Have You Checked Your Favor Today?

If you haven't done so yet, go check out how much favor is left. For those of you who are unsure, visit your friendly, helpful zones known as Temple of the Ages, Zin Ku Corridor & Chantry of Secrets.

Better yet, type /favor in game.

... or if you got this far in reading, as of 4:42pm PST (GW time), there is 2664 minutes of favor left. In case you hate math, that's approximately 1.85 days.

Back in April, I remember the favor being well over 30k minutes, but it just caught my attention that our overwhelming number of favor minutes is about to reach zero again!

Weekend event is Halloween. Do you know how many alcohol /party titles that will have? Or Legendary Survivors from Every bit Helps?

Don't panic. There's no cause for alarm: you still have scrolls.

Wow i never thought of how Every bit helps could be an easy survivor on all my toons

Well if the timer ever reaches zero and is not going up again, they could (will) remove the favor system entirely I think, so no worries.

I think it would be interesting to see the favor reach zero again. I remember the days when entry into the elite areas without a scroll was somewhat limited.

I remember when Drunkard was changed and the minutes of favor skyrocketed, the prospect of running out of favor kind of worried me. I know there are scrolls, but I like getting shrine blessings. I hope that system will be changed when GW2 comes out, since the chances of having favor will probably be pretty slim then.

Really? 'cause I remember when scrolls didn't exist. :P

Isn't it pretty pointless to have a favor system where we either have to pay 1k to enter those areas rarely, or long months without end?

I remember when your country had to win enough consecutive battles in the Hall of Heroes to even have favor. Sitting around in ToA, hoping for that last win to get into FoW or UW. Good times.....

Those were great times, and when you had favor, you would all race to get your runs in.

It'd certainly help reduce farming in those areas.

Because we don't use scroll's anyway's...

Favor is one thing I completely forgot about ever since HoH victories became meaningless but hey, thanks for reminding me

Let's hope that "balance" will be restored now - even if it's already too late to talk about "balance issues" in a 6+ yo game...
Favor should never be "permanent" and from my pov it was a great mistake to let it happen.
Many farming/ skill nerfing related issues would be solved looooong time ago if favor system was the same as it was designed to be...

But ok, i never say "no" to the opportunity to make extra cash from the scrolls stacks i have in storage

The old favor system where a nation needed to win 5 consecutive teams in order to (then) open up the only end game areas was very flawed. It resulted in people being locked out of content for weeks at a time, or limited to only a very few minutes late at night.

Now there are many more end game areas to choose from so it's less of an issue that it was.

if people wanted to increase the 'specialness' of going to those areas then either revamp them to make it a lot harder to complete(such as remove the ability to use cons sets) or give better drops to teams that go down and dont use PvE skills or consumables.

UW/FoW were balanced for teams using Prophecies skills and no additional buffs. With them now being made so easy due to power creep it's no wonder people feel these areas are not so special anymore..

But as mentioned above, the game is 6 years old, with a sequel around the corner. No one cares about such things anymore as being able to play without crutches.

Heh... I'd love to see this one happen. Speed clearers suddenly having nothing to do, UW scroll prices skyrocketing (they're 2000 already ...

I remember when favor was granted by whatever zone had the most wins in HoH... before you were allowed to jump between America/Europe/Asia districts... sometimes it would be whole days before a certain zone had enough wins and people would be massed at ToA just waiting... because scrolls did not exist... then came a time when HA died and favor did not change very often.... Had interesting results on the price of ecto. If favor vanished it would be interesting to see the results on scroll prices.

Yep... back when your account actually had a set region to it so if you were euro you needed euro favor

I remember everyone would cloud the area of the statue and start doing runs once we got it.

Haha I recall I set my account to europe even though I was american because they have favor more often.

Favor is a pointless game mechanic. It was dreadful back in the PvP determining it days and pointless in the current era. Just bin it completely, it was an idea 6-7 years ago that just didn't work, time to get rid of it. Especially considering how (relatively) dead the game is now.

Favour was originally intended to pursuade people to participate in organised pvp, but ANet clearly got it wrong.