True Farming - Guild Wars 2

What are Gardens?

This farming method consists of searching for places across the maps where we will have a large accumulation of nodes, whether plants to harvest with a sickle or trees to harvest with an axe. Volatile Magic is an essential currency for the 4th Living World season obtained primarily through resource gathering.

For this farming to be truly interesting and give us the benefit we seek, we need to follow a small series of preliminary steps. From preparing the right tools to knowing the best routes and respawn times of the nodes.

Guide Objective

This guide will help you maximize your Volatile Magic earnings through garden farming, providing you with all the necessary information about which gardens, optimization tips, and farming strategies.

Gathering Tools

To be more efficient with farming, you'll want to have one of the following gathering tools as their animation when gathering is considerably faster than others.

Harvesting

Consortium Harvesting Sickle

Speed: 150%

Eldritch Horror Harvesting Tool

Speed: 166%

Fused Molten Sickle

Speed: 150%

Volatile Harvesting Sickle

Speed: 100%

Mining

Unbound Magic Mining Beam

Logging

Unbound Magic Logging Pulse

You will need at least 1 Volatile Magic Glyph, on average, this glyph will give you 6 volatile magic per node.

Buffs

Item Booster

33% chance to gain extra gathering strike

In the Home Instance, it only works on gardens. Doesn't work in guild halls.

Guild Gathering Banner Booster

XP Booster

Candy Gobbler

Using experience boosters will gain you additional experience alongside a substantial amount of VM.

Garden Waypoints

Direct links to the most important garden waypoints for Volatile Magic farming

Garden Waypoints

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List #3 of Waypoints

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