Does Diminishing returns really happen ?
If you finish many events in a short amount of time within one area, then the rewards get lowered.
For events I’ve only ran into that from running the same event over and over (escorting the red pack bull in silverwastes) with nothing in between or had one character that did shatterer across multiple days but didn’t do anything else.
If you are going around doing different events around the map there shouldn’t be any problem.
DR does happen, and it’s most (objectively) noticeable in terms of event rewards. When you get hit by DR, you’ll see the normal amount of karma, exp and gold start dropping away.
Apparently DR is reset on daily reset, but I’ve heard that jumping into another area and doing a few events there also resets DR as well. If in doubt, change up your routine for a little bit and jump back in and see if you’re still being affected.
Wonder why does it even exists…
It really doesn’t do much to bots – just adds in a bit more complexity having them switch maps and so on…
DR absolutely exists. It’s very noticeable as far as events are concerned, especially on the newer maps where there are constantly events going. I seem to hit event DR in 10-20 minutes in all of the Heart of Thorns maps and in the Silverwastes/Dry Top. This wouldn’t be so bad if the penalty wasn’t so high but it’s quite severe.
I go from about 18.8K experience per gold event completion to about 4K experience per gold event completion. I’ve actually seen it go as low as 2K before. In the Silverwastes and other newer areas, I hit this barrier extremely quickly just by playing on the map and doing what I’m supposed to be doing in said map (i.e., completing events and working towards the meta event).
Visiting new maps doesn’t usually reset this problem for me either. If I play in the Silverwastes for about an hour (I would have hit DR after 10-20 minutes) and then head to Verdant Brink, the same harsh penalties remain in effect.
It’s completely ridiculous to hit us so hard with that when the main point of all of the new maps is to take part in lots of events. The focus of open world content is on completing events and we’re punished for doing exactly that. It’s absurd to be doing level 80 events, being required to obtain millions of experience to train masteries (not everyone enjoys killing enemies in a certain dungeon for hours at a time to progress), and then only getting 2-4K experience per event. I find this to be extremely frustrating and counterintuitive.
(edited by Zedd.8239)