Riverside Gets Shafted...AGAIN!

Argh! They nerfed Riverside Province AGAIN! Now every third Justiciar is replaced with a spellcaster...

I take it ANet is trying to completely incapacitate farming whenever an area has been overly farmed? First the regular nerf, and now switching out mob types? I think this is a big swing for all those anti-farming people. Now when they're trying to extol the evils of farming, they can say, "Remember Riverside?"

Not sure if this was already posted elsewhere, but they took out Hill Giants for Imps.

Sadly enough, i remember riverside when it was good... the first nerf... didnt make me quit... those four chests on the way there normaly dropped me at least 1-2 rares!, thats right, rares... but well... it's been reduced to kibbles and bits...

I'm a (semi-casual) gamer... playing quite a bit actually.... and well... i can see them trying to take my enjoyment out of the game... i havent found even ONE superior rune... Ever... and ive beaten the game once, and gotten to ring of fire twice... and farmed riverside like mad... even before it was nerfed... so now, what they're doing... is making it impossible for me to make good money in good time (keeping up with the way the economy is dropping)... and well... now i don't know what to do...

I stopped all farming after the last patch, and now i hear it's been nerfed again... sadly enough, i dont have all the skills i want for pvp... but i have enough for the one pvp character i have... and i dont feel compelled enough to do the missions again... i havent unlocked runes i want worth anything... it's kind of frustrating... i regret stacking my ranger out in 15k armor now... that was when riverside ruled... and that's how i spent my money... rather then on superior vigor runes, like i should have... could have bought two when they cost 40k, now they're up to 60-90k as i hear... talk about a waste in my money... meh... no way of getting the money/supplies back now.... so now i pvp like mad!... and of course i run in underworld/fissure every now and then, but that doesnt give me enough money to affoard these outrageously priced runes that i need...

I hear there's a rune trader now... what runes may i ask... and what are the prices?

I think that's speculation... i just got done with a hill giant run before i got off (had to try it hoping they raised the drops again)... (i was wrong... they dropped)... good thing i read the update page just a little bit ago...

If you want to farm, go live in the countryside and have a farm of your own.

Farm? Who wants to farm? I want to kill the same monsters in the same area again and again for items that I have already unlocked or could unlock if I played normally, as well as waste my time since I prefer not to PvP as of yet. And the Riverside nerf makes that quite difficult.

You can PVP anytime you want, but you cant farm anytime you want

That's good. My friend was screaming over guild chat that the Hill Giants were gone. He probably was in the wrong area. I'll have to go check for myself.

Why farm when you can find all the good stuff without farming? Just found a sup vigor rune while running with my ranger

Me too. Found a Superior Absorption from doing a miscellaneous quest. Farming does help get gold though, and that helps to get that expensive Underworld/Fissure of Woe armor.

Has anyone noticed that the mobs no longer drop anything? I was running a friend upto Yak's Bend and I did not get one single drop. The drops that should have been mine no one got. Whats up with that?

well its about time they lowered the drops again, have you noticed how hard it is to sell anything now, every time i do a quest or go to anther town i get 3 purples, a yellow, and a major rune, thats kinda ridiculous, the whole game is one farming run

Why does everyone get so upset when things drop. What do I care if Joe Bob grinder has 80 runes in his inventory all the time because he can't sell them fast enough. Personally I enjoy the game more when I get cool drops when I kill things, instead of running a mission and just getting a handful of white items. Maybe that's just me, and my inabiltiy and unwillingness to play for 10 hr's at a time.

And what exactly do you need the money for in this game, nothing is expensive enough to need to farm for hours on end

I don't pick up white items anymore....in fact since the patch I haven't picked up a single drop....

ya...cuz armor that costs 15K isn't expensive....or 80K weapons aren't expensive...

Correct, they aren't. Playing normally, never farming, I have more than enough gold.

So you made 100k+ just playing through Guild Wars? Without playing through an area multiple times? (Even if you were exploring?)

This seems like kind of a stretch. Most of the people who have finished the PvE content will tell you that they never had even close to 10K gold on them at any point.

funny

i only had 10k when i was 20 and at droknar's forge

and armors + materials costed me 10k and now i have like 370 and i couldn't even buy helm

and since i'm weak and all i can't even farm (i usually die before hill giants W/N)

it's hard for me to earn money....

I'm only at Frost Gate...but I've never had more than 1.5K at any point in time...

My guild gives me money to put away in our guild hall fund, and we only have 37-38k saved... so tell me money isn't hard to come by. =\