I usually have nothing to complain about in GW2, I love it so much. But I’m bumping because I am so frustrated with this shovel business. My guild is a small intimate group of friends, only about 6 of us, and earning enough shovels to upgrade our mine is an exhausting, tedious, boooooring grind that is killing the fun.
Shovels are stupidly hard to earn considering how many we must have, and considering that we can only get them in one map, and considering that that map gets really, reeeeally boring after grinding for a full week (evenings only) with a reward of only about 4 shovels. I calculated an average of 3 – 5 shovels after 10 hours of play. Utterly huge waste of time.
I mean, we would like to play the rest of the maps, too. Not to mention the huge amounts of flax we have to farm as well. So … maybe easy for big guilds, not good for small ones.
(It sux when the game becomes “Going for a flax/shovel run. Wanna come? And, oh, well, if we encounter events along the way, we might do those too, but b/c we have limited time, flax/shovel farming is the priority.”)
Do shovels have to be account bound? If they weren’t, at least we could buy a few to supplement, like with the kegs. Ugh… Sorry for the rant, I’m just really sick of the Silverwastes.
