Guild Wars 2

Since they ruined the spot over in Rata, is there a half way decent spot to use up leftover maize balms?

Lots of spots, anywhere there’s a lot of ambients. Brisban has a few good locations, with Godslost Swamp likewise ranking up there.

Just don’t try it in Ebonhawke. The Zelda Chickens are not amused.

Best place is in the WvW borderlands by the north camp. there are quite a few abmients that spawn in very close proximity there. 5 chickens spawn in a 240 raidus in a couple locations, for example.

you know, someone asked a question like this before, people were mentioning ratasum and now that place is “ruined”.

Lets see whats the next place to be ruined

Rata Sum was ‘ruined’ because it inexplicably had targetable ambient creatures in one location despite being a city zone where ambient creatures are supposed to be tagged as friendly.

Open world zones are supposed to have targetable ambient creatures, and the Maize Balm item exists to take advantage of those.

Ebonhawke’s east exit goes into a quarry. There’s a whole nest of rats under the overseer’s platform. I guess balmers could use that. Well, one balmer could. I don’t think it’s anything like an instant respawn.

If I or any of my friends used the balm, or liked to RP in hearing range of the quarry, I’d never mention that spot — so I doubt anyone who has a similar good spot and does use it will ever reveal it. I was flat out disgusted when the Rata Sum balm farmers decided to grief some Asura RP I was doing with guildies on that platform. We weren’t touching their ambients and they still had to say derisive stuff and drop aoe skills on us because they thought RP shouldn’t exist.

Here’s hoping the Ebonheart tavern is out of emote range of those rats …