Update - Thursday April 19, 2007

Flag henchies off your map and you're set.

i love to solo farm to but not for the money but for the challenge. before i use to do it for gold but now just for kicks.

not to be rude but give the other things in GW a try. I'm sure you'll find something.

You sound a lot like my brother.

I'm thinking that ANET is implying that we MUST team to get anywhere. This update will make the poor sink lower until they start eBaying gold. And then eBay will run out of gold and... never mind, I'm rambling again.

Seriously, though. I think there's people saying that doing the flagging away thing with Heroes does not work... So this means the end of solo farming.

My brother said "Solo farming is fruitless, because all the fruits went to ANET." I don't exactly understand what he meant by that, though...

This is rediculous. I put a lot of time and effort into creating my own personal farming builds. Its the ENTIRE fun of the game for me. I could deal with the occasional skill nerf or what have you, but this is just horrible. No matter how much effort i put into the game, I get less than a sixth of what I used to get.

What's the point of this? If ArenaNet wants to add new exciting things for mission players and title-hunters, that's great, but there's no need to ruin what already exists for those of us who play like I do, making specialized builds for effecting cash farming.

Now without soloing how am I going to get greens for all my heroes. I've onyl got like 1/3rd of them equipped because I am lazy. I guess I waited too long. The rest of the updates are real nice, though. They just have to spoil one of the best updates ever with that.

Tsk tsk Anet.

People are gonna be pissed

the party scaling nerf idea posted by several people here was to UPSCALE and reward players in parties, not ruin the fun of soloers.

I understand though....Hardmode produces higher level loot and it needs to be not "farmable".

Maybe Hardmode should be not-farmable. and Normal mode is.....normal?

P.M.Grey....
*cough*

Since you do it for the fun....mind giving me some $$ *cough*

Reading the update had me so excited until I read...

"Loot now scales according to party size"

...*sigh* Figures they put that one tiny little detail near the end in miscellaneous. Like adding on a "Oh btw guys we got rid of the point of solo farming!!!"

Oh well. Might as well just over look this and enjoy hard mode for what it's worth. The increased rewards should make up for it, I suppose.

someone from ANet please clarify the loot scaling. The explanation is too vague.

Awesome update beside the loot scaling. No more solo for green item if you cant get all the loot. If that is the case prepare to buy green at 80k+

Solo Farming is not dead dudes

Take your henchies, But don't make them fight

Just leave them somewhere around the area, you still get your loot.

Yet again, anet screws us over... gg anet. no more solo farming...

Well expect to see green prices shoot up WTS Kephet's 100k+10!!

Tried flagging my henchies away... I don't think my rate was quite 1/8 but it certainly was at least half of usual... and they take part of the gold too. This really sucks. Solo farming was one of my favourite things to do with a character once I completed all the goals I had for them in a campaign. Sure some people find it boring, but for me, and others, it was fun. It was particularly good to farm materials for armor, or collector's items or greens to equip heroes. Now equipping heroes will be even more annoying.

So much for my aim to get fow armor... I can only imagine what's going to happen to the price of ectos now.

posted this in the other thread, C&P ftw...

farming isnt dead, just solo farming. although this is going to lead to inflation (i barely passed eco, think thats right). ecto price (as well as other things usually solo'd) will increase, while income from player to player will stay around the same. increase in prices while income stays the same; thats inflation, right?

not going to freak out just yet. will wait for the other shoe to drop before passing judgment. economy is going to be fun to watch. maybe the influx of gems will curtail the rise in ecto prices. if not, good thing ive been stockpiling ectos...

Who cares about nerfed solo farming? They introduce a new mode and solo farming is the complaint? Sheesh.

Wait for prices to skyrocket and you be there complaining to.


Oh and by the way im buying all ectos while the prices are below 10k. Soon they are gonna hit 20k

There complaining because once you've reached your goals and you DO NOT LIKE pvping Farming was all they had, now they can't do it.

Im not a farmer, im a poor Hobo so Im not affected much.
Although if you like economy so much go play Goonzu ONline its Based off buying and selling stuff and farming, its really a farmers game.

Many people enjoy soloing, it is the equivalent of ANET adding HB, but taking away HA. They implemented it in a really bad way, they should have given better rewards for those in groups, not hurt those who like to play alone.

Here is an example of why it is so bad:

This was with a full group, I got similar results when I did this solo.

Incorrect sir.

No matter what, dead or flagged off, they will take a share of your loot. To clarify: In an 8 man zone you will only ever get 1/8th of the loot, regardless of any other factor.

Apparently, quite a few people care about solo farming. Obvious question much?