Farming Ori/AW Nodes with Megaservers
Go to southsun, frostgorge, dry top…, then ask in map chat where the nodes are.
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You are better off hitting the Orr events that drop a ton of blue/green items and salvaging them for Ancient Wood Logs and Orichalcum Ore.
Hit the nodes for sure, but definitely adjust your expectations towards salvage as the primary source of your base materials.
Use this website:
When you enter a map, use the /ip command to find out your server address and use this with the website. Note that if you then leave and visit a new zone, don’t assume you’re still on the same server.
Use this website:
When you enter a map, use the /ip command to find out your server address and use this with the website. Note that if you then leave and visit a new zone, don’t assume you’re still on the same server.
This site is typically pretty good, though I often wind up on servers that have no logged data.
You can game the system into placing you on a different /ip using guesting though (you can’t pick where you wind up, but you can use guesting to get it to possibly put you elsewhere).
Megaservers made a lot of things easier for sure, but some things a lot more difficult.
I dunno, this is kind of a bummer for me, that I have to put that kind of effort into something that was near effortless when I left.
If you party up with someone you can use its features to stay on the same IP for each alt.
The two of you get on a map and find all the nodes, noting them down on the app. One switches to an alt while the other waits. If the alt land on a new IP map, use the feature “join party member”. The other party member switches to an alt. Joins you if necessary. The two of you are now on the map you previously mapped and can run directly to the sites.
I have a hunch that Anet has the retirement of zones on some timetable now (so zones will not persist for long periods of time). Gone are the days of harvesting T6 with 8 characters for 2 weeks with no node changes.
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I have a hunch that Anet has the retirement of zones on some timetable now (so zones will not persist for long periods of time). Gone are the days of harvesting T6 with 8 characters for 2 weeks with no node changes.
Those were the days…
So much money so easily.
I have a hunch that Anet has the retirement of zones on some timetable now (so zones will not persist for long periods of time). Gone are the days of harvesting T6 with 8 characters for 2 weeks with no node changes.
I farm Frostgorge on an almost daily basis on 8 chars. I write down the IP (and node sites) on my iPad each time I switch chars. My notes indicate that each IP lasts less than 24 hours. Each day there is a new set of IPs and the rare times I have landed on an old IP the nodes are not in the same places which means that map collapsed at some point.
My theory:
Frostgorge usually has about 3 shards at the same time. The client seems to have a preferred shard to send chars to but after a while that one is filled and the client switches to another preferred shard. The first shard has fewer people sent to it and as the population drops even fewer are sent till no more are sent there. The people in it finish what they were doing and leave. Eventually the last person leaves and the map collapses.
(edited by Astral Projections.7320)