Johny Bravo

davadude, on 16 May 2013 - 06:49 PM, said:

I have done the instigator at least 20 times and have not received a crate from him nor the chest.  I have been averaging about 2-3 an hour farming karka or skelk outside of the instigators. Which champs are you talking about (outside of the Karka you already mentioned)

Edit - FYI my MF with all buffs is sitting at 368

I still don't get what the complaint is.  In the end ANET is a business and they are trying to generate money, RNG boxes are simply a means to an end.  Call me a fanboy or whatever but in the end nothing in the boxes is game changing.  You don't NEED to buy them you WANT to buy them.  On top of that you don't NEED to spend real money to do so you can convert gold to gems to purchase them.  You may use real money because you don't have any extra gold to dump into gems but how is that ANETs problem.  Lets get to the real complaint:

ANET I want this, I don't have time to farm for gold, and I only have so much so I can only get it by getting lucky or spending real world money.  

But say ANET said ok we are sorry for trying to bait you into spending money on cosmetic type stuff how about we make it an extremely rare drop, would that solve the problem?  .....nope then the complaint would be that the price was over 400G (aka precursers) and the new thread would be ANET the economy sucks because this %^$& is too expensive, oh wait it isn't a new thread it already exists.

I have been reading through the posts and it seems people are getting the idea that the people farming this event are preventing others from completing the event.  They are not.  They are not bugging it, glitching it, or "preventing" it from being completed.  The only bannable offenses IMHO are the verbal assaults on those working on completing the event.

Any group that comes onto the map wanting to complete the event are free to do so, nothing the group of farmers is doing will prevent them from accomplishing their objective assuming they have enough participants.  As seen in the video this event is being solo'd.  

Now do I believe that Anet intended for this event to be farmed, no.  You brought it to their attention and they will decide how to change the event if necessary (i.e. as in Jormag's event now only the vet spawned at "incoming" drop loot).  Maybe here only the original spawn drops loot, or the event has a timer and reset.  It is up to them.  

Other then the verbal abuse you get if you complete the event, which is uncalled for, I don't understand what your problem is.  If you want to zone in and do the events nothing is stopping you.  Those people would rather camp in one spot to farm the undead spawn instead of running around the map.

Ritualist, on 09 May 2013 - 11:19 PM, said:

You are the third person I have heard state this.  Guess everyone is taking the statement that they will flood the market with Precursors at the 1 year point as they will give presents.  I would be interested to see how they would implement that.  A token maybe so you could pick the weapon of your choice

Questions though do we think presents will be character or account based?

Unless they are doing something to actively stop people from doing the event they are doing nothing wrong.  They are just taking advantage of a quick respawn to kill more enemies.   What you did is hilarious and all and their reaction is quite funny and uncalled for, it is an event and therefore should be completed, but I don't see why anyone would be punished for participating in this.  The only problem here is that the people that are farming think they have the right to tell you to stop doing event.  

  I remember going to Frost Gorge and farming the "incoming" spawns during Phase one late at night when no one was around.  Since there weren't enough people to take down the wall and damage Jormag the spawns would keep coming, it was a great place to farm corrupted lodestones.  When enough people finally decided to take him down I got my chest and moved on no big deal.