Guild Wars 2

So I was planning to “farm” a bit in Orr yesterday like I used to do for last months. At first I thought I was spoiled by recent Southsun farming madness but quickly noticed that something is totally wrong. Events that used to pop every 10 mins or so do not do that anymore. The Jofast/Peni/Shelter DEs activated like once in 2 hours, Escort mission after Penni (some walls were destroyed during event) did not pop in 30 mins and when it finally did it bugged/stuck. Jofast seems perma stuck, Shelter popped once. Dwayna bugged, Arah bugged and so on…

Is it intentional? Did I miss some patch notes? Seriously, I made more profit/drops in 1 hour farming Moas in Queensdale, really.

Sometimes it really seems they don’t actually want anyone to bother with certain content, but then again, events have been bugging over and over and over since launch. Hell there are events I literally have not seen occur since the first fortnight I had this game (and I had it in time for pre-release), there are events which I find broken mid-way through just like back then, and I’ve just stopped reporting them because whatever it is they either can’t fix it or don’t have the people to have someone fix it.

So as unsurprised as I would be if they decided ‘people were going to Orr… we should stop that’, there’s a pretty good precedent for it being a bug (or series of bugs).

Anet realized that they were losing a ton of $ since people were gaining wealth through in-game gold through farming rather than convering gems to gold.

So they made it harder to farm and nerfed all events so that people don’t get wealthy as easy.

Anet systematically killed Orr all over again over the past few months.

Peni/Shelters are now on 30min + cooldown timers, mobs have had their strength buffed and loot nerfed massively, the temples still break quite frequently, and then there’s the issue of culling making at least two temple events almost impossible due to invisible champs.

The only life to be found in Orr now are either bots or people gathering their daily Orichalcum. Other than that, Orr is once again completely dead.

Vol.5241:

Anet realized that they were losing a ton of $ since people were gaining wealth through in-game gold through farming rather than convering gems to gold.

So they made it harder to farm and nerfed all events so that people don’t get wealthy as easy.

If that was their issue and they targeted Orr over CoF, I’d never again question that they want the region to be empty.

Who knows though, it could even be something like an event up-chain that is bugging or got tweaked and inadvertently ends up slowing down everything that follows as well. So many events in Orr stem from other events which stem from other events, it must be a pretty easy system to break.

LameFox.6349:

Vol.5241:

Anet realized that they were losing a ton of $ since people were gaining wealth through in-game gold through farming rather than convering gems to gold.

So they made it harder to farm and nerfed all events so that people don’t get wealthy as easy.

If that was their issue and they targeted Orr over CoF, I’d never again question that they want the region to be empty.

Who knows though, it could even be something like an event up-chain that is bugging or got tweaked and inadvertently ends up slowing down everything that follows as well. So many events in Orr stem from other events which stem from other events, it must be a pretty easy system to break.

Trust me, I’ve been farming shelt/pen ever since release up until they nerfed risen spiders.

Nothing is bugging that chain. They intentionally increased the timer respawn to prevent farming. They intentionally introduced gated-Champions.

Yes, there are chains that bug out occasionally in other places in Orr, but those bugged out events don’t matter since no one farms them.

Everyone farmed shelt/pen and that’s how I was able to afford my legendaries. Now that they have cut out the main gold faucets it’ll force people to buy gems in order to get gold. And that’s golden in Anet’s book.

Why cannot people just learn this,

Anet do not want you FARMING ORR

The drops where removed along time ago.

Infact they don’t want you farming full stop, me and a guild mate on new char’s, cleared, Straights, Mals leap and Shore yesterday, and not a single rare dropped out of all 3 zones, we even cleared events along the way etc, at the end of it I had 5 T6 crafting materials, ( in 4 hours ) and this is supposed to be end game.

Sadly you will never get a reply from Anet to the topic you have raised, they have no interest in sorting it to be fair.

If you want to make quick gold, go farm CoF path 1 200 times a day until they nerf it in a few months.