Guild Wars 2

Spent 2 hours trying to get 5 Vials of powerful blood from snow trolls in Frostgorge sound.
Got 11 potent blood, some large bones (they’re not supposed to drop that right?) and a buch of useless magic items.

GW2 has turned into a massive grind-fest for me. No grinding my foot.

For there to be diminishing returns, there needs to be a return in the first place.

Then adjust your playing style.

I’ll simplify this for you.

Let’s make some assumptions that I cannot verify but will make my point and hopefully make farming easier for you.

Let’s assume that these 5 vials cost 20c, for simplicity’s sake.
Let’s also assume over the course of those two hours you only managed to pick up 50c worth of goods [total value].

Overall, this wasn’t in your interest because you would have to spend even more time just to make enough money to buy them off the TP since they aren’t dropping for you.

Now all you have to do to get ahead is find ONE activity in this game that makes you more than what you made [25c/hour] grinding those snow trolls and then go do it.

2 hours later you may not have one single vial of powerful blood but you will have enough money to buy them, whereas before you did not, as long as you are making 50c an hour by doing it.

So the question remains – how are you going to balance out your desire to get the drops that you want against your playstyle?

Well if grinding this way is frustrating for you, which it clearly is, then grind in another fashion that nets you ever greater revenue and go buy them on the TP.

I ran into this issue in WoW but then the term opportunity cost hit me square in the face – there are times where I want to play a certain way but I know for a fact that by doing so I will make less money than I can doing something else, but that is the price I have to pay for having fun the way I want to have fun.

But the joy is that nobody dictates how I will play this game and if I have to play the game a certain way and that isn’t fun then I simply stop playing it and move on.

I hope you find what works best for you but the easier answer is to adjust your playstyle until they can “fix” whatever problems they deem worth fixing.