Guild Wars 2

I ran into a strange issue today, perhaps it’s just a bug. There was a world even that seemed to be bugged we kept killing hordes of mobs and they just kept coming. Was an event in the last orr zone some NPCs were trying to build a cannon but they never got anywhere.

Kept killing the undeads for I don’t know 15-20 minutes, after a while I noticed no loot dropping anymore. (someone else experienced the same thing) Thought it was perhaps bad luck or something. Left the area and kept killing mobs in another part of the zone, still after killing 50 mobs or so I had not gotten a single drop, not even grey junk.

Seems there is a cap for how many items you can get in a certain amount of time, either that or my character experienced some strange bug. If a “feature” it kinda sucks, makes magic find gear rather useless, you’ll just hit the “item cap” faster. (if there is a cap, would be rather lame)

Anti-farming code. Saves us from botters farming all day, every day. GW1 had it too. Sorry bud, it’s a feature.

IIRC, in Guild Wars there was a mechanic like this to prevent bots from farming just one area for hours at a time.

If we have something similar in GW2, I can’t say I like it. If I want to sit in one zone for hours on end just killing monsters I shouldn’t be punished with no drops at all.

If you’re still in the zone, try going to a different one (outside of Orr) and see if you start getting drops again. Then go back and see if it resets.

That is lame. I remember in SWTOR killing the same champ over and over again and after three times it didn’t even drop anything (was hoping for a blaster). Just another one of those “WHAT!?” moments, like finding out that mobs are magically invulnerable if they can’t reach you. These games have all sorts of lame features that we’d code out if they were single player.

Started getting items again after an hour or so (of leaving the event), didn’t try to leave the zone. So don’t know if that would have helped.

But I guess it’s true then, there is a cap how many items you can find in a certain time period. I guess I can’t kill mobs fast enough to run into it while solo at least. Group farming mobs or chain doing events and you’ll get no items.