Guild Wars 2

I don’t think it’s technically possible whilst it’s a great idea.
Some boxes contain bags or other boxes, some bags contain further bags.
Once they’d all been opened (as long as the new bag isn’t already full) a deposit all mats function would have to run. Some people would not want you to deposit mats, they want to sell them.
Ignore those people for now.
Also run a sell all game-marked junk.
Now you have gear. Blues, greens, yellows, oranges maybe. What if you had different salvaging kits with different %‘s of return on them? Which ones would we use here? Those kits cost money so who’d pay for that?
Ignoring that for now.
You also have possibly got trophies. They can’t be sold or deposited except into a bank. How does the game deal with those? Just delete them? Just deposit them?
Ignoring that for now.
You have runes and sigils of different value to different people. How do you decide what to sell and what to keep?
If you ignore ALL of that and just deposit all mats and vendor all goods, you make it simpler. But you really want to vendor all that salvagable gear? All that cloth and linen and maybe leather?

There’s so many things the player themselves needs to choose but I do like the idea of a salvage bag that you put things in and which runs a function across all the items in it.

If you click his name and look at his last few posts, he has been leaving/left for the first couple of pages and seems to only come on here to complain about a game he isn’t playing any more. Any post that says HoT ruined the game, is too hard, can’t be soloed.. all over them. Offers of help.. not interested.

Dante.1508:

Thank you very much for the offer its very kind, but i haven’t logged in since honestly, i moved on to less tedious games.

On hearts — I find them annoying when playing with people, can’t help, often can’t even see their progress. Was doing one with someone the other day, I have world complete, he has to throw grenades at bees.. would just be nice when partied to see the other persons quest/progress/map imho.

On what this topic is all about.. took my ele round TD. Mostly solo. Map complete in an hour or so. Had mmorpg-life map and dulfy open on a second monitor. Removes the frustration factor and puts the fun back into running around.

Obtena.7952:

General Health.9678:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

The answer depends on your class and your playstyle.

Not sure how, the question seems to be “what is best to survive a dart-shooting frog whilst foraging”.

I think if anything, class and playstyle have WAY more to do with that question than the stats on your gear does.

I still don’t know how. If I’m literally gathering when a frog attacks me, it doesn’t matter if I normally play bunker engineer or flag waving taunt master in a raid.

If the question was how to kill dart-shooting frogs then neither of you have said how to do that, just that a certain playstyle and class would be better.

Personally I run round on zerker everything but I am tempted to make something that isn’t zerker yet again with the free level 80 boost and all the currently useless wanderer/commander/etc gear in my bank. As it would change my playstyle I’d want something I could learn on, a training wheels set of gear I suppose. If what the boost gives you is enough maybe I’ll make something with that.

hiesenhuer.1975:

Zoltar – Im just asking if anyone knows a Guide. And clearly, wikki isnt. There’s no need for you to comment in this post if you dont know any. If wikki is your only option then i’m sorry, already been there and its not helpful. Bye. (reply not needed)

Mm love the smell of passive aggression in the morning.

Dulfy.net has video guides and maps. Go there and look up for instance VB. Get to see where the HP’s, MP’s and things like strongboxes are.
http://dulfy.net/category/gw2/hot/verdant-brink/

I use mmorpg-life for maps, literally the first thing Google gives me to see the whole map and because it’s interactive I can hover over a vista I want, get its name and then plug that into YouTube to get a video on it.
http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/verdant-brink-map-of-pois-waypoints-vistas-hero-challenges-and-more/141524/

As to wiki – VB is full of events. Look up the names of the chains, the order they occur in, look for any achievement points you could get for doing them. VB is full of new things you can gather like flax. Look up what they are, what they sell for, where the flax farm is. VB is full of new mobs, you might want to know the difference between a smokescale and a pocket raptor before (or maybe after) they repeatedly kill you.

YouTube – essential resource already mentioned, look up things if they’re not on Dulfy, I sometimes look up things like the 40 minute run round Tangled Depths because there might be a poi and I want to see how it’s reached.

These are things you could do yourself and as a first time player anywhere I’d expect that you would do. As the jungle grows and things are changed, a guide wouldn’t necessarily keep up with all that (anyone else buy the GW2 guide at launch…). Neither will youtube or even dulfy (the SW jumping puzzle is down pre-gliding for instance) but the wiki probably will keep up to date.

I really enjoyed replaying the story for the achievements. Good sense of accomplishment.
You say grind, I say replay value.

We get CGI movies because they are pay to win?
Because they sell well and are easy to make?
Pretty sure one of those statements doesn’t make any sense and the other one isn’t true.

There was a thread a bit ago saying if you’d made an elite version of something because you’d bought HoT you were OP in PvP and that was P2W. I think I used all those properly. Then there was a second post that said “if you are being beaten by an elite you aren’t PvPing properly”. But that might all have been forum PvP.

Your problem is you only play wvw and want everything to be available with laurels. As that would impact the other game modes I think it’s unlikely that you’ll get those stats in the laurel vendor. Not until the next expansion at least but who knows.

Functional Dragon.3586:

gold to gem rate will continue to increase until it reaches a point at which players are more willing to spend real money to buy gems

I’m not seeing the downside to anets business model here.

When you bought the game three years ago?
Yep cos they knew then, right..
Sorry you are wrong, but you are.

NeoCodex.2438:

People actually play Orr? What do you even do there? I thought that place existed only to farm that Melandru shrine.

When that event isn’t broken, it is!
Also Grenth and Arah have precursor items I believe. Great place for ori and ancient wood and orrian truffles, map bonuses are nice, karma trains run all day. Good loot. If you don’t have HoT it is probably endgame if you aren’t keen on SW, Orr is mad busy every time I pop in.

Everything is inexpensive if you live in a rich country.
I looked at one site on google and it’s 28 euros. I suggest you shop around.
It’s not expensive considering the amount of entertainment it provides.
Don’t buy it if you don’t like it. Personally I love HoT, found it great value.

Runo.3780:

Yep… I have to buy the same product TWO times…. not a scam… lol.

Agreed not a scam.
It’s not even the same product, it has had numerous updates.
You know what I’d dislike? Buying a product, installing it, having to buy a second disc, installing, buying a third..
The expansion is inexpensive and caters for new and existing players. Pretty simple to understand really.

Guild events give rewards.. you get commendations you can spend.

You only need to join 1 good one, do your homework instead of just joining random, awful guilds.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

The answer depends on your class and your playstyle.

Not sure how, the question seems to be “what is best to survive a dart-shooting frog whilst foraging”.

Moyayuki.3619:

I was in Verdant Brink one day to try to get Daily foraging done, when I was absolutely slaughtered by a dart-shooting frog.

Would high toughness have saved you between gathers, would high vitality have saved you? Would it be better to say “you should forage on a minion necro” and then “forage on a vipers necro” rather than a warrior or “play what you want but trait that auto-blocking shield thing”.

I suspect you can’t really passive tank with impunity but there must be a build that qualifies for the “most survivable in PvE award”.

Dante.1508:

Lower Hot damage, add loot right through the mobs, not just giant zerg stupidity.. let customers solo all the content bar super bosses…

That would fix the hot issues..

This was done in April.

Shiyo.3578:

$20 for 3 bag slots cripples new players.
$10 for a single bank expansion cripples new players.

330g for 3 bag slots cripples new players.
161g for a bank slot cripples new players.

We don’t say crippled any more. We say {limb} disabled.
So can I check what you mean here.
Buying 3 bag slots renders you hand disabled?
Buying a bank slot renders you leg disabled?

I’m just wondering at what point do you end up so disabled that you can’t actually use your computer and is there a time-frame in which you return to normal after not being able to buy things?

Dante.1508:

The more customers leave, the more Gems go up.

Hmmm I see your point. You left, gems went up.
So here’s the thing then, if you come back.. will gems go back down?
No?

The only thing I can say with certainty is that the more gems go up, the more likely I am to spend rl cash on some again..

Dante.1508:

5 guilds access is bad..my reasons are a player can never really give 5 guilds their full attention..

You don’t need to give guilds your full attention. Guild chat shows up all guilds. If one guild is busy soloing stuff and just making casual conversation and another suddenly announces a TT run or an AB farm or whatever.. you see all that and can do all things. Why would you need to give anything in this game your full attention?

Dante.1508:

Chat

My main guild keeps it PG-13. That annoys some people but suits me, you will be told to keep it down when it gets out of hand. If all you had was one guild you could never let off steam in, you might take offence. With 5 guilds you can go be offensive (or funny.. ymmv) in the grown-up one, doesn’t matter if one guild is quiet when you have a chat channel you can see ALL your guilds in. This is another vote for multiple guilds.

Dante.1508:

Sharing

There can’t be thefts if you set your bank up properly. My main guild is set so that you can deposit and then you have to ask a higher level to remove it for you. We have a “you can have anything you can see” tab and a “for scribes” tab and a “for guild rewards” tab. Guild rewards are for guild fun events like hide and seek, quizzes, lottery etc. I’m also impressed when I see some of the stuff in there, it does go a long way to setting the tone of a guild.

Dante.1508:

Guild hall mechanics

You do know you can have nodes in your guild hall, right? We have several in my main guild. We also have a tavern offering free buffs and the scribe table acts as a bank and the various NPCs offer other stuff you can take advantage of.

Dante.1508:

Help

The point here isn’t to keep everyone happy. That doesn’t do you any favours. You are a guild, you exist. People will join because you advertised and stay because you turn out to be what they wanted. If they want to leave.. let them. My main has a website which clearly sets out what we offer and when in terms of guild missions and raiding (training and clearing). If someone wants to spend a week not talking doing achievements.. let them. If they spend a week PvP’ing in another guild, so what. You don’t need to involve them in everything, the guild life will carry on around them and they can join in when they want to or leave to PvP full time.

Dante.1508:

Voice chat is BAD…

I doubt guilds are using voice chat outside of organised activity. One or two people might be but generally guilds offer voice chat for raids/missions/etc and guild chat is a typed activity.

You have to buy stacks of nearly everything to make ascended and legendary items. This is no different. Farm something else, sell it and use that gold to buy mystic coins. That’s how the TP works.

We have no idea what peoples demographics are or why they are playing.
Anet has the metrics so claiming HoT is doing it wrong for anyone is just projection.

The TP has a good supply of the stuff proving that this isn’t a game-breaking issue.
When a player is levelling up a craft they are pretty much ALWAYS going to need more than what they have of a given item. It’s not restricted to any one thing but is always going to crop up when you’ve suddenly run out of item x and realise it’s not that easy to go get more of it from the environment.
Substitute leather for orbs or maguuma lily or diamond or ecto.
The answer is to trade what you have and don’t need for what you do. If you needed leather and there wasn’t any leather on the TP then there’d be a game problem. This is a player problem.

It does amaze me that after playing all day across multiple characters I still have no leather, I do find it weird it’s capped to a level range but that’s as far as it goes, I can just flog some excess ancient wood or ori to fund my leather needs.

You’d be better off asking in-game when you play or do what I used to do, hit up world bosses and see whose guilds you start recognising. The one I’m in is global, we have people playing all day and guild missions that start at three different timezones but we might not be doing things you want to do. I’d keep an eye out and join whoever starts becoming a familiar sight.

LithiumLullaby.2064:

Listen to your masses.. not a handful of privileged players.

I don’t think anet becoming suddenly extremely religious is going to help.

If i had a subscription that came with gems I’d just have thousands of gems sat around in my account by now as I don’t feel the need to buy even 1% of what the gemstore has to offer. I currently just use gold to buy gems when I want something and so if I wasn’t doing that I’d also have thousands of gold sat in my account.
I can’t see this would be a good thing, as others have said if you want to sub, buy gems with cash every month. If you’re not already doing that then you don’t really want a sub.

DrDivine.5378:

This could be viewed as another “OHH NUU THE GAME IS DYING” post

I’m actually confused because what does your guild quitting have to do with this post?
Having said that what does HoT have to do with most of this post?
The only HoT thing I saw was guild halls and if you don’t get what they are, join a large guild and see for yourself.

It’s unlikely that a few people, even on the same map and even co-ordinated in their abuse are going to make a world event fail. For every person like that there are nearly a hundred ignoring them. I agree it would be nicer if everyone was just nice but some people get all antsy about failing.

Some of my favourite Teqs have been where one guy has decided it’s a fail map and people have turned against them and given them a really hard time for their attitude. And then we’ve easily won anyway because it’s not that hard.

If it’s not a commander or an actual organiser saying it, it doesn’t count. Backseat angrykid drivers should be added to your ignore list, they aren’t saying anything important.

didn’t you uninstall?
Anyway I love hot content, the maps are amazing, I love the elites and gliding. About to start making a serious effort with the specialisation collections and I’m not one to usually collect stuff.

I’d never buy a full price card on its first day.
Wait til there’s a sweet price drop and / or the super duper manufacturer version.

Most likely however is that the 1080 drops, the card below it that is maybe 1-2% less also has a price drop. And then there’s the Nvidia / AMD battle so all their equivalent but lower cards drop to get rid of stock. And that’s when you get a new card at a great price.

And then you look at what the point is of buying the 1080 for GW2 and as it’s pretty much none..

Yeah you’d be pretty mad to buy a 1080 on release day for GW2.

How would the game know?

See an ad before I buy?
That’s not me, never will be.

sluringshhh.7403:

It sure seems like a waste of a lot of gold i could be putting out for maxing out my magic find which is more useful in the long run in my opinion.

Well that’s your opinion and you’re wrong in mine. MF is a pretty meaningless stat now. You’re not wasting your gold, your using it.
Did I mention guild commendations can be used instead of laurels to get trinkets?

If you’ve only been playing for 2 months then welcome to how it is and was for everyone ever. When I started we didn’t even have ascended gear. Or laurels. In fact most of my toons spent most of their time naked because you had to pay for armour repairs and to WP and events only gave you a copper or two for completing them. I had to complete the whole world, almost naked, some of it uphill in the snow (my norn actually enjoyed that) to get a gift of exploration.

And if I stop for breath I can just point out, again, that you don’t even need ascended gear. I’ve been playing for coming on four years now and I have just (yesterday) completed one full set of ascended armour for my main. My main! Who trudged naked uphill in snow for me! (She’s a sylvari, doesn’t really feel the cold so you don’t need to feel too sorry for her).

If I could give you laurels I would, you end up with more than you need, or at least I have. I got all my rings and things from fractals. Low level ones. I’d suggest starting there and getting free gear and good rewards. Not like it was in my day. 1 copper / event! I did some of them still covered in the snow I’d recently just trudged naked through!

I’m going to take a wild stab in the dark and say ascended items cost you about 100 gold each. I’m sure someone has a better figure. If you aren’t anywhere near having 600 spare golds you shouldn’t be working towards ascended as your short-term goal, it’s just going to make you miserable.

At some point it’s not about the size of the guild but the extent of guild activities. A handful of really dedicated guild members can get a guild hall up and running pretty quick. It might take all of their time, resources and then require them spending some rl money on it.. but size of guild isn’t holding them back.

A massive, mostly social guild where members aren’t on much, are in multiple guilds, don’t really care about any one particular guild having a hall, certainly aren’t going to give you all their mats and money.. they’d struggle despite being a massive guild.

Daddicus.6128:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The OP’s argument is almost entirely based off the first mastery.

Incorrect. When I gave up trying for 3 months, the reason was yet another mastery needed (Nuhoch or exalted something or other). It happens throughout the process, at least as far as I’ve gotten so far. Who knows? Maybe I’ve hit the last one and just don’t know it. But, it’s awfully frustrating to just be getting into the story again and have to drop back to more random monster killing.

Well aren’t you just playing it wrong?
Not just you but probably hundreds of people. If you “just” do story or “just” kill monsters or “just” use one toon, or focus in fact on any one particular thing, I can imagine at various points that you won’t have enough mastery xp, enough mastery points, enough hero points, enough waypoints, enough map completion.

I don’t play all that focused so to me if I’ve run out of mastery xp which you’d see as an issue, I’d just be like “meh.. I’ll have to do some events on my mesmer” and if that doesn’t get me enough (say I was finding the events underwhelming) then next time I am in VB on my ele, I’ll make a point of doing some extra events to get some of the missing mastery xp and THEN when it’s done I’ll go back to my main and start the next thing.

I don’t believe you should be rushing unless you’ve got the time to spend 12+ hours a day on the game. When I had that time I kitten skippy ran to the end with everyone and did everything. Now.. much more relaxed and don’t see gaps as stumbling blocks, just opportunities to go do something else or bring in another toon or three.

I’ve not got everything maxed quite yet, not worried about it, working on it.

DoctorDing.5890:

Don’t you find it strange that HoT owners are given harder PVE dailies than non-HoT owners?

I find this strange.
What harder PvE dailies have I not been noticing?

It takes a few seconds to deposit all / compact.
It takes a few more seconds to salvage all your blues and greens with low level salvage tool(s). Turn on rarity colours to help.
Click O for the TP and see what is left and worth selling.
Drop rest off in a bank / salvage with higher level salvage tool(s).
Whatever is left takes seconds to get rid of at a vendor.

These requests for convenience items don’t work because they have too many variables. You want to sell minor sigils and runes as vendor trash, someone else doesn’t. Someone else thinks even major sigils and runes are trash. Millions of other people are horrified by that. You’d need a completely new bunch of menus.

Sell all mats on TP? For what price? Buy it now? Lowest bidder? A bit higher than lowest bidder?

Gets over complicated to automate so it should stay simple and the responsibility should remain with the player.

Animism.9803:

The amount of people just in real life I’ve known to reject this game, because of how the story is – should be a real concern to Anet.

And yet apparently it isn’t. Instead they’re happy with the new change of direction and the mass influx of money into their new game. I suspect if they knew all those people in real life you know things might be different. You should invite them all to the game so they can comment on what they’d like done differently.

Animism.9803:

Everyone I know in real life who played GW1, said the story and lore was mostly really interesting, and that’s on a game which had a miniscule budget.

They should all come on here and say that then, it’s no good when only one person acts as the spokesperson for a bunch of other people, especially when it’s everyone you know in real life as that sounds like a lot of people.

And yet anyone who saw any of the amazing places created in City Of Heroes will know how, once you have a framework, this should be relatively easy to provide because essentially you are just using existing assets.

With CoH you had a blank squared area and added walls, levels, decorations and with relatively few options people still made amazingly different yet cohesive bases. Check out google images for examples.

To keep them going you paid some upkeep. Which I know was hated on earlier but if you want to keep it, pay for it, to paraphrase Beyonce.

sluringshhh.7403:

should it be so long that it takes some people over a month to achieve.

We can’t control how slow some people are.

sluringshhh.7403:

it keeps noobs from raiding therefore making a better experience.

It does? Wow, all those first people who had never done it before were stopped from raiding? I’d be outraged if that made any sense.

sluringshhh.7403:

To get to my point is i want ascended armor to not require laurels, but instead some kindve fun challenge to complete with a party of five that rewards the recipes

You should have just made that the point of this thread. “anet give us more ways to get laurels or more ways to get ascended gear”. Not the party of five thing cos that would be weird if parties of four didn’t get the same rewards. And then people could have pointed out fractals and world bosses drop ascended gear and you can use guild commendations instead of laurels.

sluringshhh.7403:

i drastically want this system to change for the better as many cannot experience some of the game without ascended.

I’m not seeing any drastic changes, just that you don’t have any laurels. Anyone can experience some of the game without ascended. I don’t think you mean this, you mean YOU don’t have the laurels to get the ascended gear you mistakenly believe you need to do raids. Join a training guild and try a raid in exotics, you might find after all this worry that you don’t even like raids and had wasted all the effort you spent on getting ascended gear you didn’t even need.

Aren’t all games repetitive?
Once you’ve played chess once then what? Play it again but slightly differently?

MMO’s do not have an end-game as such, once you have completed the story on one character, you roll another. Once you have farmed for one legendary, you farm for another. Once you have done all the achievements you are unlikely to re-do them but that is the exception. Collect gold, do map and world complete, play the different game types, join a guild, join another, start your own.

I’m not sure raids will take you unless your gear is higher than your attitude suggests.

Even without mastery points, how you suddenly learned to jump on mushrooms isn’t going to be explained. I got some XP and now I can do this? That makes no sense with or without a mastery point gating it.

That’s assuming it needs fixing.
In the grand scheme of things a fraction of a percentage of the playerbase is doing this and before that they were doing the other thing that was “the most profitable” and after this they’ll be looking for something else.
Imagine it’s a drop in the ocean in terms of the bigger picture of in-game play.

Dashingsteel.3410:

It is one of the options to meet the daily requirement. If anyone did the jp today as part of the 3/3 to get their daily, that made the jp part of the requirement.

It’s not a requirement, it’s a choice to do the daily at all.
If you decide to do the daily you have a bunch of choices.

Choice. Not requirement at any stage.

Pretty much the same as January.

If you don’t like it you should not just buy it.
If enough people did that then maybe you’d get someone to ask what you do want and get the barrel. All the in-game reporting however will suggest you liked it enough to buy into it.

Maybe an assumption but the houses would be account wide and you could maybe invite people in as you can do with your home instance. They wouldn’t be per character so you’d easily end up with a situation where your norn mesmer was in your asura necro home and really unhappy about all the minion food bowls on the floor.
So you’re already unpleasing some people.

They’d have to be for paying customers only or require a f2p player to spend money to unlock it and to avoid empty housing there should be an ongoing fee for keeping it going. Fail to pay and it gets archived and then deleted at some point.
Pretty much everything would need to be behind a paywall as if you’re not playing the rest of the game you’re not making anet any money altho everything could be mat/gold/quest based collections with recipes in a vendor like scribe is. But then people would complain about the costs and having to do stuff when all they want to do is rearrange furniture.

If it was a home instance then you may need to make a different one for each one that exists at the moment as Black Citadel is a different shape/size to Divinity’s Reach. That could mean not having a customised home instance in each area or making several and if there is a cost to that, paying multiple times. It could also mean accepting the fact that the old wood dresser you love in DR isn’t available in BC and BC gets an aggressive fireplace that you can’t get in DR. This could be great as your charr could have a charr home and your asura could have an asura home or it could just lead to thousands of threads asking for x from y home instance to be made available in z home instance.

And of course no matter how much stuff you make, we’ll always want more. And then be disappointed when the devs don’t want to make yet another set of free curtains and you don’t want to pay 100 gems for them.

And all in all I can’t see why the devs would bother, it adds some flavour for a few people but nothing really to the game in terms of sell able features that they consistently advertise. New map – advertise. Player housing with a million caveats.. hard to advertise.

It’s not a requirement, there is a list of things you can choose from to get 3/3
Do 3 and get 2 gold
If you then did all the others you should get their rewards too so a whole bunch of relevant chests.
If you don’t do any of the dailies the world doesn’t end, you just don’t get 2 gold. I didn’t do the daily on Monday as I spent all evening doing the SW lost gold badges achievement. That was my choice to play that way.

Dashingsteel.3410:

They have taken up one of the possible pve dailies with this jp trash. They are a requirement for a daily. If they were not in the rotation for dailies then I could agree with you the they are not required gamelplay.

They’re not a requirement. Do the other dailies. You know you don’t have to do just pve dailies right? You can drop into wvw and do big spender and it counts as a daily and then do two other pve dailies for instance.

Dashingsteel.3410:

I am against the mindset of players who have a need to want to control how other players play the game.

Who is controlling you? Players? Devs? Otherworldly voices in your head?
Pretend your problem isn’t jumping puzzles but gathering.
Pretend you are in a guild.
Yesterday this happened to me. One of my guildies suddenly said, unasked, that there was a strawberry patch that could be gathered for the daily and posted the WP and directions from the WP. I was aghast! I want to discover things for myself! Ruined the game. Posting things like this in chat should be banned!
Ridiculous, right? So is this issue of control you have.
Go to the JP, get a free port, daily done.
or
Don’t. Do other things. Daily done.
Still playing your way.

Not sure what that skill is.
Use the LFG tool to find other types of maps if the one you are in isn’t doing what you want. Either use it to join a different map or start your own group to do what you want in your current map.
There may be better or worse times to do something and you are always logging on at a terrible time. Statistically unlikely but it can feel like that. Check the timer sites to see when the meta is being run and there is usually a HP run before and after that so log in before the meta if possible, stay and do the meta and then check what is going on afterwards.
Join a guild so you have people to socialise with whilst playing, just joining in general banter can improve your playing experience a lot, even if you’re doing AB and they’re all doing SB but also, when you’re doing AB you can ask (hopefully friendly) guildies if anyone wants to join you or if you can get help with something specific.

Dashingsteel.3410:

Actually it would be nice if Anet got rid of mastery points. Let experience filling the mastery bar be enough to earn a particular mastery. I’m tired of devs choosing which content I must play(adventures so terrible that they must dangle mastery points to try to entice, or collections that are gold sinks)

Let player freedom prevail like it was at vanilla launch.

I choose what content I play every time I log in and use the keys to move my characters to places. If the devs are choosing the content for you, you should raise that with support and get them to stop it. You have every right to control your own character as you see fit and to spend your gold on your own things.

JustTrogdor.7892:

I spent a total of about 6 hours doing that kitten lost golden badge mega jump puzzle in silver wastes for one darn mastery point. At the same time, I took 5 minutes and got an equal mastery point for killing the Karka Queen.

Pfft that quick? Two days! And I’d already done some of them previous to getting gliding!
But really it’s not about comparison, it’s about got to have them all. If there’s 20 available and you need 16, don’t do the almost impossible timesink ones. Those are there for the completionists who spend 18 hours a day playing and really need something to fill their time and the stupidly stubborn who, having done some of a task feel compelled to finish the durn thing off even if it does take them two days.

I’ve already maxed my core Tyria lines and already have spare points, I didn’t need this one, I was just doing it because it was there.

There’s at least two other threads on this.
The dev response will be when they release a patch to fix it, in the meantime allegedly anet staffers are joining in on the farm and like all farms it will be showing up on the economic reports.