Guild Wars 2

Hey there I just got back from vacation and checked reddit.

Now in HoT (tangled depths I think it was) theres an event where you gotta give trophies to a NPC and meanwhile there are lots and lots of mushrooms spawning to attack you. I’ve heard that many players use this event to farm HoT Exp and ofc they do not give any trophies to the NPC.

I don’t wanna do it without “permission” or the knowledge that this is not bannable.

So my question: is it?

Greetings from germany!

I haven’t tried it myself so I don’t know but one of the first patches after release was supposed to fix this:

“Tangled Depths:

Removed experience from mushrooms in the “Collect spore samples and turn them in to Kott’s Assistant” event to prevent experience farming."

People have been farming their XP in places like CoF and gotten a lot of it and no one has done anything to stop this or, to my knowledge, come out and said it shouldn’t be done.

Why would doing the same thing in Maguuma be a problem?

Celtic Lady.3729:

People have been farming their XP in places like CoF and gotten a lot of it and no one has done anything to stop this or, to my knowledge, come out and said it shouldn’t be done.

Why would doing the same thing in Maguuma be a problem?

Because the mobs in CoF that people farm does not give any loot. Mushrooms did i think, same as the skelks. Might been different if they did not give any loot, maybe.

Arahzor.1832:

Celtic Lady.3729:

People have been farming their XP in places like CoF and gotten a lot of it and no one has done anything to stop this or, to my knowledge, come out and said it shouldn’t be done.

Why would doing the same thing in Maguuma be a problem?

Because the mobs in CoF that people farm does not give any loot. Mushrooms did i think, same as the skelks. Might been different if they did not give any loot, maybe.

Oh, okay. lol I didn’t think about that distinction. Geez. It always comes back to loot obsession for them, doesn’kitten Oh noez! A player might get some loot… lol

Do you realize how much loot you could get from farming CoF 1 if those mobs dropped loot. With one guy running in circles hitting all the braziers, that room spawns 1 mob per SECOND. 60 loot drops per minute. That would wreck the prices of a lot of things.

The prices of a lot of things are already wrecked.

T6 mats, anyone?

gw2 economy was a wreck before HoT… now its an unmitigated disaster. Fail economy… They need to fix it.

They said there would be a mess until things rebalanced. This isn’t something that can happen within a week.

So no one has a definite answer for this?

If you have to ask then you probably shouldn’t do it.

Vetkin.6041:

So no one has a definite answer for this?

I thought the answer was quoted above: You can’t get experience from the mushrooms anymore, so it can’t be used to farm experience. I have no idea, but that seems pretty straightforward to me.