Guild Wars 2

But here’s the mathematical breakdown:

I do an event in a “noobie” area – metrica province:

3,675 exp. 243 Karma. 1s 20c.

I do an event in Orr. Reward: 17, 780 experience, 378 karma and 1s 86c.

It seems like a small difference on paper, but it’s actually huge, and more than enough to make me choose Orr, even though I dislike the zone.

Keep in mind, this all based on the assumption that any DE take approximately the same amount of time, although probably slightly less in lower level zones. I’m not sure that’s true, but it definitely feels that way to me.

Add to this the extra travel costs (waypoints cost much more at higher levels). The extra death costs (repairs cost much more at higher levels). And the slighly hidden cost of node gathering in these zones (orichalcium tools versus… whatever) and it’s almost a balance but my intuition says that the return on investment isn’t in favor of going back to low level zones.

It might be close, but I can’t see it.

So since I have no way of knowing for sure, and it feels like being in the lower level zones isn’t worthwhile, I choose to be in the higher zones. Which means (I assume) that most higher level players will intuit the same thing and DO the same thing.

/end observation.

Daily quest requiring kill variety is the only reason I ever feel like going back to 100% lower level zones ;__;

Why would you want to move to lower level zones when higher level zones are more fun and exciting? I HATE Orr but I like staying in it for the high level materials and mass amount of DE’s for karma. I’ll explore other areas when I feel like doing them.

Or ANet could of not gave you anything at all besides some monetary compensation. I honestly think the De-level should be even more, you can 1-2 shot things as a Thief in just 80 rare gear. There is no challenge, if I added anything to this post, it’s that I want Anet to de-level us even more.

They specifically said only your base stats and level will scale down and your gear will not scale. It’s your “achievement”.

I get that I’m more powerful in lower zones; and that’s cool, although badly implemented. I mean, if I can kill everything, why even bother to have it aggro me?

I just don’t see any reason to be there unless friends are there.

Sure there’s map completion, and I even complained about having low level stuff aggro when I’m just trying to gather mats before. But… I mean… I WANT to go back to those zones. I spent half an hour following “Prison Warden Zikki” today to see what she had to say.

But after that half hour I was just feeling like I’d wasted a half hour of my life.

I can’t explain it better than that. There’s something wrong with how things work, and I can’t put my finger on it, but I know it’s doing bad things to the players.

That is all.