Guild Wars 2

Jon, Please consider a full discussion or explanation of when and how DR starts to impact farming when you do the next patch. As mentioned several times in this post. There are many different play styles and definitions of farming in the community. You have a wide range of legitimate players/customers with no intention to botting trying to determine if the random number generator is being cruel to them or has some new DR coded impacted their drops. And now…a new element..bugged DR code. Paranoia is a very strong human emotion you don’t want that factoring into a persons decision to play the game. Once gone…getting players back it tough.

Personally I hate random number generators and loved the fact you have magic find in this game. Was super excited about it as a mechanic. Really gave a MMO player hope that they could combat all those awful experiences from the past where they had to hope for drops based on RAN. But the DR mechanic kind of opposes Magic Find for players. One seems to be canceling out the other….doesn’t make sense, especially if you plan to sell magic find boosters for gems. Or is the DR mechanic not functioning the way we think it is? Another reason to explain what is happening and how. It will improve your sales.

Finally, I think I get the idea that DR is suppose to cut the botters off from a source of their income…before they can turn it into gold. Typically, I think of the Botter as the toon sitting in one spot or in one general area…Aoeing, and picking up loot from its kills. And doing this for hours on end. Normally it is a cyclical process that never deviates. I think everyone agrees…we want these botters gone from the game. But, as pointed out…this is not a very efficient short term approach….great long term..terrible short term. A smart person behind the keyboard can do much better. But unfortunately, it appears that the DR implementation you have in place, penalizes the efficient person behind the keyboard before it ever gets to the botters. If it not suppose to work that way. Tells us how to avoid it please. What guidelines are there? and how does ore mining play in DR? Isn’t harvesting self regulating and impossible to bot (or at least not cost effective)? Why is Ori in the DR discussion?

So many questions and grey areas…help fight off the conspiracy theory folks please =)