Guild Wars 2

Firebaall.5127:

The closer we get to Halloween, the more toxic this issue of balm farming seems to get.

It’s really brought out the worst behaviour in the player base. I’ve seen entire guilds trolling popular spots, effectively shutting down entire areas where balm farmers tend to gather. They set up macros to auto spam attacks, killing all ambients instantly…for hours at a time.

I’ve seen cooperating farmers turn on each other, fighting over the same resource.

I would like to see this taken out of the game, or have the opportunity of ambient clusters increased though out the game to avoid the trolls and other conflicts. It’s just not worth the harassment and abuse.

If you ever thought PvP players could get toxic to each other, try seeing what balm farming can do.

Heck, I went to the spot in queensdale one last week to find someone standing on the building named “No Farm here” with a guild tag [ToT]. can’t remember the exact guild name but it was basically the same idea. Anti-maize balm farm guild.

Why some people go to such lengths to ruin other people’s fun I’ll never understand. I just wanted to use up all of my maize balm before Halloween but I guess I won’t be able to do that because people are jerks.

If someone comes thru killing the ambients I don’t get hostile to them. I just roll my eyes and leave and try to come back later. There’s no point in getting kitteny and if someone is legit trying to troll that’s what they want is you to get kitteny with them.

There’s more than a few of them doing this.

I’ve even had to deal with entire groups/guilds coming up to me, calling me a botter for farming. That’s bad enough, but then some of them will turn on their commander tags, and shout out in map chat to come to their tag, and report.

All I can do is report them, which I don’t think does anything, since you seem to need bulk reports to affect a player (independent of wrong doing or not).

This is a hostile situation that needs a larger scale solution.

It’s growing more because it’s almost Halloween and new items are being added to ToT bags. Use brain.

vanderwolf.7084:

It’s growing more because it’s almost Halloween and new items are being added to ToT bags. Use brain.

We know why there is an increase. There’s no reason for you to be insulting. There is no excuse for what certain players/groups of players are doing to others now. Report abuse by these groups are stressing support’s resources, and causing grief.

This is a bad situation all the way around.

Hopefully anet looks at the Halloween loot tables.

The maize balms and 2 copper foods and tonics need to not drop again this year. The recipes are fine, but the items themselves need to stop.

Hopefully we get new stuff instead, or they at least dump some quartz or zhaitaffy back into the market.