Curse

ownage of teh elite · Jul 22, 2005, 07:17 AM // 07:17

Okay guys, hello there.

I'm here to push out my rage towards a-net and their abuse to us.

Firstly, I would like to say that I am a droknar runner. Yes...sometimes it's hard, and the imps combined with various knockdown monsters get irritatin, be we get er dun. But no....A-Net just COULDNT let us make a profit, since they already screwed up our freaking farming!

THEY HAVE ADDED MOBS TO THE DAMNED DROKNAR RUN!

As you probably have noticed, upon arrival in lonars pass, everything seems the same. But as you progress, near the wurms, you see a s***load of new mobs. huge mobs of imps, huge mobs of golems, huge pinesouls, i mean, its RIDICULOUS!!! And they even placed more freaking ice imp mobs near the wurm knockdown, avarica run, area! As if the first ice imp mob wasn't gay enough!

I mean, this is getting out of hand.

This is really, really, not good for ratings towards Guildwars.

I mean...in the future, people WILL put down this game, comparing it towards other online games, such as WoW, or Everquest. I mean, this game is turning into a game, in which you dedicate so much time into. But you never get ANYTHING worthwile. And still, gay-net continues to NERF our farming areas, ELIMINATE our chests, and ADD FREAKING MOBS TO OUR PROFITABLE RUNS.

PETITION TIME, FOR US TO RISE AGAINST THIS RIDICULE.

/signed

:name
:Reason
:IGN
:Age (if wanted)

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/signed

:Lance

:A-net is becoming ridiculous to our playing style, and are eliminating all hopes of gaining money.

:Ownage of teh elite

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Rajamic · Jul 22, 2005, 07:41 AM // 07:41

Droknar running was only for the lazy and the griefer. To the lazy, I'm sorry. To the griefer, well, I don't associate with them at all.

As for the gaining of money, they said a long time ago that they have a plan for making everything (short of the 15K and Fissure armors at least) easily accessable through normal gameplay. The nerfing of farming spots was a required step before implementing this, or the economy would go down the crapper all the way to Austrailia (no offense Aussies. Purely geographic reference) within literally hours! Once they feel they have all easy farming spots handled, then they can afford to unroll this plan.

Orochim4ru · Jul 22, 2005, 08:19 AM // 08:19

the economy is already in the crapper, and if you want fissure armor, you'd better pray a 15>50 storm bow drops, otherwise there's NO way to get it. 105 ecto/shards is disgusting, even if you're guaranteed 2/run, since that would mean you would still be on the hook for 105k if you payed all the entrances. That's totally lucridious. Obviously "normal" playing won't cut it for that, but now all the "non-normal" avenues of money getting are closed down, thus the high end content is reserved for people who played pre-nerf.

I have to unlock my runes, my weapon mods, my skills. After that, i can focus on style, but in the meantime i'd like to have more... fun. I can afford to re-dye my armor everyone once in a while.. that's about it. Whoa, don't get all classy on me now: i've played through the game on 3 characters: not a single black dye. If i want to ever find out what it looks like on armor, i'm down another 10k.

10k that i can't get from sitting in LA spamming "WTS WOOD PLANKS OMG ROFL!"

To summarize: -the ingame economy is like all ingame economies: trashy.
-The casual player CANNOT afford high end content.
-Farming/Running was an effective way of bolstering their income, which has now been removed.
-Apart from chain winning the HoH, PvP has no ingame monetary reward
-In PvE its fairly impossible to make steady money in missions, or by completeling the game.

Arcador · Jul 22, 2005, 08:26 AM // 08:26

Well there are some skills that allow you to run past HUGE groups of mobs, but it requires different type of classes - for example the shadow mobs can be passed with balanced stance (no knockdown), mass mage mobs with spell breaker and so on.

The so called farming is difficult but posible. Know the zone you will go, know the enemies there, their skills and numbers, also their resistances then thin out a skills for that and your efficiency will raise a lot.

AceSnyp3r · Jul 22, 2005, 08:31 AM // 08:31

I don't think anyone deserves to be in Droknar's if they can't manage to Ascend. Besides, it's not impossible now, just not as easy, and you might actually have to (ghasp!) fight. I agree with most of Rajamic's points on this.

/unsigned

BladeX3I · Jul 22, 2005, 08:35 AM // 08:35

We could tell by your post and forum name how old you are. You didn't have to post it. Most of us don't feel bad for you. I don't know what to say besides....try a different game?

Omega_2005 · Jul 22, 2005, 08:40 AM // 08:40

I'll sign it, as nobody else seems interested of doing so.

Yes it is ridiculous there, it's too hard solo-running there, and with most of these *ahem* parties... I think they should either tone down those monster levels or remove half of them

/SIGNED

Matthew Williams

Just overdone that area a bit too well

Wnx Omega Hammerer, Alpha And The Omega...

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Aaaaagh · Jul 22, 2005, 08:42 AM // 08:42

I love Droknars runners. I am not one. I have played through the PvE FIVE times now, and I enjoy being able to give someone 3k (pennies) to get me to my armor so I can enjoy the game a tad more (cause I like kickin ass). I always thought everyone whining about Droknars runners were idiots, its a service that they can easily chose not to use after all. I dont understand why A.net made this move, they must have been swayed by the mass of morons. I dont agree with this move. However, that doesnt mean Im anti Anet cause they did one thing I dont like. Life is about comprimise, an intelligent person will find another way to make money.

Xeno Demachilo · Jul 22, 2005, 08:57 AM // 08:57

I find droknar runners extremely pathetic. The point of this game is not to run back and forth for money. It is to kill monsters, Level up, Proceed through the game as it was intended, and do that over.

Aaaaagh · Jul 22, 2005, 09:00 AM // 09:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xeno Demachilo

I find droknar runners extremely pathetic. The point of this game is not to run back and forth for money. It is to kill monsters, Level up, Proceed through the game as it was intended, and do that over.

How short sighted you are. That may be the point of the game for YOU, but its sure not for me.

The point of the game for me is to unlock as near to everything as I can, and then PvP until my brain pukes or I get bored. So, rushing is good for those like me, who are concerned with getting to end game so they can get the unlocks they need.

There are two sides to a coin my friend. GW isnt a coin though, its more of a cube..

Quintus · Jul 22, 2005, 09:04 AM // 09:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xeno Demachilo

I find droknar runners extremely pathetic. The point of this game is not to run back and forth for money. It is to kill monsters, Level up, Proceed through the game as it was intended, and do that over.

I was under the impression that the point of the game is to have fun. If someone does not find low level PvE, lack of skill/build options, and/or missions they have done 20 times already fun, then I see no reason to keep them away from what they do find fun. But you say that the point of the game is to "kill monstors" and "Level up". So I guess I must be wrong.

Orochim4ru · Jul 22, 2005, 09:17 AM // 09:17

You know what, every time i see the word "intended" i wonder why the hell there's a link to beacons perch that leads to droknars. What, did you think that a party from camp rankor was interested in unlocking kryta?

Lord Malikai · Jul 22, 2005, 09:19 AM // 09:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by ownage of teh elite

THEY HAVE ADDED MOBS TO THE DAMNED DROKNAR RUN!

It's better than a really big wall that blocks the passage

No pain, no gain.

Sandman Uk · Jul 22, 2005, 09:26 AM // 09:26

At the end of the day as mentioned they shouldnt be there. If they want to progress later in the game they will have to do the missions to asscend if they want to go to underworld. i think ANET should make the armour lvl specific. That will stop lvl1's trying to get to Drokners to get the expensive armour if it was lvl18-20 specific

LathalDraugr · Jul 22, 2005, 09:28 AM // 09:28

Think you might be overreacting a bit. Are you sure you just didn't get unlucky with mob placement? Because I just tried the run (on the euro server) this morning and it seems to be same as usual. I think at some point in the last couple of weeks they added a few mobs or at least a new template for mob placement in Lornar's Pass which makes it harder but that's about it. If you die because the mobs are too close together just rezone and try again.

And to all who proclaimed the death of Droknar's running,you can't win. Even if A.net makes running solo impossible (which they might just do sooner or later thanks to all the whining) you'll just see groups of 5 level 20's charging 25k per person.

Synthos · Jul 22, 2005, 09:30 AM // 09:30

I really have faith that these people will find a way to make the run now anyway.

Orochim4ru · Jul 22, 2005, 09:32 AM // 09:32

Quote:

At the end of the day as mentioned they shouldnt be there

Why not? i've beaten the game multiple times, i've gotten everything done in UW and FoW, yet i shouldn't be allowed to walk along a perfectly legal path to get to the south shiverpeaks because you don' think i should be there? Hilarious. Unless i'm in the level 10 arenas, i'm not hurting you, nor am i affecting the economy, nor am i unbalancing pvp.

I fail to see your logic. Oh, wait there is none.

Creature of Legend · Jul 22, 2005, 09:37 AM // 09:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Malikai

It's better than a really big wall that blocks the passage

No pain, no gain.

The wall might be better! If it's challenge you want they gave it to you, keep it up and the'll stick a monster like Anthras (Lineage II) in your way, your running days will be OVER!

/unsigned

If you have done all the missions 10 times, you have made the run alone 10 times, ect.... why do you need a runner? Why do you hire someone to do your work? If you run it alone fine, more power to you, I'm going to try one of these days but dont hire anyone!

As for the extra mobs, good! makes for a harder traverse, it aint like we are losing xp or deleveling. The worsth that happens is you die, take your penalty, and try again.

TO Anet: MAKE MORE MOBS, THE ONES YOUR GOT ARE TOO WEAK!!!

Omega_2005 · Jul 22, 2005, 09:42 AM // 09:42

I've had enough of this "Flaming" in the thread! Either stop spamming and sign it, or comment why you dislike it, rather than jibing, or stay away from this thread!

DrSLUGFly · Jul 22, 2005, 10:50 AM // 10:50

I don't run... I don't get run by others... I never will...

I think droknar runs are a fantastic idea. Trading alone is not an economy. Economy is for products AND/OR services. I like that players are offering services instead of just items. It adds what is closer to a real economy and I'm all for it.