Guild Wars 2

What has happened to the random dropping of these items? Taking a chance of not being reported for “botting” I farmed for 8 straight hours all the pirates, bandits, centaurs and dredges I could find and only came up with three oranges, five butters and zero chocolate bars but a lot of leather scraps, totems and various other items. Every since the Karma vendors were denied the profit of selling oranges and chocolate bars and since the developers “re-adjusted” the drop rate after the “whiner’s” complained to much butter and bars, the drop rate has “dried-up”. I have farmed with a high “magic find” and still the drop rate is mostly non-existent. I’m not willing to buy these items at 60 copper for oranges and over a silver coin for a chocolate bar and there are over 20 recipes that call for both, so since no one will ever admit a huge mistake was made in changing the availability of these items maybe someone could pass along their tips and locations of acquiring these materials. I would be forever grateful as my chef is still sitting at 232 skill points.

I’m not sure where you were farming the dredge and pirates, but try Lornar’s Pass. The food items are in the small miner’s bags from the dredge and bags of booty that the pirates drop. There is also often cotton in those bags. It’s not a bad farm at all. The pirates seem to have more oranges than anyone else, but I’ve gotten them from centaurs and bandits too.

Pirates having the market on oranges begs for a joke about ‘scurvy’.
But on a serious note, it’s true. I grabbed a bunch of bags on the TP from pirates ‘booty’ and ended up with a decent amount.

Chocolate seems okay. Oranges seem rarer(my collections tab seems to disagree, got around the same number of each). I agree with Aye about the dredges, mostly because of the higher mob density for dredges but dredges also tends to be more annoying to fight.

Not sure which tier oranges fall under but a bag that is a better match for the oranges’ tier would probably yield more oranges. See http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Container#Bags_of_Crafting_Materials_by_Tier

I have like 3 stacks of Oranges since I do a ton of Twilight Arbor, and they’re very common from the Thorned Sacks I get.

I thank all of you for your helpful responses. I should have posted the names and levels of the areas I have farmed but they would include everything north of Orr. I have been to all those areas with no luck. However, today I am going back to Lornar’s Pass and see if the mobs there have re-stocked their bags. I farmed another thirteen hours with two breaks away from keyboard and only gained thirty-one butters and three oranges but I did pick up a few exotics and rares which was a surprise, especially off the dredges. Thanks again for the tips and locations. I will definately give those another try today.

WonderWoman.3785:

I thank all of you for your helpful responses. I should have posted the names and levels of the areas I have farmed but they would include everything north of Orr. I have been to all those areas with no luck. However, today I am going back to Lornar’s Pass and see if the mobs there have re-stocked their bags. I farmed another thirteen hours with two breaks away from keyboard and only gained thirty-one butters and three oranges but I did pick up a few exotics and rares which was a surprise, especially off the dredges. Thanks again for the tips and locations. I will definately give those another try today.

I can’t help but feel your time would be more productive farming something that has a better drop rate and selling those to purchase your oranges, chocolate, and butter. As a strict open-world PvE’er I can’t attest to this personally, but many people claim you can make very good money running dungeons. There might be other alternatives that can give you a better return for your time, thus allowing you to simply purchase what you need.

Thank you Darkace for your suggestion on ways to spend my time, but as I posted before, I am not willing to pay those high prices for something I can farm for myself. Yes, it may take me a while but I’m not the type to take the easy way out and just buy what I need even if coin wasn’t so hard to come by in this game. If it’s farmable then I will do it, however I’m not into running dungeons as I had enough of that type of play in another MMO. What I was looking for and received was advice on the better area locations for finding what I need. Yes, I’m a bit unhappy that the random drops for Chocolate bars and oranges was cut back so severely as attested by the 111 loot bags I farmed in the Brisban Wildlands ( a spot suggested by Black Frog) today as I only received 8 chocolate bars out of all those bags. However, with the ratio of coin versus expenses I will continue to “gather” what I need. Thanks to all of you for your input on locations it was a great help and at least I did find some chocolate bars, it’s a beginning.

WonderWoman.3785:

Thank you Darkace for your suggestion on ways to spend my time…

I don’t know how my post could have possibly upset you, but it appears it has. And so I offer apologies for whatever it is I said that has offended you.

I have been farming for Tier 1 items in Queensdale. The bandit areas (East of the Vale Waypoint) have given me lots of drops of bags. I have found lots of butter in those bags. Maybe that will help a little?

Was said in a patch long ago(i think) butter will drop more off low lvl mobs than higher up. Queens is your best bet for getting butter as i tend to always get butter. Also you can sell the low level drops you get on tp for profit aswell ans killing is faster