I understand the reduction in exp and silver from story mode dungeons, they were intended to be done once any ways. But the changed in difficulty Anet have made to some story mode dungeons (CM) is ridiculous You have to remeber that CM is suppose to be a level 40 dungeon, I was helping my friend do a CM run earlier (also had an intention of checking out the rewards decrease) and it was crazy! People where getting 1 shoted everywhere from previously trash mobs and newly added champ packs! Any ways that’s story mode and I understand Anet’s reasoning.
However, the main problem I have is with explorable mode.
Just as with story mode,I understand the reduction in exp and silver rewards, dungeons should not be a way to power level and it takes away the fun of the game when you can just speed farm gold to buy everything you want. I do like the reductions in exp/money.
The main question I have is, why the sudden increase in difficulty?
“At this time, dungeons should one of the most efficient ways to level and get gold, and it is not our intention to make them feel like a grind. "
Well let’s analysis this, it is definitely not a good source of exp anymore, silver rewards have been slashed, and the time it takes to do a dungeon has been increased to double if not triple the time.
So in terms of best exp and gold, dungeons are definitely not.
If you want exp, go karma trains, if you want gold, farm bloods.
Let’s be frank here, most people who do dungeons are doing it for the token gears, we care less about the exp/gold. I find making a dungeon (CoF) harder is very counter productive. frankly, the story line in dungeons isn’t good enough (or new) for players to care. It doesn’t matter how badly you have buffed Magg’s route in CoF, players will try the other chains out, pick the new easiest of the 3 and spam that instead. All which Anet has achieved in buffing the dungeons is make them even more of a grind.
The only reasoning I can see is that dungeons were never intended to be that easy or fast, you were never meant to be able to farm a full exotic set from dungeons in a few days and this is Anet once again back peddling in fixing an error and prolonging the life of the guild wars 2 end game. As the game stands, you once you hit 80 you don’t have to do a lot of farming before you get a full exo set, maybe that wasn’t Anet’s intentions.
We’ll that is my take on the situation any ways, I would love to hear other people’s opinions and Anet’s explanation as to why making a dungeon harder = less grind.
