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If you level 80, you should be grinding to get ascended items. You are playing it wrong.
Is it safe to assume that you are being sarcastic?
Personally, I already have my previously thought of “end-game” gear minus the Legendary Weapon. Thus, instead of grinding, I generally like to explore & revisit various places in Tyria to see how it has changed when I first went through them.
As someone who’s been inhabiting Queensdale since weeks for purpose of running dailies I can see the reasoning behind even though I was annoyed by it at first as well – naturally as I made use of some design inconsistencies. Put simply there’s a higher DE density and frequency in low-levels with an appropriately low complexity as well. Getting the same full rewards for solo’ing events as people get having to do entire chains in Orr did not make sense.
Ah, but note though that the DEs in low level areas give less reward than DEs in Orr, or any other high level area. So really, what happened is that the previously lower rewards became even lower. Whether or not this was necessary is up for discussion.
As someone who’s been inhabiting Queensdale since weeks for purpose of running dailies I can see the reasoning behind even though I was annoyed by it at first as well – naturally as I made use of some design inconsistencies. Put simply there’s a higher DE density and frequency in low-levels with an appropriately low complexity as well. Getting the same full rewards for solo’ing events as people get having to do entire chains in Orr did not make sense.
Ah, but note though that the DEs in low level areas give less reward than DEs in Orr, or any other high level area. So really, what happened is that the previously lower rewards became even lower. Whether or not this was necessary is up for discussion.
Yeah, still they were easy enough for the money. I am not excluding the possibility of a bug though which only an official statement can clear up. But I could see why it is not a bug. Not that I’d mind if they reverted that
nobody solos the champ cave troll….nobody XD
Not anymore or well you can actually if you are in for a long haul but chances are players will come and help out first. But you can ignore that one really – same with other final bosses of each zone. There’s more and far easier ones around the entire zone. All of them solo-able.
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sadly I am not Laz. I do NOT agree with it. But the fact is if you are not jumping on the treadmill, and instead playing it the way you want… they will take more and more away until you simply have no choice.
That is just sad. So basically, they make an entire world for you and at the end of the day, want you to just play in that last 1% area over & over again?
Still you can go into 40+ zones and get the enhanced karma now, they did increase it for those zones 40+ so not sure what the issue is. They just don’t want you to be in all pow prec %damage gear and mow thru everything to get the points you need so….
Not sure about why this thread is even here. I’ve never had issues doing the DE’s in 40+ zones while gathering. And my gear doesn’t even have the runes in it yet. ;P
Well, the only issue I have with it is the decrease for the lower level zones. For me, each zone “areas” have unique & interesting flavors in them. Thus, exploring randomly in these places for me is relatively fun. Now, there is more incentive to just play in the high level zones & forget about all the other good content in the lower level ones.
What I’m getting is what want good rewards for doing things lower then you level.
That’s interesting.
Doing things below your level netted you a 40% reduction in rewards prior to the patch. This means that if you run Plinx over & over again, you can potentially get 40% more gold, karma, and experience than say if you retook a camp for the Seraphs or fought the Flame Legion wars. Post patch, that 40% has effectively been adjusted to about 60% reduction. Given this, I begin to wonder if the original design was to play 99% of Tyria pre-80 and stick with the 1% of Tyria once you hit 80. It seems quite sad to just throw away the 99% especially since those zones are much more fleshed out & living (no pun intended for Orr…) compared to the last 1%.
Obviously ANet thinks you’re playing it wrong. Get out to the dungeons and grind!
I do this as part of my dailies. After you get Dungeon Master, get your sets of Exotics, with only the Legendary left, what else do you do? Personally, I grew weary of the grinding so I started exploring. I saw a bunch of new events in the earlier zones (like that Undead Commander that claimed he killed Tybalt!) that really got me to go around the map more. Unfortunately, it seems quite sad that this is “playing it wrong” as I just find it fun.
To put it simply, grinding is not fun for me at all. If at some point, the only thing left to do is to grind, then that would be the day GW2 ends for me.