Playing since beta not 1 pre drop, personally I think the whole legend system is terrible so I gave up making one about a year into the game. Would have bought some pre’s had I known their price would quadruple times a thousand.
Particle effect slider would be ‘too confusing’
Legendaries never had real prestige… its all about repeating the same a thousand times or selling gems… both options says nothing about how good or bad you are.
Honestly, I never did anything like farming to buy The Legend (for about 980 Gold) and crafting Bifrost. It just happened a few months ago, that I had enough money and enough material accumulated in my account bank.
Of course, I saved required materials for a long time instead of selling or using them (T6 stuff and unidentified dyes), and I did run a lot of dungeons and fractals and megaboss-events, but I never “farmed” them. I just did them when I felt like it. I would have run them even if there were no legendary weapons. It was all guild activity.
One thing that added to that was surely that I also took part in the trading post game at one time, but only for a short time to explore the possibilities of the trading post. It made me aware of how to buy and sell my regular stuff to get the most and pay the least from everything I sell or buy.
But all things put together, I would not say I farmed or traded. It just happened. After 2 years.
2 years of repeating the same thing its farming… not stressing for it doesn’t mean its not farming. It’s not like you have 2 years of diverse adventures…. I’m sure you did your share of CoF, AC, World Bosses, etc repeatedly. It’s not a bad thing though, its the very nature of MMOs.
What it is bad on other hand, its that you didn’t do anything special at all (not talking about you specifically, I don’t know you :P I’m generalizing)… just the regular usual stuff and whats wrong about it, is that that is the best way for a Legendary weapon… do the average a million times.
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
Firstly about pre crafting with MF, I find it strange that people say; “oh I stop throwing money into MF, I threw in 300gold and still nothing”. This while pre cursors are 1k gold+ (as long as you are below the buy price its fine for me
I was looking earlier this week and only a few precursors were over 1k gold. Most are around 500-800g from what I saw with a few as low as 100g.
So depending on which one you’re going for 300g could be quite a big loss.
Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).
“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”
Legendaries never had real prestige… its all about repeating the same a thousand times or selling gems… both options says nothing about how good or bad you are.
Honestly, I never did anything like farming to buy The Legend (for about 980 Gold) and crafting Bifrost. It just happened a few months ago, that I had enough money and enough material accumulated in my account bank.
Of course, I saved required materials for a long time instead of selling or using them (T6 stuff and unidentified dyes), and I did run a lot of dungeons and fractals and megaboss-events, but I never “farmed” them. I just did them when I felt like it. I would have run them even if there were no legendary weapons. It was all guild activity.
One thing that added to that was surely that I also took part in the trading post game at one time, but only for a short time to explore the possibilities of the trading post. It made me aware of how to buy and sell my regular stuff to get the most and pay the least from everything I sell or buy.
But all things put together, I would not say I farmed or traded. It just happened. After 2 years.
2 years of repeating the same thing its farming… not stressing for it doesn’t mean its not farming. It’s not like you have 2 years of diverse adventures…. I’m sure you did your share of CoF, AC, World Bosses, etc repeatedly. It’s not a bad thing though, its the very nature of MMOs.
What it is bad on other hand, its that you didn’t do anything special at all (not talking about you specifically, I don’t know you :P I’m generalizing)… just the regular usual stuff and whats wrong about it, is that that is the best way for a Legendary weapon… do the average a million times.
So how do you distinguish between farming and playing? Is it only not farming the first time you do it? What if it’s been a month, or 6 months, since you last did it?
I also said I didn’t farm to buy my precursor and what I meant was I didn’t do anything I wouldn’t have done anyway, even if I wasn’t saving up for it.
I did do some world bosses, but only if I happened to be on the map when they started. I opened quite a few locked chests in Drytop (that was quite profitable when the map first came out) but only to use up the lockpicks I got from doing the story and some achievements. I did dungeons occasionally when my guild was doing them but not often….
The main thing I did was stop buying other stuff. Before I decided I wanted a precursor and didn’t want to wait for a drop or take my chances with the forge most of my gold went on buying minis and I was also working on the Triforge Amulet and ascended Spinal Blades. I put them all on hold so I was only buying things I really needed (pretty much nothing since I got gear with karma/badges/from drops) and simply waited for the gold to build up.
I did also sell a lot of stuff I didn’t need. For example I finished levelling jeweler and then sold all the gems I didn’t need any more (most of them) and a lot of excess cooking ingredients.
Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).
“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”
135K WvW kills:
0 Precursors
Open World PvE:
0 Precursors
Dungeon Paths(Hobby Dungeon Explorer repeated 410 times, but already did decent amount of dungeons before I got Dungeon Master):
1 Precursor(Zap)
Forged in MF(only did 3 Exotic Foci+Forge Stone, around 30K Dungeon Tokens):
4 Precursors(Collosus, Zap, Howl, Flame of Rodgort)
Bought on TP:
Dusk(650g)
Dawn(1100g)
Tooth of Frostfang(450g)
Spark(1300g)
A third Zap would be nice, as I got 1K g ready atm for bolt.
7,3K Hours, All 5 Precursors dropped in the last 1K I think.
Hello darkness, my old friend.
Legendaries never had real prestige… its all about repeating the same a thousand times or selling gems… both options says nothing about how good or bad you are.
Honestly, I never did anything like farming to buy The Legend (for about 980 Gold) and crafting Bifrost. It just happened a few months ago, that I had enough money and enough material accumulated in my account bank.
Of course, I saved required materials for a long time instead of selling or using them (T6 stuff and unidentified dyes), and I did run a lot of dungeons and fractals and megaboss-events, but I never “farmed” them. I just did them when I felt like it. I would have run them even if there were no legendary weapons. It was all guild activity.
One thing that added to that was surely that I also took part in the trading post game at one time, but only for a short time to explore the possibilities of the trading post. It made me aware of how to buy and sell my regular stuff to get the most and pay the least from everything I sell or buy.
But all things put together, I would not say I farmed or traded. It just happened. After 2 years.
2 years of repeating the same thing its farming… not stressing for it doesn’t mean its not farming. It’s not like you have 2 years of diverse adventures…. I’m sure you did your share of CoF, AC, World Bosses, etc repeatedly. It’s not a bad thing though, its the very nature of MMOs.
What it is bad on other hand, its that you didn’t do anything special at all (not talking about you specifically, I don’t know you :P I’m generalizing)… just the regular usual stuff and whats wrong about it, is that that is the best way for a Legendary weapon… do the average a million times.
So how do you distinguish between farming and playing?
This is a very good question… and for me it depends on why and how you do thing. Is it still fresh to you? Do you have a goal or are you just “on an adventure”? It’s the carrot on the stick that changes all. If you are doing it for the marks, gold, etc.. skipping everything, running like crazy, repeating the same strat you used yesterday… then you are farming it, are you not? It is a tricky question…
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
Bought Zap off the TP for 85g right after the first South Sun event.
Mystic forged 200g worth of rares for a Dawn got it in 5 tries.
Bought the trident precursor for 20g.
Bought Storm for 90g early on.
Bought Chaos Gun for 200g a year ago.
How did you forge 200g worth of rares but get it in your 5th try? Do you mean you got dawn then continued to forge
Particle effect slider would be ‘too confusing’
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