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Hi I am styke, most people refer to me in game as Tank (for Tank gate, my main char) feel free to let me know any modification if needed and if it helped.
This is not a perfect farming guide, but will probably help most of you make more gold than before.
Go ahead if you want to forward this post/link to your guild website/TS/Discord, I am making it to help the biggest amount of people out there.
I am playing on NA, but I presume the same things will apply for EU players.
It is important that you, yourself check how much gold u get per hour for every maps since each player are different. For most week I find myself making more money elsewhere than in the boring silverwaste. This guide will also content almost a 100% complete and detailed way to farm cursed shore which is the map I make the most for the good map reward rotation when I am leading a good zerg.
For HOT meta use this very useful timer on dulfy site -> http://dulfy.net/2015/11/09/gw2-hot-maps-timer-famme/
Those are usually the maps I farm on each week rotation.
- Silverwaste week 1 and 3.
- Frostgorge Sound week 2.
- Southsun Cove week 5 and 7.
- Cursed Shore week 4, 6 and 8.
For my setup, I use copper-fed salvage-o-matic and silver-fed salvage-o-matic in my shared inventory slot. Copper for blue and green items, silver for rares (silver is as good as mystic salvage kit if you prefer to use that). Copper is definitively the thing that made me do more gold, by getting materials instead of selling items at merchant. I also use the rare fractal box 20slots, and put it as last bag so my rares go to the bottom and I can salvage my green and blue items easily.
Hot maps:
Important to note that u can do champion hero point once a day for 25 of the map currency and few items, it is good to do when you are waiting on meta to begin.
Dragon Stand:
- I don’t believe magic find affects pods opening reward, so it isn’t necessary to use any magic find food and utilities for this map.
- There is not any great guild bonus for this map but map reward bonus is probably the best one here.
- Every time an outpost gets secure, multiples pods will spawn around it, be sure to get the pods from all 6 outposts (2 per lanes) after you defeat the Mouth of Mordremoth.
- To be sure to get into a map that is doing the meta, use the dulfy timer and get around 10 minutes in advance into Dragon Stand. There should be a commander forming a squad for next map, just need to taxi over on him once maps reset.
Tangled Depths:
- I don’t believe magic find affects crystallized caches opening reward, so it isn’t necessary to use any magic find food and utilities for this map.
- There is not any great guild bonus for this map but map reward bonus is probably the best one here.
- Crystallized caches are in every lane, more should appear as the meta progress in that specific outpost.
-Get into map around 15minutes before the meta, time to get organized. Killing chak gerent is the fastest way to obtain ley-line crystals.
Auric Basin:
– I don’t believe magic find affects exalted chests opening reward, so it isn’t necessary to use any magic find food and utilities for this map.
- There is not any great guild bonus for this map but map reward bonus is probably the best one here.
- Get into the map when challenges start, the zerg strategy no longer works so just choose a side and do the meta also stay in the squad u taxied in. You can farm the chests after the meta is over on multiples characters and in multiples maps/ips. So you can use the squad to change character and get back on a victorious maps or just taxi over to another victorious map. Note that there are 27 chests (5 grand) per victorious map.
Verdant Brink:
- I don’t believe magic find affects airships cargo opening reward, so it isn’t necessary to use any magic find food and utilities for this map.
- There is not any great guild bonus for this map but map reward bonus is probably the best one here.
-Assist one of the five outposts. Itzel is known to be one of the longest so it is good to know some people are on it.
- For the night, it is important to spread out and defending rally point. They are 4 rally point per outpost if all of the reached t4 during day phase. There are 3 defenses of the rally points events, at 44:30, 34:30 and 24:30 on night timer. Canopy bosses will spawn on the 20minutes marks. When rally point defense is over, u have around 5minutes to go around and kill champions and bring back rally supplies to any camp to help the meta progress. A good way to spread out the people so all rally points get defended is by using mentor tag. Commander tag usually bring all the people that do not know what to do and lazy people which we want to prevent (we do not want 20 people camping 1 rally). Mentor up when 2-3 people are at your rally point so that way everyone on the map knows that this one is defended and people can also see where help is needed.
Silverwaste:
Chest train:
- Use omnomberry bar with any of the Halloween utility giving 30% magic find (like pumpkin oil).
- Use the magic find guild bonus.
- This guide will not show you how to spot chest, I am sure there are somewhere you find it or just learn with a commander/mentor in game.
- Be sure to tag event like veterans and skritt burglar since they give 1 stack of perseverance (max of 5, increase magic find) since they are the fastest and easiest way to get stack.
- If u tend to lag behind the zerg, use a thief and also press f11 -> show all interactable object name, that way you will see where dug chests are.
Events train:
- Use peppermint omnomberry bar (extra 10%karma) with any of the Halloween utility giving 30% magic find (like pumpkin oil).
- Use the map reward guild bonus if you need bandit crests, if not use the magic find one.
- Few things to know before I tell the usual farming train route: after taking a fort or defending one (successful or not) a veteran will spawn nearby. You do NOT need to stay a fort for the whole timer to get reward and you should not.
May be a bit hard to remember all at first but gets easy after some hours of farming.
Take red, kill vet around red, take indigo, kill vet around indigo, take blue, kill vet around blue, take amber, kill vet around amber, tag amber/indigo escort bulls, kill red vet (1st defense phase should be over when zerg gets around amber), defend indigo, kill indigo vet, tag blue bull, defend blue, kill blue vet, defend amber, kill amber vet, go back to red for defense event and indigo/amber bulls to tag then repeat.
- Do not think I should be saying anything about breach and VW, after VW I usually kill the first 3 champions then taxi to another event map to skip the downtime.
Important: when I say defend X you should be killing (tag) a maximum of 10-15 monsters so staying around for like 1minutes 30seconds.
Southsun Cove:
- You want to do karka train on this map, events take too long but they are a nice bonus. You are here to farm karka shells and powerful bloods.
- Use omnomberry bar with any of the Halloween utility giving 30% magic find (like pumpkin oil).
- Use the magic find guild bonus.
- Ranger is one of the best class to farm this map.
- To have a good karka train speed, you want at least 6-8 people. Veteran karka drop 1 karka shell 100% of the time, you have a chance to get a 2nd one. Be sure to tag it during its first life bar for drop. Young karka have about 20% chance to drop a karka shell on kill. Young and veteran have the same chance to drop powerful blood. You want to focus on killing veteran and attacking few time young ones. Let steampipe camp defense event fail always for more loot and more young karkas on retake.
- On a very good train, you should get around 120 karka shells and 6-10 powerful bloods (mf helps to get t6 blood rather than t5 on kill) per hour.
Frostgorge Sound and Cursed Shore will be in Part 2 as I did more than the limit of 15k words.
(edited by styke.7862)