Guild Wars 2

I can see this happening from a mile away, and its funny because when you give nice looking skins to farmable mobs in an over nerfed game, you know people will be farming them. They increased respawn timer of champs and it did nothing, next step is to make this **** daily as their whole game. When/if champs reward become on daily rotation i think its absolutely fair to call this game Daily Wars 2.

They haven’t made nodes daily and I doubt they will. There were probably a few things that they wanted to make daily so that everyone would be on a level playing field. Call it socialism or whatever you like.

There are more champions in this game than you might think. So it’ll force you to spread out a bit. Go run some dungeons. Did you know thy also have champions? And they give out a fancy daily reward all their own.

Quarktastic.1027:

There are more champions in this game than you might think. So it’ll force you to spread out a bit. Go run some dungeons. Did you know thy also have champions? And they give out a fancy daily reward all their own.

now please tell me the reason to waste time in a dungeon killing what? couple of champs when i can farm 6 in frostgorge in about 5 minutes or less… Dungeons are irrelevant and are only here for ‘fun’, when you’ve done hundreds of runs in the passed 11 months the fun part isn’t there anymore.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Quarktastic.1027:

There are more champions in this game than you might think. So it’ll force you to spread out a bit. Go run some dungeons. Did you know thy also have champions? And they give out a fancy daily reward all their own.

now please tell me the reason to waste time in a dungeon killing what? couple of champs when i can farm 6 in frostgorge in about 5 minutes or less… Dungeons are irrelevant and are only here for ‘fun’, when you’ve done hundreds of runs in the passed 11 months the fun part isn’t there anymore.

And just what are you doing farming loot bags from the same 6 champions all day? If that is your idea of fun I suggest looking for another game. I hear WoW has lots of phat lootz to spend all day grinding for.

Ascalonian Catacombs are still a lot of fun for me even after more than 50 runs… just sayin’
Of course there are zerg trains, many people need shiny pixels and coloured names to fill up something inside them, I don’t need that, I play for fun, and seeing more people encouraged to kill the champions in dungeons instead of killing them makes me happy.

I think you’re jumping the gun a bit here. Unless and Until ANet actually announces that they might pull this off, please refrain from the tin foil hat.

They will almost certainly do this. It puts together two of their favorite things: nerfing any farm spots and time gating.

Better farm these champs as much as possible right now.

Quarktastic.1027:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Quarktastic.1027:

There are more champions in this game than you might think. So it’ll force you to spread out a bit. Go run some dungeons. Did you know thy also have champions? And they give out a fancy daily reward all their own.

now please tell me the reason to waste time in a dungeon killing what? couple of champs when i can farm 6 in frostgorge in about 5 minutes or less… Dungeons are irrelevant and are only here for ‘fun’, when you’ve done hundreds of runs in the passed 11 months the fun part isn’t there anymore.

And just what are you doing farming loot bags from the same 6 champions all day? If that is your idea of fun I suggest looking for another game. I hear WoW has lots of phat lootz to spend all day grinding for.

i farm 2-3h a day, far from all day like some are. You’re the only one who cares what happens in WoW. Its not even “fun”, its kinda braindead to say the truth but getting a skin worth 200g is kinda cool in a game where farming is not allowed

Nuka Cola.8520:

Quarktastic.1027:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Quarktastic.1027:

There are more champions in this game than you might think. So it’ll force you to spread out a bit. Go run some dungeons. Did you know thy also have champions? And they give out a fancy daily reward all their own.

now please tell me the reason to waste time in a dungeon killing what? couple of champs when i can farm 6 in frostgorge in about 5 minutes or less… Dungeons are irrelevant and are only here for ‘fun’, when you’ve done hundreds of runs in the passed 11 months the fun part isn’t there anymore.

And just what are you doing farming loot bags from the same 6 champions all day? If that is your idea of fun I suggest looking for another game. I hear WoW has lots of phat lootz to spend all day grinding for.

i farm 2-3h a day, far from all day like some are. You’re the only one who cares what happens in WoW. Its not even “fun”, its kinda braindead to say the truth but getting a skin worth 200g is kinda cool in a game where farming is not allowed

You’re mindlessly farming for shinies in a game that wasn’t designed for farming. What are you going to use that 200g for after you sell that weapon? Another legendary? Another set of exotic armor? None of it really matters in the long run.

I don’t farm, I don’t grind. I have over 700g and nothing worth buying to spend it on.

Anet doesn’t learn, they did the exact same thing with World events added a lovely reward for them but it was the ONLY PLACE PLAYERS GOT THEM, so they hammered them till they got nerfed..
The same thing here Champions are the only place to receive these rewards so they are getting hammered 24/7, don’t nerf them add more places to get nice things and players will alternate to other areas..

Its not rocket science.

Quarktastic.1027:

I don’t farm, I don’t grind. I have over 700g and nothing worth buying to spend it on.

Because you dont’ buy “skins, convenient item, or have many alt”

You are home free if you don’t care about any of the 3. I care about 2 of the 3.

Dante.1508:

Anet doesn’t learn, they did the exact same thing with World events added a lovely reward for them but it was the ONLY PLACE PLAYERS GOT THEM, so they hammered them till they got nerfed..
The same thing here Champions are the only place to receive these rewards so they are getting hammered 24/7, don’t nerf them add more places to get nice things and players will alternate to other areas..

Its not rocket science.

Every skin that these bosses drop will cost less than 10g in under a month’s time. Remember what happened with final rest? Same deal, only it will happen faster.

The biggest difference is that world events have a guaranteed rare. These are mostly masterwork and a couple of silvers at best and some karma(still not sure why they keep giving more karma without adding anything to spend the karma on).

The smarter move would be making non-event related champions scale(perhaps unlimited scaling or just … gorilla scaling). Champions would still be worth killing but zerging would not be the best choice. In a way PvE has acquired the same problem as WvW …

Quarktastic.1027:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Quarktastic.1027:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Quarktastic.1027:

There are more champions in this game than you might think. So it’ll force you to spread out a bit. Go run some dungeons. Did you know thy also have champions? And they give out a fancy daily reward all their own.

now please tell me the reason to waste time in a dungeon killing what? couple of champs when i can farm 6 in frostgorge in about 5 minutes or less… Dungeons are irrelevant and are only here for ‘fun’, when you’ve done hundreds of runs in the passed 11 months the fun part isn’t there anymore.

And just what are you doing farming loot bags from the same 6 champions all day? If that is your idea of fun I suggest looking for another game. I hear WoW has lots of phat lootz to spend all day grinding for.

i farm 2-3h a day, far from all day like some are. You’re the only one who cares what happens in WoW. Its not even “fun”, its kinda braindead to say the truth but getting a skin worth 200g is kinda cool in a game where farming is not allowed

You’re mindlessly farming for shinies in a game that wasn’t designed for farming. What are you going to use that 200g for after you sell that weapon? Another legendary? Another set of exotic armor? None of it really matters in the long run.

I don’t farm, I don’t grind. I have over 700g and nothing worth buying to spend it on.

Its an mmo, if you seriously think i or someone else (just look at the HUNDREDS of ppl farming champs currently that give you a picture) shouldn’t be farming, you’re playing a wrong game. I don’t have a legendary, will never waste time on one and i did not get a skin worth 200g… I said ‘getting one’ is nice, never said i got one.

If Anet were smart they would keep it the way it is. Keep adding new skins in on the champs in updates. People love this. So many in game are enjoying the new champ stuff.

I’ve been leveling a new toon and run into people camping champs and it doesn’t effect my game one bit. I’ve actually stopped and had some good dancing and costume brawls with them out in the world. Good times!

Khisanth.2948:

The biggest difference is that world events have a guaranteed rare. These are mostly masterwork and a couple of silvers at best and some karma(still not sure why they keep giving more karma without adding anything to spend the karma on).

The smarter move would be making non-event related champions scale(perhaps unlimited scaling or just … gorilla scaling). Champions would still be worth killing but zerging would not be the best choice. In a way PvE has acquired the same problem as WvW …

Knowing anet, they would break it. Like when they first introduced this zerg counter scaling to certain events.

Remember the champion wraith at penitent camp? How it had an AoE life siphon that covered the whole camp and dealt somewhere around 30k damage per second? It also completely refilled his health bar.

Yeah, that tended to happen if more than 10 people showed up to do the event.

Quarktastic.1027:

Dante.1508:

Anet doesn’t learn, they did the exact same thing with World events added a lovely reward for them but it was the ONLY PLACE PLAYERS GOT THEM, so they hammered them till they got nerfed..
The same thing here Champions are the only place to receive these rewards so they are getting hammered 24/7, don’t nerf them add more places to get nice things and players will alternate to other areas..

Its not rocket science.

Every skin that these bosses drop will cost less than 10g in under a month’s time. Remember what happened with final rest? Same deal, only it will happen faster.

you think genesis and the other hammer (forgot the name) and Crystal guardian will be under 10g? lol The two hammers look better than the freaking legendary and worth 10g? gimme, i will buy yours and resell for over 100g

Quarktastic.1027:

Khisanth.2948:

The biggest difference is that world events have a guaranteed rare. These are mostly masterwork and a couple of silvers at best and some karma(still not sure why they keep giving more karma without adding anything to spend the karma on).

The smarter move would be making non-event related champions scale(perhaps unlimited scaling or just … gorilla scaling). Champions would still be worth killing but zerging would not be the best choice. In a way PvE has acquired the same problem as WvW …

Knowing anet, they would break it. Like when they first introduced this zerg counter scaling to certain events.

Remember the champion wraith at penitent camp? How it had an AoE life siphon that covered the whole camp and dealt somewhere around 30k damage per second? It also completely refilled his health bar.

Yeah, that tended to happen if more than 10 people showed up to do the event.

Actually I don’t. :P
I generally don’t hang out in Orr but I’ve seen mentions on the forum. If you leave it uncapped it could start siphoning from the whole map.

Khisanth.2948:

The biggest difference is that world events have a guaranteed rare. These are mostly masterwork and a couple of silvers at best and some karma(still not sure why they keep giving more karma without adding anything to spend the karma on).

The smarter move would be making non-event related champions scale(perhaps unlimited scaling or just … gorilla scaling). Champions would still be worth killing but zerging would not be the best choice. In a way PvE has acquired the same problem as WvW …

from the quantity of greens you get, if you mystic toilet them you’ll get boatload of rares AND tones of t5/t6 mats.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Quarktastic.1027:

Dante.1508:

Anet doesn’t learn, they did the exact same thing with World events added a lovely reward for them but it was the ONLY PLACE PLAYERS GOT THEM, so they hammered them till they got nerfed..
The same thing here Champions are the only place to receive these rewards so they are getting hammered 24/7, don’t nerf them add more places to get nice things and players will alternate to other areas..

Its not rocket science.

Every skin that these bosses drop will cost less than 10g in under a month’s time. Remember what happened with final rest? Same deal, only it will happen faster.

you think genesis and the other hammer (forgot the name) and Crystal guardian will be under 10g? lol The two hammers look better than the freaking legendary and worth 10g? gimme, i will buy yours and resell for over 100g

Give it time. Final rest was once worth over 200g. Now it’s worth 3g.

I doubt it. I think DR will correct someone farming the champion rewards much better than sticking this as a nerf.

Quarktastic.1027:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Quarktastic.1027:

Dante.1508:

Anet doesn’t learn, they did the exact same thing with World events added a lovely reward for them but it was the ONLY PLACE PLAYERS GOT THEM, so they hammered them till they got nerfed..
The same thing here Champions are the only place to receive these rewards so they are getting hammered 24/7, don’t nerf them add more places to get nice things and players will alternate to other areas..

Its not rocket science.

Every skin that these bosses drop will cost less than 10g in under a month’s time. Remember what happened with final rest? Same deal, only it will happen faster.

you think genesis and the other hammer (forgot the name) and Crystal guardian will be under 10g? lol The two hammers look better than the freaking legendary and worth 10g? gimme, i will buy yours and resell for over 100g

Give it time. Final rest was once worth over 200g. Now it’s worth 3g.

final rest looked garbage compared to couple of these skins. I personally i wouldn’t buy final rest even for 5g when it was worth a lot, staff looks like crap with no special effects and fits only necros

Quarktastic.1027:

Remember the champion wraith at penitent camp? How it had an AoE life siphon that covered the whole camp and dealt somewhere around 30k damage per second? It also completely refilled his health bar.

Yeah, that tended to happen if more than 10 people showed up to do the event.

That hasn’t changed much. Different mobs, but after getting killed by one at Shelter I waypointed to Penitent for repairs and got killed along with two others at the waypoint due to a life siphon from the mob at Shelter. Had the particle effects and all going on with it, and from the names I saw I don’t think the two others that died were at the shelter event to start with.

In GW1 Anet done the same thing added certain weapons to certain mobs knowing full well that players will farm them. (Icy Dragon sword, Totem Axe and more) So this is no different so put your tin foil hats away and good luck getting your weapons.

Rally against the farmers bretheren.

Though they may use words like “community” and “beneficial”, they are only honey words to beguile you to work for their own greed.
This isn’t the first time that farmers haven’t been put down for their greed. Grenth was a very similar issue when the elementals were lootable until they were eliminated.

And if this is a forerunner of anet’s stance on farming, no doubt this will be rendered useless to farmers as well.

Farmers only care about their own personal gain at the expense of others fun or participation or even in-game finance. They work solely to fill their bottomless scum stained gullets.

I urge you all to not be as they who hide behind “it’s just a game” for they only wish to sow seeds of corruption in your hearts.

MasterYoda.8563:

In GW1 Anet done the same thing added certain weapons to certain mobs knowing full well that players will farm them. (Icy Dragon sword, Totem Axe and more) So this is no different so put your tin foil hats away and good luck getting your weapons.

These are actually a lot less restrictive. I am not even sure we can say that the drops are specific to a certain type of bag/box yet. Several are already known to drop from multiple types of containers.

Khisanth.2948:

MasterYoda.8563:

In GW1 Anet done the same thing added certain weapons to certain mobs knowing full well that players will farm them. (Icy Dragon sword, Totem Axe and more) So this is no different so put your tin foil hats away and good luck getting your weapons.

These are actually a lot less restrictive. I am not even sure we can say that the drops are specific to a certain type of bag/box yet. Several are already known to drop from multiple types of containers.

Those weapons were really hard for me to earn, most notably the IDS. The FDS was also a fairly difficult one to earn in a form you would actually use

I don’t think they need to. I’ve opened so many of these and so has everyone else I was with, and so far no one I’ve seen in the Orr area has gotten a single unique Skin from them. I still have yet to get a Lodestone. (I have better luck just randomly killing Sparks as I go on my way through Malchor…).

Maybe the Queensdale ones are over farmed, but that doesn’t mean they are everywhere else…

ilr.9675:

I don’t think they need to. I’ve opened so many of these and so has everyone else I was with, and so far no one I’ve seen in the Orr area has gotten a single unique Skin from them. I still have yet to get a Lodestone. (I have better luck just randomly killing Sparks as I go on my way through Malchor…).

Maybe the Queensdale ones are over farmed, but that doesn’t mean they are everywhere else…

Last night on SBI nobody was doing Cursed Shore. There were about six who showed up to kill the Priest of Grenth but as soon as he died they booked it and left three people to try to finish the next part. And we had a long time trying to get people interested in taking Melandru . . . I counted four champions nobody was doing anything to, and every so often someone would ask “train running?” “nope, nobody here” then they’d go rather than wait for the next person. We could have had a train in a half hour if everyone had stayed and just started to get together . . .

Reinforcments.5713:

Rally against the farmers bretheren.

Though they may use words like “community” and “beneficial”, they are only honey words to beguile you to work for their own greed.
This isn’t the first time that farmers haven’t been put down for their greed. Grenth was a very similar issue when the elementals were lootable until they were eliminated.

And if this is a forerunner of anet’s stance on farming, no doubt this will be rendered useless to farmers as well.

Farmers only care about their own personal gain at the expense of others fun or participation or even in-game finance. They work solely to fill their bottomless scum stained gullets.

I urge you all to not be as they who hide behind “it’s just a game” for they only wish to sow seeds of corruption in your hearts.

I’m not a farmer myself but I don’t think you can put all farmers in the same category. They’re not all bad. Many of them don’t mind if you complete an event that they were farming. Yes, they complain a lot about farming spots getting nerfed but it’s probably true. If there were no farmers farming tier 6 materials then what few tier 6 materials on the TP would be really expensive. It’s because of farmers constantly adding to the supply that keeps the costs relatively low.

If anything this update should give Anet an idea of what skins people find desirable based upon cost on the TP. I love the fact that you can get specific drops from specific champs. I think they should expand this idea and make the most desirable skins drop from champs in the emptiest of zones. I’m looking at you, mid-level zones and champs.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Quarktastic.1027:

There are more champions in this game than you might think. So it’ll force you to spread out a bit. Go run some dungeons. Did you know thy also have champions? And they give out a fancy daily reward all their own.

now please tell me the reason to waste time in a dungeon killing what? couple of champs when i can farm 6 in frostgorge in about 5 minutes or less… Dungeons are irrelevant and are only here for ‘fun’, when you’ve done hundreds of runs in the passed 11 months the fun part isn’t there anymore.

You realise that the Frostgorge farm is going to get so hard with the nerf hammer that you wont want to go back there, I can see them making the champs only spawn every 3-6 hours, and a stupid long event chain to get to that point, so if you miss it to bad, this is always the result of something that is rushed into the game, can you honestly say that they did not forecase that people would flock to the 80 zones and farm champs all day, they will kill this farm in FG and in CS aswell, so that they become ghost zones again, so farm it while you can.

If they make champs once a day, they have to exclude WvW, as in PvE you have a choice whether to kill a champ or not, in WvW you HAVE to kill the champ to claim a tower/keep etc, remember that anet when you bring the nerf hammer down.

And for all those who come on crying saying it needs to be changed its screwing up the economy etc, where were you when they allowed the CoF farming for months, it did more damage than anything else since launch,

Remember the game isn’t to be played the way you want, its to be played the way they want you to play it.

MasterYoda.8563:

In GW1 Anet done the same thing added certain weapons to certain mobs knowing full well that players will farm them. (Icy Dragon sword, Totem Axe and more) So this is no different so put your tin foil hats away and good luck getting your weapons.

And where did you see anet saying “gw1 is anti grind”? People were grinding UW for like what? 8+ years and still are… What are people grinding that haven’t been nerfed since day one? yeahhhh, gl finding something because everything been nerfed in gw2

In a game where NerfNet hates farming and punishes players for trying to make money you will always people will take advantage of and farm in hardcore mode whenever they make a mistake and give players a chance to make money.

Once this is nerfed people will wait for the next slip-up and then farm that. It is NerfNets own fault for creating this cycle, not having a public test server to catch things like this, and for punishing farmers so much.

This wouldn’t seem so much a nerf as a fix. I don’t understand how you can’t see the absurdity of your current situation. Like, I don’t even having anything against farming, and I’m in no way concerned about the economy, but you’re obviously aware of the abuse to the system this is. You’re a gambling addict screaming at the casino for taking out a slot machine that paid out ten times more than the others. Obviously it wasn’t meant to be that way, and no matter what, you still lose.

AstralDusk.1670:

This wouldn’t seem so much a nerf as a fix. I don’t understand how you can’t see the absurdity of your current situation. Like, I don’t even having anything against farming, and I’m in no way concerned about the economy, but you’re obviously aware of the abuse to the system this is. You’re a gambling addict screaming at the casino for taking out a slot machine that paid out ten times more than the others. Obviously it wasn’t meant to be that way, and no matter what, you still lose.

You invest time in mindless grinding=you’re rewarded for your time. You do nothing but stand in LA=you get nothing. What’s the problem?

Well, farming champs is already a complete waste of time… in a week or so the last of the new skins will be below 5g and people will just buy them off the TP instead of trying to find one.

There is no reason to make these drops daily.

Nuka Cola.8520:

You invest time in mindless grinding=you’re rewarded for your time. You do nothing but stand in LA=you get nothing. What’s the problem?

To be honest, I have no idea what you’re trying to get across here, or how it’s relevant to what I said.

Anyway, I’m not sure ANet ought to be concerned about the behavior. If the market is flooded with the skins, that’s a good thing, and self-corrects the current issue. I don’t think it was meant to be a bunch of super-rare equipment, but rather a simple ‘hey, champions ain’t so bad!’ sort of reward scheme. When the rewards aren’t new anymore, I think specifically the farming of champion-heavy areas would drop off significantly.

If it does turn out to be a long-term problem, their best solution would be to tweak the base rewards to be more adequately scaled to other open-world content, not to time-gate them.

Lord Kuru.3685:

They will almost certainly do this. It puts together two of their favorite things: nerfing any farm spots and time gating.

Better farm these champs as much as possible right now.

I’m placing bets on Queensdale. That will be the first map to be nerfed. Probably spawn times first, then later one drop per day and account bound. Nerfnet does this every time players find something to farm.

Berelious.3290:

I think you’re jumping the gun a bit here. Unless and Until ANet actually announces that they might pull this off, please refrain from the tin foil hat.

Hate to break it to ya but this isn’t a theory its a fact, Champion farming will be nerfed, its a guarantee. Look at Cursed Shore, used to be a fun place to farm and hang out with lots of different event chains to do, but Anet saw too many players making descent gold and nerfed the place into oblivion, same will happen with champions.

Deadcell.9052:

Berelious.3290:

I think you’re jumping the gun a bit here. Unless and Until ANet actually announces that they might pull this off, please refrain from the tin foil hat.

Hate to break it to ya but this isn’t a theory its a fact, Champion farming will be nerfed, its a guarantee. Look at Cursed Shore, used to be a fun place to farm and hang out with lots of different event chains to do, but Anet saw too many players making descent gold and nerfed the place into oblivion, same will happen with champions.

its anet, someone even bringing the “tin foil hat” to the subjects is ignorant, knowing how much they nerf their own game that took them years to build. In gw1 the main thing they nerfed to the ground were skills, in gw2 they nerf absolutely everything nerfable.

I’m saying this same thing in most champ threads, but, T_T

I hope anet just adds scaling to non event champs mobs as needed, and reduce silver reward from bags. It would stop zergs from blasting through champs, which would slow the zerg down, and combined with the reduced coin reward, they would be pumping less gold into the economy.

No need to add messy DR, or once a day to this, if people enjoy killing champs for bags hoping to get a new weapon skin , let them.

Nuka Cola.8520:

You invest time in mindless grinding=you’re rewarded for your time. You do nothing but stand in LA=you get nothing. What’s the problem?

If your only options are to grind or stand in LA doing nothing, then why are you playing at all?

Tell me something, how are you rewarded for your time spent when you grind? You are spending time you got to live your life sitting in chair playing game, and you think 3 hours lost are compensated with some “reward”? After you quit gw2 and all those hours wasted are meaningless, while alot of your life’s time is gone, where will those rewards be? Will they be worth it?

So long as players are willing to play against gauntlet bosses that award an achievement, require a wp cost and a repair cost multiple times in order to win the fight…

I’m sure the benefits of the champ chests will even out. After the event goes away though, It’s anybody’s guess.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Quarktastic.1027:

There are more champions in this game than you might think. So it’ll force you to spread out a bit. Go run some dungeons. Did you know thy also have champions? And they give out a fancy daily reward all their own.

now please tell me the reason to waste time in a dungeon killing what? couple of champs when i can farm 6 in frostgorge in about 5 minutes or less… Dungeons are irrelevant and are only here for ‘fun’, when you’ve done hundreds of runs in the passed 11 months the fun part isn’t there anymore.

You heard it here first folks, fun is now irrelevant in a game.

Champs farm zerg is pretty something that people looking for.Easy money , no stretegy required.
A-net nerf bat sometimes off.Claw of Jormag champs should at least drop stuff .Or there gonna be nobody doing them.
Right now its cursed shore turn where people farm Anchorage events.Not advancing it.And left Priest of melandru and grenth twiddle tumbs on the altar.

LONGA.1652:

Champs farm zerg is pretty something that people looking for.Easy money , no stretegy required.
A-net nerf bat sometimes off.Claw of Jormag champs should at least drop stuff .Or there gonna be nobody doing them.
Right now its cursed shore turn where people farm Anchorage events.Not advancing it.And left Priest of melandru and grenth twiddle tumbs on the altar.

My server, yesterday, completed Melandru from the 2nd beacon to finish at least twice, grenth once, and anchorage to arah once. Not just some random group or a guild, it was the champion zerg that did it. The only people causing problems were trolls who were just trying to stir kitten up in map chat.
Might be different today, might not, but for the time I spent in Cursed Shore on Friday and Saturday, the champ farmers were actually willing to help people get skill points and complete events.

You all know this is going to get nerfed. Anet is not generous when it comes to farming. How they will go about nerfing it, no one knows.

Easy fix: add champions to more events that currently have none. Spread people out.