Yellow Creature Farm
I’m wanting to farm some creatures with Yellow Names around Tyria. Anyone know of a map I could use or just some locations that have an excessive amount of them?
As soon as we tell you, others will start farming them too and it won’t be very efficient. Generally, the best places are corners of the world without popular events. Fields of Ruins, Harathi, Kessex, etc all have areas without world bosses or g-mish and, at least on days when they aren’t part of daily events, have tons of neutrals.
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It also depends on what you want to farm them for.
If it’s XP (which is the usual reason I know of) then higher level maps are better, especially if you’re not level 80 yet and can go to a map slightly above your level and take care not to get overwhelmed.
Other than that the amount of XP they give builds up gradually the longer they’re around, so any quiet corner of a map is good. People rarely target yellow enemies but they are easy to aggro by accident or hit with AoE’s, so somewhere without events.
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The question that comes to mind is: Why would you want to do that in the first place? If it really is character experience you are after, my honest advice would be: don’t.
Creatures that have been in the world for a long time without getting killed to give bonus experience, but the amount doesn’t matter on whether it’s a yellow (non-aggressive) or red (aggressive) monster. In well-populated areas, reds often are killed more regularly than yellows (since they aren’t as easy to avoid), making the chance of them having aquired bonus experience higher, but in out-of-the-way places it often doesn’t make a difference.
To “farm” experience, simply get your hands on some cheap food and utility consumables (for the +10% bonus experience from kills, a few even come with +15%) and go explore the world, killing everything in your path. If you walk around the lesser-visited parts of the world, any creature (red as well as yellow) can easily give you 3x their base experience and more.
The downside is that once you’ve been through a place, killing everything living in the area, none of the respawned mobs will give bonus experience for a while, since they haven’t been in the world for long. Thus “farming” a single area with yellow creatures isn’t really profitable either.
On the other hand unfogging the map, discovering waypoints, vistas, and points of interest, harvesting crafting nodes, and participating in the occasional event you stumble upon gives a good batch of experience, too, often times more than you get from farming creatures alone, so if leveling is what you’re after, you should make sure not to stay in the same place but to go out and explore the world.
Now if this isn’t about farming experience but rather farming weapon achievements, then don’t go looking for yellow creatures, but take whites instead. They don’t give experience and die from one hit, but their deaths still count towards your weapon kill achievements.
People like to go after yellows because: people are much less likely to kill yellows than reds, making them more likely to generate massive XP bonuses due to longevity. And of course, technically, they can’t be farmed, since the entire point is go after ones that haven’t been killed recently.
However, if you find the right spots on a map, you can cycle between locations, getting bonus XP each time because enough time has passed before you return.
Everyone has their preferred way of leveling. Some love to use hearts, some map completion, come events, some EotM, some PvP. I try to let each person find their own comfort zone and become as efficient at their method of choice as they can.
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The best places for yellow creatures for leveling is in WvW. They are generally universally ignored, and there are some large groups fairly near to the spawn points.
If you do a rotation of each of the maps, you can get quite a bit of EXP just from those.
When I last did it, I tried not to stay too long in the area as you take up space on the server that could potentially be better used, and of course the bonus EXP drops quite quickly.
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Why pick on yellow creatures? What have they ever done to you.
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Why pick on yellow creatures?
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Killing yellow mobs is a GREAT way to gain lots of XP if you’re leveling. I pop some good extra XP food and one of my many XP boosters and go exploring and kill lots of yellow mobs. Around Mt Mealstrom last night I was killing yellows that gave 2500 XP each. I can gain a level in about 10-15 mins just by doing that. Don’t knock it til you try it!
As to the OP, they are everywhere, but I find the mid-higher level maps give the best XP; probably because higher level players are almost completely single-minded to ignore everything except champs. You don’t have to ignore red mobs but for sure, the most out of the way yellow mobs will be your best bet.
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Why pick on yellow creatures? What have they ever done to you.
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I know what you mean. I once made a Blazing Saddles reference in map chat. No one got it, and I felt old.