Chestfarm and its side effects
I tought you need 0 crests for those skins …
Crests are pathetically easy to get.
5-8 crests per event… you can easily complete 3 events every 5 minutes at a single camp, up to 5 events in 5 minutes if you rotate between camps. (defend, rubble, ox). That is 15-24 crests every 5 minutes. Plus you get 25-50 crests for each boss you kill. You can easily tag 3 bosses in the 5 minute fight, so that is another 75-150 crests.
So you get easily get (at minimum) 250 crests an hour…
that means you will have to “grind” and “farm” a maximum of 4 hours for this so called “legendary” armor…
*edit: Just realized I forgot to mention that when all 4 forts are held at level 3+ you get 25 crests for a defend completion, making it even easier than stated for most maps.
There’s also a chance to get the shoulder box from defeating a champ during the breach…I got two that way.
Unfortunately, I’ve yet to join instance where all forts are being held, let alone being 3+ :<
Unfortunately, I’ve yet to join instance where all forts are being held, let alone being 3+ :<
Had been fortunate enough to be involved in events where people were defending forts, supplying rubble, repairing, running with pack bulls. Battling the champs & doing the chest farm in between all those events. Now the map is basically empty.
People were getting the best of both worlds, at least on the instances I was fortunate enough to be involved with.
Besides, why those items have so high crest price? What is reason for that?
I fail to find any reason for that. Especially when people with multiple lvl80 characters get it basically for free…
ANet could simply give additional achievements to get all 3 parts. Or make it replayable, because item itself is worthless. Bound, and replaying story part to get it again to salvage takes too much time to be effective.
lol are the crests sellable? If not then it’s another outrageous farm lol I bet all those who hated champ farming are the ones moaning about this lol pucker up, welcome to the farm that gives nothing, except for a nice looking item. Vain, the bloody lot of ya lol
There has never been a good war, or a bad peace.
Now take a look at amount of crests needed to get bioluminescent skins. 2000 crests. I do not posess 3 lvl 80 characters.
But you do posess at least 5 character slots. And it’s not like this content will go away – you will be able to do it when you get your next character up to level 80 someday. Or get a lower level character and go in a group.
But if you do want them now, you can buy them off the vendor for 1000 crests each.
PS: escort quests usually give 15 crests. Do those.
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So you get easily get (at minimum) 250 crests an hour…
that means you will have to “grind” and “farm” a maximum of 4 hours for this so called “legendary” armor…
I’m afraid that 4×250=1000, not 1000. So it’s 8 hours for 2 shoulder skins. Assuming all 6 piece chests cost only 1000 crests (and not some 3000 for chest), even under ideal circumstances of doing all events in the map and tagging multiple bosses, that is 8×6=48 hours of grinding Silverwastes, 6 days of 8-hour grinding of a single map extra to the time spend for the story itself.
20 level 80s and counting.
The defend events give 25. If you really want to farm you can stay at one for about a minute to get credit, then move to the next fort and defend that for a minute, and so on. Its cheesy but you can get credit for 3 defense events at a time which is 75 in 5 minutes + whatever you get for tagging other events along the way. 8 hours every 2 weeks isnt exactly a massive grind.
That or you can spend those 8 hours making threads about it to see if the devs listen. If theres a 1/10000 chance of them reverting the nerf its not much more of a gamble than people trying to get precursors out of the forge, so gl!
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