It also happens to be easier but people seem to forget this thing called risk vs reward. Its funny though how on one hand you complain that as you say you’re forced to FoTM, one type of content but are quick to ignore all other content because its suboptimal! I hope you dont expect a game to have equal rewards everywhere because that’s essentially impossible! if Gw2 issued rewards based on your level alone guess what would happen? everyone farming the starter areas! why? because the events there are a lot quicker and a lot easier then say Orr. You cannot have it both ways I am afraid! if you cant enjoy playing anything thats suboptimal no matter what arenanet or any other game company will do you will always funnel yourself in playing the same content because thats the nature of the beast there will always be an optimal content to play and everything else will always be suboptimal!
It’s not funny. I don’t want to “waste my time”. For me, doing stuff in Orr or any other place is the same. Well, not exactly the same, the new map and the Dredge heavy map in the Shiverpeaks are a LOT harder than Orr for no better reward actually. The level 1-15 maps might be ultra easy sure. But do you know the definition of “middle ground”? There’s a lot of room from “every single map in the game world drops useful stuff for a level 80 and events with worthy XP, Karma and Gold” to “only two maps in Orr, half of one map in the north and Lost Shores of Overtuned Mobs drops stuff useful for a level 80”
You find it funny I’m complaining of only doing FotM and dismiss the rest of the content as suboptimal? Well, why wouldn’t I? The rest of the content IS suboptimal and not that much fun to begin with. Whereas FotM is the only source of the best rings in the game, drops relics that can be used to buy the best back piece in the game whereas MFing the same would cost 70g. And second, you actually get OK money and drops in it which is enough by itself to get the rest of the best items. T6 fine mats? They drop there too. Lodestones and Cores? They drop there too whereas in open world you need to farm very specific mob types to get them.
Farming in low level maps? One T1 blood costs 25c. T6 blood costs 25s. By the time I’d get 100 T1 bloods I’d have hit the DR so much I’d have 10000 dry bones to sell. Might as well do it on level 77+ mobs and drop one blood in one hour or less or a dozen extra T5 (1.5s piece) for extras. Result : I got a lot more money for far less effort. Risk vs no reward currently?
GW1 managed it, I was playing all over the world doing every single map and they’d drop me level capped items and crafting mats and money worthy of a level 20 player.
