Glob farming made easy!
Great, now ANet will set up things so that these mobs stop dropping loot.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Doubt it, that’s pretty slow so I don’t think they’ll look at it too hard
How much magic find? Sitting on 111% and can probably reach a bit more with consumables
If you’re playing fractals for mist essences rather than purely for fractal relics, simply doing your fractal dailies in mob-rich fractals (dredge, grawl, ascalon, underwater, …) instead of the boss-only ones will bring you a long way without the need for boring farms. I’ve actually gotten a ton of mist essences since the update (mostly vials though, since my guildies can rarely be enticed into fractals beyond lvl 30 sigh), and I try to go for the more involved ones (actually I can’t stand swamp) whenever possible.
sames goes for shards.. get a party of 2-5 ppl and do the first part of lvl52 (volcanic grawl farm) until they run and start over.. its faster if u and the others equip a RANGE weapon since you dont get hit by kd 24/7… i did that for about 1,5 hours and ended up with 11 shards and a crapton of t5/t6 totems, large skulls, few rares and crap drops..
you can split 1 shard into 3 globs and 1 glob
keep lfg up and running since most guys leave pretty quick.
all you need for this farm is 1 guy that can open the lvl 52 fractal, you dont need any AR since it doesnt apply on this part of the fractal
All you have to do is take a party of 5 to 38 and kill the dredge on the first floor, once you have done that reset to dessa’s lab. My average was 5 globs an hour and about 10-15 gold worth of mats.
Sounds good I make around 50g per hour and not fighting involved, just gathering 2 maps with 4 chars.
It’s good gold from mats and idk about 52, I was farming for globs so I could get that high lol
All you have to do is take a party of 5 to 38 and kill the dredge on the first floor, once you have done that reset to dessa’s lab. My average was 5 globs an hour and about 10-15 gold worth of mats.
Sounds good I make around 50g per hour and not fighting involved, just gathering 2 maps with 4 chars.
What maps do you gather and what do you gather
It’s good gold from mats and idk about 52, I was farming for globs so I could get that high lol
dude, even if you dont care for shards – 1 shard equals 3 globs, so the time you need to farm 1 glob you could have gotten 3 instead.. and as i also stated, you dont even need 1 ar to do this shardfarm, just open a lfg and someone who can open will join anyway.. but what do i know right?
sames goes for shards.. get a party of 2-5 ppl and do the first part of lvl52 (volcanic grawl farm) until they run and start over.. its faster if u and the others equip a RANGE weapon since you dont get hit by kd 24/7… i did that for about 1,5 hours and ended up with 11 shards and a crapton of t5/t6 totems, large skulls, few rares and crap drops..
you can split 1 shard into 3 globs and 1 glob
keep lfg up and running since most guys leave pretty quick.
all you need for this farm is 1 guy that can open the lvl 52 fractal, you dont need any AR since it doesnt apply on this part of the fractal
This does sound quite useful for new players interested in fractals. Going for shards is definately the fastest way to get all the needed materials.
I don’t actually think they changed any drop rates, but instead, since people now kill way less trash in fractals (running maw, molten boss and swamp has nearly no trash) the amount of materials gained is less over a given timeperiod.
Sometimes these kind of things go under for vets who have their 100+ shards. Good advice.
Still it might be worthwhile to do the 1-20 and 21-50 fractal achievements just for practice and the reward chests. Not sure how many vials, globs and shards would come around that way, but I’m sure it would be enough for 1-2 ring infusions.
Still it might be worthwhile to do the 1-20 and 21-50 fractal achievements just for practice and the reward chests. Not sure how many vials, globs and shards would come around that way, but I’m sure it would be enough for 1-2 ring infusions.
Just doing the achievements once actually won’t bring all that many. No shards below 50 as far as I know (I got my one and only post-HoT shard from a 51-53 run, not sure which one of those), and globs only in the 30s and 40s.
Personally, I’ve done the 1-20 and 21-50 achievements, as well as a good many other runs below lvl 50 since HoT launched, and have gotten a single glob, but a good amount of vials (no idea how many, but it felt like one about every two or three “high-population” fractals).
I’ve gotten several vials, not seen a glob drop so far though. Need to try that 52 farm for some shards.
Look at all these filthy casuals who didn’t step into fractals before the rework and don’t have stacks of globs already
All you have to do is take a party of 5 to 38 and kill the dredge on the first floor, once you have done that reset to dessa’s lab. My average was 5 globs an hour and about 10-15 gold worth of mats.
Sounds good I make around 50g per hour and not fighting involved, just gathering 2 maps with 4 chars.
god this game is boring now
Reading comments and thinking about running the 52 fractal- however, curious, how much magic find do you guys have? Is it relevant anyway?
Reading comments and thinking about running the 52 fractal- however, curious, how much magic find do you guys have? Is it relevant anyway?
Since magic find does improve the quality of the items you drop, it should make the difference between dropping yet another fine t6 material or a t7 (mist essence) I think. I do know that it sure feels like I’m getting more drops with extra mf stacked (birthday booster and on low levels food&utilitiy consumables).
I think I currently have around 200 mf out of the gate, 300+ with boosts. Btw, I did get my 2nd glob since expansion launch last night, out of one of the harpies in the daily lvl 36 uncategorized.
Bumping with information:
3 hours 11 minutes -me- 232% magic find: 6 shards
3 hours 11 minutes -a mate- 282% magic find: 4 shards
2 hours 17 minutes -a mate- 488% magic find- 13 shards
Lvl 52 fractal, just kill the grawls, reset instance when fireboulders come down. Getting everything I need for infusing 2 rings and a backpiece in barely 3 hours and something is incredible nice. Also made around 5-10g selling rare mats. Hope this piece of information will help any1 thinking about grinding that place