Guild Wars 2

If there is, I want to move there.

Some people are kittening about the more stringent diminishing returns implementation affecting the innocent… I’m sure we’ll get a properly tuned version eventually but DE spawn camping (and wide-open botting them…NW Kessex Hills bridge, I’m looking at you) has gotten to the outrageous point.

I normally pick an RP server in MMOs, not because I RP but rather because exploiting kittentery is ussually a bit less there. No such choice here but if there were a server designated as having a quick banhammer for exploiters, I’d move there in a second to… you know…play the game?

So…farming…anywhere…is..bannable? How is this enforced? What is acceptable? Can we farm Nodes? Chasing DE’s deserve a ban?

You do realize there is only one lvl 80 zone correct and most of the DEs chain in a pretty small area?

think….then post.

Well the unofficial RP servers are Tarnished Coast (US) and Piken Square (EU) if that helps …

Evil.9061:

So…farming…anywhere…is..bannable? How is this enforced? What is acceptable? Can we farm Nodes? Chasing DE’s deserve a ban?

You do realize there is only one lvl 80 zone correct and most of the DEs chain in a pretty small area?

think….then post.

Farming may technically be within the TOS and unbannable but it’s still a big annoyance to anyone trying to play the game as intended.

30 people standing on top of one another, spamming AOEs at the spot where the centaurs will pop at the NW broken Kessex Hills Bridge means that anyone coming by wanting to play that DE will have a tough time tagging enough mobs before they’re dead to get gold medal credit or even a reasonable number of drops.

In other ways, they ruin the game for anyone trying to play it as intended and developed. Farming, when it comes right down to it, is selfish anti-social behavior. Weird how many people are OK with defending it as if it were just one of many different play styles of equal value to all other ways of playing the game.

A better one-liner might be: “learn to play nice with others in multiplayer games.”

@ Azure… thanks, didn’t know about Tarnished Coast… any better there?

iselin.8253:

30 people standing on top of one another, spamming AOEs at the spot where the centaurs will pop at the NW broken Kessex Hills Bridge means that anyone coming by wanting to play that DE will have a tough time tagging enough mobs before they’re dead to get gold medal credit or even a reasonable number of drops.

Personally, I think this kind of stuff shouldn’t be allowed. I have no problem with a massive amount of people going from event to event, “farming” it for exp or gold, but standing AFK and AOEing on a spot for hours, probably using a bot to do so, shouldn’t be allowed. Like you said, it ruins the game for others who wish to participate in the event, and in the end, it’ll most likely make them just give in and join with the afkers. It gives that “Well, they’re doing it, so I might as well too” kind of mindset.

Haker.5067:

Personally, I think this kind of stuff shouldn’t be allowed. I have no problem with a massive amount of people going from event to event, “farming” it for exp or gold, but standing AFK and AOEing on a spot for hours, probably using a bot to do so, shouldn’t be allowed. Like you said, it ruins the game for others who wish to participate in the event, and in the end, it’ll most likely make them just give in and join with the afkers. It gives that “Well, they’re doing it, so I might as well too” kind of mindset.

I agree. Nothing wrong with “chasing” DEs, actively playing them, or running to known champion chest events when you hear it’s started. That’s playing the game.

Of the 30 or so I saw last night exploiting that one DE in Kessex Hills I’d say about 20 were botting using a macro or script—either keeping an eye on the screen or not. The other 10 were moving a bit so it was either a more sophisticated macro or, as you said, the “can’t beat them, join them” crowd.