“oh i am casual player , i don’t care farming , SO YOU SHOULDN’T AS WELL” that’s their attitude
Uh…CoF is the casual player’s dream…absurdly easy and fast farming…
why is everyone against the idea/fact of farming CoF1 by other players? how does this affect you? if someone wants to run CoF p1 100 times a day then so what? It is their choice how they wanna play the game and not yours. I personally try to run CoF p1 once a day for the tokens for my future alts…but I really don’t understand all the hatred against CoF farmers…
The main problem is that even with diminishing returns, CoF hands out disproportionately large sums of gold with respect to the time put into it when compared to any other content in the game.
I’m not going to claim to be an economics expert, but all of the additional gold from CoF farming without a relatively equal sink will eventually create economy-wide inflation that hurts everyone. Casual and hardcore alike end up having gold that is worth less than when they started. That is the economic downside of such an easy farm.
The other downside for the overall playerbase is going to make me sound elitist, but I’ll say it anyway. CoF zerker farming is training people to play their characters lazily. Admittedly, there are players who can play glass cannon character builds successfully no matter what content they attempt, but there are many more who do not have that level of skill. There are far too many players who complain that other content is too difficult simply because they can’t approach it as a CoF-type zerker faceroll. I’m hoping that when people have to play other dungeons, they will also have to relearn how to play their characters intelligently.
I’m not averse to farming at all, and I’m not saying I haven’t farmed CoF at times, but CoF has been abused for far too long.
TL;DR: IMO, CoF has created inflation so that everyone’s gold is worth less, as well as a player base with expectations that all content should be a CoF-type faceroll.
No , CoF was once the same as other dungeon ,UNTIL cursed shore nerf and effigy difficulty reduction. Since then more and more people prefer CoF than D.E or other method.
nerfing reward will also cause inflation, by doing this they are reverting economy back to day 1, where supply is even lesser than before.
keep in mind that heavy loot bags farm has been nerfed on malchor’s leap as well.
and for dungeon nerfing , the first and most affected price was molten core/lodestone where you will need it for volcanus/incinerator, and this will further push up the price.
At the cost of pushing down t6 mats, charged lodestones, and every other lodestone. Theoretically, in a perfect economy, all the lodestones should be within, say, 10-20 silver of each other, and t6 mats about 2-10 silver. That would be the result of equal usage of content and perfect loot table balance. But this is not hte case. However, people crying armaggedon to the molten lodestones dont realize people will still start the day with a cof 1, take the gold and whatever loot, then move elsewhere. Old habits die hard and the supply of the molten lodesotnes is way below anything else and the supply is through the roof. whereas certain t6 mats are not stocked enough to even complete legendary.(depending on time of day). No, the change will be slow, but sure, as people let go of CoF zerk runs, because speed wont be the issue, but skill, as a rotation of paths will grant more loot, and, as other paths all are more skill based and less of a facerolling, trash skipping zerkfest, we will probably see(over months) a trend toward more balanced builds and the reduction of zerker gear in price. As I siad though, old habits die kitten
a second note, about the queens gauntlet, a dev posted that it would be hard for a full zerker to live though harder levels and the gambits, and that “every player should have multiple gear sets, and it is pretty cheap to gear an 80. Also, a balanced build is important for all content.” This hints toward harder content that will push away zerk mentality and make other builds more viable as a full zerk will mean instant death to all but the most skilled players, who can get by without any vitality or toughness. Contitions and cc may also become more useful in open world as a result.
FA warrior and mesmer.
