Guild Wars 2

Hi there.

Me and a friend have been farming Vials of Potent Blood in order to use the mystic forge and create our exotic items.

We’ve been going for roughly an hour at a time, sometimes 2 hours, or until we get bored.

We both have over 70% bonus on magic find, but we seem to get our drop rates lowered after roughly 30-40 minutes of farming.

Both last night, and just now, we farmed for 1 hour. Within the first 30 minutes we received over 50 Vials of blood each… and in the second half an hour we recieved between 15-20 each.

However, it’s not just the blood drop rates that seem to be getting lowered, we were killing roughly 15 minotaurs a circuit and for atleast 45 minotaurs we were getting NO drops at all, compared to the first 30 minutes when we basically filled 3/4 of our bags.

We also moved on and killed some dredge, killed 20 of them and only 1 was lootable.

The question is, what the hell is going on with these drop rates? Are drops nerfed between certain times on the server, maybe to stop botting? Are zone drop rates nerfed? Are they nerfed for characters that have spent so long in a particular part of a zone?

I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed the lowered drop rates after X amount of time, and if so, what were you farming, where etc?

Thanks!

I hit 80 a few days ago and since then I’ve been fairly bored. Sure, I could go get 100% map completion.. but I might aswell do the zones I haven’t done on another new character so I don’t get bored of doing the zones over and over again when I level up right?

There’s only 1 true 80 only zone, I got 100% in like 3 hours.

I could run dungeons, but the gear they give is the same as the gear sold on the Trading Post made by people with 400 in their choice of discipline..

People on here are mentioning that ‘farming dungeons for better gear’ etc is a bad thing. Really? You’re gonna end up doing the same thing.. farming events, farming dungeons for tokens.. just to buy the same item, with a different look to it.. If it had better stats AND a better look.. surely that would make much more sense?

Crafting isn’t very hard to max, just costs a bit if you don’t have the time to farm yourself.

You have to run a dungeon on explorable mode atleast 15/20 times before you can even buy 1 piece of armour to change a skin anyway..

End game is very grindy, very very grindy.

In Short : PvE needs progression. PvP is fine.