Guild Wars 2

How come?

I tried finding an answer in the patch notes but all I saw was:

Event and champion rewards have been changed.

I knew about the champion bags getting nerfed but was their ever a reason stated for events now only giving the 80 or so copper instead of like almost 2 silver rewarded for completing events (at level 80) prior to this feature patch?

Obviously ANet is concerned about inflation. To be fair in has skyrocketed since the Queen’s Jubilee patch.

What bugs me about this change though is that it essentially removes income from people partaking in the core activity this game has to offer rather than taking it from activities you might want to discourage.

Dark Jericho.8609:

How come?

I tried finding an answer in the patch notes but all I saw was:

Event and champion rewards have been changed.

I knew about the champion bags getting nerfed but was their ever a reason stated for events now only giving the 80 or so copper instead of like almost 2 silver rewarded for completing events (at level 80) prior to this feature patch?

You can thank the Champ trains for this. Nerfing champs to remove incentive to mindlessly zerg them.

They also announced a reduction in event rewards as ‘compensation’ for free armor repairs. Obviously it’s just an attempt to stop the inflation. 80c sounds a little low though, have you been hit by Diminishing Returns by any chance?

well Good luck buying the infinite light

I don’t play for more than 2 hours at a time and when I do, it’s not really spent in the same zone. Like for instance I will jump into the karka shell farm briefly until I finish getting all the gathering nodes they pass by in Southsun which is only 15 mins at the most until I break off after the steampipe steading event where you have to blow up those 4 karka nests, and then I do that golem repair event in the area where all those burrowing wurms are, but nothing that would warrant DR is spring up I would think. I’m probably in Southsun no more than 40 mins (unless I start helping clearing the settlements for karka queen spawn but that’s only another 5 minutes maybe).

After that I hop to the zones that are rich with iron ore nodes and do whatever random events pop up near them usually if it’s part of dailies.

Just seems weird I haven’t seen events reward me silver since the 15th in high level zones, though I guess the repair cost going away would explain the nerf somewhat.

nerfing champ rewards make sense (they didn’t nerf it enough)….nerfing event reward: not so much (they rewarded so little to begin with).

still….the money is in farming mobs in areas that drop bags/gear that yield linen/ rugged leather, and selling the mats…..or mobs that drop t6 mats and selling those (orr/FGS).