Guild Wars 2

Title is self-explanetory,

ANet introduced Diminishing returns as an anti-botting code, this is HORRIBLE! Right now legendaries run you insane amounts of gold, the only way you can get any decent gold is through farming Lodestones for example, however beacause DR only resets 1x per 24 hours, farming (which players never really enjoy anyways) made things even worse.

This morning I was doing a farm run, and Claw or Jormag was up, unfortunately, only 3 people showed up, including me. So as you can see, it takes a while, litterally 100’s of Icebrood mobs further, we killed Jormag, I went to my Icebrood Colossus spot and swithcing to full MF gear, popped my Banner, omnomberry and 50% MF booster, now sitting at 200 MF roughly I started farming, 1st mob dropped a lodestone, sweet! lucky me, 10 mobs later, no more drops, another 30 mobs later, still not a single drop more, my only guess is; DR activated, great, so now I have to wait till 17:00 PDT for it to be reset! GG ANET!

Here is my suggestion to you at ANet, do as real GM’s do their job!

Remove DR, have 1 active GM or VGM (Volenteer Game Master), this is PER SERVER or per 2-3 servers, the botting locations are well known to all, report and remove Bots, they are easy to spot!, ban them for 1 week or indefinate.

To ensure VGM’s do not accidentally ban actual players that are farming, they can only report, to which a GM comes to that location and talks to the players in the area, If they do not respond within 10 minutes, but are actively farming mobs, and you asked them in multiple channels, whisper and normal and ingame mail, then they are most clearly botting.

This may be more work on your end, but we are paying customers, and it is your job to make sure we get what we paid for, if i feel like farming 1 spot for 3 hours straight, it should not be a problem. DR makes this entire game very PVE unfriendly.

Obly.9243:

Title is self-explanetory,

DR makes this entire game very PVE unfriendly.

Pretty much sums it all up.

PvE isn’t exactly the same as going “chinese gold-farmer mode”. So I wouldn’t compare those two, honestly.

In fact, I think you just shot all the PvE-lovers out there in the balls, without apologising to them afterwards.

Sierra.6352:

PvE isn’t exactly the same as going “chinese gold-farmer mode”. So I wouldn’t compare those two, honestly.

In fact, I think you just shot all the PvE-lovers out there in the balls, without apologising to them afterwards.

How exactly? Play cursed shore events for a day, say 5 hours in a row, you only ecounter risen mobs, ergo you will hit DR for just playing the map as intended. And I am not comparing players with bots, read first.

Bots farm in 1 location for days and days without a break, however actual players might farm for 2-3 hours in a spot and call it a day, or go do events or some pvp. But there are some that are farming towards something and are willing to put in multiple hours of farming, this game simply denies you that option, unless you are willing to constantly stop what you are doing and go do something else to avoid the DR activating.

Problem is there is not really any way to see that you have DR with you, not 100% sure, I could just have had 30 mobs of bad luck, but I seriously doubt that, 30 mobs not 1 drops anything?

Thank you Obly for making this post. I left GW2 3 weeks after launch because of this insane DR system. My reason for not liking it was mainly due to the exp nerf on DE’s which made leveling a character extremely unpleasant for me.

Regardless I am happy you point out it is still going strong so I know not to bother wasting my time with this game anytime soon.