Stop farming, PVP IO drops are Perfect the way they are!
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B_Witched,
Posted on: 2011-01-11 24:20 in Everything about PvP
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PvP zones are PvP zones... risk versus reward and all that.|
Originally Posted by Magnus_Korr
It's fun to kill the farmers, especially the ones that do it on the high ledges feeling safe. Knocking the afk people off of the building and then parking a heavy on them at the bottom is like stealing the farm.
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If someone is farming PvP IOs and they're daft enough to get upset after going AFK and coming back to their toon and finding it dead, then they shouldn't have been farming "unattended" in the first place.
And this is the opinion of someone who farms PvP IOs quite regularly...
Not paying full attention whilst two of my toons go at it in a quiet corner of a PvP zone? Sure. I have the luxury of playing on a rather sparsely populated server... But if I'm not looking at the PC screen and someone kills my "farming" toon, I'm not gonna get bitter about it. I'm in a PvP zone. It's all fair, and since PvP is what I'm there doing anyway to get annoyed at being killed would be hypocritical. (And Frankly, that's what wakies, hospitals or self-rezzes are there for.... talk about "learntoplay"... sheesh...)
I look upon farming PvP IOs as a good means of generating cashflow because it's nice and easy and I can relax in front of a DVD or something whilst keeping half an eye on it. Any drops I get and aren't immediately looking for all get listed on the market at an asking price of 1 inf. Even the Procs. Since this means they'll automatically sell at whatever the current highest-asking price is... I'm generating income for myself, increasing PvP IO supply AND driving down the market prices. Such farming is therefore actually rather community-friendly, assuming that the farmer doesn't violate the game's T&C and isn't a "bad sport".
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too much reddit, i went to go upvote you but couldn't find the button
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Originally Posted by Ra_Ra
People still PVP?
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There are people in this forum that still think they are PvPing competitively too..d;D
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Originally Posted by Ra_Ra
People still PVP?
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Have fun doing.. wait, what do you do again?
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Originally Posted by Tokyo
There are people in this forum that still think they are PvPing competitively too..d;D
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Don't feed the troll Smoke.
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Originally Posted by SmokeSignal
Have fun doing.. wait, what do you do again?
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Infinity and Victory mostly
dUmb, etc.
lolz PvP anymore, Market PvP for fun and profit
PvP IO Drop rates are perfectly fine.
The "chance-per-kill" drop rate for Purples is much lower than for PvP IOs.
Purples are more common to find on the market simply because more people PvE than PvP.
PvP IOs only drop in PvP, Not PvE.
Get more people to participate in PvP, and the supply of PvP IOs will skyrocket.
Until then, the primary source of PvP IOs will be farmers.
From personal testing, the drop rate for PvP IOs has remained at about one in every 100 valid kills (with the sole exception being during the recent period where no PvP rewards were dropping at all) since they introduced PvP IOs.
The only change they made to PvP IO drops was amending it several issues ago so that "valid" kills for the drops conformed to the standard PvP one-kill-per-player-every-ten-minutes reputation counter, along with a 30-minute timer between drops to discourage large-scale hardcore SG farming sessions. Prior to that change any kill counted and there was widescale drop exploitation- you could have one toon for killing and a second toon loaded with wakies (popping said wakies one after the other --> exit zone to reload on wakies --> rinse and repeat) for practically guaranteed drops.