Guild Wars 2

While I agree that something needed to change, to half the spawn rate of centaurs is exactly counter intuitive. The entire point of the centaur camp was to have a steady source of leather, which is now halved returning us to the original leather drought.

A fix I suggested on reddit, I will make here again;

To instead have some immortal centaurs waiting on the side who will make rains of arrows fall at certain time intervals, either a few small AoEs, or one big AoE, but the point is that the people have to move around. The result is that the farm is steady and alive, but can’t be AFK’d.

I don’t recall them posting in the patch notes: we added a bunch of centaurs hoping people would AFK farm there.

One of the biggest problems that AFK farm created was that map completion was nearly impossible since the farmers scaled the area soo much that no one could get the map done without a zerg or perma-stealth.

The spawn rate was cut in half? Did that just happen? Ninja update?

Or, you know, lower the amount required to refine into cured T6 leather squares and then nerf the spawn rate so the farm is only somewhat worth it.

Engineer farm… they have no impact on leather, they farm crap and are slowly killing the map.

The leather farm was announced when the map came out.
The nerf on the spawning rate was also announce.

DeanBB.4268:

The spawn rate was cut in half? Did that just happen? Ninja update?

• Increased the respawn time on several centaur spawns in Lake Doric.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-May-16-2017/6592508

It took two weeks to realise this was updated?

FrizzFreston.5290:

It took two weeks to realise this was updated?

It’s hard to notice when afking

The intent was good, the execution was less than desirable from all standpoints and it has nothing to do with Engineer.

When you announce a “group farming” location, you open yourself up to this kind of abuse.

What should have been done is something more natural like just increasing how much you get from salvaging, or the rate of acquisition from salvaging. If those still don’t solve the problem reduce the numbers needed in recipes.

You know logical steps. Not lets just create a bandaid fix for a much larger scale issue.

Vitali.5039:

FrizzFreston.5290:

It took two weeks to realise this was updated?

It’s hard to notice when afking

I personally didn’t know, I learned about it 4 days ago from a guildy.
It’s not an issue that affects me personally, but I feel like anet did a botched job in trying to fix it, and so I try to suggest an alternative. I do this not because I care about the leather farm, but because if anet gets away with botch fixes here, they will get away with botch fixes elsewhere, so it does concern me indirectly.

Like the botch leather balance fix and this botched farm fix?