Guild Wars 2

Can anyone suggest locations with good concentrations of raptors or moas? I’m looking for places to farm poultry (ha, ha.) – thanks!

I’d choose a “best answer” but there are lots of great answers here. Thanks everyone!

I’ll quote a few of the useful answers so other people with the same question will benefit next time

baconcupcaxe.4208:

What fowl deeds are you undertaking?

If you step outside LA into Blood tide, just off to the right is a grp of raptors. I can think of more when I get home

Berelious.3290:

Go to Crossing Waypoint in Queensdale. There are a ton of Moa’s there.

cafard.8953:

The SW corner of Fireheart Rise has lots of them running in groups.

Bubi.7942:

Lotsa raptors (if I remember right) in Metrica just East of this WP: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Desider_Atum

Artemis Thuras.8795:

Do CM daily. the bags give plenty of poultry. Buy whatever extra you need. Someone else will be running CM and willing to sell them to you.

Wanze.8410:

Back when i was on a silver league server and would lead a karma train over the borderlands, i would run across all the moas/raptors to kill them, when running from one objective to the next. There are quite alot.

Red Queen.7915:

The Rowanwoods in Caledon Forest have a herd of raptors that used to annoy the hell out of me when I tried harvesting the lettuce there with my low-level characters. Slay a few of them for me, will you?^^

Rauderi.8706:

Having been dazed enough times by those sods, I’m in full agreement. Mine some poultry nodes for me, too, OP!

The level of the moas/raptors doesn’t matter to me but the accessibility of the “poultry node” does, so the Bloodtide Coast suggestions work best for me! Just for you, though, RQ at al, I’m going to detour to the Rowanwoods right now and clear the raptors a few times, that’ll learn ’em

What fowl deeds are you undertaking?

If you step outside LA into Blood tide, just off to the right is a grp of raptors. I can think of more when I get home

I didn’t know you could mine chicken.

Go to Crossing Waypoint in Queensdale. There are a ton of Moa’s there.

The SW corner of Fireheart Rise has lots of them running in groups.

I guess you want low level ones right?

Lotsa raptors (if I remember right) in Metrica just East of this WP: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Desider_Atum

Farming specific things isn’t efficient, run a dungeon and buy them.

So… what if one does not enjoy dungeons, but killing things? You know, because it’s (insert shocked gasp) fun? :O

The Rowanwoods in Caledon Forest have a herd of raptors that used to annoy the hell out of me when I tried harvesting the lettuce there with my low-level characters. Slay a few of them for me, will you?^^

Back when i was on a silver league server and would lead a karma train over the borderlands, i would run across all the moas/raptors to kill them, when running from one objective to the next. There are quite alot.

There are flocks of Moas that roam Frostgorge.

Red Queen.7915:

So… what if one does not enjoy dungeons, but killing things? You know, because it’s (insert shocked gasp) fun? :O

The Rowanwoods in Caledon Forest have a herd of raptors that used to annoy the hell out of me when I tried harvesting the lettuce there with my low-level characters. Slay a few of them for me, will you?^^

You are quite the conniving queen, yes you are.
Having been dazed enough times by those sods, I’m in full agreement. Mine some poultry nodes for me, too, OP!

Azrael.4960:

There are flocks of Moas that roam Frostgorge.

Rapin and murderin unaware adventurers. Stay sharp

Novuake.2691:

Farming specific things isn’t efficient, run a dungeon and buy them.

If everybody followed you advice, where will the supply on the TP come from then?

Do CM daily. the bags give plenty of poultry. Buy whatever extra you need. Someone else will be running CM and willing to sell them to you.

There’s a lot of raptors just inside of Bloodtide Coast from lions arch.

Halvorn.9831:

Novuake.2691:

Farming specific things isn’t efficient, run a dungeon and buy them.

If everybody followed you advice, where will the supply on the TP come from then?

SHHH!!!

Don’t say such things!
glances around furtively

Let’s let them continue thinking that farming isn’t rewarding, so we can gather in peace and sell our wares to them at slowly increasing prices. They’ll contribute increasing prices to “inflation” and leave us alone….

slowly withdraws back into the shadows

Red Queen.7915:

So… what if one does not enjoy dungeons, but killing things? You know, because it’s (insert shocked gasp) fun? :O

The Rowanwoods in Caledon Forest have a herd of raptors that used to annoy the hell out of me when I tried harvesting the lettuce there with my low-level characters. Slay a few of them for me, will you?^^

I might go do this with my Sylvari Ranger on lunch now that he’s 80 adn traited + geared… i hated those things too! ^.^

Iron marches, Glory’s Steps has numbers of raptors, but it’s a fairly well known farm site.

Well, first you find four chickens. Then you brandish your pickaxe at them, raise it over your head, and swing wildly until you’ve mined all four of them. Then the rest of the chickens get angry, and there is a chicken uprising, and they murder and mine you. It’s the circle of life- there’s a Disney song and everything.

Bloodtide Coast, Mid-Eastern hills south of the bandit swamps and north of the Ettin Village.

You need several locations in different zones an move between them regularlly (like every half hour) to avoid DR.

WVW borderlands for raptors.

I would like to protest the fact that my answer is not listed among the best answers. Get on that, nyctalopia!

Guhracie.3419:

Well, first you find four chickens. Then you brandish your pickaxe at them, raise it over your head, and swing wildly until you’ve mined all four of them. Then the rest of the chickens get angry, and there is a chicken uprising, and they murder and mine you. It’s the circle of life- there’s a Disney song and everything.

Unfortunately if you (or the chickens) use the mining pick that gives the occasional watchwork sprocket then I will be forced to call this Pay to Win and make a thread denouncing it on the forums.

Halvorn.9831:

Novuake.2691:

Farming specific things isn’t efficient, run a dungeon and buy them.

If everybody followed you advice, where will the supply on the TP come from then?

Except that 99% of supply on the TP is provided by natural drops, not specific farming.

Novuake.2691:

Halvorn.9831:

Novuake.2691:

Farming specific things isn’t efficient, run a dungeon and buy them.

If everybody followed you advice, where will the supply on the TP come from then?

Except that 99% of supply on the TP is provided by natural drops, not specific farming.

And 85% of stats provided on the forums are false.
There really is no way to determine what percentage is supplied by farmers, or by natural drops.

If anything the average player just keeps the mat drops, and deposits them into their material collections and forgets about them. If they do use them they generally just make what they use (If they use food at all. IIRC John Smith recently commented that there is a surprisingly low number of people using food).
So that would mean that the majority of supply is from farmers, and not random people selling a mat here or there.

I was searching the second and third pages of the forum to find this thread because I didn’t expect it to still be on the front page; came back to discover that the reason it’s still here is because

Guhracie.3419:

I would like to protest the fact that my answer is not listed among the best answers. Get on that, nyctalopia!

I gave you a +1 for your answer, I swear!

Anyway. I don’t know where the supply on the TP is mainly from, and I think none of us can know. GW2Spidy suggests that there are cyclical supply spikes (sell-price or buy-price dips) – including one that started yesterday and increased TP supply by 4 stacks’ worth. My working theory is that a buy-price dip (caused by a lot of buy orders suddenly getting filled) is caused by people who mainly want to clear their inventories or bank spaces and want money immediately, while a sell-price dip (caused by a faster-than-usual increase in sell listings) would be caused by farmers who want to maximise their profit. What we’ve been having over the past day has been a sell-price dip, which suggests to me that some people have joined me in farming poultry after this thread :P

What if anet has bots that sell and buy on tp