Forum:Thoughts on chest farming

I've come to realize several different sets of "morals" have been adopted by individual players, for instance, stances on modding. Some players will highly support modding, creating incendiary SMGs that have perfect accuracy, no recoil, x4.2 zoom, ammo regen, and the ability to shoot grenades, all for use in actual gameplay. Most of the people I've seen in the forums here will agree that this kind of practice is rather foolish, and has become a detriment to the online play. Another subject is the practice of duplicated items. I've seen people duplicate everything in their inventory, and yet, I have friends that will not accept items that had been duped at any point in the past, saying it exploits a glitch in the system. I have not heard much about farming, however. I think of the term "farming" to mean the practice of actively seeking out a specific loot source on a regular basis. This can mean farming bosses, or zones with high chest concentrations, or even just a particular chest. I'm not sure if the term has been used (by anyone other than myself) here before, but friends of mine have referred to the practice of "powerfarming". This consists of play sessions dominated by farming a particular source, exiting the game, reentering the game, farming again, exiting again, and so on. Some may see it as being on the level of duplicating items, or even modding. I will admit I myself have implement a form of this in the past, specifically, in the areas of New Haven, and Crimson Fastness. I've cut back recently, limiting myself to farming New Haven once during a play session. There have been times when I farmed New Haven five or six times in a session. Sometimes, I wouldn't even leave New Haven. So by now, I have cut back, and gone back into other areas. Now, I sometimes even forget to go through New Haven. So now, I ask what your thoughts on these practices are, especially powerfarming. What is your stance? 16:30, February 22, 2010 (UTC)