Guild Wars 2

Wow, I just discovered that the seeds we planted for the back item become harvestable after one day. You get three Fire Orchid Blossoms out of each!

This has been documented on the wiki (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ancient_Hollow_Propagation) but I guess not everyone is a geek like me and reads the wiki so it’s helpful to have a thread like this which reaches a wider audience. Thanks for spreading the goodness!

Yep, it has been documented indeed, but I discovered this by accident.

Edit: This goes for all the spots, not just Ancient Hollow.

By the way, you can stand by one of the three-orchid spots and wait a few minutes to harvest them again. I assume that makes for a good farm of the currency as well as for Empyreal Fragments.

Edit: Okay, the supplies run dry quickly after you map-traveled a few times.

It’s not even after one day, it’s after one relog the first time you plant the seed. And then on whatever respawn they have for your character/account.

Most of them are in hard to reach places so unless they are harvestable in addition to any daily account limit I shan’t be worrying about getting back to them.

Donari.5237:

Most of them are in hard to reach places so unless they are harvestable in addition to any daily account limit I shan’t be worrying about getting back to them.

Dry Top kind of makes up for that with 3 nodes instead of 1.

Donari.5237:

Most of them are in hard to reach places so unless they are harvestable in addition to any daily account limit I shan’t be worrying about getting back to them.

What are you talking about? You can travel back and forth between the two three-node spots in Dry Top and Cursed Shore easily and quickly, as both are only seconds away from a waypoint. Only the third three-node spot is hard to reach (Deirdre’s Garden).

you get 3 plants out of each, but each plant only has 1 hit, so it’s no different from a single normal plant

Amaimon.7823:

you get 3 plants out of each, but each plant only has 1 hit, so it’s no different from a single normal plant

They hit multiple times for me. Each plant disappears after the first hit, sure. But you still get another 2 hits for every one as long as you let it keep going.

Ashantara.8731:

Donari.5237:

Most of them are in hard to reach places so unless they are harvestable in addition to any daily account limit I shan’t be worrying about getting back to them.

What are you talking about? You can travel back and forth between the two three-node spots in Dry Top and Cursed Shore easily and quickly, as both are only seconds away from a waypoint. Only the third three-node spot is hard to reach (Deirdre’s Garden).

Oh, I didn’t mean “most of the 3-node spots,” I meant “most of the spots.” Now that I’ve made the backpack I don’t have a pressing need to amass orchids, so I’m fine with letting them trickle in during normal play without going out of my way to get a few more.

I may hop to DT now and then when I have a moment and remember

Skittish.4539:

They hit multiple times for me. Each plant disappears after the first hit, sure. But you still get another 2 hits for every one as long as you let it keep going.

Exactly. Got plenty out of those six plants from those two spots within 10 minutes.

I really don’t see a reason to farm any of those after I’ve completed the Druid Stone collection. Maybe for Empyreal but even that isn’t something I really need right now.

Vesuvius.9874:

I really don’t see a reason to farm any of those after I’ve completed the Druid Stone collection. Maybe for Empyreal but even isn’t something I really need right now.

500 UM + 1g = rare materials.
Magic Warped Bundle
More than half of the items are worth more 1g.
Especially nice if you’re working on legendary armor, because of the 10 T6 materials.
I’ve gotten the 2 evergreen lodes quite a few times as well (~3g)

Amaimon.7823:

Vesuvius.9874:

I really don’t see a reason to farm any of those after I’ve completed the Druid Stone collection. Maybe for Empyreal but even isn’t something I really need right now.

500 UM + 1g = rare materials.
Magic Warped Bundle
More than half of the items are worth more 1g.
Especially nice if you’re working on legendary armor, because of the 10 T6 materials.
I’ve gotten the 2 evergreen lodes quite a few times as well (~3g)

Interesting! Maybe I’ll look at that. I’m not working on the legendary armor mainly because I’ve never done a raid (mostly because I don’t have a decent group). I am working on the legendary backpiece though.

Amaimon.7823:

500 UM + 1g = rare materials.
Magic Warped Bundle
More than half of the items are worth more 1g.
Especially nice if you’re working on legendary armor, because of the 10 T6 materials.
I’ve gotten the 2 evergreen lodes quite a few times as well (~3g)

Yep. The S3 currencies are great for a lot of things, even to buy Obsidian Shards with them.

Ashantara.8731:

Amaimon.7823:

500 UM + 1g = rare materials.
Magic Warped Bundle
More than half of the items are worth more 1g.
Especially nice if you’re working on legendary armor, because of the 10 T6 materials.
I’ve gotten the 2 evergreen lodes quite a few times as well (~3g)

Yep. The S3 currencies are great for a lot of things, even to buy Obsidian Shards with them.

I usually convert my karma to obsidian shards. Got waaaaay too much karma on me.