Guild Wars 2

I just started playing and finding the economy of this game to be one of its weakest points, nothing sells and money is hard to get. I figured Id counter some of this buy crafting, but i need way to many Small Fine Items and trading post is out of the question due to prices vs income. I figure I guess ill just suck it up and farm for them, then I hear this mystery Anti Farm code which punishes players for doing something they want or have to do for too long, NO INFORMATION on how long it lasts, how long till you get it, where you can go to counter it nothing. So here i am lvling far past my crafting tier and not using this game system because I cant. I love this game so far but this lack of ecnomomy and variety in it with anti bot mechanics that hurt players is far worse then any other MMO ive played in a long time.

Just go farm. When your loot doesn’t seem like its what you think it oughta be…go farm elsewhere or wait awhile before farming the same area again.

Yeah, I noticed this during my time farming for Tiny Scales over the weekend. I wondered what was going on. The first ten or so Drakes were dropping something (with the occasional scale), but then it started being only 1 of 3 that would be lootable at all, and a scale only 20 or so of them.

Yeah, it is a pain.

Cheers.

If they told us all about their anti-farming algorithms, bots would use that to further their farming. Take a break, farm somewhere else, play an alt. Get out, see the world they made for us.

We should start tracking what the average loot should look like. I’m level 35 so far it seems 1 in 3 is considered decent. At times I feel like this game is broken with how much effort you put in vs get back. I’m sure I’ve never been hit with anti farm thing yet. Its bad just normally playing the game. You lose money salvaging vs vendering. Lose money selling anything I craft. Get maybe 30 silver selling resources that took all day to acquire. Nothing in this game makes me feel like its worth the time. Thankfully I’m playing because its fun. But when I have a specific goal in mind in the future the effort won’t be worth it.

I farmed in Orr for about 4 hours over three days and made 8 gold in TP and Vendor sales. Gold isn’t that hard to come by if you boost your magic find with banners and food, then group up for event running in Orr.

The thing is I could move to a different Mob further down the map BUT from discussions we have no idea how to prevent it from ticking, if i spend 15 min one area killing birds then move to the other side of the map do do fish, does that count? we dont know, it could still kick in,

ciannait.1945:

If they told us all about their anti-farming algorithms, bots would use that to further their farming. Take a break, farm somewhere else, play an alt. Get out, see the world they made for us.

There are other ways to help vs bots that dont break the game for real players, you dont increase taxes on 99% of america to teach the 1% a lesson in how to pay taxes

I’ve had a serious issue with this from the beginning and not even with the items like blood or venom sacs I’m talking common materials like leather and cloth. It’s like they don’t want us to get any or something. I went and tried to farm coarse leather at the only place I could find where it drops it’s amazingly annoying to get 4 drops and then suddenly ALL greys.

And don’t get me started on MF and how that’s completely BORKED because it absolutely does nothing for my drops in fact at higher levels the more MF I have makes it drop lower and lower quality items. It’s weird I’ve done multiple tests on this and I actually get rares when i don’t have anything but the guild and food buffs on. smh And please to talk to me about statistics and such because it happens enough to me and to others that I know there’s something wrong with it. And yes I posted in the bugs forums.

To give you and example. I had 146% mf while running the highest zone both the events and random creatures along the way. nothing dropped at the 146% not even blues. I went back in my DPS gear with only my guild buff and my food buff on (40%) I got 10 greens and 3 rares. yeah.

ciannait.1945:

If they told us all about their anti-farming algorithms, bots would use that to further their farming. Take a break, farm somewhere else, play an alt. Get out, see the world they made for us.

Some of us are gathcraftsplorers that’s our play style.

tigirius.9014:

I’ve had a serious issue with this from the beginning and not even with the items like blood or venom sacs I’m talking common materials like leather and cloth. It’s like they don’t want us to get any or something. I went and tried to farm coarse leather at the only place I could find where it drops it’s amazingly annoying to get 4 drops and then suddenly ALL greys.

And don’t get me started on MF and how that’s completely BORKED because it absolutely does nothing for my drops in fact at higher levels the more MF I have makes it drop lower and lower quality items. It’s weird I’ve done multiple tests on this and I actually get rares when i don’t have anything but the guild and food buffs on. smh And please to talk to me about statistics and such because it happens enough to me and to others that I know there’s something wrong with it. And yes I posted in the bugs forums.

To give you and example. I had 146% mf while running the highest zone both the events and random creatures along the way. nothing dropped at the 146% not even blues. I went back in my DPS gear with only my guild buff and my food buff on (40%) I got 10 greens and 3 rares. yeah.

This is exactly what is going on with my ele in maps above lv 45. I tried to farm tier 4 mats in Timberline Falls where the Great OOUO is, and was instantly hit by a MF/ DR bug in the center of the map, “I JUST kittenING GOT HERE YOU STUPID GAME!” spending at least 3 silver twice to use two waypoints! and aniother 1.6 silver and another 1 silver 96c to repair one piece of armor/backbrace. I go to Harathi and it takes forever to hit DR, and I get 1 gold and 7 greens and over 40 blues using just 15% MF via dual Sup. Luck Sigils in my daggers and 24% MF food when under a boon. Thats 39% and I had a booster for a total of 89%. I seem to get better stuff when that booster is not on.

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

tigirius.9014:

I’ve had a serious issue with this from the beginning and not even with the items like blood or venom sacs I’m talking common materials like leather and cloth. It’s like they don’t want us to get any or something. I went and tried to farm coarse leather at the only place I could find where it drops it’s amazingly annoying to get 4 drops and then suddenly ALL greys.

And don’t get me started on MF and how that’s completely BORKED because it absolutely does nothing for my drops in fact at higher levels the more MF I have makes it drop lower and lower quality items. It’s weird I’ve done multiple tests on this and I actually get rares when i don’t have anything but the guild and food buffs on. smh And please to talk to me about statistics and such because it happens enough to me and to others that I know there’s something wrong with it. And yes I posted in the bugs forums.

To give you and example. I had 146% mf while running the highest zone both the events and random creatures along the way. nothing dropped at the 146% not even blues. I went back in my DPS gear with only my guild buff and my food buff on (40%) I got 10 greens and 3 rares. yeah.

This is exactly what is going on with my ele in maps above lv 45. I tried to farm tier 4 mats in Timberline Falls where the Great OOUO is, and was instantly hit by a MF/ DR bug in the center of the map, “I JUST kittenING GOT HERE YOU STUPID GAME!” spending at least 3 silver twice to use two waypoints! and aniother 1.6 silver and another 1 silver 96c to repair one piece of armor/backbrace. I go to Harathi and it takes forever to hit DR, and I get 1 gold and 7 greens and over 40 blues using just 15% MF via dual Sup. Luck Sigils in my daggers and 24% MF food when under a boon. Thats 39% and I had a booster for a total of 89%. I seem to get better stuff when that booster is not on.

Yep can relate man. It’s annoying from a crafting standpoint but more importantly it breaks the progression of the game. If one can’t farm the items needed to get the crafting materials to make exotic armor what does that leave us? Dungeon crawling for points (did that for 7 years in WoW don’t want to return to it) or grinding karma forever to get it to 252k to buy an entire set. I for one do not want this game to become one of “those” titles that starts off with a strong crafting system and ends up later on down the road as some mediocre crafting joke where people might as well not even level it to 400 because there is a more common way to get your stuff where you are forced to join a group wait for hours to go do something just because you’re trying to get enough people and people are too impatient to wait for the group to form.

Please fix MF Anet so that crafting is not destroyed and end game progression can move forward for those of us who have prepared to gather in this fashion. Rares should drop more often from higher MF not less, and they should always always drop from vets champs while using a higher MF, always.