AI Update Review

A number of people who play this game enjoy farming. I am one of them. Let me start off by saying that I know farming is still possible with ranged attackers etc. However, a lot of the fun that came with farming was ruined with the AI update.

Personally, I was hoping to go through Elona taking in the story but also keeping an eye out for the odd farming opportunity. I have nearly finished Elona but have already become bored.

Anet has always done a lot to protect most areas of the chapters with enchantment removals, interrupts, and other methods to ensure farming was not too easy. However, in my view to make large groups of melee enemies scatter whenever their health is reduced to a certain level goes too far and significantly ruins my enjoyment of the PvE game.

I know this view has been stated before, but not recently. Indeed, not since many have worked their way through Elona's storyline and are looking for other things to do.

Prophecies was a great game. It had real staying power. I believe that part of that staying powers was that once the storyline was over many enjoyed the challenge of learning to farm certain areas such as the trolls and UW. When the enchantment removal was introduced to UW some were upset and views like this were posted. But people changed builds and were still able to adapt. Again, yes it is still possible to farm UW in different ways but the fun just seems to have gone with the AI update.

Anyway, what was the problem with the way the game had developed before the AI update? Ecto's were still hard enough to farm, which was evidenced by them retaining their value. I'm just not sure that the AI update added anything to the game, while it certainly removed a lot of the fun in it.

Gaile, care to respond to what the problem with melee attackers was? Botting was an issue, but as you have proven in the past there is more than one way to skin that cat.

Anyone else feeling the loss of fun? What do you think of the staying power of GW PvE in general now?

Not commenting on this issue anymore... just be prepared to see this thread:
a) turn into another flamewar due to the "Anti Whiner" Trolls
b) getting closed because there is another AI Thread just a couple of lines below

We have a winner!

AI Update:
http://www.guildwarsguru.net/forum/s...php?t=10068166

'the loss of fun' and such:
http://www.guildwarsguru.net/forum/s...php?t=10075370