Guild Wars 2

First let me start off by saying, I personally have been farming charged lodestones at the Temple of Dwayna, I know if the drop rate has decreased then it may happen with the other lodestones, but i have not tested this.

So for the past week I have been farming charged lodestones for the weapon foefire’s essence, and i have accumulated around 35 of them. My average drop rate was about 3 per hour. Some may think that this is a lot, but mind you I had 175% magic find and im a zerker warrior, so i kill them very fast.

So today, me and about 4 or 5 buddies, and 2 pugs were farming charged lodestones, not all of them had 175% magic find, but i know all them had about 100%. Before this I noticed that i had to load up a quick patch before playing the game, nothing too big, only took me like a minute. Anyways, the 7 of us all farmed for about 3 hours, so with my average of 3 per hour, and since some of them didnt have quite as much MF as I did, we will go with an average of two and a half lodestones per hour for each of us. 2.5X7=17.5X3 (for 3 hours farming)=52.5. According to my averages accumulated over a week we should have gotten 52.5 (53) lodestones.

None of us got a single lodestone.

Lets also keep in mind the “official” as in most commonly posted average of 1 per hour. This means 7X1=7X3=21. According to the most common average we all should have gotten 21 lodestones, again, none of us got a single lodestone.

So my question to the common guild wars 2 player that has farmed charged lodestones in the past day (7/16/13 – 7/17/13), have you gotten this problem?

My question to any Arena Net forum mod is, was there in fact a major decrease in the drop rates for lodestones (charged)? Or did the 7 of us just get extremely unlucky.

And finally, was the drop completely removed from the high leveled sparks? If not we are either extremely unlucky and/ or the decrease in lodestones was enormous.

If I could get any feedback on this whatsoever I would seriously appreciate it, thanks.

Anyone have any information on this yet?

Ah so they finally fixed the bug?

Sparks/elementals where not supposed to have loot tables.

The same bug with the Risen still remains though.

I haven’t farmed for a few months, but 3 lodestones/hour sound incredibly lucky to me… 1 lodestone/hour also sounds incredibly lucky to me…

Do you think it is possible that DR kicked in for you?

or maybe because of RNG?

This forum:

“RNG DIDN’T GO MY WAY, “x” HAS BEEN NERFED@!! AN CONFIRM IT ALREADY!@!"

Your sample size is far too small to even give any conclusive or even vague evidence, try multiplying it by … let’s just say 100×.

Flissy.4093:

This forum:

“RNG DIDN’T GO MY WAY, “x” HAS BEEN NERFED@!! AN CONFIRM IT ALREADY!@!"

Your sample size is far too small to even give any conclusive or even vague evidence, try multiplying it by … let’s just say 100×.

I Approve this Message.

TheOneNOnlyGeneralBama.9586:

Flissy.4093:

This forum:

“RNG DIDN’T GO MY WAY, “x” HAS BEEN NERFED@!! AN CONFIRM IT ALREADY!@!"

Your sample size is far too small to even give any conclusive or even vague evidence, try multiplying it by … let’s just say 100×.

I Approve this Message.

First, I didn’t say that the drop rate was in fact decreased, I asked if it was. I found it unusual that 7 people didnt get 1 charged lodestone in 3 hours, so I wanted to confirm it.

I suspect you didn’t read the whole thing and assumed just by the first paragraph or two that I accused Arena Net of nerfing the drop rate, it was a simple question, now if you don’t have an answer to my question, or anything useful, then please, don’t post, it’s a waste of my time and yours.

Did COE. …Nadda…
Did Dwayna / Lyssa 3 nights in a row now
… and haven’t seen one.

I guarantee the rate has accidentally been Fubar’d and they might not even realize it if it just fixes itself when they release a more stable patch soon.

Also, some temples aren’t resetting when they’re supposed to.
There’s definitely major bugs in this patch so don’t listen to the regular peanut gallery here… unless they can post multiple screenshots of chests they pop containing Charged Cores. (which they won’t b/c most of them don’t even have the right servers or skill to complete those Encounters)

ilr.9675:

unless they can post multiple screenshots of chests they pop containing Charged Cores. (which they won’t b/c most of them don’t even have the right servers or skill to complete those Encounters)

Oh great master, tell me how you can comprehend a players in game ability from a forum thread!

Flissy.4093:

ilr.9675:

unless they can post multiple screenshots of chests they pop containing Charged Cores. (which they won’t b/c most of them don’t even have the right servers or skill to complete those Encounters)

Oh great master, tell me how you can comprehend a players in game ability from a forum thread!

It doesn’t take a lot of comprehension to see that you are not really contributing anything to the discussion and are only trolling those with a legitimate question.

Edit: I have had a charged lodestone and a charged core drop in the past day. This without farming them or even doing CoE. I’ve no idea from whence they dropped even, just that they were in my bags when I cleaned them out, which I do regularly.

I used to get them semi-regularly from the Dwayna temple event, but not anymore. I’m hoping it’s a temporary bad luck spree. :P

Hartman.4267:

First let me start off by saying, I personally have been farming charged lodestones at the Temple of Dwayna, I know if the drop rate has decreased then it may happen with the other lodestones, but i have not tested this.

So for the past week I have been farming charged lodestones for the weapon foefire’s essence, and i have accumulated around 35 of them. My average drop rate was about 3 per hour. Some may think that this is a lot, but mind you I had 175% magic find and im a zerker warrior, so i kill them very fast.

So today, me and about 4 or 5 buddies, and 2 pugs were farming charged lodestones, not all of them had 175% magic find, but i know all them had about 100%. Before this I noticed that i had to load up a quick patch before playing the game, nothing too big, only took me like a minute. Anyways, the 7 of us all farmed for about 3 hours, so with my average of 3 per hour, and since some of them didnt have quite as much MF as I did, we will go with an average of two and a half lodestones per hour for each of us. 2.5X7=17.5X3 (for 3 hours farming)=52.5. According to my averages accumulated over a week we should have gotten 52.5 (53) lodestones.

None of us got a single lodestone.

Lets also keep in mind the “official” as in most commonly posted average of 1 per hour. This means 7X1=7X3=21. According to the most common average we all should have gotten 21 lodestones, again, none of us got a single lodestone.

So my question to the common guild wars 2 player that has farmed charged lodestones in the past day (7/16/13 – 7/17/13), have you gotten this problem?

My question to any Arena Net forum mod is, was there in fact a major decrease in the drop rates for lodestones (charged)? Or did the 7 of us just get extremely unlucky.

And finally, was the drop completely removed from the high leveled sparks? If not we are either extremely unlucky and/ or the decrease in lodestones was enormous.

If I could get any feedback on this whatsoever I would seriously appreciate it, thanks.

Extremely unlucky? lmao…count yourself extremely lucky if what you say is true…it’s RNG/DR…no cause for alarm…

I’ve gotten absolutely no lodestones… here comes another one of Anet’s apologies for “accidentally” nerfing the drop rate on precious drops. I’m getting really tired of these accidental nerfs to things that I actually want to farm once in a blue moon. I think I’ll go play some WoW where they have a steady drop rate.

Galtrix.7369:

I’ve gotten absolutely no lodestones… here comes another one of Anet’s apologies for “accidentally” nerfing the drop rate on precious drops. I’m getting really tired of these accidental nerfs to things that I actually want to farm once in a blue moon. I think I’ll go play some WoW where they have a steady drop rate.

While I would normally agree with you…I must say I tried out WoW and their economy is so screwed up I am not sure if it’s funny or not…

Amun Ra.6435:

Galtrix.7369:

I’ve gotten absolutely no lodestones… here comes another one of Anet’s apologies for “accidentally” nerfing the drop rate on precious drops. I’m getting really tired of these accidental nerfs to things that I actually want to farm once in a blue moon. I think I’ll go play some WoW where they have a steady drop rate.

While I would normally agree with you…I must say I tried out WoW and their economy is so screwed up I am not sure if it’s funny or not…

I agree, the economy is pretty screwed up, but not nearly as screwed up as Guild Wars 2 is at the moment. The economy for Anet’s games has been terrible since Guild Wars 1, so I’m extremely tired of it. Honestly, If I don’t want to participate in WoW’s economy, I really don’t feel obligated to do so. In GW2, I feel like I HAVE to participate to stay with everyone else. I can’t just sell my items to a vendor for what they’re worth, I have to go through the AH to do trading.

Wow’s economy tends to fluctuate from bad to good and vice versa a lot, which is better than GW2’s constant bad economy at least. And I just decided to quit, so I bought about 2k rares and 500 exotics and went to the Mystic forge to see if I could get a precursor before I quit… nope. There’s a serious issue when I can dump that many rares and exotics into the MF with no precursor given to me at all. I’m so done with this game, it isn’t even funny.

Galtrix.7369:

Amun Ra.6435:

Galtrix.7369:

I’ve gotten absolutely no lodestones… here comes another one of Anet’s apologies for “accidentally” nerfing the drop rate on precious drops. I’m getting really tired of these accidental nerfs to things that I actually want to farm once in a blue moon. I think I’ll go play some WoW where they have a steady drop rate.

While I would normally agree with you…I must say I tried out WoW and their economy is so screwed up I am not sure if it’s funny or not…

I agree, the economy is pretty screwed up, but not nearly as screwed up as Guild Wars 2 is at the moment. The economy for Anet’s games has been terrible since Guild Wars 1, so I’m extremely tired of it. Honestly, If I don’t want to participate in WoW’s economy, I really don’t feel obligated to do so. In GW2, I feel like I HAVE to participate to stay with everyone else. I can’t just sell my items to a vendor for what they’re worth, I have to go through the AH to do trading.

Wow’s economy tends to fluctuate from bad to good and vice versa a lot, which is better than GW2’s constant bad economy at least. And I just decided to quit, so I bought about 2k rares and 500 exotics and went to the Mystic forge to see if I could get a precursor before I quit… nope. There’s a serious issue when I can dump that many rares and exotics into the MF with no precursor given to me at all. I’m so done with this game, it isn’t even funny.

I suggest you stay from the crafting forums…there is a thread there that will make you sick lol.

Galtrix.7369:

I’ve gotten absolutely no lodestones… here comes another one of Anet’s apologies for “accidentally” nerfing the drop rate on precious drops. I’m getting really tired of these accidental nerfs to things that I actually want to farm once in a blue moon. I think I’ll go play some WoW where they have a steady drop rate.

Well in this case, I really WOULD believe it’s accidental… just b/c like I said, there’s several other Bugs happening to the content directly adjacent to these gemstone Sources

I just got a lodestone yesterday while running through orr doing map completion. Killed a spark at Lyssa’s temple and got one. I wasn’t farming them, but one dropped. I only spent like 10 minutes if that in the area, and did not target sparks any more than anything else. So, just a head’s up. Pretty sure they’re still there, and unless I got really lucky with the RNG, nothing has changed. If they were lowered, I HIGHLY doubt I would have gotten one at all.

Ok so first hour you expected to get anywhere from 0-2 (MAYBE 3), the following 2 hours you were in DR so… why would you expect anything.

Who farms something that DR’s for 3 hours?…