Why does ArenaNet always nerf good farming spots?

Can someone please explain it to me? it seems like the company discourages imaginative, easy ways to make money. After all, it can be viewed as their own fault for making farming possible. I quit this game permanently due to their actions of ruining the game and the fun factor.

It's a team game. ANet want to encourage team play, and discourage solo play, without killing it.

Did some farming spot get nerfed in the update earlier? If so, what, and if not, what the hell brought this rant about? lol

I see your point. You're right, it is a team game. But the point is that they are the instruments of farming; it's quite hard to make money in that game by just completing quests and missions. I'm sure ArenaNet didn't expect people to start doing "chest runs" and "running" when they make their games. Fact is, I believe it's their own fault people look towards farming and that if gold was easier to get, more people would not farm.

Excuse me for asking but how does nerfing farming spots ruin the game? If anything it should do the opposite.

ANet only nerfs with the primary intention of ruining a farming spot if it has significant potential to affect the economy in a negative way, eg. original SF plains solo farm yielding ridiculous gains for little time/effort.

Most "nerfs" to farm spots result from an indirect change to a skill used in the farming build. As the game is balanced around team play (and originally around competitive PvP, but the extent of that is questionable now) farming heeds little importance when updates are brought out. It is important to realise that ArenaNet rarely go out of their way with the specific intention of ruining a farming spot.

This rant was brought about from a realization of why I quit this game. I was just wondering what other people of the matter and how they can stand it. Every single farming build I've used has been engineered from pwoplw on Guild Wars Guru and every single build (that I have used) has been nerfed significantly. To name a few: ettins, trolls, hydras, griffins, cyclone axe builds, etc.

That's always going to be the nature of farming. Builds will inadvertedly be nerfed and new ones will replace them. Besides Guild Wars isn't a farming game so if losing a non-factor component is enough to make you quit, the game probably wasn't right for you anyway.

Good bye, dinocroc109!

Every single one of those can still be done. You might need to expend more effort to adapt. The biggest nerf to farming was loot scaling. ANet's official position on farming is that they wish to limit the gain from it, not restrict it altogether.

The latest farming nerf that I know of is HFFF. That there was a given. I guess some farming spots were over rated and unbalanced like HFFF was. Hey, if you don't want anet to nerf farming, here's a bit of a hint: DON'T SHARE INFO ABOUT YOUR FARMING SPOTS. There.

1) Team game, that has been established

2) BOTTING, surprised no one got this yet. Botting has always been a problem with online games.
For Example: Runescape. Botting has possibly been the worst of all problems.
Runescape did the following things:
Plan a. Random Events: if they person is not there, they die. = Fail, bots now realize when there is a enemy that can kill you.
Plan b. Players as mods = Fail, people were complaining that they got banned and were not botting. Runescape is a hard game to see botting. A person can simply have their all chat off and get banned.
Plan c. Set Prices = Unfortunate success. Players can only buy stuff at a set price. No give aways. You can't trade 1 million gold for nothing or even trade 100 gold for nothing. The price in the game is final, no way around it.

Be happy that Guild Wars is doing what they can to prevent over farming.

Yet you still post here. You're the cancer killing /gwg/.

Imo the only spot they've really "nerfed" was desert griffins, where they actually changed the enemies that spawned.

The bastards!

This is not completely true. You can give away up to a certian amount within 15 minutes. It is a pretty small amount. However even if that did mess up the game some it completely removed all the bots from the game from what I know. But it is very true that gw does not have that scale botting

Just thought I'd point that out

Loot scaling, for the most part, finally did what Anet wanted to farming; stall the rate at which farmers bring actual gold into the economy and inflate prices. Beyond that, it's just been incidental changes, and the hilarity over Shadow Form vs Ecto prices.

HFFF wasn't even a build really so, hardly counts.

Anet is in ur game killing your farming spots.

If all you want to do is farm, then maybe you should have picked up a different game. Try out the Harvest Moon series.

You have repetitive action, items that are worth more than other items and you don't have to interact with other people! Yay!

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There would be hardly any players if they all leave after the nerfs.

Just think about it: the game is close to 4 years old, a lot of farm places got nerfed. We got used to it.

As Owik Gall said: Go find your own place and NEVER EVER share your build.

~daraaksii

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