Guild Wars 2

Is it possible to stop the chests from spawning during the Pact preparation and breach? And only make them available during the break in between? Otherwise those of us who want to do the events keep getting screwed over while most of the map just runs in circles until they all run out of shovel and upscale the events which normally at most have 3 people actually doing them them.
If I change maps, and am able to with the help of the other complete a successful breach it invariably turns back into a key farm and I am told to leave because I am doing the events, and that they were here first. Even if I am in the map from the fist level, and no key farm is taking place, they were ALWAYS there first.

It screws over most of the map that wants to do chest farming. From what I have seen the past couple weeks, there’s normally a map or two that specifically chest farms and then does the breach/VW when it’s eventually time to do them. You may have found your way onto one of those maps.

Its just incompetent commanders that dont stop chest trains for breaches.

Most trains will defend forts once in a while for shovels anyway, and running the Breach and the Vinewraith is usually worth it for the hero buff.

Then again the Vinewraith doesnt really drop anything of note, and you can hardly complain that chest farmers prevent you from boss farming.

Please, if a map becomes a chest farm and the majority move on to do that, find a new map. There are dozens of SW taxis throughout the day in the general LFG area. If you have to find a new map again after that, well then, that happens. There are taxis all the time. Sorry if the mood of the map does not suit your wishes but sometimes we have to seek out the proper map.

I can because 3 maps in 2 days have
1) Not stopped chest farming
2)Upscaled events by running through them without doing anything
3) Start on a map where I was there from phase one or previously completed a breach
4)Interrupted an attempt at an organized map.
5) Asked me to leave because they were there first.

I never saw map with 4/4 fortresses and ~70% complete where is a chest farm, in my opinion this post is pure provocation. In game you can find such useful tool like LFG where everyone could find map with content for them and there is a lot of maps with sw > 50% , sw with chestfarms , even sw with certain legendary spawned. There is no need to nerf anything, if You have enough shovels then You should be able to open as many chests as You want in anytime

@Khesi:

did you actually read the op properly? She never mentioned that it was happening on a 4/4 map. She was saying that after the vinewrath event they would start the chest farm train (which she was fine with) but once it was time to capture the camps again they would just continue the train and upscale the defending events when only 3 or so people were actually defending it. And when she complained or mentioned needing some help everyone would be bashing her or saying to get off the map saying that they were always there first when they weren’t. But the point of staying on the map is to keep the magic find buff you get after beating the vinewrath event.

There is no legitimate reason to complain about chest farming in SW. For every map that is chest farming, there are 5 maps that aren’t. It literally takes 5 seconds to open the LFG and find one.

I really can’t stand people like you OP (no offence). Instead of moving to another map you start arguing in map chat and spread toxicity.

I can because 3 maps in 2 days have
1) Not stopped chest farming

Yeah, that’s why they’re there. To farm chests.

2)Upscaled events by running through them without doing anything

Yeah, because they’re there to farm chests, not do events.

3) Start on a map where I was there from phase one or previously completed a breach

The fact that you completed a breach on a map doesn’t give you any more rights, entitlement or control over the map that any recently arrived players. Also, new maps are the best to start chest farms, so they won’t interrupt existing maps where people be attempting the meta event.

4)Interrupted an attempt at an organized map.

So it’s wrong to start on empty maps (Point 3) and it’s wrong to start on existing maps? It’s gotta be one or the other. Besides, I have rarely seen a chest farm interrupt a map, they mostly start on empty ones.

5) Asked me to leave because they were there first.

So if you’re there first they’re not allowed to start chest farming (point 3) but when they’re there first you won’t accept it? Talk about double standards. If they are chest farming and you start to complain about it, obviously they tell you to find another map, it takes a few seconds to do so. What’s wrong about that?

So as you can see, you’re not making much sense. in the future I recommend you to just move to another map, it saves both parts from a lot of negativity and toxicity.

@Moonless Midnight

yeah I understand, but if this map was “created” by ppl wanted dig some chests so what’s wrong with this ? there is so many other maps with good commanders and 99,9% chance to not fail breach.

There are plenty of us that farm maps and make maps to do the events as intended. Last night my friend and I stayed in one map for three successful breaches in the same map. We almost always got the map full or near full by 20% with Advertising the map on LFG. There are A LOT of people who like to do the events. You just have to look through the LFG and be a little patient at times.

The POINT is that I with some guildies STARTED a breach map, successfully ran a breach, and brought people in to breach, and I ADVERTISED on LFG for a BREACH map, which then got TURNED into a keyfarm map between events, and the I got TOLD to leave. What is wrong with keyfarming-nothing if they do it on THEIR own map, but they don’t, or stop between events, but should I have to wait for 100 people to run out of shovels on a map I STARTED? They wait for a breach jump ship, and then farm until they are out of shovels again effectively RUINING the maps they jump into and telling people who where there first to GIVE UP THEIR hard earned magic find boost because they decided this map looks good.
And by the by @Garrisyl they created the toxicity when someone asked them to help with the event that they up leveled and they started yelling about how THEY OWNED the map, and saying that anyone who event THOUGHT that they should help was several unrepeatable words.

WingzofIsis.4809:

The POINT is that I with some guildies STARTED a breach map, successfully ran a breach, and brought people in to breach, and I ADVERTISED on LFG for a BREACH map, which then got TURNED into a keyfarm map between events, and the I got TOLD to leave. What is wrong with keyfarming-nothing if they do it on THEIR own map, but they don’t, or stop between events, but should I have to wait for 100 people to run out of shovels on a map I STARTED? They wait for a breach jump ship, and then farm until they are out of shovels again effectively RUINING the maps they jump into and telling people who where there first to GIVE UP THEIR hard earned magic find boost because they decided this map looks good.
And by the by @Garrisyl they created the toxicity when someone asked them to help with the event that they up leveled and they started yelling about how THEY OWNED the map, and saying that anyone who event THOUGHT that they should help was several unrepeatable words.

You dont own maps, regardless of what you do.
People decide to turn your precious breach map into a farm fest?

Deal with it.

And this is how I choose to deal with it. ^^

Yeah, these farmers are really annoying.

WingzofIsis.4809:

The POINT is that I with some guildies STARTED a breach map, successfully ran a breach, and brought people in to breach, and I ADVERTISED on LFG for a BREACH map, which then got TURNED into a keyfarm map between events, and the I got TOLD to leave. What is wrong with keyfarming-nothing if they do it on THEIR own map, but they don’t, or stop between events, but should I have to wait for 100 people to run out of shovels on a map I STARTED? They wait for a breach jump ship, and then farm until they are out of shovels again effectively RUINING the maps they jump into and telling people who where there first to GIVE UP THEIR hard earned magic find boost because they decided this map looks good.
And by the by @Garrisyl they created the toxicity when someone asked them to help with the event that they up leveled and they started yelling about how THEY OWNED the map, and saying that anyone who event THOUGHT that they should help was several unrepeatable words.

I think it is unreasonable to expect a map to remain non-farm after vw.

Most people leave after a successful run, and what more can farmers do other than start on a fresh map?

The times when I’ve been on a farm map and looked in LFG, the only SW parties were for farming. This may be a matter of region and time, but that’s been my experience.

As it is, there is a divide in the community. People have different wishes that are in conflict with each other. If the chests only spawned in between assaults, then there would be a commonality of purpose for everyone on the map.

Its the WvW problem all over again. The area is an instance designed for a major objective, and the people doing that major objective are hindered by stragglers who want to do the small side distractions within that zone. Just like the guy who goes into wvw to craft on reset, people who are chest farming are detracting from the larger goal of the zone. Anet didnt create the map so you could be mindless sheep. Thats just how many people want to use it. I agree, chests should only spawn in time between VW and beginning of event cycle.

i have yet to have a problem with events or farming do the the other