Guild Wars 2

Here my is first HoT feedback so far.

I’ve completed my legendary and dont need Crystalline Ore. I’m doing hot for oil,spark,dust.

So when you open Noxious Pods, you have a chance to get one of those there. When you do 3x full pod run, you get way too less spark/oil/dust than any of the other maps would give you. I mean,

If you do 3x DS, you get less and less than doing 1x VB, 1x TD and 1xAB. Duration is roughly comparable.

So here are my feedbacks to balance this out.
- Make dust,spark,oil drop 100% in the pods.
- Maybe a way to exchange Crystalline Ore with dust,spark,oil.

Or this one will be interesting.
- Remove dust,spark,oil drop. Add one new item and make it exchangable 1:1 with others.

TL;DR
Doing DS is inefficient for getting spark,oil,dust.

Some people do DS for the fun of the event – not just for farming.

Blockhead Magee.3092:

Some people do DS for the fun of the event – not just for farming.

Why can’t you do both? I think the OPs comments are perfectly reasonable and I agree. I do DS because I think it is fun, but also like to get the appropriate loot as well. I’m not complaining here as for the most part I’ve been happy with the balance, but didn’t notice the OPs issue. I think it is valid to look at those drop rates.

DS has a ridiculously short timer and hostile mobs compared with NO timer in VB or TD and an easy timer in AB so DS drops should be MUCH better to balance them.

AB, the only other timed ‘looting’ phase has all of the chests in a nice compact and easy to find space where as DS you have to scramble all over the map with little chance of getting them all. The ‘keys’ are also much more expensive so much adjustment is needed.

rhodoc.2381:

So here are my feedbacks to balance this out.
- Make dust,spark,oil drop 100% in the pods.
- Maybe a way to exchange Crystalline Ore with dust,spark,oil.

Or this one will be interesting.
- Remove dust,spark,oil drop. Add one new item and make it exchangable 1:1 with others.

TL;DR
Doing DS is inefficient for getting spark,oil,dust.

If you doing that, all maps other than DS will be empty and no one will want to do them. DS is already full of people, and this idea seems really bad. If you want others items just go on others maps instead of DS.

I think the idea was worded wrong,

What it should be is this

VB – Airship Cargo – should always contain at least 1, Bottle of Airship Oil
AB – Exalted Chest(all versions) – should always contain at least 1, Pile of Auric Dust
TD – Crystallized Supply Cache – should always contain at least 1, Ley Line Spark
DS – Noxious Pods – should always contain at least any 1 of the above

These items are needed for legendarys, you already have to grind the events for the items needed to buy the Crowbars, Keys, Acid, Machete ( Machete needing more than 1 item to buy )

You can also grind events for the items but its much slower, the point is there is already to much RnG, (which is 1 of the biggest complained about things in the game due it being broken)

When I made Nevermore, I would say I easily opened 400-500 of each, cache, cargo, pod and chests, trying to get the 250 of each, on top of the already 800 of each item I needed for gifts, this is not how you get replay ability, if anything it burned me out so badly, that I haven’t been back into the HoT maps since making the Legendary.

Simple solution…..

Remove the other items from Noxious pods. Compensate said zone specific currency maps by increasing the numbers gained from their chest to be on par with Crystaline Ore.

Invictus.1503:

Blockhead Magee.3092:

Some people do DS for the fun of the event – not just for farming.

Why can’t you do both? I think the OPs comments are perfectly reasonable and I agree. I do DS because I think it is fun, but also like to get the appropriate loot as well. I’m not complaining here as for the most part I’ve been happy with the balance, but didn’t notice the OPs issue. I think it is valid to look at those drop rates.

I wasn’t saying that his idea was bad. I was just pointing out that people are not only in there to farm.

What’s the purpose of the other maps if DS gives you everything you need for the same effort?

more like Ob-Noxious Pods eh guys?

This suggestion might cause people to desert the other maps though, which should be taken into account.

rhodoc.2381:

Doing DS is inefficient for getting spark,oil,dust.

Umm, duh. Dragon’s Stand doesn’t need to give sparks or oil or dust. It gives exactly what it should, the others are just bonuses. You should have to play each region to get their specific item, not just play one. Your complaint has no basis, as DS was never designed for getting spark, oil, and dust and never should be.

Ok I Did It.2854:

When I made Nevermore, I would say I easily opened 400-500 of each, cache, cargo, pod and chests, trying to get the 250 of each, on top of the already 800 of each item I needed for gifts, this is not how you get replay ability, if anything it burned me out so badly, that I haven’t been back into the HoT maps since making the Legendary.

I stopped to farm like a idiot when i realized that it was more time efficient to do 7 times the personal HoT story for 40 crystalline ore per run instead of farming each map for currencies to buy machetes and open RNG Noxious pods for a chance to get Crystalline ore.

Blockhead Magee.3092:

Invictus.1503:

Blockhead Magee.3092:

Some people do DS for the fun of the event – not just for farming.

Why can’t you do both? I think the OPs comments are perfectly reasonable and I agree. I do DS because I think it is fun, but also like to get the appropriate loot as well. I’m not complaining here as for the most part I’ve been happy with the balance, but didn’t notice the OPs issue. I think it is valid to look at those drop rates.

I wasn’t saying that his idea was bad. I was just pointing out that people are not only in there to farm.

Everyone in Dragon’s Stand is there to farm, whether it’s loot or exp or collection items. That’s all the zone actually has to offer.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Blockhead Magee.3092:

Invictus.1503:

Blockhead Magee.3092:

Some people do DS for the fun of the event – not just for farming.

Why can’t you do both? I think the OPs comments are perfectly reasonable and I agree. I do DS because I think it is fun, but also like to get the appropriate loot as well. I’m not complaining here as for the most part I’ve been happy with the balance, but didn’t notice the OPs issue. I think it is valid to look at those drop rates.

I wasn’t saying that his idea was bad. I was just pointing out that people are not only in there to farm.

Everyone in Dragon’s Stand is there to farm, whether it’s loot or exp or collection items. That’s all the zone actually has to offer.

Please do not speak for everybody. I for one like the mechanics of a number of fights. I enjoy the zone for the zone’s sake.