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cashew (cashew) wrote,
@ 2008-12-22 18:03:00

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game: guild wars

GW Farming profit
Sekrit message to Tanith: I'm planning to do a couple hours of farming between Destroyers and Raptors and see which one is more profitable (in the end it's all about the money, since everything else I could technically buy it...somehow). So. I have no idea if Vaettirs pay well. What's your average earnings on them?

Edit:

So far I'm getting ~3k per hour at both places, with raptors eeking out just a slightly more payback. Destroyers drop more frequently (higher level?) but raptors have a boss, so sometimes I get stuff like scrolls which sell for a shitload. However, saurian bones are rather useless (other than merching), whereas destroyer cores can be traded in for stuff. Yet, because I kill off more raptors per hour, I get a shit load more winters day stuff (especially eggnog and snowman summoners, but candy cane shards seem to drop about the same, despite killing less destroyers). Also, while destroyers are a tad slower, one can definitely get drops unless one hits lag, while raptor runs tend to fail ~30% of the time due to sliver refusing to target Rekoff Broodmother. But raptor seems to drop slightly more gold, as I've yet to fill up inventory without getting golds yet on raptors, whereas this happens with destroyers.

/tl;dr

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	tanithryudo 2008-12-23 11:05 am UTC (link)
	Well, I farm Vaettirs purely for event drops and golds (for titles), so I don't really keep track of the cash rewards. I don't usually pick up all the non-gold drops either. So I can't really give you a good total on that... Probably slower than raptors, I'd say, given the longer run to the farm spot. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cashew 2008-12-23 04:09 pm UTC (link)
	How long does it fill up on golds? I think there's a merchant in the vaettirs, so you could probably just sell 'em on the spot rather than rezoning...or isn't there? And how much do you get after a full inventory of gold? (Check above for edits.) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

tanithryudo
2008-12-24 11:09 am UTC (link)

No merchant. I've run enough to know. There's only a rez shrine dude to give you norn points.

It takes anywhere from 5-20 runs to fill my inventory with gold items (and only gold items). It largely depends on luck. Sometimes I'll have a run with 5 golds, sometimes 0.

I tend to fill up much faster on glacial stones and event drops. Anywhere from 50 to 150 per full inventory of gold items.

The runs are slower for me though, since the ele build uses obsidian flesh which slows down movement a lot.

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	cashew 2008-12-25 11:33 am UTC (link)
	Can I has 100 glacial stones for glacial gauntlets? Mostly because I want another pair of gloves for farming, but I'm too cheap to buy the materials to make a new one... (Reply to this) (Parent)