Guild Wars 2

So I got back to Gw2 a couple days ago and was leveling a new character. I figured I’d hop on the Queensdale train a bit, was going well, made a couple levels that way, then yesterday for some reason I stopped earning full rewards from the boss events.

I figured meh, and Dc’d for the day, today I come back on, hop on the train, do 2-3 laps and suddenly boom, my event rewards drop again. the character is level 36ish and was receiving around 1000 exp per boss kill gold medal. Now after the drop I’m getting 50ish. Same thing with karma, it just dropped to ridiculous amounts.

I don’t recall this ever happening before so I wonder, whats up with that? Its not a tagging problem since I’m still getting Gold and have no problem dishing out damage or finishing objectives.

Anyone can enlighten me on this?

This isn’t new. Repeating the same event too frequently will result in what you see.

‘Anti-farm code’.

Most know it as “Diminishing Returns”, though one plus to it is that it only gets applied to a single character and not to the entire account (in dungeons it is account, though). So if you hit the DR wall then go to another zone or switch characters entirely and come back to that one later.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Diminishing_returns

How interesting, troublesome and yet well done.

So if I do a Dungeon, i should avoid doing another path of the same Dungeon, since DR would be applied? Or if i do a Dungeon and finish within 30 min, i should avoid doing any other Dungeon because of the said DR? What can i do inbetween the said Dungeons, to avoid the DR to show up?

As for Dynamic Events it is said that it is based on map and a certain number of events, that should last around 3h, yet OP said he did 2-3runs and hit the wall, and that wouldn’t be even close to 3h. Also, if I do 1 event on other map and come back to train, would the DR issue be solved? I assume that AFKing for a couple hours or relog wouldn’t do anything – and im curious how to solve this without changing character.

I was off the game for quite a few months, I guess they implemented this after I left.

Kinda lame how it punishes you for farming Karma or just flat out farming.

Bots will simply switch to node teleporting and they have no use for karma in the first place, meanwhile players actually playing get punished just because…

Just feels silly