Guild Wars 2

With Lodestones appearing in chests, prices have bottomed out on them. It makes the game way too easy for people. I have seen a lot of whining on forums about rising prices. But there needs to be incentives for people to farm.

Lodestones used to be nice to farm. Now they’re not even going to be worth the effort to open up the temple.

It seems like people whined their way into making endgame content ultra easy to obtain which leaves people who like to have stuff to do like farming with dwindling options other than killing trash mobs in hopes of T6 mats.

Devs should strongly consider removing Lodestones and valuable items out of chests, and let people who want to farm for profit farm for profit. There’s no reason to screw up a decent part of the economy because of whiners.

i 100% agree,
people whine their way into a legendary, making this game but an empty shell

MMO’s need progression and hard work should be rewarded.

why even farm when you can play a 1 time event and get 500g?

Strongly oppose. Reason should be obvious.

Not sure about other lodestones, but the corrupted lodestones have been rising in price. Removing many bots has helped. You could go farm those! Seems to me like most lodestone prices are rising actually.

xxxzavulonxxx.8413:

With Lodestones appearing in chests, prices have bottomed out on them. It makes the game way too easy for people. I have seen a lot of whining on forums about rising prices. But there needs to be incentives for people to farm.

Lodestones used to be nice to farm. Now they’re not even going to be worth the effort to open up the temple.

It seems like people whined their way into making endgame content ultra easy to obtain which leaves people who like to have stuff to do like farming with dwindling options other than killing trash mobs in hopes of T6 mats.

Devs should strongly consider removing Lodestones and valuable items out of chests, and let people who want to farm for profit farm for profit. There’s no reason to screw up a decent part of the economy because of whiners.

It is clear that they want no specific group of people to have control over the economy , which is good. I do not , however, agree with the RNG nature of things as alluded to by the person a few posts above me (in reference to the event)

I approve of the change to make Lodestones drop from chests. Yes, it means that you can’t turn as big a profit on them as before, but at the same time, the Lost Shores patch actually made it a lot easier to get a Legendary by both increasing the number of Precursors on the market (big cost #1) and increasing the supply of Lodestones (big cost #2). Considering a Legendary (and now Ascended items) was the main reason people needed to stockpile a huge amount of money in the first place, it should all even out in the end.

nope got to agree with the devs on this one. greed is ugly in any reality.

I hope they increase the rare drops next and make it possible to always get at least 1 ecto per rare salvage because it gets out of hand when you limit these items too much. I’m a farmer as well but I don’t farm for raw mats to be sold i make things from them for myself for my guildies. Please keep increasing the drop rates and make MF affect chest contents.

xxxzavulonxxx.8413:

With Lodestones appearing in chests, prices have bottomed out on them. It makes the game way too easy for people. I have seen a lot of whining on forums about rising prices. But there needs to be incentives for people to farm.

Lodestones used to be nice to farm. Now they’re not even going to be worth the effort to open up the temple.

It seems like people whined their way into making endgame content ultra easy to obtain which leaves people who like to have stuff to do like farming with dwindling options other than killing trash mobs in hopes of T6 mats.

Devs should strongly consider removing Lodestones and valuable items out of chests, and let people who want to farm for profit farm for profit. There’s no reason to screw up a decent part of the economy because of whiners.

Agree here ..

I dont want to play the game where farming useless and everyone just buy everything from TP …

Its just sad how Arenanet proved to us that everyone can just cry out his demans and arenanets listen.

We want cheaper precursors … Check, you have them free from the event
We want cheaper lodestones … Check, now they are dropping from dungeon chest

Whats next thing people are going to complain about? Too much Icy runestones required for legendary or 80 levels too much to level up? So just drop icy runetone and levels from the magic chest again?

Arenanet please stay to your standarts and dont just give everything for free .. thats exactly why I quit wow

P.S.: GUYS, DECEMBER EVENT INC: Everyone prepare for free precursors and big decrease in prices.

Esrever.8613:

why even farm when you can play a 1 time event and get 500g?

This put a dagger thru my heart.

My favorite part of any game is farming. Treasure seeking. But to have literally release an event with a chest that dropped one item worth more then all my farming efforts is devastating.

Ugh I still feel bad about it.

tigirius.9014:

nope got to agree with the devs on this one. greed is ugly in any reality.

I hope they increase the rare drops next and make it possible to always get at least 1 ecto per rare salvage because it gets out of hand when you limit these items too much. I’m a farmer as well but I don’t farm for raw mats to be sold i make things from them for myself for my guildies. Please keep increasing the drop rates and make MF affect chest contents.

Really? Guaranteed 1 ecto per salvage?

Thats what you have black lion salvage kit for .. If you love your guildies and friends so much, buy few of these kits with gems then

NO FOR the MF and NO for the MF apply to the chest ever. That would just encourage players to wear magic find gear in dungeons even more. kitten I would need to kick even 2x more players than now .. But It can be fun …

What is your gear? Magic find?
Yes …
Bye bye … kick inc
next please … LF1M

What is y…. ?
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Vinny.6924:

Esrever.8613:

why even farm when you can play a 1 time event and get 500g?

This put a dagger thru my heart.

My favorite part of any game is farming. Treasure seeking. But to have literally release an event with a chest that dropped one item worth more then all my farming efforts is devastating.

Ugh I still feel bad about it.

Not everybody got a Precursor from the chest though. Out of my entire guild of 20 or so members who attended the finale, only 1 person got a Precursor from the chest. (It was Dusk too, the lucky kitten… XD)

It’s not like this phenomenom wasn’t in GW1 either. You had things like Crystalline Blades and mini Polar Bears that, if you were lucky enough to get one, basically meant you were set for life as far as money was concerned.

Well if you look over this thread not everyone got a precursor from the chest it wasn’t 100%.

Look at the event like a stimulus package in a sense. Everything will correct itself in TIME. It has only been a 2 days since the event ended and I can see prices starting to rise back up on many items.

Some people clearly miss the point here,

At the state the game is in now, nothing is worth the time.

Crafting has been degraded to be a simple leveling tool
Legendary is becomming a common thing, still expencive but that won’t last much longer

The banning of the bots was a step in the right direction, T6 mats went up in price as they should be, it’s a rare matterial after all
But then Anet turns around and makes an even rarer drop like lodestones a common thing.

Legendaries, rare exotics (made with said lodestones) give no advantage in stats, they are purely for looks and should remain very rare and something people have to work for to get.

Oh no, 1 less thing to farm/save money for, what o what will I do with all my spare gametime now? BTW if I think back to all my previous games and GW2 I doubt I can remember a dozen people that enjoy farming or thought that being able to farm for countless hours is any indication of how pro/entitled you are to something. I’d rather see that stuff would be gotten by skill or if I have to grind that it’s something grindy that is at least a bit fun (idk a fun instance I can repeat only once per day) not a major borefest (aka killing mobs for hours and hours, getting shafted by DR, RNG, etc).

Besides, there has to be a baseline on what you consider an average player of the game. If there’s 10 ppl crying how game too easy coz they can play 24/7 (figuratively) I don’t think that’s a good indication what majority of players want (most of whom prolly don’t even use forums).

P.S. Go count threads with “too much grind” in them as opposed to threads “not nuff grind”.

So basically, if you want to grind, feel free to get all legendaries you can use and ascended stuff for all your toons, that should keep you occupied for a while.