Minion masters in Bitterfrost Frontier?
It’s the easiest AFK farm build in the game. If they’re actually running around, I can’t say for sure why MM in particular, though.
anet should make the mobs at winterberries not drop any loot except the thing for thaw potion
It’s the easiest AFK farm build in the game. If they’re actually running around, I can’t say for sure why MM in particular, though.
its because with blood and dead magic specced the minions dont die.
Like spirit beastmaster ranger and turret engineer, the MM necro can just sit under trees, where the spawning time its lower, and farming drops and karma killing mobs thanks to Karmic Retribution (see karma to gold).
They also afk-farm at Ember Bay (after gaining the magic finding bonus) where the Sloth Feeder escort begin, killing the rolling devils while safely standing above a stone.
You see more necromancer because minions don’t die and keep better aggro.
Sadly, the reaper’s GS trait is picked only for Nightfall auto-attack while afk farming..
Is this practic allowed by Anet?
No, and you can report the afk farming player but a arenanet staff member intervention is needed to see if the player is truly afk.
Is this practic allowed by Anet?
Being AFK is not allowed. However, you need to hit three criteria for it to be a problem:
1. You are in an area where there is profit from your activity.
2. You are using some sort of skill or something.
3. You are unresponsive when a GM contacts you, or otherwise determined to actually be “not present”, rather than “sitting there and not paying much attention.”
Note that this does not include “you are unresponsive when other players contact you”, so there is no way for you, as a player, to know if this is breaking the rules.
Your best bet is, as indicated, report the player for botting: target them, right click the character icon, select report, and select the “botting” category. anet will handle it from there.
Bitterfrost is just a loot farm. It was cool for a few minutes until I realized it was just a bad map designed for mindless farming.
Just being there, standing around, should fill your bags while you AFK, the PvE engagement is so poor; hence the current meta. The map would surely die without so much frozen chest opening, as tedious as it it.
Core Tyria maps are much more engaging as is Lake Doric. Bitterfrost needs a major rework.