How exactly did Anet nerf farming?

Did they nerf the difficulty of the monsters? Or did they nerf the drops itself?

Short answer:

Neither. They implemented a program that determines whether or not a real live person is playing the character or if it's just a computer script. If it's a computer script then the drops pretty much stop coming.

BS, i farm as a normal person without any botting, and at times i still get no drops, even if i just started a run after jsut logging in, its prolly a bug, but still, after killing 6 creatures and not getting a single drop...it kinda annoying, and when u finally do get a gold drop, u get all excited, and u have to wait for your ability to identify it cause u fought o recently, and then bam, its the biggest POS u have ever seen barr none its more thna just a little dissapointing... c'mon a +12 energy frost artifact that req's 13 water magic???

I would petition that and let them look at the logs. I can safely say that that has not been my experience what so ever.

I have noticed that not all monsters drop loot now, even if its the first time through.

Also, Giants no longer drop golds every 2 runs T_T

I too have the issue that the first 3-6 kills of any zone tend not to drop for me, that and things like griffons and drakes no longer drop loot or cash every time. Not thats it a big deal but when your solo and every kill used to drop something before the patch, and now its more random then not makes it little frustrating at times

Well... they've implemented a system, And nerfed the drops. Giants had a significant drop from what they use to (which was needed, but they did it a little on overkill)...

They use to drop nearly Only purples/yellows, and it was quite nice... cause sometimes they'd also drop about 100-200 gold, reasonably... so yea... it needed a drop, but they totaly got shafted... now i havent gotten even one purple/yellow over three runs, and so on... i stopped all of those forms of farming, and i now go to fissure...

Its a lame question I realieze, but what is farming?

going to already exploired areas and killing creatures just for the loot. Rinse and Repeat

You must be beating down some poor monsters....

They also added a ton of mesmer type monsters that destroy enchantments.

As I understand it the nerf was a running count of how many times a charcter entered the same map. You could do it 10-15 with no penalty, (after all I die that many times just running the missions!) but then the drops reduce significantly. I believe there is a reset on it, but I am not sure how that works.

IMHO they added better drops in the last update, but also added a few new specialty enemies to stop certain farming builds. It hasn't stopped me.

About a week or more ago, I was out farming and for some reason I thought I had a brilliant idea.
I just killed the group of MOBs in the very beginning of the area and left and restarted.
After about 3 or 4 times I stopped receiving drops from MOBs until I entered some Mission with a bunch of people.

since the patch I have noticed that while exploring (I dont "farm" I just run around randomly) I have gotten more gold drops than I ever got before the patch. So you probably just need to keep zoning into diffrent areas, not just farm one area.

Didnt they increase the damage certain often farmed mobs put out. I know they increased drakes damage.

This was a bug that has been fixed.

its only harder to solo farm

You're a complete moron, people like you should not be allowed to post.

Instead of calling people morons why don't you make a constructive post for once?