Guild Wars 2

I’m surprised people are doing this. Through the generic course of getting key points on the map for my Revenant and going through basic events and story, I’ve already received enough Tyrian mastery points that I’m just throwing them into places where I don’t need them.

I’m also a bit surprised that people aren’t running multiple dungeons. I mean, if you’re going to grind experience in dungeons, you might as well grind tokens and gold, too.

Well it’s their choice for taking the easy path. I’d do the same if I had bought HoT, I’d probably try to skip the HoT masteries too.
Rush through the story kitten as fast as possible to get the reward and never ever do that again.

“Someone is not playing EXACTLY like me… NERF THEM TILL THEY DO…” /sarcasmoff

you gain mastery points as you “lvl up” with exp. everything in this game gives you exp… when people found a way to “farm” exp its a exploit and should be nerfed and also its a way anet is making us grind….. seriously?

Ice.5162:

“I don’t like how grindy this mastery leveling! I will go and stand in one place hitting 1 for hours in CoF instead!”

It’s no better than any of the other older content you’ve done a thousand times before. Only faster.

Azure Prower.8701:

It’s no better than any of the other older content you’ve done a thousand times before. Only faster.

Sorry but I don’t remember standing still and pressing 1 over and over again for hours for the last 3 years.

I don’t know how you play the game, but I actually have fun in it.

luzt.7692:

I don’t get why these mobs are giving xp in CoF. They respawn endlessly!
And does it matter if its a FARM or a GRIND? It’s ridiculous that its part of the game.

What do you mean its ridiculous that its part of the game? Pick a game and you can farm something in it to varying effect. It’s not a part of the game but a byproduct of impatient gamers. So long as there is content that yields some kind of progress (be it money, XP, reputation, whatever), people will find the fastest, most efficient way to do it, regardless of how mind numbing it is.

Anet didn’t set up this farm, the players did. They are the ridiculousness, not the game.

Diminishing returns is the only way to combat farming (which honestly I don’t see why people care so much. I rarely farm, and I certainly could give two kittens less if others do it). All this griping is only going to cause some serious DR changes. Then we’ll see some serious griping from the other end of the spectrum.

It’s like a god kitten see-saw. One side happy, other angry. Make changes to make angry people happy, now happy people angry.

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

It is someone’s own problem how they chose to lvl their stuff.

Yes this way is super fast compared to anything else, yes we may laugh at them, but since there is no official response from Anet, you can’t report them for exploiting.

If that would count as exploiting, then dungeon skipping should too. Both situations are content played not the way it is designed to be played…

Why exactly does it bother you how others play the game? Are they taking something away from you?

Substance E.4852:

Serophous.9085:

Looks more like self inflicted grind to me

People want the new stuff now to play with, tinker around with until they get bored. Then demand new content immediately in that short period of time.

Arguably yes, but Anet did this to themselves when they locked Fractal and Legendary Mastery behind xp grind.

Yes, it’s called leveling. It’s just a flexible leveling system that doesn’t obsolete gear.

And once they speed level all their masteries they will be back complaining that there isn’t anything to do.

Why are people complaining if you want to grind through masteries exploiting the games flaws (purposely failing CS events, running CoF, normally doing SW) so be it.

If you want to go about getting your masteries the slow and steady route, go ahead. That fact that your taking personal offense to this is hilarious

Speculating on what people will or will not complain about is a non issue. You don’t know what they will do, you’re only guessing for the sake of furthering your argument.

Orangensaft.7139:

cof takes less than 12h to get all 3 masteries 100%

maybe 7 hours

Wow, a lost less than I thought. I was just going by Brazil’s video where he said it took about 12 hours of straight farming. Though, he did say he spent some time just running laps to keep himself awake.

Behellagh.1468:

Substance E.4852:

Serophous.9085:

Looks more like self inflicted grind to me

People want the new stuff now to play with, tinker around with until they get bored. Then demand new content immediately in that short period of time.

Arguably yes, but Anet did this to themselves when they locked Fractal and Legendary Mastery behind xp grind.

Yes, it’s called leveling. It’s just a flexible leveling system that doesn’t obsolete gear.

No it just locks away pretty much of the new game features that were the selling point, and core content, of the expansion.

Anet destroyed dungeons to incentivize fractals and made a massive deal about precursor crafting and new legendaries. This is what people want to do.

If they want to bypass the pointless time gate to actually experience it then more power to them.

Behellagh.1468:

And once they speed level all their masteries they will be back complaining that there isn’t anything to do.

People are always going to complain about not enough to do in an MMO. Maybe instead of kittening at the rain, just go enjoy the game.

Draknar.5748:

/snip

It’s like a god kitten see-saw. One side happy, other angry. Make changes to make angry people happy, now happy people angry.

We already see this happening with the hero points/elite spec. the people that thought it was to much were complaining. Anet changes it. Now all the people that got it are complain that their prestige is gone. you can’t make everyone happy. As for as the CoF farm, I don’t care either way but i was expecting Anet to nerf it because they like to nerf things. Even nerf the nerf gun.

Behellagh.1468:

And once they speed level all their masteries they will be back complaining that there isn’t anything to do.

I keep hearing this but I don’t exactly understand how grinding for features qualifies as “something to do”.

People want content – I want content.
I want new maps, new weapons, new enemies, new encounters and so on.
What I don’t want are pseudo-reasons to redo old content over and over again because a new feature that’s been added to the game is locked and I have to do old content a lot in order to obtain it.

New features should be tied to new content. Or if they’re going to affect the base game they should be unlocked by default.

Ice.5162:

Azure Prower.8701:

It’s no better than any of the other older content you’ve done a thousand times before. Only faster.

Sorry but I don’t remember standing still and pressing 1 over and over again for hours for the last 3 years.

I don’t know how you play the game, but I actually have fun in it.

You must have a bad memory.

Also your definition of fun is not absolute.