Guild Wars 2

I’m extremely frustrated having finally reached level 80 and begun farming in Orr only to discover that the ‘no competition, everybody gets loot and rewards’ system is anything but.

Veteran and Champion mobs have insane amounts of HP, and while I could kill a Veteran eventually if I stuck to it long enough, in the massive farming groups in Orr they tend to go down very quickly.

I started noticing that I wasn’t getting XP or Loot rights on some mobs, especially Veteran or Champion mobs. I thought okay, maybe I’m not getting a hit in early enough, or doing enough damage.

I’m glass cannon DPS, if I go dagger/dagger and stick to a single Vet mob in a fight, i STILL don’t get exp and loot rights over 50% of the time. There appears to be some sort of ‘minimum damage requirement’ to get rights.

This is completely unfair and RUINS the entire experience that GW2 has created thus far. It forces people to group up, adding to social tension, and makes people become more competitive. Players use heavy AOE and wipe out masses of mobs getting XP and loot before most of the other players in the area even have a chance to tag the mobs.

I can sit on a Veteran or Champion mob and chain backstab it for the entire fight and STILL not get xp or loot.

It’s incredibly frustrating, and it means I either have to forgo fighting the harder mobs entirely (losing my chance at better loot), instead focusing on waves of AoE mobs, or I have to roll the dice and go hard, hard burst into the mob, from 100% till 0, and keep my fingers crossed that I get the loot/xp tag. It rarely happens.

Please, please, PLEASE address this.

Its called the “mob has nothing” syndrome. I’ve soloed Vets I’ve duoed champs and there’s still a chance that none of get loot.

Second this for sure.

RoflandRoll.2810:

Its called the “mob has nothing” syndrome. I’ve soloed Vets I’ve duoed champs and there’s still a chance that none of get loot.

You may have misinterpreted what I said. Lots of mobs don’t have loot, but you always get >XP< if you are properly tagged for the mob.

My complaint is that I am not getting loot OR xp when killing vets/champs. This means I’m not getting tagged for the fight, even though I am attacking it from start to finish.

pabloedvardo.3058:

RoflandRoll.2810:

Its called the “mob has nothing” syndrome. I’ve soloed Vets I’ve duoed champs and there’s still a chance that none of get loot.

You may have misinterpreted what I said. Lots of mobs don’t have loot, but you always get >XP< if you are properly tagged for the mob.

My complaint is that I am not getting loot OR xp when killing vets/champs. This means I’m not getting tagged for the fight, even though I am attacking it from start to finish.

if you’re level 80, you dont get any more xp, because it’s the maximum level.

castlemanic.3198:

if you’re level 80, you dont get any more xp, because it’s the maximum level.

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You can’t be serious…

Bubbles.1047:

castlemanic.3198:

if you’re level 80, you dont get any more xp, because it’s the maximum level.

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You can’t be serious…

Some people should avoid discussing what they know nothing about I think. Anyway the way it was explained to me to get exp/loot you need to do a certain percentage of the damage and large groups make achieving that percentage much more difficult because the damage is spread around between so many people. So the key is to avoid the zerg as much as possible or try to lobby for them to revisit their exp/loot formula.

I imagine you’re following zerg in Strait of Devastation.

I would go in Cursed shore and get in an event farm party if I were you. You’ll get exp and loot that way. Following zerg, especially without party is usually a bad idea.

Or lobby for more expedient bot banning so we the gigantic zergs are less gigantic.