guild wars 2's new expansion is close to ruining my gw2 obsession. the new maps are super pretty and fun to just exist in, but currently they have the best gold farm in the game. "that's great then right? you have a good convinient reason to exist in those maps, it's a win-win!" no. see it's like 40x better gold farm than literally any other thing you can do in the game. it's so good that it makes everything else seem like a waste. more, the gold farm involves, going to a magic mirror, shooting a moving target, which reveals several locked chests scattered around the map then looting those chests with key charges. there is some detail about keeping number of unlock keys you have below 25, so you can't just do all the mirrors first then do all the keys. you get 10 charges on each mirror completion, and the 3 different chest sizes take 2, 4, and 10 keys respectively. there aren't enough keys for all the chests if you just do the mirrors once, so in order to effectively do it you have to keep track of which mirrors you need to redo or every time a mirror reveals more charges debt in chests than you can cover with just that mirror open what you can then go back to that mirror, reload the map, then finish opening. that last way is pretty ineffecient in terms of charges tho because some mirrors reveal less charge debt in chests than they reveal, so you could be wasting key charges that way.
anyway, because this task is just barely not mindless, and involves a lot of bouncing back and forth around the same areas of the maps over and over, and is repeatable every day, and pays a huge amount of gold (in the form of rare and masterwork items) i do it once every day after reset, and then feel this apathy toward doing literally anything else. I am not used to feeling apathy in gw2. I've never cared about getting lots of gold, i've never grinded any of the other "strong gold farms" on repeat or even daily. I've always just had goals i worked toward.
I'm trying to get into homesteading the new deserted island, but that's annoying too because i don't want to make daily gathering lines in the homestead longer with my build, so i need to avoid a large triangle of the island, or build inside that triangle.
it's just so tireing.
then hearing the news about the metroid prime 4 reveal. It all again has me thinking that people in power of the games industry are trying their best to make people stop playing games. make people burn out. ruin their trust in the big franchises. make people think "if this is all so bad, maybe I should just play the mmo 'irl', at least then i'd be able to buy nice things irl"
"that's great then right? you have a good convinient reason to exist in those maps, it's a win-win!"
no. see it's like 40x better gold farm than literally any other thing you can do in the game. it's so good that it makes everything else seem like a waste. more, the gold farm involves, going to a magic mirror, shooting a moving target, which reveals several locked chests scattered around the map then looting those chests with key charges.
there is some detail about keeping number of unlock keys you have below 25, so you can't just do all the mirrors first then do all the keys. you get 10 charges on each mirror completion, and the 3 different chest sizes take 2, 4, and 10 keys respectively.
there aren't enough keys for all the chests if you just do the mirrors once, so in order to effectively do it you have to keep track of which mirrors you need to redo or every time a mirror reveals more charges debt in chests than you can cover with just that mirror open what you can then go back to that mirror, reload the map, then finish opening. that last way is pretty ineffecient in terms of charges tho because some mirrors reveal less charge debt in chests than they reveal, so you could be wasting key charges that way.
anyway, because this task is just barely not mindless, and involves a lot of bouncing back and forth around the same areas of the maps over and over, and is repeatable every day, and pays a huge amount of gold (in the form of rare and masterwork items) i do it once every day after reset, and then feel this apathy toward doing literally anything else. I am not used to feeling apathy in gw2. I've never cared about getting lots of gold, i've never grinded any of the other "strong gold farms" on repeat or even daily. I've always just had goals i worked toward.
I'm trying to get into homesteading the new deserted island, but that's annoying too because i don't want to make daily gathering lines in the homestead longer with my build, so i need to avoid a large triangle of the island, or build inside that triangle.
it's just so tireing.
then hearing the news about the metroid prime 4 reveal. It all again has me thinking that people in power of the games industry are trying their best to make people stop playing games. make people burn out. ruin their trust in the big franchises.
make people think "if this is all so bad, maybe I should just play the mmo 'irl', at least then i'd be able to buy nice things irl"