Farming

Farming is entering any area and killing monsters for the purpose of gathering items, experience, gold, Faction, or promotion points. Often you will find parties (especially in the harder areas of the game) searching for people to go farming with them.

Farming groups utilize strategies and techniques optimized for farming effectiveness. These strategies revolve around two seemingly contradicting principles:
 * Reducing the number of party members: Smaller party size equals an increased chance for each member to get quality items. It similarly means fewer people to split the gold with.
 * Increasing the number of party members: Increased DPS, expedites the deaths of enemies killed within a given time frame.

As such, dedicated farming groups experiment with builds in high-experience zones. Repeatedly dying or retreating is unfavorable for farming. Seek an effective party structure that clears out an area quickly and has less than a full party size.

Recommended Locations
Common farming targets in Tyria (Prophecies) include Mountain Trolls in a cave to the north of Droknar's Forge, Desert Griffons to the south of Augury Rock and Mahgo Hydras in the Ring of Fire Islands. Pre-searing is a popular place to farm for dye, as they are reported to drop more frequently there.

In Cantha (Factions), Vermin, Shiro'ken, Wardens, and Kirin are popular farming targets.

Click here for a list of farming builds.

Faction Farming

 * Balthazar Faction can be farmed in Training Arenas, Zaishen Challenge, Zaishen Elite and holiday arenas.
 * Kurzick and Luxon faction is often farmed in Alliance Battles and repeatable quests. The Jade Arena can be quickly and easily farmed with henchmen, while Duel of the Houses generally requires other players or heroes to farm quickly.

Sunspear and Lightbringer farming

 * Sunspear promotion points are easily farmed with heroes and henchmen while progressing through the campaign.
 * Restarting A Land of Heroes a few times before completing the quest is an effective faction farming method but will only obtain a maximum rank of Sunspear Commander.
 * Lightbringer promotion points are often farmed early on in The Mirror of Lyss, and later in the Realm of Torment with Lightbringer's Gaze.

Click here for Lightbringer Point Farming strategies.