Guild Wars 2

Seems most of these farming builds wont be able to farm him if he lives long enough to teleport 1 more time.

lets do it.

That alone wouldn’t work, unless it’s enough to where he teleports 2-3 more times, in which case, he’d be pretty kitten hard to kill for non farming professions.

Looks like someone is jealous that he doesn’t have the right profession or build to farm. What if I told you that increasing his health wouldn’t deter farmers? They’d just make a better build that focuses slightly more on sustained damage vs burst damage.

Doesn’t matter. I just fear or pull him when he charges up his shot.

P1 = middle
P2 = on your starting spot
P3 = all the way across arena
P4 = right side

Now if he’d have enough hp to always make it alive to P3, and possibly P4. It would be a fair change to counter the current farming rate.

1 more teleport won’t save his sorry kitten from the Wrath of my Berzerker Guardian!!!

Er… and why remove this farm? I mean, I’m too weak to farm this way, but I don’t see anything bad on it. A giant mass of people are farming events just below, nerf it too?

Well.. Its a event, its temporary. Let the guys do whatever they want, I don’t believe this is marked as cheat for Anet. They are simply good enough to make money out of it. If I could be good enough, I would try it too.

not remove it, just make it an actual challenge with gambits.

MauricioCezar.2673:

Er… and why remove this farm? I mean, I’m too weak to farm this way, but I don’t see anything bad on it. A giant mass of people are farming events just below, nerf it too?

Well.. Its a event, its temporary. Let the guys do whatever they want, I don’t believe this is marked as cheat for Anet. They are simply good enough to make money out of it. If I could be good enough, I would try it too.

The thing is…I can make 12 times more profit farming Deadeye than I can running dungeons with a perfect group (which you rarely get). As a result I have done nothing but farm him for the past 2 days (before that Subject 7) since I feel I’m wasting my time anywhere else in the game. Plus for this I just need to depend on myself without having to wait for people to join up, no diminishing returns etc.

The Deadeye farm is trivializing all other content in the game. It’s fairly obvious why it’s broken and something needs to be done about it. I started yesterday with 151g. Now I have 230g, which is pretty obscene any which way you consider it.

bhagwad.4281:

MauricioCezar.2673:

Er… and why remove this farm? I mean, I’m too weak to farm this way, but I don’t see anything bad on it. A giant mass of people are farming events just below, nerf it too?

Well.. Its a event, its temporary. Let the guys do whatever they want, I don’t believe this is marked as cheat for Anet. They are simply good enough to make money out of it. If I could be good enough, I would try it too.

The thing is…I can make 12 times more profit farming Deadeye than I can running dungeons with a perfect group (which you rarely get). As a result I have done nothing but farm him for the past 2 days (before that Subject 7) since I feel I’m wasting my time anywhere else in the game. Plus for this I just need to depend on myself without having to wait for people to join up, no diminishing returns etc.

The Deadeye farm is trivializing all other content in the game. It’s fairly obvious why it’s broken and something needs to be done about it. I started yesterday with 151g. Now I have 230g, which is pretty obscene any which way you consider it.

You make it sound like you are FORCED to farm kill Deadeye, over and over again. Last I checked you are not forced against your will to do this gauntlet. And if you are not having fun farming this Deadeye gauntlet, then you might find it better to find some other way(s) to make your money, while still enjoying it.

The thing is…I can eat 12 more meals at McDonalds in the time I could cook my own food with a perfect pantry (which rarely happens). As a result I have done nothing but eat McDonalds for the past 2 days (before that Wendy’s) since I feel I’m wasting my time eating anything else. Plus for this I just need to depend on myself without having to wait for ovens to pre-heat, water to boil etc.

McDonalds is trivializing all other food in the world. It’s fairly obvious why I’m fat and something needs to be done about it. I started yesterday at 151 lbs. Now I am 230, which is pretty obscene any which way you consider it.

timgod.9456:

The thing is…I can eat 12 more meals at McDonalds in the time I could cook my own food with a perfect pantry (which rarely happens). As a result I have done nothing but eat McDonalds for the past 2 days (before that Wendy’s) since I feel I’m wasting my time eating anything else. Plus for this I just need to depend on myself without having to wait for ovens to pre-heat, water to boil etc.

McDonalds is trivializing all other food in the world. It’s fairly obvious why I’m fat and something needs to be done about it. I started yesterday at 151 lbs. Now I am 230, which is pretty obscene any which way you consider it.

The difference of course is that more gold always > less gold whereas eating more not always > eating less.

Ergo, false analogy.

timgod.9456:

The thing is…I can eat 12 more meals at McDonalds in the time I could cook my own food with a perfect pantry (which rarely happens). As a result I have done nothing but eat McDonalds for the past 2 days (before that Wendy’s) since I feel I’m wasting my time eating anything else. Plus for this I just need to depend on myself without having to wait for ovens to pre-heat, water to boil etc.

McDonalds is trivializing all other food in the world. It’s fairly obvious why I’m fat and something needs to be done about it. I started yesterday at 151 lbs. Now I am 230, which is pretty obscene any which way you consider it.

You deserve an award for. that is great

A simple solution for people who feel like they have to take the path of least resistance to accumulate as much gold as possible would be to give them all their own server, complete with a separate trading post and everything, and litter Lion’s Arch with boxes that give you 1 gold when picked up. Then they can just run around and watch that number in their inventory go +1, and +1, and +1, and +1….

Just make sure they’re completely segregated from everyone else, though.

Fallout.1798:

bhagwad.4281:

MauricioCezar.2673:

Er… and why remove this farm? I mean, I’m too weak to farm this way, but I don’t see anything bad on it. A giant mass of people are farming events just below, nerf it too?

Well.. Its a event, its temporary. Let the guys do whatever they want, I don’t believe this is marked as cheat for Anet. They are simply good enough to make money out of it. If I could be good enough, I would try it too.

The thing is…I can make 12 times more profit farming Deadeye than I can running dungeons with a perfect group (which you rarely get). As a result I have done nothing but farm him for the past 2 days (before that Subject 7) since I feel I’m wasting my time anywhere else in the game. Plus for this I just need to depend on myself without having to wait for people to join up, no diminishing returns etc.

The Deadeye farm is trivializing all other content in the game. It’s fairly obvious why it’s broken and something needs to be done about it. I started yesterday with 151g. Now I have 230g, which is pretty obscene any which way you consider it.

You make it sound like you are FORCED to farm kill Deadeye, over and over again. Last I checked you are not forced against your will to do this gauntlet. And if you are not having fun farming this Deadeye gauntlet, then you might find it better to find some other way(s) to make your money, while still enjoying it.

It’s like this. Making gold than others is my primary purpose for playing to start with. Gold with which I can buy stuff to show off etc. It’s a bonus if the content is fun – and I admit I’d far rather prefer to play fun stuff rather than boring stuff assuming there’s no big difference in the amount of gold acquired.

If say farming Deadeye was just 10% more effective than running dungeons which I find fun, then there’s no question in my mind which one I would do.

But with the former being 1200% more effective than the latter…it’s a no brainer. Also given the fact that it’s time limited content in its current form means that the optimal solution is to farm it as much as possible while the gravy train lasts. As a rational person looking to maximize profit, I really don’t see another wealth maximizing solution.

Maybe trading on the TP, but it’s not a science and I don’t think it anywhere near as profitable as Deadeye.

You may say that right now there is just one dominant solution in playing the game. The only variance is how fast Deadeye can be killed. I can do him exactly once every minute with 5 gambits earning 60 silver gross or 40 silver profit every sixty seconds. I’ve heard some thief builds can kill him twice in one minute. In which case, that is the dominant solution. There is no other method in the game that gives you so much money so quickly.

Hence killing Deadeye is pretty much the only rational thing to do. But it’s definitely boring and so it’ll be nice if that option was removed so I can go back to dungeons etc. But as long as that avenue exists….it’s a no brainer isn’t it?

bhagwad, you’re blaming arena net for your lack of self control, that’s why the analogy was so great, it just went over your head.

A Massive Headache.1879:

bhagwad, you’re blaming arena net for your lack of self control, that’s why the analogy was so great, it just went over your head.

Self control? Really? Since when does being rational equate to lack of self control?

A Massive Headache.1879:

timgod.9456:

The thing is…I can eat 12 more meals at McDonalds in the time I could cook my own food with a perfect pantry (which rarely happens). As a result I have done nothing but eat McDonalds for the past 2 days (before that Wendy’s) since I feel I’m wasting my time eating anything else. Plus for this I just need to depend on myself without having to wait for ovens to pre-heat, water to boil etc.

McDonalds is trivializing all other food in the world. It’s fairly obvious why I’m fat and something needs to be done about it. I started yesterday at 151 lbs. Now I am 230, which is pretty obscene any which way you consider it.

You deserve an award for. that is great

This.
(15 char sucks)

He’s been somewhat buffed. He now starts off with a head shot without waiting for you to engage. His first teleport was to the middle, where he already was.

Which location is now teleports to is completely random, so it could teleport right next to you, or continuously move back and forth between the room.

Nice of them to put that in the patch notes huh? Only fixed various server fixes…
I don’t mind and welcome changes they do but tell us what you changed. If you nerf something or buff something just say so. Ninja changes I don’t like. :/

He’s head shotting right away and for me he always teleports backwards now.

He’s also been nerfed. His kill shot doesn’t 1 shot. It only did 6k damage, though he uses it more often.

Healix.5819:

He’s also been nerfed. His kill shot doesn’t 1 shot. It only did 6k damage, though he uses it more often.

Kill shot still killing me.

Healix.5819:

He’s also been nerfed. His kill shot doesn’t 1 shot. It only did 6k damage, though he uses it more often.

You clearly arent used the frailty gambit dude , his kill shots are still just that WITH the gambit..a instagibb shot.

I’m a guardian and I can now live from his killshots so idk what to tell you, even with frailty

He sometimes just spams killshots in melee range now. Good job on making the fight all about that sweet RNG. Oh well, at least it stops people from farming him. Oh wait, no, that only applies to certain classes. Does anybody ever playtest this stuff?

The fight is completely unchanged for the guardian method, except that you have to manage F1 and focus 4 smartly. It helps to have accuracy or bloodlust stacks, as well. Still goes down before the first teleport.

Good, this keeps the good people farming it and the kittenty “stand back and wait for him to TP to me” scrubs out.

just a question Broadicea is that a good attitude to have really?

figure it out just fine took me a few attempts thanks for the help. Since they fixed this or changed it slightly I am guess this isn’t an exploit then? There were some unanswered posts about it.

What is everyone’s beef with farming anyone can do it. This crusade against the farmers will end up screwing over people just trying to beat him to get to Liadri where they can die for 3 hours.

Broadicea.8294:

Good, this keeps the good people farming it and the kittenty “stand back and wait for him to TP to me” scrubs out.

But guardians are still farming him with ease.

Fungalfoot.7213:

Broadicea.8294:

Good, this keeps the good people farming it and the kittenty “stand back and wait for him to TP to me” scrubs out.

But guardians are still farming him with ease.

But now you have to actually engage him and the Quaggan instead of sitting in the back waiting for the teleport, saying “tee hee hee he can’t see me because I’m outside of 700 range!” This prevents people from activating Crowd Favorite with absolutely zero extra risk.

Plus, since the reflections no longer do about 15-20K damage to him, you have to bring the pain with more specific builds, gear, and rotation, something that all these scrubblets can’t do well. I have nothing against farmers who are being rewarded for their ingenuity and skill, but people who are simply taking advantage of a broken aggro mechanic shouldn’t be rewarded for that IMO.