Guild Wars 2

Hi there,

Returning player here. As I’m sure you’re well aware Guild Wars 2 has diminishing returns implemented on events so that repeating the same event over and over will not provide full rewards every time. To avoid this in the silverwastes, which I’m sure you’re also aware is chock full of events, I rotate to make sure I never hit the same event more than once to avoid this diminishing returns.

Well, it’s not working. I’m still getting hit by diminished returns and I have no idea why. I started keeping track today, counting the events and the rewards. For the first 10 events, no problem. Full reward:

XP – Karma – Copper
18669 – 378 – 88

However, the instant I hit event 11, diminishing returns kicked in hard:
17736 – 359 – 84
16803 – 340 – 79
15869 – 321 – 75

Etc. This is a severe bug that drastically reduces my enjoyment of the game. I am not staying in one spot on the map. I am not doing the same event over and over. I am purposefully and intentionally moving all over to avoid diminishing returns, guarding each of the 4 forts, escorting each of the 4 resource

Please advise as to what actions I can take to avoid these severe penalties in the future while farming silverwastes as it was clearly intended to be farmed.

I don’t play more than 3-4 hours per day, and less than half of that is spent in the silverwastes so there’s no possible way my account could be getting tagged as botting. I am always an active participant and receive gold level reward. Thank you for your time!

I joined a new map and started logging my events and noticed some extremely strange behavior.

Event 1 – Escort Red Supplies – 14k~ xp (continued diminishing returns)
Event 2 – Defend Red Rock Basin – 18.6k xp (full credit)
Event 3 – Escort Yellow Supplies – 13k~ xp (continued diminishing returns !?!?!?)
Event 4 – Defend Amber Sandfall – 18.6k xp (full credit)

Before I could finish defending the Blue Oasis the Breach occured

Event 5 – Blue Oasis Breach champion (I’m blanking on name) – 18.6k xp (full credit)
Event 6 – VW Champion 1 – 13k xp (continued diminishing returns)
Event 7 – VW Champion 2 – 12k xp (continued diminishing returns)
Event 8 – VW Champion 3 – 12k xp ???

Event 9 – VW Post Champion 1 – 9.3k
Event 10 – VW Post Champion 2 – 8.4k
Event 11 – VW Post Champion 3 – 7.4k

Have you tried changing characters? Whenever I’ve hit DR (used to happen on the old Champ Trains), changing to a different character cleared it right away.

Good luck.

Oh I hadn’t thought to try that. Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll try it tonight and report back.

When Event DR hits, it’s more drastic than a 10% drop, which is what you are showing; it’s closer to 50% less and you stop getting bouncy chests. It might be that each of these events has a different amount of base XP.

This looks more like the difference in XP after adding or losing buffs. A few of the newer boosters affect XP across all forms of XP, for example.

Try looking at karma, which also drop by set ratios when you are affected by event DR. Karma is affected by fewer buffs and so would be easier to troubleshoot. (You can continue to look at XP, for comparison purposes.)

Good luck and please keep us posted.