Guild Wars 2

Zaklex.6308:

You’re buying the wrong thing, go to the second tag and buy the Bag of Bandit Loot, it’s all sorts of T5 and T6 crafting materials, which even if you have a full inventory of you can sell the excess on the TP, or just keep opening(you’ll also get an occasional Orichalcum tool, but I just trash those since I have unlimited tools, or keep just a few for other characters.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll give it a try the next time I’ve got a stash of crests.

chest farming is one thing you could do in SW. there is also pacman maze. breach and VW is another. i think we should be open to how players want to play their game.

you might not like chest farming but there are other players who do. i my self couldn’t stand more than 2 rounds of chest farming. usually i feel so sleepy after one round that i fell asleep, my character running against the wall lol…

Citronvand.2837:

Zaklex.6308:

You’re buying the wrong thing, go to the second tag and buy the Bag of Bandit Loot, it’s all sorts of T5 and T6 crafting materials, which even if you have a full inventory of you can sell the excess on the TP, or just keep opening(you’ll also get an occasional Orichalcum tool, but I just trash those since I have unlimited tools, or keep just a few for other characters.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll give it a try the next time I’ve got a stash of crests.

I forgot about those…has anyone looked at the returns of bags vs chests?

I’d much rather do the events and spend all my crests on bags if the returns are roughly the same.

azizul.8469:

you might not like chest farming but there are other players who do. i my self couldn’t stand more than 2 rounds of chest farming. usually i feel so sleepy after one round that i fell asleep, my character running against the wall lol..

I’m more inclined to believe the majority of people who chest farm do it because of the rewards, not because they think it is fun or enjoyable. The problem is that it gives the best reward per crest so of course people will do it. If there existed alternatives that gave roughly the same rewards I don’t think many people would continue the mindless chest farming. Yes, there are Stolen Bags of Loot but they don’t reward as much as the bandit chests (per crest).

Speaking of getting sleepy. I’m usually going for 100 keys/chests for my farming runs but twice now I had to quit before that because I was literally falling asleep.

Sube Dai.8496:

I forgot about those…has anyone looked at the returns of bags vs chests?

I’d much rather do the events and spend all my crests on bags if the returns are roughly the same.

I saw a post on reddit where one used 1500 crests. He came to the conclusion that spending crests on Stolen bags of loot gives ~40c per crest. He didn’t say how much crests spent on keys/chests gave but he did say it was a better profit, albeit boring.

tim.1280:

gvaughn.4163:

Outside of leveling / discovering and solo play, it’s difficult to find an area of this game that isn’t dominated by people farming.

SW – chest farm or afking waiting for VW to die to get loot
World Bosses – massive blobs
Dungeons – speed runs
EOTM – zerg farms
OS – suicide kill farming
WvW – blobs

Any kind of rewarding, difficult or new content is basically just blobbed and farmed. I can only come to the conclusion that this is what they want GW2 to be.

So players shouldn’t work together to complete common goals??

Is that what I said? No, I mentioned farming and blobbing specifically.

Also, you have very generous definition of “working together to compete common goals” – go to the Golem fight. People just stand on a box.

Akagami.9861:

What’s so wrong with chestfarming? it’s not like you can farm for 2-3 hours and get instant rich…sure you do get few rares…maybe 1-2 exotics, and a few T6 mats…but it takes time….and i do like to chest farm from time to time, it’s an easy action that doesn’t require much thinking/attention and i can do something else at the same time…

I think you are hating just cause some people are doing some money that way and you can’t.

Also VW events are really nice if you talk to people around you…i find that when most players can’t be bothered to say a few words events WILL fail and it’s just plain boring. But when you meet some that you can talk to, and joke with…and communicate, champions neveer fail and you have some fun at the same time.

It’s all about perspective…if you go in alone determined to be all alone and ingore everyone else, yeah you’re gonna have a bad time.

Why nerf down the chestfarm? they already did that once…let people play the way they want to play…why just force them to play your way? Don’t like it? don’t do chest farm or VW. But i enjoy both and i want to keep doing them both.

The problem isn’t that people want to chest farm, it’s that people afk at the events and wait to get the chests, or they turn every map into a chest farm.

I was in 3 maps in a row yesterday where people were farming. Had to just keep hopping around until I found one at like 5% where people were doing the event. It’s irritating not because people are making fake video game gold, but because people hijack every map to do it.