Guild Wars 2

Just as it the title says, I was leveling an alt in one of Scarlet’s invasions, and near the end of the invasion succeeding events started giving me almost no exp, karma, and gold. It then lingered even after I left the map, giving me also almost no reward on the Frozen Maw events afterward as well. I had to log off my character and wait a half an hour before I started getting the normal reward from events again.

I don’t particularly understand why event diminishing returns were put in the game in the first place, but I can understand the desire to prevent the repetition of the same event over and over again. However, I was taking part in a living-story related dynamic event. The reason why I did so many events in a short period of time is because there are that many events in the invasion. And the fact that this restriction lingers after moving to a different area is extremely unfair. I felt like I was being punished for taking part in the invasion event. As if I didn’t hate Scarlet enough already… (but that’s a different story entirely)

P.S. I wasn’t sure if this belonged in this thread or the “Dynamic Events” thread, but from a coding standpoint I feel as though this situation is not “working as intended” and therefore could be considered a “bug”

Tl;dr- the title says it all.

Was this a scarlet invasion run where people started farming the event instead of working toward completion?

I believe that was most people’s intention, as it seems that it is ALWAYS the intention of the majority of people doing the invasions these days, but I don’t understand the relevance of that question to my problem. Farming each event for the champions would cause less event completions, rather than more, because a large group of people take much longer killing each event. But I was not doing that, I was attempting to close as many portals as possible both to gain more experience from events and progress the invasion in an attempt to finish it. But there were less than 5 minutes left on the timer when the Aetherblades appeared, and by that time, I had already started getting diminished rewards on my events.