Yeah so last night I decided to ravage those trolls, and on my 8th run I got this tip... telling me to not farm one area so much as the loots will cease to drop. However I've been farming those griffons for ages and that never came up..
Anyways, should I listen to this tip or is it outdated? And how long would it take for an area to become norm again?
Thanks for your time.
Over farming an area...
infective
Loviatar
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Yeah so last night I decided to ravage those trolls, and on my 8th run I got this tip... telling me to not farm one area so much as the loots will cease to drop. However I've been farming those griffons for ages and that never came up..
Anyways, should I listen to this tip or is it outdated? And how long would it take for an area to become norm again? Thanks for your time. |
yes the drops will drop off.go through the whole zone next tima and have a few other places so you can rotate your crops
SilentAssassin
well they've added an anti-farm code a long time ago, so the more you farm one specific spot , less items and stuff will drop.
I never noticed any changes in drops, because I don't farm that much, but I think this is only for when you really are farming 6 hours straight the same spot.
I never noticed any changes in drops, because I don't farm that much, but I think this is only for when you really are farming 6 hours straight the same spot.
Xonic
if you repeatly kill a few (not sure on exact number) mobs at a certain area, you'll make the anti-bot-farming code kick in.
maybe when you farm griffions you kill enough number of mobs and run out far enough to not having the farmer alert go off.
maybe when you farm griffions you kill enough number of mobs and run out far enough to not having the farmer alert go off.
GraceAlone
That's interesting because I farmed griffons last night for a couple of hours straight but never got a warning and the drops were fine. Maybe like Xonic said it has to do with how much/how far into the zone you go. *shrugs*
Griff Mon
I ran in and out and went after a group of minoutars with my warrior and got "the message" but finished the big group of minoutars and got a silver dye drop right after being warned. Go figure.....
icemonkey
dyes are worth 1 gold, and drops are related to their "gold value" so tahts why
there was/is a theory that you could over farm an area and casue the drop value to be so low taht you consistantly drop dyes, hecne actually making a lot of money.
I dunno if it worked but just a heads up.
there was/is a theory that you could over farm an area and casue the drop value to be so low taht you consistantly drop dyes, hecne actually making a lot of money.
I dunno if it worked but just a heads up.
Sol_Vie
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dyes are worth 1 gold, and drops are related to their "gold value" so tahts why
there was/is a theory that you could over farm an area and casue the drop value to be so low taht you consistantly drop dyes, hecne actually making a lot of money. I dunno if it worked but just a heads up. |
Ha, that'd be pretty cool.
EternalTempest
I know it will get you a "warning" if it's extreme from what I heard but the code starts to lower your drop rate also w/o a waring. They only way to get them back up is to move to another location.
I saw this myself when I was building up skulls for candy canes (own small personal stash). Nolani -> zone -> fill up -> repeat. The drops were starting to decrease across the board after a bit of time.
Once I went to other area's, and came back, drop rates were much higher.
I saw this myself when I was building up skulls for candy canes (own small personal stash). Nolani -> zone -> fill up -> repeat. The drops were starting to decrease across the board after a bit of time.
Once I went to other area's, and came back, drop rates were much higher.
Ruvaen
Yep, always rotate your crops... XD
infective
If only I knew where another huge pack of trolls are at... And if only those griffons were lvl 24, cause at 21 they drop crap that's not even capped in dmg..
ghostlyranger
i think mayb if kill more variety of mob, then it wont trigger it?
Kook~NBK~
Find different locations to farm in and bounce around between them - no worries about the anti-farm thing kicking in.
SilentAssassin
or another possibility: don't farm
led-zep
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or another possibility: don't farm
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'doctor it hurts when i breathe'
'well dont breathe'
SilentAssassin
thats the best cure isn't it ?
Rainy Ico
Eh. This explains a lot.
Time to start farming Hydras again.
Time to start farming Hydras again.
icemonkey
does anyone know wether it is character based or account based?
seems like it is character based but any official word ?
seems like it is character based but any official word ?
Young Hero
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If only I knew where another huge pack of trolls are at... And if only those griffons were lvl 24, cause at 21 they drop crap that's not even capped in dmg..
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NJudson
One thing I've noticed is that there have been a few times where I was griffon farming with my W/Mo and for whatever reason I couldn't gain adrenaline. My "Bonetti's Defense" skill was useless because of this and the weird this is that when it's happened I don't think that I had been farming for much more than 2 or 3 runs out of Augury. I didn't have anything put "Soothing Images" on me or anything like that so I'm not sure what would've caused me not to gain adrenaline. Anyone else see this before? 
Witchblade
it takes lotsa runs to rlly see that effect.. dunno if it works exactly the same way everywhere .. i tried once with elona minotaurs, took me dozens of runs to get almost full nodrop ... but quality is decreasing rapidly 
.. anyway.. like ppl said just above, rotating runs is the key ^^
what i m still wondering, what does it "take" to get things back to normal after that "drop nerf" in a zone
.. anyway.. like ppl said just above, rotating runs is the key ^^ what i m still wondering, what does it "take" to get things back to normal after that "drop nerf" in a zone
Vevila
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One thing I've noticed is that there have been a few times where I was griffon farming with my W/Mo and for whatever reason I couldn't gain adrenaline. My "Bonetti's Defense" skill was useless because of this and the weird this is that when it's happened I don't think that I had been farming for much more than 2 or 3 runs out of Augury. I didn't have anything put "Soothing Images" on me or anything like that so I'm not sure what would've caused me not to gain adrenaline. Anyone else see this before?
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Francis Crawford
How much do you have to do elsewhere to reset whatever counter was being watched?
I got the warning once when I was, of all things, farming Spiny Seeds. I'd go out, walk around until one cactus popped up, kill it, and go back. After 15 or so consecutive runs, I got the notice.
I got the warning once when I was, of all things, farming Spiny Seeds. I'd go out, walk around until one cactus popped up, kill it, and go back. After 15 or so consecutive runs, I got the notice.
Deathqueen
I think this is the only online game I've ever played that has "farming laws" isn't that a bit rediculous? Sure curb the bots but don't punish EVERYONE just because of a few bots?
Witchblade
bots were running chests and barrels, not rlly farming monsters
Anet removed all chests to stop ppl from using bot on em .. maybe if a farming bot shows up they ll remove monsters too
/on my way out
Anet removed all chests to stop ppl from using bot on em .. maybe if a farming bot shows up they ll remove monsters too
/on my way out