End Game & Concerns About It
What’s missing is that you, like far too many players, are seeing everything as a grind that must be ground out. Do you know why ascended gear was added? Because people were demanding grind in a game that wasn’t supposed to be grindy. Why have farming spots been nerfed continuously? Because they weren’t originally intended to be farmed like that.
Set the shiny object as a long term goal and let it come naturally, it happens. Doing content at nearly any level can yield plenty of valuable resources. As for specific ones – it’s usually best not to go out farming them and simply buy them with money earned elsewhere. I know it can be quite expensive, but that’s due to people playing trading post simulator and far too many people falling into the boat of treating the game as one huge grind.
Play for fun, the legendaries will come.
As for Dry Top – yes, that was a great zone and we could use a few more like it, preferably with varying settings.
If you kept your character in Southsun farming (and never left the zone with that character) you were likely continually under Diminishing Returns code. You need to rotate zones and do a few events in each one to avoid it. Changing characters does NOT remove DR.
Also, you could do other content that you liked for gold and just BUY the T6 mats as well, there is NO reason to limit yourself to the same activity for days and weeks on end….you are defining your own induced GRIND like that.
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(edited by Brother Grimm.5176)
After a few more weeks, I reflected on WoW 2004 to 2006. I remember I had options… I remember my first epic mount was 900 gold back in 2004. That was equivalent to this. Endless hours of farming.
The difference was the aesthetic. In WoW I could go out and pick grass, flowers, or farm silk which ACTUALLY DROPPED from CREATURES! What amazing idea!
You have options. Go do dungeons, or fractals, EotM or the world boss train. All of those have the ability to drop T6 mats, whether from mobs or champ boxes. Use the bonus money you earn from that to buy more t6 mats.
I’m not 100% sure if DR has changed any, but traditional farming (like in WoW) just isn’t that effective in GW2.
I’ve honestly not encountered your problem. Did Kudzu maybe eight, ten months ago, and the T6 I grinded out over a couple month just by taking a couple strolls through Orr with two-three alts, starting from Malchor’s Leap and then just wandering around all the way down to Cursed Shore while killing everything that crossed my path. Didn’t even think of it as farming, like I said, those were really just nice relaxing strolls I took while unwinding after classes. Must’ve bought 50-100 T6 total, toward the end when I got impatient. That was it. The rest dropped from mobs, the way you said you wished it worked – and when the drops were T5 then I just hoarded them up and threw em in the forge to promote them and get what I needed.
Currently I’m working on Predator with Inci and Flameseeker on the backburner, taking it even more casually – it’s been what, three or four months since I got the Hunter? I’m just doing my thing, mapping, running a few dungeons when my friends drag me into it, and the T6 is slowly but surely accumulating back again.
Meanwhile, what do I do as my endgame content? I’m working on map completion #7 (it’s relaxing and the game is so pretty I don’t get tired of it), I let my buddies drag me through FotM and Aetherpath, I help newbies learn the ropes, do some sPvP, roll an engie for each race because masterclass!!!, etc etc. Don’t expect to run out of stuff to do for a while yet.
I agree that you were probably hitting Diminishing Returns on a regular basis.
I’ve never kept track of my drops but before I sold most of them to get the precursor I had about 150-200 of each T6 mat from about a year of casual play (2 hours a day or so, if you remove the time I spent on low level characters who can’t get T6 drops), and I’d used some for other things. But I move around between different maps a lot, and I can never be bothered with farming so I don’t think I’ve ever hit DR.
“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”
I agree there is no end game and no Dry top is boring in the end its same old jump and once u pass it you get sick of it we need wow and everquest model in this game