I've recently gotten really into farming as a relaxing activity while pursuing an ascended spinal blades pack, and I've developed kind of a unique process for it that is helping a few of my guildies a lot. Everyone's always worried about making gold, but I've found a way to both make gold and actually work towards masteries and fully developing another character.

What you'll need:

• 80 tomes of knowledge (although you could probably just run labyrinth to get to 80)
• The desire to make a badass specialized farming character.
• The desire to learn the Revenant.
• Netflix/a podcast to watch/listen to.
• Maybe 20 gold for bags. Buy 15 slot ones to start. You don't have to worry about any gear- you'll get it in your levelup chests. Just make sure you pick up a hammer and staff and go for Magi stats (or similar) on the armor (if they're there. I learned this in hindsight once I'd actually played the Rev, and ended up having to retool and spend more gold after a while).
  
• Maybe another 5 gold for initial kitting.
• Teleport to Ally stones x3 (Optional)
• Gold for trinkets, vanity items, etc. (Optional)
• A mystic forge salvage kit (wiki is helpful) (Optional)
• A black lion salvage kit (Optional)
• Any utility stuff, like a birthday blaster, fireworks, bank expresses, that you want.

The process:

• Get to Lion's Arch.
  
• Boost the Rev to level 80 with the tomes and train all of your skills and traits.
• Pick up your bags and boosters from the TP/bank
• Set up using the assassin stance and the centaur stance. You want the bubble and heal closest to you on the bar for centaur. For the assassin, all you really care about is the speed skill.
• Dispose of all the useless shit you get for leveling rewards, like the equipment you cant salvage and anything that isn't properly traited, or boosters that don't help with magic find, xp, or gold find.
• Buy six yellow salvage kits
• Buy and equip a set of high tier gathering tools
• Buy another set to have on hand
• Trait up to complement the following playstyle (I forgot to screenshot the traiting I'm using. If there's interest, I'll post it this evening):

When running and tagging, use assassin stance speed boost to keep up and kite, with hammer 2 skill being your main aoe tag skill. For bosses and stacks (like on the doors in the labyrinth), switch to centaur and drop your tablet in the middle of the stack or on the boss. Chain bubbles with other revenants to bypass projectile phases much more reliably. If it isn't your turn to bubble, swap to staff and spam staff 1, which will launch healing pickups every three hits, and has a decent speed and cleave. If needed, provide healing bursts and condition removal while waiting for your turn to bubble to come back around. In an emergency, your elite does a knockback and massive heal, with the downside that it shatters your tablet. You can also juggle your tablet back and forth inside the stack to proc the heal that occurs when it goes through an ally, if you want to. Party with a friend who has the waypoints for CoE, the Silverwastes, and Arah. Use the teleport to ally stones to get the waypoints. it'll save you a lot of time having to run there by hand.

After this, do a Labyrinth run and a silverwastes run, as you would normally. keep at least one of each of the following drops in your inventory while salvaging and vendoring/trading:

• Piles of Silky Sand
• Nightmare Keys
• Mordrem part packs
• Shovels
• Mordrem Extractors (might want to buy a few of these).
• Keys (I don't have any in my screenshots because I forgot to buy more/transfer my stack from my main).

Also, do not vendor any stuff that didn't get deposited into your bank. You're going to use these as stack seeds.

Once you're done with that, do a Labyrinth run.

Once you've done all that, set your bags up like this (buying cheap endless tonics to fill in any gaps).

Then follow this process:

• Open bags in order of rarity from top to bottom.
  

Follow the same salvaging process in order for each bag type:

• Use black lion kits on exotics (or sell them directly)
• Salvage rares with the mystic forge kit (keep track of how many rares you've gotten)
• Salvage blues and greens with the yellow salvage kit
• Vendor all the sigils and junk whenever you need to get inventory space
• Sell what you want to sell on the trading post
• Hit deposit all materials
• Put any full stacks of big ticket collectibles (Trick or Treat bags, sand piles, shovels, keys, candy corn, etc.) in storage.
• Keep the best halloween food you find, focusing on magic find, xp gain, and gold drop rate buffs.
• Keep the best halloween utility food you find. Lumps of crystallized nougat are really good for this, but the others work too.

Go back to your inventory screen and fill in any gaps you can that are currently filled with tonics. Move your ascended junk materials and common drops like mithril into the bottom bag.

From there, you're pretty golden. Put on your movie, sit back, relax, and start running your favorite map. Make sure you keep your food up when farming, and follow the commander/mentor if you don't know what to do yet. Help taxi people into farming maps.

After you run, sit on a merchant as you unpack bags, salvage, and open bonus chests (don't do this in the field, as it clogs your inventory and wastes time).

This build can also be used to farm mastery XP in CoE and Arah.

Right now I'm working on getting halloween pails for him, so I'm only mastery level 3, but I've been able to pay down some debt to a guildie, fully gear an alt, buy some fun stuff, and still have gold left over for emergencies. Once I've gotten my pails, I'll probably go back to doing silverwastes.

I hope this helps some people get into the farming hobby. If you have any questions or anything, let me know and I'll try to clear things up as best I can. Improvements/suggestions are also very welcome (I'm currently struggling with what armor runes to get)!

-/u/Daveaham_Lincoln (Svestral/Admiral von Nelson in game)

P.S. If you have a cool idea for a name for this build, post that too :D