Guild Wars 2

I would really appreciate feedback on what and WHEN you will be doing something about the DR you placed on Orichalcum nodes.

You stated that it was put in place because of people switching servers and abusing overflow servers to farm them. So why penalize the legit people doing it that have NEVER switched a server or been in an overflow on their server in Orr? Put a no gather restriction on any character that has switched servers for 24 hours … problem solved.

Before the white knights show up … this isn’t a timer issue. I have 4 level 80 characters and it is account based not character based. I have had the nodes broken by the time I get to my third character before so it is obviously being limited per account not just by the clock.

Perhaps it is to stop people with 4+ level 80s from farming ore ?

Melphina.9035:

Perhaps it is to stop people with 4+ level 80s from farming ore ?

And what purpose does that serve? They do not want us camping DEs yet there is an obvious need for gold in the game. Farming ore is somehow bad? lol there isn’t much of a profit margin courtesy of how much it costs for waypoints.

Perhaps, they should limit us to one character slot too? Try again Knight.

Your answer is probably in the alt statement. It seems Anet/whoever assumes you should be able to farm the nodes once per 5 hours per player. Once you, one way or the other, go over that “limit”, you get hit with the DR.

leprekan

And what purpose does that serve? They do not want us camping DEs yet there is an obvious need for gold in the game. Farming ore is somehow bad? lol there isn’t much of a profit margin courtesy of how much it costs for waypoints.

Each node can yield around 10s. You can get 1g from a single mining trip. Seems worth it, even assuming you use waypoints.

As to what purpose that might serve, seems pretty obvious. To make the T6 mats rare and hard(er) to obtain. The fact that locations get randomized already hints at that.

While normally I don’t approve of farming, I don’t think this would count as it.

If a player put in the effort of leveling more than 1 toon to 80 I believe he/she should be rewarded by allowing him/her to gather the mats with each of them.

I mean if a company makes games and people take the time to do the content from beginning to end more than once… wouldn’t that speak well of the game??? Pretty sure Anet would be proud about it.

I think Anet put this (*1) not to stop regular players from doing it but to stop bots that teleport around them (also the reason for the diff locations), while not a elegant or fair solution sometimes fixes like these have to be in place even if it hurts the innocent. For an example of this see anywhere in the world, where, sometimes, —-—- happens and you have to learn to live with it.

(*1) I have only 1 level 80

leprekan.7248:

I would really appreciate feedback on what and WHEN you will be doing something about the DR you placed on Orichalcum nodes.

You stated that it was put in place because of people switching servers and abusing overflow servers to farm them. So why penalize the legit people doing it that have NEVER switched a server or been in an overflow on their server in Orr? Put a no gather restriction on any character that has switched servers for 24 hours … problem solved.

Before the white knights show up … this isn’t a timer issue. I have 4 level 80 characters and it is account based not character based. I have had the nodes broken by the time I get to my third character before so it is obviously being limited per account not just by the clock.

Can I get a quote or link to where they state this?

the game is a real economy. its supply and demand. less Ori ore is around the more your’s is worth. The more they crack down farming the more resources are worth. If you got what you wanted and could farm ore like this then everyone would do it.

Then your ore would be worth less. You would be doing more work for less money. Scarcity of resources and all that.

Anet doesn’t want people doing one thing over and over to offer the best return, at least thats what I believe all this DR stuff is about.