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Brknkybrd · Jul 04, 2007, 05:46 AM // 05:46

Depending on the area, vanquishing can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours; high level areas take longer, and involve more strategy, careful party setup, and patience (I'm looking at you, Barbarous Shore). The reward for vanquishing now is a pithy 3xN gold, and 5xN experience for killing N monsters, plus a fairly small number of Kurzick/Luxon/Sunspear points for the time spent, and finally, one more point toward a long, difficult, time consuming title track.

I think there needs to be more reward for this work. First of all, experience = zilch for level 20 characters who already have 41 extra skill points they don't know what to do with. And 300 - 1000 gold is really, really not enough -- it certainly doesn't motivate me to vanquish Tyria, where I don't get any extra Sunspear or other title points while I do it.

Give us more for vanquishing! It should pay better than farming for the same amount of time, because it takes more skill!

How much do you think Vanquishing should give?

Metasynaptic · Jul 04, 2007, 07:30 AM // 07:30

The exp isn't completely useless. You can access hard mode at level 20, even if you haven't completed the campaign with that character (you must have completed it with a different character, however). This allows you to go do some vanquishing on a low level area and rack up some cheap exp for a survivor character on their way to 1337k exp.

MagmaRed · Jul 04, 2007, 12:33 PM // 12:33

I agree that the reward for Vanquishing is pathetic, but don't think it needs to be changed. Vanquishing is not for farming, it is for accomplishing something difficult. Yes, the XP is usually unneeded, but it does help some people. The gold is a joke, as there are typically 250 monsters in a zone (some more some less), so you end up with less then 1k for your time.

However, if they make the change so you receive 10g per kill instead of 3g, how do they pay the people who already Vanquished on the 3g payouts? I completely Vanquished Cantha already, and am almost done with Tyria and Elona.... so I would get screwed out of a lot of money, unless they had a way of knowing how many monsters I killed in the zones I already Vanquished. I certainly don't want to Vanquish areas again, just to get more money, as other methods get more money faster.

If someone can come up with an idea that works for BOTH people who have not Vanquished and people who already have, I'll sign.

MithranArkanere · Jul 04, 2007, 01:12 PM // 13:12

I would change it so the first time gives you some more rewards, and vanquishing an already vanquished area gives you the current reward.

Something like:
- Not vanquished already:
* 10Experience and 5 Gold per kill.
* 1000 Experience and 500gold per boss.
* 1 skill point
* 1000 gold

- Vanquished already:
*5 Experience and 3 gold per kill.
*500 Experience and 250gold per boss.

Onarik Amrak · Jul 04, 2007, 03:10 PM // 15:10

Would be nice, but I think ANet is avoiding giving out too much gold as it'll supposedly make the economy worse.