I have Spent the past 5 days in Sorrows Furnace. The first night it opened was amazing. Every chest was gold items, every boss had green weapons for someone in the group. After 5 days the chests have gone to purple / white items (not worth the price of the key) and the bosses are no longer droping any green items.
Am i playing Sorrows too much? If i play another area will things get better, or is this linked to my account and you can only get so many good drops before your player or account gets nerfed? Im going to try take a new player into sorrows and see if the same thing happens to him. Im just wondering if its my account that gets nurfed or just the player.
So if i go buy a new account, the drops should be good for awhile, untill it reaches its saturation point, then its all purple white drops ?
Quality of Drops Question
Wrath of m0o
MaglorD
Anet discourages farming. What they do is if you play a particular area too much, like more than twice/thrice, the drops get progressively worse. So from Green/Gold, you end up with purple and then blue/white.
I believe this is by account, so using another character in the same account won't help unless you play a different area.
I believe this is by account, so using another character in the same account won't help unless you play a different area.
Kamatsu
MaglorD - actually ANet don't have anything against players farming as such. What they have a problem with is bot farming - this is why drops reduce in quality and quantity the more often you hit the same area/chests/monsters.
Wrath of m0o - you've probably just hit a scripting to reduce drops because your farming SF/GF so much. just go elsewhere for a time and go back and the drops should be more that likely back to normal.
It is linked to your account, but it's a time thingy - ie if you go and say spend a day farming the desert then go back to SF/GF it should be back to normal.
at least thats how I believe the system works.. or something similar to that.
Wrath of m0o - you've probably just hit a scripting to reduce drops because your farming SF/GF so much. just go elsewhere for a time and go back and the drops should be more that likely back to normal.
It is linked to your account, but it's a time thingy - ie if you go and say spend a day farming the desert then go back to SF/GF it should be back to normal.
at least thats how I believe the system works.. or something similar to that.
Loviatar
they might also have adjusted the drop rate if they felt the goodies were too....good 
Mario 64 Master
The best way to farm for items in general is to find at least 5-10 different places to obtain items (whether it be chest locations, certain explorable areas, specific monsters, certain missions) or whatever and then cycle through doing every one a couple times each.
Wrath of m0o
Yeah, but they keep Nurf'n the best Pharm spots. No more Tengu Pharm'n..They killed it. Anyway I got Dragos Bow in Sorrows and someone was nice enough to trade me a Tanzit Razorstone for it, on my birthday. How @#$%ing Cool is that !
That was the Best B-day present ever... Sorrows R0cks City Blocks !
That was the Best B-day present ever... Sorrows R0cks City Blocks !
MaglorD
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MaglorD - actually ANet don't have anything against players farming as such. What they have a problem with is bot farming - this is why drops reduce in quality and quantity the more often you hit the same area/chests/monsters.
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Daegul Mistweaver
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Originally Posted by kamatsu
It is linked to your account, but it's a time thingy - ie if you go and say spend a day farming the desert then go back to SF/GF it should be back to normal.
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