Guild Wars 2

Key farming is dead Anet would like for cash (gems) from you
Alts are now a grind and a boring one at that (time to macro and 1 key so I don’t get carpal tunnel syndrome, oh way that will get me band)
The game now looks more like and feels more like WoW (hum maybe i should play that again)

This patch had killed the game for the millions of vents in the game so that Anet can help people with weak mental facilities play the game at the cost of those that do not.

Good job Anet good job!

key farming was an exploit.

Which they said they didn’t mind key farming?

“The game now looks more like and feels more like WoW”

Because the game was made by ex-blizzard employees. Well GW1 was.

I’ve never seen Queensdale so dead before. It’s weird.

Lets face it, keyfarming was pretty niche and was an unintended side-effect of giving a key at such a low level.

I don’t believe they explicitly set out to kill it, they just wanted to restructure and solidify the early game personal story across the WHOLE level range. They didn’t just put the early game PS in their sights. They didnt set out to kill your fun. Keyfarming just got caught in the crossfire of the changes they were already going to make to personal story. The change overall was good imho.

I say this as someone who has farmed my fair share of keys in my day.

Please note there is also a part of the patchnotes that says leveling from 1-15 is now faster. Id be interested to see how fast this is. Sure, keyfarming might be slower…but will it still be quick enough to be viable?

Noobix.3958:

Please note there is also a part of the patchnotes that says leveling from 1-15 is now faster. Id be interested to see how fast this is. Sure, keyfarming might be slower…but will it still be quick enough to be viable?

1-10 is definitely faster than before. I dunno if it will be fast enough to make key running a thing again. Maybe someone will come out with a streamlined method, dunno. But it’s something I might do now and again.

Lothirieth.3408:

Noobix.3958:

Please note there is also a part of the patchnotes that says leveling from 1-15 is now faster. Id be interested to see how fast this is. Sure, keyfarming might be slower…but will it still be quick enough to be viable?

1-10 is definitely faster than before. I dunno if it will be fast enough to make key running a thing again. Maybe someone will come out with a streamlined method, dunno. But it’s something I might do now and again.

You have to keep in mind, though, that any time spent GETTING to level 10 will be additional time necessary to the whole key run; So while a Key Run could be done in ~20 minutes prior to the patch, today it would take ~20 minutes PLUS whatever time it takes to reach level 10 (since you still have to do the story).

Even if you could reach level 10 in an hour (highly improbable), that means it would still take 80 minutes per key.

And unless they’ve changed chests profoundly, ain’t nobody gonna spend 80 minutes just to get one key. (and unless you level with crafting or scrolls, I’m sure 80 minutes is going to be on the low side of the time needed).

Southern.8973:

Even if you could reach level 10 in an hour (highly improbable), that means it would still take 80 minutes per key.

I’m not trying to speedlevel, but I think 1-10 in an hour will be quite possible, maybe even less if one supplements hearts from another zone.

And unless they’ve changed chests profoundly, ain’t nobody gonna spend 80 minutes just to get one key. (and unless you level with crafting or scrolls, I’m sure 80 minutes is going to be on the low side of the time needed).

Well I need 3 more scraps for a complete ticket and no way in heck I’m using real money on gambling, so I shall certainly be doing this a bit more. :P