Guild Wars 2

I would like to know other people’s experience with this.

The lab is a very nice place to farm. However the diminishing returns (DR) seem to kick in extremely fast… I usually try to farm for 1 hour straight (to maximize boosters) with 500 magic find or so. But each time, usually after 40-50 mn, I don’t seem to be able to loot anything anymore. During the first 40-50mn, Ill get more or less a ToT bag every 2 mob, a large bag for every single legendary boss… Then when the DR start I only get a bag every 20 mobs or so, and I stop receiving large bags from legendaries (most of the time)…

I talked about it to some guildies but they don’t seem to have this issue. Do other people here experience something like this. I know about diminishing returns in the game but it should not happen so fast. Not being able to farm for a full hour seem a bit ridiculous. Could it be that because I farm with a lot of magic find (and get a lot of loot really fast), I get my loots nerfed faster ?

Same here, u need to switch to another char, i usualy use the engie and the guardian.

i haven’t noticed it with ToT bag drops….and i usually stop when the door event rewards are halved (after about 90 minutes or so)….but i haven’t specifically looked out for it.

Yes I have noticed it, and it seems that the cooldown is 24 to 48 hours.

I haven’t tried running on a different character.

I didn’t notice it. I’m running about a half an hour on the same character a couple of times a night.

I actually don’t look at the loot as it rolls in, but I get 100+ TOT bags and 3 +- champ bags each run. Lots of blue and green weapons as well. MF adjusted by food and jewelry is around 200% That keeps going up slightly with all the MF boosts from the TOT bags and recycling.

You think your life is hard? You don’t even main a Ranger.
~Desolation~

And I’m using my ranger : )

Bellizare.5816:

You think your life is hard? You don’t even main a Ranger.
~Desolation~

And I’m using my ranger : )

Oi! kitten Rangers and that kitten Knockback destroying a perfect stack of fresh spawned mobs from the loot doors. And the troll KB against Vet doors knocking them halfway across the map.

I farm this event anywhere from 3-8 hours a day, usually straight through sometimes with a 30-60 min break in the middle. There is a way to lower your DR, but it’s inevitable it will happen. Start at the Loot Door in SE corner and work Clockwise. When all doors are closed head to the middle part and make 2 loops, returning to the Lich spawn area to start over.

This method helps to lower the DR rate I noticed, having farmed tagged up doing this rotation for an 8 hour spread non-stop.

There also seems to be a weird bug with the Large Candy Bags not dropping at random times. Many players on my maps report it. I noticed sometimes it’ll happen if you happen to double down on a boss several times you won’t get the Steel Chest drop. It’s weird because I have always been under the impression that Champ bags are not affected by DR, though a small number of players insist that this is true. Confirmation from the Devs would be nice on that part. The only reason I believe Champ bags are not affected by DR is because of FGS and WvW KTrains, and CS farming. Only for this event have I not received a Champ Bag after dealing a minimum of 200k damaged to a legendary boss (IE the Viscount and Lich)

diminishing return is a thing yes, change characters untill it has DR aswell (tho that doesnt make the DR go away from your other character)

you could also mix farms.

Farm labyrinth till dr kicks in, go farm..idk..centaurs till it gets DR then return to labyrinth back

meklin.4530:

Bellizare.5816:

You think your life is hard? You don’t even main a Ranger.
~Desolation~

And I’m using my ranger : )

Oi! kitten Rangers and that kitten Knockback destroying a perfect stack of fresh spawned mobs from the loot doors. And the troll KB against Vet doors knocking them halfway across the map.

I farm this event anywhere from 3-8 hours a day, usually straight through sometimes with a 30-60 min break in the middle. There is a way to lower your DR, but it’s inevitable it will happen. Start at the Loot Door in SE corner and work Clockwise. When all doors are closed head to the middle part and make 2 loops, returning to the Lich spawn area to start over.

This method helps to lower the DR rate I noticed, having farmed tagged up doing this rotation for an 8 hour spread non-stop.

There also seems to be a weird bug with the Large Candy Bags not dropping at random times. Many players on my maps report it. I noticed sometimes it’ll happen if you happen to double down on a boss several times you won’t get the Steel Chest drop. It’s weird because I have always been under the impression that Champ bags are not affected by DR, though a small number of players insist that this is true. Confirmation from the Devs would be nice on that part. The only reason I believe Champ bags are not affected by DR is because of FGS and WvW KTrains, and CS farming. Only for this event have I not received a Champ Bag after dealing a minimum of 200k damaged to a legendary boss (IE the Viscount and Lich)

Actually I’m not using LB, so at least no KB from me. I likes using two axes and jumping into the middle of those big stacks.

meklin.4530:

Bellizare.5816:

You think your life is hard? You don’t even main a Ranger.
~Desolation~

And I’m using my ranger : )

Oi! kitten Rangers and that kitten Knockback destroying a perfect stack of fresh spawned mobs from the loot doors. And the troll KB against Vet doors knocking them halfway across the map.

9 times out of 10 the knockbacks are from the level ups in there.

No, I’m not a ranger :p