Guild Wars 2

Hello folks,

I played GW2 for a month or two at release and only recently returned to play very casually with my GF. In those rare times that I’m not leveling with her, I figure it would be nice to farm materials for our future characters or other things I’ll wish I had been gathering after settling into the 80 scene later. The problem is that I really don’t know what I should be focusing on, or if I did, what I should do with my time (solo).

I have two 80s in exotics I can use:
An Engineer in Knights armor, Berserkers rifle, and Ruby Jewelry.
A Necromancer in Carrion gear, Carrion scepter/dagger/staff and Chrysocola jewelry.

I look forward to any advice you can give! Thanks

Well, if you want want to go full solo without even bothering for groups i suggest you to run for materials: pick a level 60 zone or so and hunt hard wood, platinum and what ever good material there can be. Remember that nodes do not spawn and hunting recklessly mobs grants decreased loot after some time.

If you want to bother for groups but don’ t want to delve into dungeon LFG go at frostgorge sound, where organized people runs all around the map doing events and killing champions: you don’ t need to verificate yourself nor anything, just follow the leader and go into the waypoints he says ( being in a group can help, but is not mandatory, for this purpose i suggest you to have explored most of frostgorge and get all the waypoints for safety).
Cursed shore is sorta the same, but i have never tried it.
Silverwastes is a really darn good farming map too! You can farm events and get a lot of satchels and bags, or you can do chest runs ( the first ones might not really be profitable but to me are a lot of fun, the latter gives an absurd amount of loot but is very braindead. For the latter you will need keys, that you can get from the events prior or buy with crests).
Then there are also boss runs: run around the world doing world bosses, however for that you will need the good waypoints.

Everything i said is fully doable as a level 80 character, with almost any kind of exotic gear.

Else, there are dungeon runs. Those however require commitment for the whole dungeon ( unless you want to disert the party ) and of course requires a group, more or less that knows what to do. Also it requires a deep knowledge of the character skills and adeguate gear ( mostly berserker). Probably you are not intrested in this, but for completition…

I don’t want to delve too much, but if you have any other question ask

Thanks for the response Hennrick

I’m a little confused though, why would I farm platinum/hardwood in a 60 zone instead of the level 80 materials (orichalcum, ancient wood, etc)?

Should I be salvaging level 75+ gear with Basic kits or something better for a higher chance at better materials?

When events and world bosses aren’t around does it make more sense to kill mobs or just look for nodes (keeping in mind the decreased loot etc)?

Any suggestions on a rough spec for either of my two 80s? Based on the gear they have of course and for the purpose of farming ease.

Thanks again!

Nezix.9352:

Thanks for the response Hennrick

I’m a little confused though, why would I farm platinum/hardwood in a 60 zone instead of the level 80 materials (orichalcum, ancient wood, etc)?

Should I be salvaging level 75+ gear with Basic kits or something better for a higher chance at better materials?

When events and world bosses aren’t around does it make more sense to kill mobs or just look for nodes (keeping in mind the decreased loot etc)?

Any suggestions on a rough spec for either of my two 80s? Based on the gear they have of course and for the purpose of farming ease.

Thanks again!

Well, you must know that ancient wood, oricalchum and so on are not really that common, and not really that expensive either. I mean, a platinum ore sells foe 2 silvers sorta, while oricalchum 4, but oricalchum is far more rare than platinum!
Also you would get a lot of mithril, that is almost worthless.

Always salvage cloths with basic while +75, because you get more silk and you don’ t want the tier 6 gossamer. Instead, salvage with better kits the medium and heavy armors for a better chance of rarer materials ( personally i use fine).
For rare items, sell if they are worth more than 30silvers and salvage with master or mystic kits for ectos

As i said before, any world boss is fine ( there is an appropriate timer here, copypaste the square brackets in the chat for nearest waypoint http://dulfy.net/2014/04/23/event-timer/ )

However usually lv 80 zone hosts rounds of events all over the map. i suggest silverwastes and frostgorge, but i suggest to ckeck on your own too

About gear… well, anything is fine, really! Probably berzerker, but the costs are not worth the advantage

Of course, if the time is not already on you can roam the world and farm other stuff! just be sure to be in time for getting the event!

Thanks again for the reply!

Things have certainly changed, why exactly is silk more expensive than gossamer these days?

I did the whole meta event in Silverwastes and figured out most of how the zone works, though I missed my chance at going into the Hidden depths with these nightmare keys.

To confirm:
-rare items use a master/mystic kit on unless sell is > 30 silver
-non-rare cloth use a basic kit
-blue/green heavy/medium use a fine kit
-white items?
-weapons?
- Should I throw anything in the mystic forge? I haven’t used it in forever.

Thanks again!

Nezix.9352:

Thanks for the response Hennrick

I’m a little confused though, why would I farm platinum/hardwood in a 60 zone instead of the level 80 materials (orichalcum, ancient wood, etc)?

Reply: I am not sure of current prices for everything but the level of the material is not always directly related to its value. Just look on the TP to see what is currently in demand (worth the most) and farm the zones in which they are located (which may or may not be level 80 zones).

Should I be salvaging level 75+ gear with Basic kits or something better for a higher chance at better materials?

Reply: The consensus is, or use to be, (if it has changed I would love to hear about it ) is to just use basic or crude kits for white/blue/green items as the most cost effective approach, Master kits for rare and exotic, and Black Lion kits for anything with a valuable sigil in it.

When events and world bosses aren’t around does it make more sense to kill mobs or just look for nodes (keeping in mind the decreased loot etc)?

Reply: Look for nodes, kill mobs only if they are in your way. Switch characters or go do something else for gold after a couple hours. DR in open world is apparently character specific.

Any suggestions on a rough spec for either of my two 80s? Based on the gear they have of course and for the purpose of farming ease.

Reply: Check out the profession section on the forum or MetaBattle.com for builds. For open world pve though you will want to just simply max out dps. Also, don’t brush off dungeon runs. They offer a decent reward/time investment without being “AS” monotonous as Silverwastes or node farming (imo). You never know what you will get with each group. Take a positive, helpful, friendly attitude and it can be a great way to met people and make friends. And no, I am not trolling, this comes from my experience of running well over 1k runs, most of which have been with random groups. Just stay away from those types of people/groups that care more about a video game than how they treat another real, live human being.

Thanks again!

You’re welcome

Nezix.9352:

Thanks again for the reply!

Things have certainly changed, why exactly is silk more expensive than gossamer these days?

I did the whole meta event in Silverwastes and figured out most of how the zone works, though I missed my chance at going into the Hidden depths with these nightmare keys.

To confirm:
-rare items use a master/mystic kit on unless sell is > 30 silver
-non-rare cloth use a basic kit
-blue/green heavy/medium use a fine kit
-white items?
-weapons?
- Should I throw anything in the mystic forge? I haven’t used it in forever.

Thanks again!

As Silvatar over there noted, you better use basics for white items too. Weapons follow the same reasoning as heavy and medium armor, since no weapon is made of cloth there are wood based weapons however, give them the same treatment as metal and leather.

Silk increased because they added Damask, an ascended crafting material, that requires a lot of lower level materials. Also the event in the silverwastes greatly increased the avaiability of cloth, and more than anything gossamer, so it tdropped price even more.
This is also true for any other material, but the damask has like thrice the price of others ( with the exception of leather ascended, Elonian, that is really cheap).

Plus they added a lot of recipes inside the Mystic Forge that requires damask or silk, thus increasing even more demand and price.

However i joined only a year ago and this situation was already present, so i don’ t know if there are other reasonings.

As far as i know there is nothing worth money on the Mystic Forge ( also known as Mystic Toilet ) that is not luck based.

However, was a pleasure

Nezix.9352:

Thanks again for the reply!

Things have certainly changed, why exactly is silk more expensive than gossamer these days?

I did the whole meta event in Silverwastes and figured out most of how the zone works, though I missed my chance at going into the Hidden depths with these nightmare keys.

To confirm:
-rare items use a master/mystic kit on unless sell is > 30 silver
-non-rare cloth use a basic kit
-blue/green heavy/medium use a fine kit
-white items?
-weapons?
- Should I throw anything in the mystic forge? I haven’t used it in forever.

Thanks again!

Ya, sorry, I should have elaborated that it is a good idea to always check the value of an item before you actually salvage it. Personally, I place rares in the TP if they are worth more than 35 silver. I sell every exotic on the TP unless I don’t have the skin yet or if the sigil is worth more independent of the item in which case I use a Black Lion Kit on it to sell the sigil separately and get extra mats). I will even sell bue/green items on the TP if they are worth more than 3.5-4.5 silver. It all adds up.