Guild Wars 2

^ This.

Dealing with botting only solves part of the problem.
What if certain events could give items as well as experience/gold/karma? This way everyone that participates would have drop potential. Used for highly-trafficked events such as Shelter in Cursed Shore, it could cut down on the monopoly that bots and heavy nukers have on loot.

As a condition damage Ranger (that primarily deals damage over time, single target via shortbow and AoE with traps), I find it incredibly difficult if not impossible to get any amount of action from events that have more than ten people at them. Warriors and Eles just run into the fray, dealing their minimum required damage within the first second and then the mob is down. Any class that lacks that kind of burst is at a disadvantage, and I don’t really see any way that can be changed without raising the mob health and lowering requirements…which would only make sense if you lowered the drop rate.

Making it a competition to get in the minimum damage is unfair to half the professions in the game. After putting in over two hundred hours in a character, it shouldn’t matter what profession you picked; farming should be accessible to all. Now I feel like I made the wrong profession choice (because, let’s face it…power isn’t going to get you anywhere on a Ranger as far as event farming goes.).