Guild Wars 2

…drop charged and onyx lodestones and its really easy to get a few (barring DR) since the event is on a timer, twice an hour.

you dont even need to be in a t4 map, any map will do. this event happens no matter what.

all you need is like 20 people to scale the event up with you and BAM charged lodestone farm for pushing 1 for like 2 minutes. the t4 maps are already catching on that this event is kinda borked, but you really have to work to convince bads in t2-t3 maps that they want to go through the pain of wind jumping across the gap instead of zerging the colocal queen.

the whole rest of the meta event is kinda mehhhhh compared to the 2 dust mite events at xx:40 and xx:50. t4 maps give a pretty good return on geodes (and therefore lockpicks -> gold from scarfs/goggles) but its so much EFFORT compared to dust mite loot showers.

I’ve also found that lately I am finding hidden stashes at cacti that have various crystal orbs in them, charged lodestones and other stone/metal-related drops from other events too. Plus all kinds of verdant weapons, which is kind of funny in Dry Top.

only dust mites drop lodestones, but the haze event also gets a few that get scaled. the drops arent as good since the spawn is pretty limited.

a good zerg at dust mites gets me 1~5 rares, 0~2 lodestones, maybe a lockpick, 0~2 t6 dust, and ~250 sand with ~210% mf. pretty much everything else in the map cant compare. and if you carry the map to t3 (which you can do solo while the randoms ktrain the zerg events that you dont have to use aspects to get to), you get an appreciable amount of geodes too so you arent short on lockpicks to use.

in case anybody happens to remember the corrupted lodestone farm at jormag way back when when the little ice eles used to have drops… its about the same thing as that. except this time around, we arent preventing progress on the event in order to farm.

hopefully purposeful…..as a way to keep interest in the area as the season(s) moves on

Relshdan.6854:

hopefully purposeful…..as a way to keep interest in the area as the season(s) moves on

map will be dead come tuesday

Charak.9761:

Relshdan.6854:

hopefully purposeful…..as a way to keep interest in the area as the season(s) moves on

map will be dead come tuesday

doubt it

its like world bosses, you go there for 10 minutes, get your loot shower, and go do something else

people just need to catch on that the loot is ridiculous. it hasnt caught on in the general population yet, pugs are still getting stuck on col queen and champ dust twister because theyre big fat sacks of hp that cause many deaths.

Where is this event at? I haven’t done a whole lot of farming in the zone but I know the layout fairly well.

EDIT: Wait, dust mites that attack the Zephyrites up top? Never had it scale up to drop that stuff, if that’s it.

its in the south central portion of the map, at about a middle altitude. just on the east side of the mountains from colocal queen. just past/west of the tendril event. just southwest (and higher) than the basket event.

people are finally starting to catch on to this. it can still be hard to get pugs to drop whatever (bad loot) event theyre doing and come, but people are starting to realize its crazy.

Scaling is not really necessary. Any of the Dust Mites in the map have a chance to drop Charged/Onyx Lodestones (I always kill any I run across). However, the more people are at that event, the more Dust Mites spawn, increasing the chances of Lodestone drops.

All in all, Dry Top is a superb map to farm high-end mats. There’s an Ori/Ancient node in there, and you can get the following T6 mats from enemies:

Colocals: Powerful Blood, Vicious Claw
Drakes: Armored Scale, Vicious Claw
Devourers: Armored Scale, Powerful Venom
Wind/Breeze Riders: Powerful Venom
Warthogs: Vicious Fang
Inquest: Elaborate Totems, Crystalline Dust
Dust Mites: Crystalline Dust, Onyx/Charged Lodestones

Charak.9761:

map will be dead come tuesday

Megaserver says, “You just need enough people for one map.”

Yea we all move to phase 2 Tuesday …..so it will be a ghost town.