Guild Wars 2

So trying to craft some armor for my character, without touching the TP, which obviously means farming 90+ fine crafting ingredients.

My question is this if anybody knows, when the DR hits, is it character based or account based? Like could I have an Alt parked where I’m farming and carry on when I notice i’m not longer getting the things I need?

Not that I entirely mind moving to a different area to farm something different, but if i can avoid waypoint costs i’m all for it.

DR is account bound. It has pretty much been confirmed at this point, at least according to most of the people who have experienced it. I’d take it with a grain of salt mind you, as ANet hasn’t actually given much info on it quite yet.

If you want to farm things, then it’s best to break it up between other activities or take a break between farming clusters.

This change most likely came from people farming on one character, switching to an alt and then farming the same place with the alt.

I’m not sure if changing areas resets DR though cause it seems that lately people have been reporting it hasn’t. So, if you are hitting DR, running a dungeon or something might be a decent idea or go working on some world completion.

Anyway, another thing to keep in mind exphryl is that there are other ways of getting tier 6 materials, such as through the mystic clover recipe. If you want to do it without hitting the TP that’s fine, however I don’t believe the game was designed with that in mind so you’ll have to really be patient.

Also Blazin, the snide remark towards ANet wasn’t really needed. Let’s avoid things that start attacks, flames, etc.

I like to farm my own mats too! I like to be self-sufficient and get the whole experience of whatever task I set out to do. That said, the DR does make it painful to get specific mats without buying them.

To answer your question, I have two chars (one 80 one 67). The other day I was progressing through my 67’s story line, and subsequently got A LOT of drops. I decided to let that character “cooldown” and hop on my lvl 80 that I have parked in a spot I like to farm for tier 5 mats. I’ve done this practice many times while leveling my alt, but yesterday I noticed that the drops on my 80 when farming were WAY below what I averaged there in the past.

This leads me to believe that the DR has been changed from “soulbound” to account bound. Much more testing needs to be done to confirm this though. (OR ANET COULD TALK TO US)