Guild Wars 2

11/16 — Still no goggles. Guess we keep on trying.

Ossus.9231:

I noticed today when playing with a friend in Bloodtide Coast that I was getting drops for all mobs except risen. I went for 40-50 risen kills while doing a DE and heart in the area and got 4 porous bones out of all of it.

Just to clarify, is the DR kicking in for people who are killing a specific mob for the first time since they’ve logged on, or are they getting hit with DR because that mob has been being farmed for hours before they themselves started working on them?

Sorry, that was clear as mud. Let me try to paint a clearer picture.

I logged in yesterday and realized I needed 15 Intricate Totems for a weaponcrafting recipe, and headed out to Frostgorge Sound to kill some Sons of Svanir. I had read in one thread that someone reported getting 50-60 drops of some fine mats in an hour, so I popped a 30 minute potion and figured I’d just farm until the potion was gone and, from the reports of others, I would probably have more than enough totems by the time the potion dropped. There were three people already there killing them, and from watching their movements for a while, I realized they had to be bots. I have no idea how long they’d been there, going round and round killing the Sons of Svanir spawns. I spent an hour at that location (went through two potions) killing some of the same mob spawns that the bots were, and some others that were not on their path. The drop rate wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t what I’d expected from reading other people’s reports. In that hour, I picked up 16 Intricate Totems, a small amount of grey drops and the occasional blue or white vendor/salvage item.

My question here is: was I seeing DR because the mobs were already being farmed? Or, if I was even experiencing any reduction in drop rates, was it from my own personal character’s time spent farming there? From what Ossus.9231 has posted, I feel that it’s possible that I never hit any DR here, and that other people’s accounts of 50-60 drops of a certain mat in an hour might be an exaggeration, or something specific about a particular mat, but I’d simply like to know the trigger. Is it the individual’s time on certain mobs, or is it triggered by the frequency of respawns no matter who’s farming them?

Forgive me if this has already been asked and answered. I’m going cross-eyed from reading posts and not finding anything that specifies.

Ah, yes, I should have mentioned that we have done that as well. Still not showing up.

A friend and I have both achieved the Combat Healer title. However, when we target each other, neither of us sees the title on the other. Is this a visual bug? I’ve played around with my visual settings a bit with no result as far as the titles go.

I don’t see a feedback forum anywhere, so I’m going to post this here.
All these security issues are giving me a headache. I haven’t been hit with it so far in this game, and knock on wood, I won’t. However, I’ve seen the “Coin Lock” system work very well in other games, and wonder if and/or why it’s not being seriously considered in this one. At least if you do get hacked, the perp can’t actually DO anything to your toons or your items and currencies during the time it takes for you to log on and change your password. My heart goes out to those people who’ve logged in to find all their characters simply a memory with no way of reinstating them (so far). Coin Lock would seem to me like a good way to just put an end to it, as I’ve seen it do so many times before elsewhere.