Guild Wars 2

DR
I was farming Arctodus for T5/6 blood in Frostsound sometime last week, maybe for 2 hours. With Explorer set, Superior Sigil of Luck, and Lotus Fries, I was able to farm relatively well. Pretty even drop rate. I’d say I got a Powerful Blood every 10-15 min. It didn’t feel worthwhile, but it wasn’t a complete waste of time.

I went back a couple of days ago to do Trolls and Arctodus in the Troll Champ camp. Same build and all. I got plenty of blood and a couple rares, but after being there for about 30 min I was getting virtually no blood. Very few greens/blues. My friend came out to get in on the grind. He only had lotus fries, no MF gear. He was telling me on TS whenever he got drops, meanwhile I was getting nothing… And becoming increasingly aware that Diminishing returns were reducing my loot to only junk claws. So DR kicks in I’d say after 30 minutes and you get mostly nothing from that point on. Move to another zone, you’re done farming. Can anyone confirm this as a hard fact?

We already know about the grubs in Orr (possibly elsewhere idk) that give nothing for kills and cause the giant “Raid” text to pop up to let you know that you are being denied loot at the expense of exploiters. Now, I was in Diessa Plateau attempting to get the “cannon” vista. You talk to an NPC who lets you use a cannon to blast yourself to the top of a tower to get the Vista… Guess what?
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This content is unavailable. That’s right, I could not get 100% map completion in Diessa. We’re all aware of the oft-glitched skill points that block completion until resets, but this message leads me to believe the content will remain unavailable for some time now. How were players exploiting this cannon? It shoots you to the top of the tower. That’s it.

Lastly, this should be old news, but I don’t mind piling on.

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