Guild Wars 2

I don’t quite appreciate having each scrap go for 5-6s at the TP.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Linen_Scrap

you can farm linen from bags and scrap in iron marches. there is a quest where charr will attack a bridge. Its before the fire shaman meta. The more player there the higher the event will scale.

you can average about 40-60 linen scraps. in about 30 min.

however do this at your risk as there are rumors that Anet will ban you. I personally think the wont but who know….

Mustafa.7684:

you can farm linen from bags and scrap in iron marches. there is a quest where charr will attack a bridge. Its before the fire shaman meta. The more player there the higher the event will scale.

you can average about 40-60 linen scraps. in about 30 min.

however do this at your risk as there are rumors that Anet will ban you. I personally think the wont but who know….

What’s with all the “rumors” about anet banning players for farming something in game? Seriously, are you saying now we can’t play the game and i should first check the forums, before i join some event in open world? Don’t believe this nonsense.

Why would they ban someone from just playing the game? There’s nothing wrong with “farming” as long as you don’t hinder other players in doing so. Much of the game is based around the idea of farming materials.

I heard that they ban when people purposefully fail the events but I could be wrong.

There was a bug with the event people were exploiting. Pretty sure it’s fixed now as I’ve not seen anything unusual there.

They most likely banned some people that used macro’s while farming
I find it hard to believe they would ban for just farming or failing an event.

Martrim.1078:

They most likely banned some people that used macro’s while farming
I find it hard to believe they would ban for just farming or failing an event.

They do. If in case that an event fails but mobs still generate, then deliberately failing that event to keep farming the mobs is considered an exploit and users can get banned for this.

yksdoris.2194:

Martrim.1078:

They most likely banned some people that used macro’s while farming
I find it hard to believe they would ban for just farming or failing an event.

They do. If in case that an event fails but mobs still generate, then deliberately failing that event to keep farming the mobs is considered an exploit and users can get banned for this.

I’ve heard the same thing but I do not consider this true unless an Anet official says it is so. IMO there seems nothing wrong in failing an event on purpose.

serialkicker.5274:

Mustafa.7684:

you can farm linen from bags and scrap in iron marches. there is a quest where charr will attack a bridge. Its before the fire shaman meta. The more player there the higher the event will scale.

you can average about 40-60 linen scraps. in about 30 min.

however do this at your risk as there are rumors that Anet will ban you. I personally think the wont but who know….

What’s with all the “rumors” about anet banning players for farming something in game? Seriously, are you saying now we can’t play the game and i should first check the forums, before i join some event in open world? Don’t believe this nonsense.

There is a difference between farming mobs and farming mobs using an exploit.

(before I get infracted, I’m not implying people are using exploits here but this is the reason why farming/bans often get lumped together)

I believe, in the Iron Marches case, there was an event that would endlessly instaspawn mobs if you didn’t complete it. Unlike every other infinite spawn event in the game, the mobs that endlessly instaspawned dropped loot.

That’s my understanding, anyway. When I heard about it, I avoided it entirely because exploit.

Vol.7601:

serialkicker.5274:

Mustafa.7684:

you can farm linen from bags and scrap in iron marches. there is a quest where charr will attack a bridge. Its before the fire shaman meta. The more player there the higher the event will scale.

you can average about 40-60 linen scraps. in about 30 min.

however do this at your risk as there are rumors that Anet will ban you. I personally think the wont but who know….

What’s with all the “rumors” about anet banning players for farming something in game? Seriously, are you saying now we can’t play the game and i should first check the forums, before i join some event in open world? Don’t believe this nonsense.

There is a difference between farming mobs and farming mobs using an exploit.

(before I get infracted, I’m not implying people are using exploits here but this is the reason why farming/bans often get lumped together)

Thats the problem… people don’t know what is an exploit and what is not. Many think that prolonging a quest is an exploit (i personally do not) however others do. Every quest can be completed as they are attended. However glitching certain aspect of a quest can be an exploit. Many of these farms are the first one where we can prolong the quest.

The problem is that there are not definite answer to this as anet doesn’t want to be clear about it. Also another reason why Anet bans players are because people are using bots at farms (their reason why lyssa farm was nerfed). This can easily be avoidable. Anet has implemented certain fail safes on events so they are not repeated at a quick pace, if they believe its a exploit then fix the events. Dont ban people because they outsmart Anet.

Mustafa.7684:

Dont ban people because they outsmart Anet.

If you are attempting to OUTSMART the game developer, that is, by definition, trying to exploit the game.

timmyf.1490:

Mustafa.7684:

Dont ban people because they outsmart Anet.

If you are attempting to OUTSMART the game developer, that is, by definition, trying to exploit the game.

how so.. if i can create certain build on my character that provide me way higher DPS or healing power or what ever then i can… How many times have they nerf characters traits, or events or anything because they never expected the players to OUTSMART them.

Mustafa.7684:

timmyf.1490:

Mustafa.7684:

Dont ban people because they outsmart Anet.

If you are attempting to OUTSMART the game developer, that is, by definition, trying to exploit the game.

how so.. if i can create certain build on my character that provide me way higher DPS or healing power or what ever then i can… How many times have they nerf characters traits, or events or anything because they never expected the players to OUTSMART them.

If you can’t see the difference, I’m not sure I can help you.

how can i see the difference when you have no evidence to show em…

however to answer your questions, trying to outsmart the anet on exploit a a event is wrong… but prolonging a quest is not as we are not doing something that was not intended. the mechanic of the event is to defend object A, however if i refuse to heal object A, i shouldnt be able to get banned because i want to kill the mobs and move on