Guild Wars 2

As title states – As it is considered end-game to farm for a legendary, it requires such a ridiculous amount of materials that I don’t see why I should be punished if I want to stay in one area more than 20 minutes to 30 minutes. I’ve found a few really nice areas with high spawn rates and good variance of drops and it’s a lot of fun (for about 20-30 minutes) then I sit there for 30 minutes more and get mostly gray items? No thanks.

Anti-botting techniques should not have a direct negative effect on player gaming experience. There’s no reason that botters won’t figure out a way to configure them to move to point X for 20 minutes -> point Y for 20 minutes -> point Z for 20 minutes. If you think otherwise, you are wrong and haven’t seen the capabilities that bots can actually have.

Remove this game function as it’s causing me and I’m sure a lot of other people to become very irate with the concept that you need to farm for ‘end-game’ content but get punished for doing so.

Oh and in before – “Anet wants you to run around and do the DE’s and get a large variety of loot and to experience Orr!” and my response to that is that no, not everyone should have to play into one play style to not get punished by crazy in game (hidden) debuffs. GW2 should support all sorts of different strategies to getting loot effectively.

I agree, you should not have to “work around” anti botting.

If Areanet allows bottign then game will be full of bot farmers doing nothing but collecting materials and selling them with high price.
That is not what i want see in this game when theres every where botters farming all the time and not help doing events.
And worst of all there will be lots of gold sellers if they allow bot farming.

UNDEAD.6108:

If Areanet allows bottign then game will be full of bot farmers doing nothing but collecting materials and selling them with high price.
That is not what i want see in this game when theres every where botters farming all the time and not help doing events.
And worst of all there will be lots of gold sellers if they allow bot farming.

Removing anti-botting code would not promote botting. They need to develop a way to catch botters that doesn’t hurt players that actually take their time to go out and farm mats. If im spending my own time doing the most boring thing ever (grinding) then they shouldn’t make it worse on me because someone else could abuse the system.

First simple fix is to not accept input from anything other than a hardware keyboard. Sure that still leaves people with keyboards with macro buttons and such, but I paid for this MMO keyboardkitten let me use it. I can’t even think of a way other than spamming autoattack that I could use this to farm anyway. Maybe limit the amount of auto attacks you can do without moving?

Woah, did you even read my post? By no means does it state that I want botting to be allowed, I don’t even see where that would even hint at that?

You may not understand the mechanic that I’m talking about, so let me explain. Exact details are unknown, but people at level 80 are starting to figure out more and more details of the coding in place that prevents ‘farming’. What happens is that when you kill a certain type of monster, it can drop a certain threshold of loot before you get put on a timer that basically makes your character get really junky loots for X period of time. The time it takes for you to get put on that junk loot timer is ~20 to 30 minutes of killing similar types of mobs.

Now, the reason for this coding is to prevent bots from farming in 1 area with simple programming and them just attacking mobs that spawn around them. However, with every game comes bots and every game has different techniques to counteract botting – however from what I’ve seen, doesn’t have a direct impact on real characters playing the game. As a real player, I want to be able to farm and if I see a bot, I’d like to report them so a GM can investigate that player and determine if they should be banned or not. I don’t want coding in the game that just says, yep you can’t farm in a place for more than 20 minutes! I hope that clarifies things, I do not approve of botting.