Let me give you the quick and dirty of how Diminished Returns or DR kind of works.
If you park your character by a spot where an event kicks off (lets say: Defend this WP from waves of angry quaggan for 3 minutes) and you do nothing else but slaughter waves of quagon every 10 minutes when the event starts, eventually, the game will throttle your rewards. The reason it does this is an implementation of anti – bot code.
Now, let’s say you slaughter the waves of angry quaggain, then, move to another area and defend another WP, this time from wave after wave of michevious skritt. Then, you escort some poor farmer back home, while defending him from snowball hurling drunken norn. After doing these events, you return to your quaggan besieged waypoint, and fend off the ravening hords…. you get the same rewards.
If you ever want to see it for yourself in action, park your character at an event spawn point and don’t leave it. Jot down your Exp / Karma / Coin rewards each time you do the event. In between, chat with friends, watch TV, or read a book. You will notice that the first time, the event rewards 350 karma, the second time, maybe 313 karma, the 3rd time, 202 karma…. (those are silly numbers pulled from thin air.) This is DR in action, working as intended.
As has been said, keep moving, don’t farm the same mobs / content over and over again, and you’ll be fine. Doesn’t mean you have to leave the map, just move around to the different things happening on the map.
GL out there!
LVL 80’s: Thief / Warrior / Guardian / Mesmer
