I have a few watermark questions as a predominantly solo player (my server is very quiet, usually no messages in global for 1 hour+ at peak time), does anyone have answers for these?
Firstly, do named NPCs stop giving watermark upgrades if you farm them too long? I’ve been farming an elite NPC which I can just about kill & has a 5 minute respawn timer. I received alot of upgrades in the range of 550-570 or so, and then for several hours after that I received perhaps 1 upgrade at most, everything else being worse than I had previously received.
Secondly, since I can rarely find people for elite chest runs, can I farm watermark by clearing forts in Shattered Mountains & opening the Supply Stockpiles every hour instead? I solo farm many elite chests but there’s alot which I cannot do / are a pain - i.e. Myrkgard.
Though they haven’t expressely mentioned anything in regards to diminishing returns, my personal bet is that they do have in place a diminishing returns mechanism or some kind of soft/hard cap on how fast people can raise their watermark in order to prevent them from “finishing the content” too fast.
I feel like this is the case. I prefer to condense my weekly gametime into a single session on the weekend or days off from work. I’ve noticed early in the session I’ll receive several upgrades, and then very few, if any, for the remainder of the day.
I heard if you log out and in it resets the loot table from a guy that had already maxed it.
It does get wonky if you farm it endlessly, I got 5 chefs pants in a row which are supposed to be a 5% drop, think I hit the bottom of the loot table or something. But it eventually resets and you start gaining again. Also matters how many people are killing the mob, too many people will not raise watermark.
You can solo farm fey the protector, if you stand outside the zone it respawns every 2 mins, 64 elite right corner of shattered mountain. Sometimes its available, sometimes there are a bunch of people there.