Guild Wars 2

I’m new on this forum, so dont flame on me if this topic was already created.

I’m a casual gamer, so in the week i play around 1-2h/day, in the weekends a little more. Before the megaserver update, dragonite was already harder to get then empyreal fragments en bloodstone dust.
But it simply became a pain to gather now, i’m camping temple maps in the hope one activates, and using the boss timer for world bosses. But earning 10-20 dragonite in an hour aint fun anymore. I wanna start crafting asc armor, but i dont wanna camp boss locations for 15 min, then kill it, and wait again for one to spawn…

Whats the best way to gain dragonite now? Ankittenhe only one that thinks this way?

Log into WvW and run with a zerg. You get dragonite every time you take a keep.

I have around 4k on my storage character.
No idea where to use them, have no desire to make ascended armor.

Obviously you never go into wvw or edge.
I have like 6k I don’t even colect it anymore just destroy them as soon as I get them

WvW or EotM -you get dragonite enough to cover anything.

So i guess pve dragonite farming died with the megaserver update. Guess i’ll have to try wvw then, but i have no id what to do there :d.

Take a lvl 80 character to EotM and just follow the commander tag. Most just ‘cap and move.’ Just keep flipping the various objectives. As long as everyone is in ‘agreement’ there isn’t much actual player vs player. Usually….depends on the people you end up with, some prefer the blob on blob action…

I used to get them a lot easier when there’s API for orr. Now it is hard to know when the temple is up so a bit harder to get them.

I crafted a set of armor and maybe 10 weapon? and start having shortage of dragonite orr. The mega server change, makes it much harder for me as I dont’ do much eotm.

Dragonite ore wasn’t a grind?

Dustbite.3670:

So i guess pve dragonite farming died with the megaserver update. Guess i’ll have to try wvw then, but i have no id what to do there :d.

Wait you realty did not explain why megaserver killed dragonite farming there is a set time that these mobs pop and now there are going to be ppl to fight these mobs (before there was no one to fight these mobs and you had to solo the bosses). If any thing megaserver make farming these events easier for ppl.

Jski.6180:

Dustbite.3670:

So i guess pve dragonite farming died with the megaserver update. Guess i’ll have to try wvw then, but i have no id what to do there :d.

Wait you realty did not explain why megaserver killed dragonite farming there is a set time that these mobs pop and now there are going to be ppl to fight these mobs (before there was no one to fight these mobs and you had to solo the bosses). If any thing megaserver make farming these events easier for ppl.

before, it took 1 hours for me to do say 3 temple and 2 dragon, since I can just look at the api and server hop.

Other people experience the same thing. Most people can manage pretty much every event in 3 hours, now it take 6 hours.

For me, it is more about temple since I only farm event for dragonite ore, there is no timer for that. And for other people farming events because of loot or they just like doing event, they’ll have to wait for event to start/finish. Before they can just look at api and see which one is starting.

you can obtain a small amount of dragonite every 15 minutes all day long from world bosses.
except maybe tequatl or wurm timers.
it is the time to jump into EOTM map for some tower farming, then return to PVE world bosses

dragonite timer for random server:
http://guildwarstemple.com/dragontimer/events.php?serverKey=208&langKey=en

laokoko.7403:

Jski.6180:

Dustbite.3670:

So i guess pve dragonite farming died with the megaserver update. Guess i’ll have to try wvw then, but i have no id what to do there :d.

Wait you realty did not explain why megaserver killed dragonite farming there is a set time that these mobs pop and now there are going to be ppl to fight these mobs (before there was no one to fight these mobs and you had to solo the bosses). If any thing megaserver make farming these events easier for ppl.

before, it took 1 hours for me to do say 3 temple and 2 dragon, since I can just look at the api and server hop.

Other people experience the same thing. Most people can manage pretty much every event in 3 hours, now it take 6 hours.

For me, it is more about temple since I only farm event for dragonite ore, there is no timer for that. And for other people farming events because of loot or they just like doing event, they’ll have to wait for event to start/finish. Before they can just look at api and see which one is starting.

That only if your there at the right time to do these temple if you missed them you often would not get the temples at all. It was a boon or bust with no in-between now there is an in-between.

Dustbite.3670:

I’m new on this forum, so dont flame on me if this topic was already created.

I’m a casual gamer, so in the week i play around 1-2h/day, in the weekends a little more. Before the megaserver update, dragonite was already harder to get then empyreal fragments en bloodstone dust.
But it simply became a pain to gather now, i’m camping temple maps in the hope one activates, and using the boss timer for world bosses. But earning 10-20 dragonite in an hour aint fun anymore. I wanna start crafting asc armor, but i dont wanna camp boss locations for 15 min, then kill it, and wait again for one to spawn…

Whats the best way to gain dragonite now? Ankittenhe only one that thinks this way?

What’s “hard to get” is based on playstyle. You find it hard to get Dragonite — I’m swimming in it, but always short on Empyreal fragments.

I wish Anet would provide Magic Forge recipes to do conversions on ascended mats.

Jski.6180:

laokoko.7403:

Jski.6180:

Dustbite.3670:

So i guess pve dragonite farming died with the megaserver update. Guess i’ll have to try wvw then, but i have no id what to do there :d.

Wait you realty did not explain why megaserver killed dragonite farming there is a set time that these mobs pop and now there are going to be ppl to fight these mobs (before there was no one to fight these mobs and you had to solo the bosses). If any thing megaserver make farming these events easier for ppl.

before, it took 1 hours for me to do say 3 temple and 2 dragon, since I can just look at the api and server hop.

Other people experience the same thing. Most people can manage pretty much every event in 3 hours, now it take 6 hours.

For me, it is more about temple since I only farm event for dragonite ore, there is no timer for that. And for other people farming events because of loot or they just like doing event, they’ll have to wait for event to start/finish. Before they can just look at api and see which one is starting.

That only if your there at the right time to do these temple if you missed them you often would not get the temples at all. It was a boon or bust with no in-between now there is an in-between.

that’s what api is for. since you have 3 server to choose from, you know which one to go.

The temples(orr event) right now isn’t even on a timer. So it’s not like what you say matter.

Even with the mega server system, you wont’ know what the right time is too. Since non of the orr event is on a timer, only “the other ones are”.

Pretty much everyone have a harder time farming dragonite ore. So it is harder. Maybe you are just the odd person that find it easier, because you dont’ know what api is, or choose not to use it before.

I’ve found its the opposite now. Used to have too many empereal now I don’t really get much of those ankitten ow flooded with dragonite instead.
Just do the world bosses (or at least Teq anyways) and you’ll get enough dragonite fairly quickly (or cap keeps/sm in wvw. I think towers still give empereal, correct?).

One could question why you would even want/need Dragonite, if you are as casual as you say, seeing as the gear is only needed in high-level Fractals which you basically don’t have enough time to do anyway.

Nilkemia.8507:

Dragonite ore wasn’t a grind?

Before, we could simply check a temple timer, and each server had other times they spawnd. Now each megaserver spawns them on the same time, if u missed it, u can wait a long time again.

I could do world bosses, but earning 5 dragonite ore, from every boss isnt much. Larger bosses like shatterer, jormag, etc, spawn every 2-3 hours now.
Before the update, i simply checked a site, and i could earn 90-120 dragonite, in like 1-2h from temples. And do it again with another character.

I’m more of a pve gamer, so having to join wvw to gather dragonite, simply sucks :/

lordkrall.7241:

One could question why you would even want/need Dragonite, if you are as casual as you say, seeing as the gear is only needed in high-level Fractals which you basically don’t have enough time to do anyway.

well casual by playing style. hardcore by greediness.

people want stuff, it happens.

I wouldn’t imagine people are so vein(care about cosmetic), until I started playing GW2.

50% of the people vote their favorite thing about the feature patch is the wardrobe, and maybe a bunch other is on dye. That being said, beside megaserver there isn’t much else in the content patch, and many people probably dont’ even like it.

Gotta agree with the WvW thing. Was in WvW for 2hrs, ended up with 88 Dragonite Ore sticking with zerg.

Draknar.5748:

Gotta agree with the WvW thing. Was in WvW for 2hrs, ended up with 88 Dragonite Ore sticking with zerg.

well if you dont’ like wvw, that’s 10 hours of unhappy time just to get something you want.

my advice is make sure to do karka queen every day. 5 minutes for 30 piece.

Sytherek.7689:

Dustbite.3670:

I’m new on this forum, so dont flame on me if this topic was already created.

I’m a casual gamer, so in the week i play around 1-2h/day, in the weekends a little more. Before the megaserver update, dragonite was already harder to get then empyreal fragments en bloodstone dust.
But it simply became a pain to gather now, i’m camping temple maps in the hope one activates, and using the boss timer for world bosses. But earning 10-20 dragonite in an hour aint fun anymore. I wanna start crafting asc armor, but i dont wanna camp boss locations for 15 min, then kill it, and wait again for one to spawn…

Whats the best way to gain dragonite now? Ankittenhe only one that thinks this way?

What’s “hard to get” is based on playstyle. You find it hard to get Dragonite — I’m swimming in it, but always short on Empyreal fragments.

I wish Anet would provide Magic Forge recipes to do conversions on ascended mats.

That would be nice. I am sure a lot of people would like to make more use of their Bloodstone Brick

PVE’ers have the major problem of all that bloodstone dust that flies everywhere. I’ve got 50 bricks in my inventory that I finally bit the bullet and made, about 5k’s worth. I threw away about that much again when I got sick of storing the dust.

If I need Dragonite ore, off to wvw I go!

Most ridiculous part is ANet claiming “don’t destroy those ressources (namely bloodstone dust), they’ll be really valuable in the near future”, and since, nothing (excepted a few useless recipes).

Solutions have been stated numerous times :
- make ratio for those resources / 10, that won’t change requirements for crafting but will lighten storage needed
- make mystic forge recipes to convert one resource to another one
- add new usefull recipes needing some of those resources (maybe for infusing rings or adding visuals effects)

Dustbite.3670:

So i guess pve dragonite farming died with the megaserver update. Guess i’ll have to try wvw then, but i have no id what to do there :d.

Make the bad guys go dead.

VOLKON.1290:

Dustbite.3670:

So i guess pve dragonite farming died with the megaserver update. Guess i’ll have to try wvw then, but i have no id what to do there :d.

Make the bad guys go dead.

See tag. Go to tag. Follow tag. Obay tag. Red dead.

Dragonite isn’t better or worse now. It’s just different. I found it particularly bad before the last update as I don’t like outside software telling me how to play. I’d go to Orr, there was nobody about and there was no point waiting around. Now I can go to Orr, get the daily events done, and a temple will probably start while I’m there. The Karka Queen is popular now on Southsun too. I’m getting the dragonite as I’m playing, which is presumably how it is meant to work.

World events should have been in a weekly timer instead daily, giving 7 times more dragonite each time in slightly harder events for the 2-5 dragonite ones, and two events should happen at the same time, one with a fixed schedule, and another with a cyclical schedule so each day at the same time there’s one different.

That way everyone will get enough dragonite, do different things, and be able to do different things regardless of the day, but also easily aim for a particular event thanks to fixed times.

It was always a grind (if you didn’t like doing those events). World Boss events are much easier to schedule now (but the Dragonite payout is lower than Temples). The Temple events ARE currently and issue that Anet needs to address (in terms of scheduling / being made aware when they are happening).

But, I think the OP does not understand the term “grind”…..that means representative over and over (which is what you were doing when you could hit the Temple events via guesting) and what we have now just takes longer (World Bosses) and you can’t “predict” the higher Dragonite events. Not saying it’s not a problem, but I don’t see where “grind” has in any way increased since MS being put in place.

If you pick the right track in Pvp you get more then enough dragonite ore. I play 2-3 hours each night and have over 2k dragonite just since the patch on the 15th. If I had focused on the track’s that say they drop dragonite the whole time I would have 3 times more then I do. Not all track’s have dragonite ore drops.

Brother Grimm.5176:

But, I think the OP does not understand the term “grind”…..that means representative over and over (which is what you were doing when you could hit the Temple events via guesting) and what we have now just takes longer (World Bosses) and you can’t “predict” the higher Dragonite events. Not saying it’s not a problem, but I don’t see where “grind” has in any way increased since MS being put in place.

I’ve played a few korean mmorpg’s, so i know what “grind” is. I didnt mind checking temple times, and doing them over and over again. It didnt feel like a grind.

Now, i’m checking world boss timers, and earning 1/3 or half the dragonite i used to get. I’ve played Eotm, but i’m on whiteside ridge, and there arent always zergs walking around like in busy servers. I guess wvw is fun if u have a busy server.

I’m still trying to find a way to earn dragonite, Eotm aint an option on my server, since they dont take keeps that much…
So ye, getting 20 dragonite in an hour in wvw, feels like a grind

Dustbite.3670:

Brother Grimm.5176:

But, I think the OP does not understand the term “grind”…..that means representative over and over (which is what you were doing when you could hit the Temple events via guesting) and what we have now just takes longer (World Bosses) and you can’t “predict” the higher Dragonite events. Not saying it’s not a problem, but I don’t see where “grind” has in any way increased since MS being put in place.

I’ve played a few korean mmorpg’s, so i know what “grind” is. I didnt mind checking temple times, and doing them over and over again. It didnt feel like a grind.

Now, i’m checking world boss timers, and earning 1/3 or half the dragonite i used to get. I’ve played Eotm, but i’m on whiteside ridge, and there arent always zergs walking around like in busy servers. I guess wvw is fun if u have a busy server.

I’m still trying to find a way to earn dragonite, Eotm aint an option on my server, since they dont take keeps that much…
So ye, getting 20 dragonite in an hour in wvw, feels like a grind

Join a Temple guild – I should know I am in one. PM me if you are interested.

Are you kittened? It’s so easy to get…

Dragonite, Empyreal. Very easy to get in edge/wvwvw. Especially Edge. You get a chest every time you take an objective which drowns you in empyreal. You get dragonite when you take keeps (Towers too?)

Bloodstone dust rains from the sky as every champion bag pretty much drops it on your head and you kill a bunch of champions.

I wish it was just as common in PvE as it was in edge/wvwvw. But I suppose if that was the case I’d have far more than I already have.

All I do is WvW, I have so much of this stuff I’ve ended up deleting full stacks. :\

If only the dust/ore/fragments were trade-able. They wouldn’t be worth much but they’d be worth something.

You don’t really need ascended armor so if is not fun then don’t do it.