User:Arnout aka The Emperors Angel/Arnouts stuff

Hey, you to managed to find the page where I dump the stuff I don't need. Welcome!

WTF?
I just had the strangest thing happen to me: I was farming raptors (when isn’t I)and suddenly Aidan was with me, while the rest of the party was suddenly running towards me. Unless Aidan has suddenly mastered the art of shadow stepping, I have no clue what the hell happened. I had the brains to make a screen shot of it though. (fortunately). I'm going to write down the location here, because I will forget where it is and I can't post the screenshot anyway, as I have no idea how. Some help would be appreciated, so I can all show you this miracle/disaster, as it screwed up the run. D:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Screens\gw.026.jpg


 * Its gotta be sized down. No idea how though. Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 19:00, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * all you have to do is add a bar and give a px size. --JonTheMon 19:59, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Loot Test
To clear things up for myself, (whether drops increase/improve if you farm with a party outside radar range) I undertook a little (not) testing on how loot drops work. The test was limited, as my time was limited. The test area is the Raptor Nestling cave, and Rekoff Broodmother with a Perma SF Sliver Armor Build. The Tests where performed during the Halloween 2008 event, so the results are not valid for “Peace Time” farming, regular farming outside events that cause something to drop. (or cause an increased drop rate)

I did three tests (each consisting of 45 runs): I checked for greens, golds, purples, blues, whites, gold pieces, collectibles, festival items, dye, lock picks, blue scrolls, gold scrolls, tome and elite tomes. I checked for numbers, not the quality (max damage, max mods, color of the dye, etc.) of the items themselves or the mods on the items.
 * 1st (default) Test: A full party in radar range whilst killing the raptors. (done)
 * 2nd Test: A full party out of radar range, and then kill the raptors. (done)
 * 3rd Test: Solo, and then kill the raptor raptors.  (done)

No comments? I'm flattered!

Progress Report:  FINISHED!!!!! *cheers and raises his beer glass*

Results:  I finished the "default" test. Results? As expected. Lousy, so to say. On average 28.1 raptors killed, and per run 23.44 gold pieces. Half the time, you get a Trick-or-Treat Bag (47%). I'm not advising this kind of farm. Average profit: 100-150 gold. This does not include tomes, gold items, festival items and collectables. And that’s even besides the trouble you have to go through to keep your party in range. About a dozen failed runs due to a mess up on that part, and then some more due to lagg. (getting stuck between raptors without a full agro, or lagging out when refreshing SF) Noteworthy: only 3 normal tomes, and no elite tome. No greens, and no lockpicks either.

I finished the 2nd test. Results? Nice to very nice. And very different from the third test: An average of 29 killed raptors per run, with 3.4 ToT-bags, 2.6 collectables, 0.47 (Nearly half the time!) golds, 6.5 gold pieces per run. 0.22 normal tomes per run, along side 0.3 dyes per run (I got a black! Yeah!). An average of 150-200 gold pieces of profit per run. Again, I didn’t check this. It is purely my educated guess. Noteworthy: 2 elite tomes, 2 lockpicks, 3 gold scrolls and 5 blue scrolls. And the most noteworthy of all: 8 greens! That’s just so much! In fact it is so much, that I don’t think that it was coincidence, but a general increased drop rate. I think I know how I’m going to farm my greens!

I finished the final test. Results? Mind blowing! Let me sum if up for you: on average 28.9 raptors killed, with a whopping 71,73 gold pieces per run. More then 4 (4.2 to be precise) ToT-bags, more then 2 (2.35) Saurian Bones, a 25% (0.24) chance of getting a normal tome, and 1 gold item out of every three runs (0.38). Smashing! Noteworthy: 1 elite tome, 4 lockpicks, 4 blue scrolls, 1 green, 8 dyes (no black or white though) and 4 lockpicks. Massive! The average profit must around, or over 200 gold. (without selling the ToT-bags)

New Project (1): Do some "Peace Time" farming of the Raptors to see wether they give (about) the same droprate with and without leechers.

New Project (2): Find a spot to farm collectables you can trade in for the Winterfest. Sugestions are welcome!