Holy Grind Wars 2!
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Vini, Vidi, Vici, Viridis…I came, I saw, I conquered…I got a green??
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Apologies to those who may find my posts on GW2 forums offensive and hateful.
(edited by Khal Drogo.9631)
Apologies to those who may find my posts on GW2 forums offensive and hateful.
Apologies to those who may find my posts on GW2 forums offensive and hateful.
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Sorry but you’re wrong. Just because I used a word, doesn’t mean I actually farm. What I do mean by this is that when I’m running an event with lots of people, I get lots of drops.
Now you can say that’s farming if you want…such as running the zone wide events that pop up, but I’m not actually running those events TO farm. I’m running those events because I find them fun.
Some people understand this sort of thing and some don’t.
My comment was that someone said you have to be on X character to farm. I get plenty of drops and kill plenty of stuff on my necro.
Why do I play my necro. Because it’s fun. Why do I do zone events, because I like them. They remind me of the only thing I liked about Rift.
It’s farming, without actually attempting to accumulate materials. I just do what I want, when I want.
You enjoy farming, but don’t want to call it that because of the negative connotation attached to that word.
Events with lots of people, hmm. I, too, have been on champ farming trains to get lots of loot.
Sorry but you’re wrong. Just because I used a word, doesn’t mean I actually farm. What I do mean by this is that when I’m running an event with lots of people, I get lots of drops.
Now you can say that’s farming if you want…such as running the zone wide events that pop up, but I’m not actually running those events TO farm. I’m running those events because I find them fun.
Some people understand this sort of thing and some don’t.
My comment was that someone said you have to be on X character to farm. I get plenty of drops and kill plenty of stuff on my necro.
Why do I play my necro. Because it’s fun. Why do I do zone events, because I like them. They remind me of the only thing I liked about Rift.
It’s farming, without actually attempting to accumulate materials. I just do what I want, when I want.
You enjoy farming, but don’t want to call it that because of the negative connotation attached to that word.
Events with lots of people, hmm. I, too, have been on champ farming trains to get lots of loot.
Yes I do that if I want G occasionally for an hr, but if you spend time on that, you are not spending the time to get ascended mats. Which is the point I was trying to make which is not a competition like Vayne said.
No longer a casual friendly game. As I mentioned before in another thread, I did my fair share of grinding before for a few grindy exos and 1 legendary while using AP and karma money to fund my second legendary. But they number less than 10 and this extra grind requires 50+ not including ascended armor which is to follow.
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I’m a casual player who plays a lot of hours, but I never grind. I just do what I think is fun, when I think it’s fun. Somehow, I get achievements, gold and karma…without grinding. I don’t know how. I just play the game.
I always found this post rather suspect.
I do fine farming on my necro.
Ah, there we go. You do actually grind for materials.
Not that it wasn’t obvious before, but thank you for the open admission.
You know he said he didnt grind AT ALL….for his 2 legendaries
Colin Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by level 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on an equal power base.”
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on an equal power base.”
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It’s farming, without actually attempting to accumulate materials.
Sorry, mate, but I actually did laugh out loud at this one. Have you ever debated what the definition of “is” is?
I think you just like to argue, is all.
:PWhat vayne means is that of the intention he has while attempting those dynamic events. He does these dynamic activities because he enjoys it..not to actually get the materials from the events. Hence other people feel that it is farming, but he doesn’t feel so.
Of course not everyone gets it…
Oh I get it. I also think he just tries too hard to justify too much, and winds up saying the occasional silly thing (as a few folks have pointed out here).
If ArenaNet aren’t paying him, they should be.
Vayne, send ’em a bill
while spending 2 hours doing nothing but mining iron and empyreals tonight … that feel of massive grind hit me pretty hard. Hope it goes away… but when I look at the amounts need just for … say Deld & Spiritwood … I realy have to ask…. WHY? WHY so many of these lower level mats needed? That’s not gonna get people to play together. Not if they’re spending all their time chasing this junk which pretty much requires you to solo in a really super “FOREVER ALONE” fashion…
It’s really doing the opposite of what it should have done. Just feels like a kneejerk reactions to their huge mistakes on allowing inflation to get so bad in the first place
Noooo, you need just 450 mithril ingots or 550 planks and hundred(s) or so of other stuff, you get that by just logging in for 10 minutes/day to craft apparently
Still, IF they want to enforce this, stats on ascended should be interchangable like legendaries, ok, its a grind to level up 3 weapon crafting skills, its a grind to get just 1 weapon, let alone all weapons you need for various characters/builds but it would at least be done when you finally do.
And yes, a bit more firmer standpoint of no more tiers.
Colin Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by level 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on an equal power base.”
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on an equal power base.”
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Your hate of repetition, has nothing to do with the definition of the word farming.
Farming is repetition. You can’t farm without repetition. What are you trying to prove? It’s like you’re grasping, or just arguing for the sake of arguing.
You like GW2. It’s the best game for you. Others don’t, and you arguing technical nuances not only misses the point, it’s not going to convert anyone. Changing how you precisely define something doesn’t make it suck any less.
This is starting to sound very silly.
It’s not silly. You’re just looking at this from a narrow and selective point of view.
What in ANY MMO is not repetitive? Combat? Check. Drops? Check.
Everything you kill in an MMO gives you a drop. If you kill stuff you get drops. Simple logic. Therefore, everything you do could be considered farming…but it’s not. Because farming is a very specific activity. It’s done with intent.
If I stand in one place and kill something, because I’m trying to get drops then I’m farming.
The only thing I could be accused of farming is achievement points. I like achievements and I go for them. As an end result, I often get drops, but I’m not going for the drops.
I can’t think of any game in ANY genre that doesn’t have repetitive play. Pinball machines have repetitive play…but I’m not farming when I play pinball. Baseball have repetitive play. But I’m not farming when I’m playing baseball.
Chess has repetitive play. The game itself is repetitive. You seem similar opening and similar end games all the time….but not one says chess is farming.
The only games that may not have repetitive play are sand box games, like mine craft…and even that can be considered repetitive, since you’re just gathering and building.
There’s no game that doesn’t have repetitive play.
So what is farming, exactly? It’s doing something repetitive with the intention of getting a specific reward. You farm mats. You farm karma. You farm rep (in other games). That’s farming.
Playing the game, repetitive or not, isn’t farming… because the focus isn’t on what you’re gathering it’s on something else.
Otherwise, you could say that Babe Ruth farmed runs.
But Ruth here intentionally did runs to get a reward, so by your own definition he farmed those
Colin Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by level 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on an equal power base.”
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on an equal power base.”
Your hate of repetition, has nothing to do with the definition of the word farming.
Farming is repetition. You can’t farm without repetition. What are you trying to prove? It’s like you’re grasping, or just arguing for the sake of arguing.
You like GW2. It’s the best game for you. Others don’t, and you arguing technical nuances not only misses the point, it’s not going to convert anyone. Changing how you precisely define something doesn’t make it suck any less.
This is starting to sound very silly.
It’s not silly. You’re just looking at this from a narrow and selective point of view.
What in ANY MMO is not repetitive? Combat? Check. Drops? Check.
Everything you kill in an MMO gives you a drop. If you kill stuff you get drops. Simple logic. Therefore, everything you do could be considered farming…but it’s not. Because farming is a very specific activity. It’s done with intent.
If I stand in one place and kill something, because I’m trying to get drops then I’m farming.
The only thing I could be accused of farming is achievement points. I like achievements and I go for them. As an end result, I often get drops, but I’m not going for the drops.
I can’t think of any game in ANY genre that doesn’t have repetitive play. Pinball machines have repetitive play…but I’m not farming when I play pinball. Baseball have repetitive play. But I’m not farming when I’m playing baseball.
Chess has repetitive play. The game itself is repetitive. You seem similar opening and similar end games all the time….but not one says chess is farming.
The only games that may not have repetitive play are sand box games, like mine craft…and even that can be considered repetitive, since you’re just gathering and building.
There’s no game that doesn’t have repetitive play.
So what is farming, exactly? It’s doing something repetitive with the intention of getting a specific reward. You farm mats. You farm karma. You farm rep (in other games). That’s farming.
Playing the game, repetitive or not, isn’t farming… because the focus isn’t on what you’re gathering it’s on something else.
Otherwise, you could say that Babe Ruth farmed runs.
But Ruth here intentionally did runs to get a reward, so by your own definition he farmed those
I don’t think Ruth farmed runs to get rewards. I think that Ruth hit home runs to help his team win. His focus was on the team and winning. He might have, by that definition, farmed wins, but runs were a by product of trying to win.
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