Guild Wars 2

So, I took a rather long time to get to 400 crafting in one discipline, I spend 98% of my time in W3 and just don’t find time for farming outside of that map. And I only recently found out the exotics use 5 Ori inscripts per item.

My question is, where does everyone who spends most of their time in W3 get all the Ori you need for this? I average about 5 ingots per day just off of salvages.

i salvage and run the high level areas with orrmaps.com.

PvE (orr, frostgorge sound, etc.), or the trading post. Only place in wvw to actually gather it is the EB jumping puzzle, and that is a bad, bad place. Don’t go there. Just don’t do it.

The trading post is the best place. Besides that, there are always 2 orichalcum nodes in the Eternal Battlegrounds jumping puzzle somewhere. Those are the only nodes in all of WvW for orichalcum.

Maybe it’d be nice to have some “scaled” nodes somewhere? Where the ore you get is scaled to the level of your character. It might not be ideal, but the problem I think with just putting in orich. ore into WvW is that people could just create new alts and farm the nodes constantly at very low level (since in PvE you can only get the ore in lvl 75+ zones). And then make the respawn daily like orich nodes. Maybe that way the level 80’s can get our Ori ores (and put them somewhere difficult, like near lord rooms, or in other areas of the map, but not too far away from objective areas).

Just an idea.

I have a couple dedicated WvW chars (as in, never use in PvE). They sit on the cliff above the southsun node, mine it before you enter WvW, guest to a couple other servers to mine it a couple more times when you feel like it. It adds up pretty quick and will cover most usage.

the ori nodes are in eternal battleground jumping puzzle

5 ori ingots is what, 15 ore? That’s almost as much as a map’s worth of Ori nodes.

Rising Dusk.2408:

The trading post is the best place. Besides that, there are always 2 orichalcum nodes in the Eternal Battlegrounds jumping puzzle somewhere. Those are the only nodes in all of WvW for orichalcum.

That last part is incorrect. While EB jump puzzle does always have some, I have also on rare occasions found ori node on the EB map itself (last time was an ori node and ancient wood in umberglade)

@Resonance ~ Ah yeah, I meant I average 5 ores a day, not ingots, sorry.

@SuiRyuJin ~ As for the EB JP, I stay away from there out of principle alone, since it takes away manpower from the real fight going on up top.

@kurath ~ I like your idea, I might try that. I haven’t been to Southsun since its release event though so I’ll have to relearn the map lol.

When I was level’in in September, I cheered for orichalcum nodes. Now I cheer for gold nodes in the borderlands.

I’ve come pretty far.

http://gw2nodes.com/index.php will make your pve farming time much quicker.

Handin.4032:

Maybe it’d be nice to have some “scaled” nodes somewhere? Where the ore you get is scaled to the level of your character. It might not be ideal, but the problem I think with just putting in orich. ore into WvW is that people could just create new alts and farm the nodes constantly at very low level (since in PvE you can only get the ore in lvl 75+ zones). And then make the respawn daily like orich nodes. Maybe that way the level 80’s can get our Ori ores (and put them somewhere difficult, like near lord rooms, or in other areas of the map, but not too far away from objective areas).

Just an idea.

I, thought you had to be a lvl 60 to use picks that can harvest ori. Is that not the case when you are up leveled to 80 in WvW?

It might be, I haven’t tried it. It would be interesting to know though.

They should add extra Orichalcum nodes and Ancient Saplings to WvW which require a special Mists gathering kit.

Then make a new WvW daily:
- Claim a tower
- Claim a camp
- Kill 50 invaders
Reward: Mists gathering kit, lasts 12 hours.

This would give WvW focused players a way to gather high level materials, in line with PvE players, without the map being flooded by people only there to farm.