawns so bad it’s pretty close to suicide to try. Went in with 50 silver for repairs and i left with 13 the last time. The good farming areas are so covered with bots they are unusable, which leaves only the areas so dangerous and unproductive even the bots leave them alone.

Colbear.6425:

If you haven’t even found any t5 totems or scales, you are seriously farming in the wrong places and not quickly enough. Get a couple friends so you can kill things faster, go murderate some skales or uh, sons of svanir or something, and then promote 50 of your t5 mats to ~10 of your t6 mats using mystic coins and skill points.

Mystic coins come from your daily and skill points come after you hit 80 and get more xp.

Or if that’s not efficient, sell them on the TP and buy the mats, but it sounds like you don’t want to do that, even if it’ll save you money.

I can find tier 5s, and some tier 6, namely bones, ancient wood, and poison glands, but everything else is almost non existent. Upgrading is fantastically costly. I played for weeks to get the money to buy the gems needed for the parts to do the upgrade with, took a full stack of mithral i had mined, and made ori. got 11. effective price near a gold per bar.

Lorana.2468:

Armoured Scales come from Krait/Drakes in WvW, best place to farm it if you can take the risk of being in a pvp zone.

otherwise your stuck transforming T5 scales into T6 with the forge.

also Heavy Moldy Bags drop all t6 materials, albeit at a low drop rate.

My toon is a guardian, and my server is low ranked. Guardians as a rule don’t dare go near WvW since the nerf, and if I farm in WvW im effectively doing it alone. Repair price for me is 1.3-2.6 silver. And I effectively cannot defend myself from anyone in wvw, let alone a pack of 5 or more.

“Tried that. For days. The areas ae 2/3s bots and they make the spawns so bad it’s pretty close to suicide to try. Went in with 50 silver for repairs and i left with 13 the last time. The good farming areas are so covered with bots they are unusable, which leaves only the areas so dangerous and unproductive even the bots leave them alone.”

You could try tagging and damaging mobs and the bots finish them off for you.

bombastinator.8965:

Lorana.2468:

Armoured Scales come from Krait/Drakes in WvW, best place to farm it if you can take the risk of being in a pvp zone.

otherwise your stuck transforming T5 scales into T6 with the forge.

also Heavy Moldy Bags drop all t6 materials, albeit at a low drop rate.

My toon is a guardian, and my server is low ranked. Guardians as a rule don’t dare go near WvW since the nerf, and if I farm in WvW im effectively doing it alone. Repair price for me is 1.3-2.6 silver. And I effectively cannot defend myself from anyone in wvw, let alone a pack of 5 or more.

Sounds like either a gear or learn to play issue. You have excellent defensive utility with the proper traits, utilities, and weapon set. Maybe you’re an offense oriented guardian and frequently get outclassed by rangers, wind elementalists, and thieves? Your class still excels in dungeons, and a warrior, guardian, elementalist, and any two other classes can easily clear any dungeon, especially if they all go down the power tree (25-30 points), leave the precision tree alone, max out a defensive stat tree, and put the other 15-10 into either the utility or secondary defensive tree. With the right gear set this is really powerful! Or, a support can go two down the defensive trees all the way, and 10 in the utility tree, so that would be 30 earth and water and 10 arcane for great water tanking.

Agemnon.4608:

bombastinator.8965:

Lorana.2468:

Armoured Scales come from Krait/Drakes in WvW, best place to farm it if you can take the risk of being in a pvp zone.

otherwise your stuck transforming T5 scales into T6 with the forge.

also Heavy Moldy Bags drop all t6 materials, albeit at a low drop rate.

My toon is a guardian, and my server is low ranked. Guardians as a rule don’t dare go near WvW since the nerf, and if I farm in WvW im effectively doing it alone. Repair price for me is 1.3-2.6 silver. And I effectively cannot defend myself from anyone in wvw, let alone a pack of 5 or more.

Sounds like either a gear or learn to play issue. You have excellent defensive utility with the proper traits, utilities, and weapon set. Maybe you’re an offense oriented guardian and frequently get outclassed by rangers, wind elementalists, and thieves? Your class still excels in dungeons, and a warrior, guardian, elementalist, and any two other classes can easily clear any dungeon, especially if they all go down the power tree (25-30 points), leave the precision tree alone, max out a defensive stat tree, and put the other 15-10 into either the utility or secondary defensive tree. With the right gear set this is really powerful! Or, a support can go two down the defensive trees all the way, and 10 in the utility tree, so that would be 30 earth and water and 10 arcane for great water tanking.

A set i can’t get because i can’t farm the mats. my best gear is some lv 65 traveler rare. Better than lv 80 green, but it’s all magic find so it’s not that powerful. I set all my traits for meditation greatsword before they nerfed it. I could learn a whole new combat style I suppose.

This is my biggest issue with GW2. I have yet to get any form of max lvl armor/weapon from drops. Luckily you can get it in other ways but I still wish that drops weren’t just vendor trash…I had hoped that it would be like in GW1 where you actually got maxlvl items now and then in the end zones.

Maximus.8376:

This is my biggest issue with GW2. I have yet to get any form of max lvl armor/weapon from drops. Luckily you can get it in other ways but I still wish that drops weren’t just vendor trash…I had hoped that it would be like in GW1 where you actually got maxlvl items now and then in the end zones.

They were dropping lv 80 exotics in the mad king dungeon chest. IIRC I got a shaman’s winged axe or air there. Rare drop but it happened. Mobs can also drop yellows. It helps alot if you max your magic find. Need it a bit over 120% before diminishing returns start to make it pointless. Magic find is really loot find. It increases the frequency of all drops.

You’re somewhat on the right track bombastinator

Magic Find (MF) increases the loot quality but not the quantity (ex. you will find more masterwork/rare loot than if you hadn’t of worn MF gear).

If you wish to improve your loot. The best way is to party up into a full group and go farming together. It will allow you to tag more mobs (AOE is good for farming) and improve your loot that way.

Wear as much MF as you can and hit up Cursed Shore in a full party – farm that way and report back your success then. Wish you luck!

Lutharr.1035:

http://orrmaps.com/maps/1027 says your very wrong (thats for desolation only btw)

Thats an amazing website. Thanks. Is it purely player updated or what?

Yes, its purely community based.

I smell a troll, you lost that much money farming? I have let a child play with my level 80 guardian and she made money???
There are also many players selling items on the tp so chances of buying from a botter is not as high as you make out.
If you have been playing and got dailies/monthly dne you would be in a few karma items. Just because stats are simlilar having low armor will screw a guardian.
And mine is still specked tipple med greatsword because farming mobs in Orr aoe is king

Kinglette.4906:

I smell a troll

The OP makes statements that are contrary to how the game works so it’s difficult to come to any other conclusion. For example:

bombastinator.8965:

Tried that. For days. The areas ae 2/3s bots and they make the spawns so bad it’s pretty close to suicide to try.

This statement has no meaning. It does not accurately reflect any aspect of how the game works.

The original premise of the thread is also fundamentally flawed, to put it kindly. There are 5 ori nodes in Cursed Shore, 5 in Malchor’s Leap, and 2 in Frostgorge. Orichalcum ore has a 100% drop rate; you have only to locate the nodes, which you can harvest every day. The locations change when the server resets, as for a patch.

Further, I cannot find a logical basis for the OP’s claim that he is “stuck” with level 65 gear as a level 80 character. Both the assembled items and the components required to make them are readily available. The OP’s claim is so far from reality that it, too, is without meaning.

We must conclude that he is simply having a go at us, and so it would be best to leave this thread to rot.

First, I’m so sick of people calling out “bot” every two seconds when it comes to farming and the Trading Post. Not all of us farming and using the Trading Post are bots, etc and it’s pure ignorance to say we are.

Now here’s a brief list of what I’ve found by experience (by no means is this official):
Bloods = bigger beasts. aka Trolls, bears, Shelks, etc
Claws = smaller beasts. aka shelks, cats, etc
Scales = fish. aka Krait, barracuda (west side of Frostgorge all the way), etc
Bones = all of the above plus undead
Totems = people. aka Crawl, Sons of Savnir, etc

Farm where you see these things in good supply. Also note that oozes can drop any of the materials, so they’re always worth a few seconds to kill along the way. Take anything you don’t want and sell them on the Trading Post to get cash to buy more of what you do want. Do the math on seeing if the upconvert method mentioned earlier is worth it – that’s looking at the TP and seeing if 50 T5 mats is more than 5 (the minimum you can get in conversion) T6 mats, make sure it’s a good 5 or more silver to cover the Mystic Coin and SP time.

Lastly, you can get a decent 71-78 Exotic set for some 50s-1g a piece. Easy enough to get while leveling from 65 to 80, even easier after 80. Or you could sit down, quit your kittenin’, think a minute, and get things done.

TravisTrout.6803:

Kinglette.4906:

I smell a troll

The OP makes statements that are contrary to how the game works so it’s difficult to come to any other conclusion. For example:

bombastinator.8965:

Tried that. For days. The areas ae 2/3s bots and they make the spawns so bad it’s pretty close to suicide to try.

This statement has no meaning. It does not accurately reflect any aspect of how the game works.

The original premise of the thread is also fundamentally flawed, to put it kindly. There are 5 ori nodes in Cursed Shore, 5 in Malchor’s Leap, and 2 in Frostgorge. Orichalcum ore has a 100% drop rate; you have only to locate the nodes, which you can harvest every day. The locations change when the server resets, as for a patch.

Further, I cannot find a logical basis for the OP’s claim that he is “stuck” with level 65 gear as a level 80 character. Both the assembled items and the components required to make them are readily available. The OP’s claim is so far from reality that it, too, is without meaning.

We must conclude that he is simply having a go at us, and so it would be best to leave this thread to rot.

Dont bother OP is a troll see evidence here in the Black Lion Trading forums

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/I-would-like-to-see-the-trading-post-gone-Or-at-least-down-for-a-month/first#post633664

OP didn’t know you can get the Ghastly Greatsword for tokens. OP thought it was a drop from inside the dungeon. OP clearly doesn’t know much about the game all opinions and posts from op should be viewed without much weight behind them or much experience.

Last night I was looking for Armored Scales too. Came up completely dry after several hours of farming. Had +50% MF and was killing more Barracuda and Jellyfish on the West side of Frostgorge than I could ever count.

In fact, farming scales is on my to-do list whenever I play next. I had not thought of Kraits in WvW. I’ll try that next to see.

There was an oddity, I was seeing Candy Corn last night. Just for a second or two in Cursed Shore. Perhaps it’s still buggy after the Halloween event?

bombastinator.8965:

If the TP didn’t exist there would be no bots. Botting is a giant problem in EVE as well. I am told it takes up to 4 YEARS these days to actually be able to play the game. it’s played not by actually flying space ships as much as obsessively watching spreadsheets, and buying various trading systems. EVE is basicaly nothing but a virtual stock market. The game as a game doesn’’t even really exist anymore.

If I’d known they based the economy on EVE I would never have bought the game.

lol. You should stop listening to whoever told you that.

KyleQuest.4639:

Last night I was looking for Armored Scales too. Came up completely dry after several hours of farming. Had +50% MF and was killing more Barracuda and Jellyfish on the West side of Frostgorge than I could ever count.

In fact, farming scales is on my to-do list whenever I play next. I had not thought of Kraits in WvW. I’ll try that next to see.

There was an oddity, I was seeing Candy Corn last night. Just for a second or two in Cursed Shore. Perhaps it’s still buggy after the Halloween event?

I don’t think Magic Find works for Fine Crafting Materials as technically they are all the same quality. Anyway, I would go out with no Magic Find and get an average of 1 Armored Scale for every 20-25 Large Scales. That was when I was farming for my current Knight’s set. A good constant kill rate and I’d get that 1 Armored Scale every 20 minutes or so at the most. (This is all way better than, say, Blood farming.)

KyleQuest.4639:

There was an oddity, I was seeing Candy Corn last night. Just for a second or two in Cursed Shore. Perhaps it’s still buggy after the Halloween event?

It’s happening to me too; probably some sort of caching being updated as we “discover” those areas again

just go farm karma in a zerg in the straits of devestation.. get your karma gear run dungeons get another set of gear an along the way you will find the mats you can also convert the t 5 into t6 at the forge but dont make one piece at a time if your going for a full set do a box its cheaper

^thanks, that’s a good suggestion. I’ve been crafting Knights one at a time. Kinda annoying this way. I do make an ore run in Orr when I’m on.

oZii.2864:

TravisTrout.6803:

Kinglette.4906:

I smell a troll

The OP makes statements that are contrary to how the game works so it’s difficult to come to any other conclusion. For example:

bombastinator.8965:

Tried that. For days. The areas ae 2/3s bots and they make the spawns so bad it’s pretty close to suicide to try.

This statement has no meaning. It does not accurately reflect any aspect of how the game works.

The original premise of the thread is also fundamentally flawed, to put it kindly. There are 5 ori nodes in Cursed Shore, 5 in Malchor’s Leap, and 2 in Frostgorge. Orichalcum ore has a 100% drop rate; you have only to locate the nodes, which you can harvest every day. The locations change when the server resets, as for a patch.

Further, I cannot find a logical basis for the OP’s claim that he is “stuck” with level 65 gear as a level 80 character. Both the assembled items and the components required to make them are readily available. The OP’s claim is so far from reality that it, too, is without meaning.

We must conclude that he is simply having a go at us, and so it would be best to leave this thread to rot.

Dont bother OP is a troll see evidence here in the Black Lion Trading forums

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/I-would-like-to-see-the-trading-post-gone-Or-at-least-down-for-a-month/first#post633664

OP didn’t know you can get the Ghastly Greatsword for tokens. OP thought it was a drop from inside the dungeon. OP clearly doesn’t know much about the game all opinions and posts from op should be viewed without much weight behind them or much experience.

Guardian, but feels useless in WvW.
Could get full carrion (power/vit/cond damage), but can’t get armor. Carrion is what my guardian uses in WvW when I am decimating armies
Troll. /agree