Guild Wars 2

As it transitions into an ‘overflow’ area.

Niceeeeeeeeeee.

are you disabling kill credits? isnt that what theyre farming, and not so much the loot? or did it turn into a heavy loot bag farm when someone realized drop tables dont scale or something?

Good. 99% of WvW players dont care about OS rewards or kill credits.

Wait what? where did all the posts go? even one of the devs posts deleted? I was shocked reading that kill trading is not against any rules set by Anet, I find that disgusting tbh, you should have higher standards, when I played wow if anyone kill traded they were banned, simple as that.
These kinda activitys cheapen your game, same as the custom arena rank farms, its a farce, set higher standards for your game, its a great game but it has a few open wounds like these that need fixing.

Troll’s cheapen the game, period. Anywhere in game where there’s been loot and fun, or even just mass fun, there’s someone getting jealous and trying to stop it. Unfortunately, the Dev’s seemed to side with them. Which, if anything, lessens my desire to support the game. The game SHOULD encourage players toward working together, cooperating, and generally playing nice. Instead it’s always about death, suffering, and pitting players against each other.

For this “issue”, I read the post and watched the video clip of those folks in EU. They were not harming anyone but, themselves. As I recalled, the first night of S2 Josh and Roy came into OS late at night. Because with all the map Q’s in T1, we even Q’d OS. The lobby became a brawl, bar fight, fight club, or whatever you want to call it. It was an absolute blast! In the end it’s no different than what is going on in the video. Mass death, a lot of bags, and a lot of fun.

I don’t mind the lowering of the drop rates, etc. It’s the terminology in the post about it I’m not liking.

Vavume.8065:

Wait what? where did all the posts go? even one of the devs posts deleted?

theres another one in general

FearedbytheGods.8617:

As it transitions into an ‘overflow’ area.

Niceeeeeeeeeee.

Where did you read that?

It would be nice if they did that but i see nothing on it so… false hope far worst then realty please do not make things up.

People go to Obsidian Sanctum to farm kills for Ultimate Dominator achievement and title.
Anet’s answer to issue – disable loot in Obsidian Sanctum.

/facepalmoftheyear2015

Yeah, apparently they don’t care about the title farming at all…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Obsidian-Sanctum-Issues/first#post4925571

Kaos.9162:

Yeah, apparently they don’t care about the title farming at all…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Obsidian-Sanctum-Issues/first#post4925571

At his point the title, like most of them, is just cosmetic and fluff. You can bag farm in EotM at a pretty high rate too.

Maybe dying should cost something. Put 50 silver death penalty in obsidian sanctum and whiners can blame these idiot farmers.

Junkpile.7439:

Maybe dying should cost something. Put 50 silver death penalty in obsidian sanctum and whiners can blame these idiot farmers.

Your idea isn’t smarter than Anet’s current solution.
But at least you have tried.

Temporarily disabled the looting of rewards, there really isn’t anyway to fix that situation in that zone unless you put the spawns on opposite sides of the map,

For now you will just see masses of people not bothering at all, I never seen this happening on NA, but it could be my timezone I play in that caused that, I did see it on twitch 1 day where an EU player was in there, but they where in a Queue for the BL’s and everything was Queued 20+ so what are players like that supposed to do now, sit in LA or just log out???

If the rewards in WvW where better for killing players then people wouldn’t farm such things.

insanemaniac.2456:

Vavume.8065:

Wait what? where did all the posts go? even one of the devs posts deleted?

theres another one in general

No, he’s right. Many of the posts were deleted, including mine, where I quoted Anet’s own Jessica Boettiger from about 6 months ago where she said kill trading was not against the rules. I wasn’t infracted, it only said my post was moved to a more relevant subforum, and included a link to the new thread. Clicking on it? Takes me to “this page does not exist.”

That’s one way of saying “more relevant” I suppose.

lmao, anet are being contradictory?!

2 years when people complained about siege trolls we got a red post saying that anet cannot control the playing style of a player, and hence the siege trolls were free to continue their sabotage.

But now this year apparently mike will actually ban you if you are caught doing it!
So why is that now? It didnt violate the rules of conduct before as we were told, but now it does? O.o
The rules havent changed, just their opinion of the matter. This is very very wrong! So what next could become a bannable offence?!

Funny part is that in wvw forum people seems to think that exploiting is ok and in PvE forum they don’t. I thought that these farmers were PvE players because it’s not hard job get ultimate dominator in wvw if you want it. PvE players seems to be much smarter than wvw players.

Gaile Gray.6029:

We’ve recently noted an increasing level of abuse of Obsidian Sanctum. To curtail undeserved rewards, the developers have temporarily disabled the looting of rewards from this area while they work on a more permanent fix.

Thanks for your understanding.

I’m fine with this as long as whatever changes are implemented don’t mess with GvGs. Also, while you’re looking into potential changes to OS please look into making it an overflow only map like EotM. It would certainly help ramp up competition and give GvGers some love by allowing us to get more GvGs!

Lol only update they will fix quickly in WvW because it directly affects the economy, but forget QoL fixes like the game breaking lag.

Joey.2769:

Lol only update they will fix quickly in WvW because it directly affects the economy, but forget QoL fixes like the game breaking lag.

I like my 10 second casting time on wells, marks etc.
+1 Anet for it.

GG now why not try and fix something we care about, like i dunno the 5-10 second skill lag most of the people on my server complain about in map chat and on teamspeak, there isn’t a minute that goies by when someone different complains.

GROMIT.7829:

GG now why not try and fix something we care about, like i dunno the 5-10 second skill lag most of the people on my server complain about in map chat and on teamspeak, there isn’t a minute that goies by when someone different complains.

Utilities…Yeah right

EBG SMC fight: https://youtu.be/E-M8YVuMlVU

Joey.2769:

GROMIT.7829:

GG now why not try and fix something we care about, like i dunno the 5-10 second skill lag most of the people on my server complain about in map chat and on teamspeak, there isn’t a minute that goies by when someone different complains.

Utilities…Yeah right

EBG SMC fight: https://youtu.be/E-M8YVuMlVU

“It’s working as intended, now look at the Shiny NEW White Pidgeon Wings in the gemstore for only over 9000 gems!!”

-Anet

Joey.2769:

Utilities…Yeah right

EBG SMC fight: https://youtu.be/E-M8YVuMlVU

That isnt lag, this is lag!

http://www.twitch.tv/bigo93/c/4070871

Orochimaru.4730:

Joey.2769:

Utilities…Yeah right

EBG SMC fight: https://youtu.be/E-M8YVuMlVU

That isnt lag, this is lag!

http://www.twitch.tv/bigo93/c/4070871

LOL wow

Gaile Gray.6029:

We’ve recently noted an increasing level of abuse of Obsidian Sanctum. To curtail undeserved rewards, the developers have temporarily disabled the looting of rewards from this area while they work on a more permanent fix.

Thanks for your understanding.

Good to know you have noticed and take action

Junkpile.7439:

Funny part is that in wvw forum people seems to think that exploiting is ok and in PvE forum they don’t. I thought that these farmers were PvE players because it’s not hard job get ultimate dominator in wvw if you want it. PvE players seems to be much smarter than wvw players.

I think you have that backwards. In the identical thread in General Discussion, people are saying these folks are being penalized for farming the title by playing “smartly and efficiently.”

That’s PvE mentality, where a farm is a farm is a farm.

why not just give each server its own instance of OS, or just make it nonhostile, do away with the farming and the troll ganking parties in there at the same time, maybe more people might actually like doing the jp

X T D.6458:

why not just give each server its own instance of OS, or just make it nonhostile, do away with the farming and the troll ganking parties in there at the same time, maybe more people might actually like doing the jp

Uhhhhh

People don’t go to OS for the JP anymore. You give each server their own instance then there are no more fight nights and no more cross-server GvGs. Have you been living under a rock?

X T D.6458:

why not just give each server its own instance of OS, or just make it nonhostile, do away with the farming and the troll ganking parties in there at the same time, maybe more people might actually like doing the jp

Because that would be horrible. OS Jo is supposed to be a JP that incorporates PvP as one of it’s obstacles. Beyond that , the whole reason the arena area was added to OS was to help appease GvGers and Duelers by giving them a place where they can do that outside of WVW maps and PvP.

GvG needs a real place, not a section of a jp

X T D.6458:

GvG needs a real place, not a section of a jp

Give it to us then All we got is arena at OS so we have to use it. Also those JP’s are at WvW, not PvE so u should get killed there, this give u some risk

I think they should, its ridiculous for Anet to call a section of a jp a gvg place. Especially considering it was the core pvp mode in gw1. Personally I never bother with OS, nothing for me there, I do wvw on bl’s and eb, but if people are going to abuse farming in OS like the way they are, they gotta change something and that includes giving gvg a real place

Gaile Gray.6029:

We’ve recently noted an increasing level of abuse of Obsidian Sanctum. To curtail undeserved rewards, the developers have temporarily disabled the looting of rewards from this area while they work on a more permanent fix.

Thanks for your understanding.

why didnt the credits for kills got disabled? thats the only reason why they r doing it.

hopefully ull fix that immediately before guild wars 2 loses its last prestige…

Could kills and experience pls be disabled, ty

beside the xxx of the arena titles there is no skill depending prestige and it’s only farm titles. How you get it in the end doesn’t matter.

Next goal is to make <100ap and lvl1 wvw to ud.keep on crying.

Junkpile.7439:

Maybe dying should cost something. Put 50 silver death penalty in obsidian sanctum and whiners can blame these idiot farmers.

No thanks. People do GvG there. And WvW certainly has losses – food, builds, siege and insignificant rewards. Additional costs are not needed. But points for thinking about it – more than Anet did obviously.

Just disable kill count for OS – simplest solution!

ULTD still recruiting Jade Sea and Desolation Players for Ultimate Dominator farm.

PM to Incomparable Guard / Adalwolf.