Guild Wars 2

Well since everything else has had the nerf hammer, anyone else just gotten back to mining all these worthless wood/ore mats? It’s basically a waste of time but I still find it somewhat faen. At least I know I’ll get SOMETHING back for my time.

I personally can’t do it. It’s not efficient and very boring. I’d rather do the extremely efficient and boring cof1 farm.

One thing I must say is going to maps you never visit can be quite an experience. Such a shame these pretty maps are dead… But yes, it is not efficent at all.

Oh yeah, map exploration is definitely interesting. Unfortunately I’ve done it 3 times so that’s now out of the question for me ;/

I still need to finish up on story line achievements, so I’m rolling other characters in the meantime.

After that is done, I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do.

I brake for T6 wood and ore. T5 ore, I’ll snag if it’s in my path. T5 wood, I’ll snag only if it’s right there and I haven’t completed my gathering daily. Everything else, meh.

Herbs, however, are where it’s at. A bit of luck and you’re snagging 10 to 17 silver for some plant-based material.

AngryCat.4825:

I brake for T6 wood and ore. T5 ore, I’ll snag if it’s in my path. T5 wood, I’ll snag only if it’s right there and I haven’t completed my gathering daily. Everything else, meh.

Herbs, however, are where it’s at. A bit of luck and you’re snagging 10 to 17 silver for some plant-based material.

Jokes on you, T5 wood is actually selling for more than T5 ore right now (not much more, kind of varies between 5-10 coppers higher, but still).

I’ve been considering doing some heavy mining of Platinum, since for some reason the prices on that is through the roof. Haven’t checked today, but when I looked on Friday it was going for around double the price of Mithril.

I harvest in Dredgehaunt cliffs .. T3 (?) wood is over 60c .. Gold-Ore over 90c .. and there are some rare Herbs (don’t know the english name .. its Rosmarin in german) that go for over 7s .. record was 8.50

Also there are a lot nice short events on my round where i mostly just need to slay a veteran and thats it.

Hah, yeah since a lot is nerfed I find myself doing daily harvesting runs. I was only doing Orr, but it sounds like I should expand.

I use a near-daily node run through the high level zones as a framework for just being out in the world. I’m currently hocking everything I get from these runs to finish my last bit on the legendary. I’m pulling 10-18 gold in the TP depending on luck with drops, and how many events I do.

The full run can take as little as a couple of hours to forever, depending on what I get into.

After refining I get at least 22 ori ingots, around 150-200 mithril ingots, 12 ancient wood planks, and around 70 elder for sure. Then I also get random assortments of T5/T6 trophies, ectos if I pop off to the world events, and a number of gems. I burn whatever T5 dust I get upgrading ruby crystals to orbs. Then vendor anything not beating vendor price on the TP.

I also usually get about 1g just from event’s and running around. I take breaks from the run to do dungeons when our small guild has enough folks around, and occasionally duck out and work on alts.

I only have 2 80s and alternate them on the run so I don’t have to worry about node timers. My warrior always makes less gold than my thief, mostly because I bloody love my thief and tend to get into more when playing him.

If I am really looking to do something more challenging I go solo cap the Eastern Collonade or do the chicken chain in Malchors, kill the golem near Waste Hollows, or solo the contender chain in CS.

If you are in it for the farming you should also never skip these events:

CS: Megil, the early parts of the Mel/Grenth chains, and (yes still) the penitent, shelters, and jofast events. Plinx is also still good. But people are scared of the abom.

In Malchors your best events for lots of mob kills are actually the escorts and Lyssa’s pre-events, Dorics/Wren are ok, even solo.

The TLDR point is the ore run is a good way to get out into the world and have stuff happen that leads to full bags. Don’t just focus on the nodes.