Guild Wars 2

I think there should be some sort of indicator that lets a player know when the diminishing return for farming is active on them. It could be anything from a debuff (-X% Magic Find or whatnot) to an in-game message like the ones GW1 did to tell you you’ve been playing too long. It’d be really helpful if I could know whether I’m just having bad luck or if I’ve triggered the DR and should go do something else.

… But that would defeat half the purpose of having it.

If you knew exactly when the DR starts, then you would stop playing. The only time when this wouldn’t happen would be with bots. And that’s something you can deal with elsewhere.

And even if they did let you know it, the next thing people would want is a duration for it. And that, let’s be honest, would totally make it useless as anything but a paper thin anti-bot mechanism.

By ‘do something else’ I meant ‘run a dungeon or change zones’. My understanding is that the DR applies on a per-zone basis.

Edit: I realize bots are an annoyance but they are a small minority compared to players who try to farm genuinely. It doesn’t seem fair that to deal with bots, ANet is creating a situation where they are effectively wasting their players’ time.