Can We Remove Event DR?
I encountered that yesterday as well. Severely disappointing.
This was likely done because of the excessive zerging in Queensdale. You could gain levels fairly quickly.
I’m pretty sure this is broken and will sometimes kick in when it shouldn’t. For example I’ve shown up to do the events to open the temple of Grenth, got some low number (one-hundred-and-something) in karma for defending the cannon before we set off (gold contribution btw), and then Jones got killed by invisible spiders. Went back, repeated the cannon event (gold again), and got over 300 karma for it.
Had the same thing happen ages ago when opening CoF. In fact it was the first time I’d ever been to that area, so it was surprising when I got gold contribution and 100-something karma, especially since someone with me got around 300. Sure enough though, the next sections awarded me the 300-ish amount he was getting. Seems a bit backwards for ‘diminishing’ returns.
This was likely done because of the excessive zerging in Queensdale. You could gain levels fairly quickly.
Uh.. no. DR has been in the game for a long time, and it is supposed to combat against bots, but as per usual, it hurts actual players a lot more.
This was likely done because of the excessive zerging in Queensdale. You could gain levels fairly quickly.
Uh.. no. DR has been in the game for a long time, and it is supposed to combat against bots, but as per usual, it hurts actual players a lot more.
DR never affected dynamic event karma and exp before so no it never existed except for drops. If it existed before then people would not have been farming the boss events in Queensdale to level toons.
This was likely done because of the excessive zerging in Queensdale. You could gain levels fairly quickly.
Uh.. no. DR has been in the game for a long time, and it is supposed to combat against bots, but as per usual, it hurts actual players a lot more.
DR never affected dynamic event karma and exp before so no it never existed except for drops. If it existed before then people would not have been farming the boss events in Queensdale to level toons.
It was implemented in October of last year to combat the Plinx farmers. The threshold was set that you only really hit it when zerging events in Orr. This is the first time since they nerfed those events that you can hit enough events to hit it again.
I have not experienced any loss in exp/money/karma from the portal events. I’m actually doing the events though, from start to finish, not just tagging and running to the next. The DE DR doesn’t kick in that quickly for it to effect you if you are doing these normally, unless you’ve already been in the zone for a while farming something else.
I have apparently hit a different kind of DR, maybe. After doing like 8 invasions today I just got a single piece of scrap as a fail reward for one, failing worse in the past has provided me with a choice of 40 scrap or 4 boxes along with the other money/exp/karma/item rewards. I got nothing but a single piece of scrap though, and I participated plenty. Not sure if it glitched or if you do so many invasions in one day they stop giving rewards.
This was likely done because of the excessive zerging in Queensdale. You could gain levels fairly quickly.
Uh.. no. DR has been in the game for a long time, and it is supposed to combat against bots, but as per usual, it hurts actual players a lot more.
DR never affected dynamic event karma and exp before so no it never existed except for drops. If it existed before then people would not have been farming the boss events in Queensdale to level toons.
It was implemented in October of last year to combat the Plinx farmers. The threshold was set that you only really hit it when zerging events in Orr. This is the first time since they nerfed those events that you can hit enough events to hit it again.
Again, I’m referring to EXP/Karma from dynamic events; NOT loot drops.
This was likely done because of the excessive zerging in Queensdale. You could gain levels fairly quickly.
Uh.. no. DR has been in the game for a long time, and it is supposed to combat against bots, but as per usual, it hurts actual players a lot more.
DR never affected dynamic event karma and exp before so no it never existed except for drops. If it existed before then people would not have been farming the boss events in Queensdale to level toons.
It has affected rewards from events since it was put in the game many many months ago.
I have not experienced any loss in exp/money/karma from the portal events. I’m actually doing the events though, from start to finish, not just tagging and running to the next. The DE DR doesn’t kick in that quickly for it to effect you if you are doing these normally, unless you’ve already been in the zone for a while farming something else.
I have apparently hit a different kind of DR, maybe. After doing like 8 invasions today I just got a single piece of scrap as a fail reward for one, failing worse in the past has provided me with a choice of 40 scrap or 4 boxes along with the other money/exp/karma/item rewards. I got nothing but a single piece of scrap though, and I participated plenty. Not sure if it glitched or if you do so many invasions in one day they stop giving rewards.
Awful lot of assumptions on your part and all of them wrong. I was playing regularly and got hit with it in both Frostgorge and Gendarren Fields. I don’t just run through and “tag” stuff then move onto the next. I stay for the duration of the events.
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This was likely done because of the excessive zerging in Queensdale. You could gain levels fairly quickly.
Uh.. no. DR has been in the game for a long time, and it is supposed to combat against bots, but as per usual, it hurts actual players a lot more.
DR never affected dynamic event karma and exp before so no it never existed except for drops. If it existed before then people would not have been farming the boss events in Queensdale to level toons.
It was implemented in October of last year to combat the Plinx farmers. The threshold was set that you only really hit it when zerging events in Orr. This is the first time since they nerfed those events that you can hit enough events to hit it again.
I hit it several times when leveling my Necro in the Zephyr Sanctum with the interactable artifacts that spawned Vets/Champs. I’d just run them through in order all the way to the Imp and then jump back to start Ooze again. Had no downtime solo or with under 5 people, and after like one lap I could already feel some DR. By the third lap I was getting like 3% of my exp bar. He’d be 80 already if not for that dumb thing
I have not experienced any loss in exp/money/karma from the portal events. I’m actually doing the events though, from start to finish, not just tagging and running to the next. The DE DR doesn’t kick in that quickly for it to effect you if you are doing these normally, unless you’ve already been in the zone for a while farming something else.
I have apparently hit a different kind of DR, maybe. After doing like 8 invasions today I just got a single piece of scrap as a fail reward for one, failing worse in the past has provided me with a choice of 40 scrap or 4 boxes along with the other money/exp/karma/item rewards. I got nothing but a single piece of scrap though, and I participated plenty. Not sure if it glitched or if you do so many invasions in one day they stop giving rewards.
I had this happen also, as it turns out the rewards for invasion completion are once per zone per day. So if you have already done that zone today all you will receive is DE rewards and drops plus one scrap.
This was likely done because of the excessive zerging in Queensdale. You could gain levels fairly quickly.
Uh.. no. DR has been in the game for a long time, and it is supposed to combat against bots, but as per usual, it hurts actual players a lot more.
DR never affected dynamic event karma and exp before so no it never existed except for drops. If it existed before then people would not have been farming the boss events in Queensdale to level toons.
It was implemented in October of last year to combat the Plinx farmers. The threshold was set that you only really hit it when zerging events in Orr. This is the first time since they nerfed those events that you can hit enough events to hit it again.
Again, I’m referring to EXP/Karma from dynamic events; NOT loot drops.
It has definitely affected EXP and Karma from Dynamic Events. I’m going to assume you were not around when Cursed Shore was actually packed with players farming events before nerfs.
Yesterday I was doing quite a lot of the events to complete the accomplishment and was not paying attention to the DR on XP and Karma. Log on today, did some quests arround the place and WvW, no problem. Went on to my character that was doing the clockwork events yesterday, and immediately noticed the radical drop in karma, ie 7 karma per gold event.
Here is a tip, if you want to clean somewhat your DR, go do events on another map, obviously after the clockwork has ended. It did not clean it completely for me after doing four events in Blazerridge Steps for daily, but it did go up, ie from 7 karma to 270 karma.
Even so, having DR last eighteen hours overnight is a bit of overkill in my opinion, when it is a requirement of the clockwork accomplishments to do them in the first place.
yeah do something against this stupid champ farm. I was part of 8 invasions now(thanks that we need to take part in them to gt back into the content of last patch…) and were able to only finish 4 of them. the other 4 were with a big part of kitteners who only farmed pirates the whole time and thus the event failed.
Yesterday I was doing quite a lot of the events to complete the accomplishment and was not paying attention to the DR on XP and Karma. Log on today, did some quests arround the place and WvW, no problem. Went on to my character that was doing the clockwork events yesterday, and immediately noticed the radical drop in karma, ie 7 karma per gold event.
Here is a tip, if you want to clean somewhat your DR, go do events on another map, obviously after the clockwork has ended. It did not clean it completely for me after doing four events in Blazerridge Steps for daily, but it did go up, ie from 7 karma to 270 karma.
Even so, having DR last eighteen hours overnight is a bit of overkill in my opinion, when it is a requirement of the clockwork accomplishments to do them in the first place.
You can just go Akitten-game for I believe an hour (it might be thirty minutes?) and it will reset the DR until you start “farming” too fast.