I did this just to see the outcome of materials I’d get, so figure I’d share my experience..
80 silk scraps
5 crystalline dust
10 large fangs
19 large claws
12 potent blood
59 thick leather
16 gossamer scraps
1 vicious claw
17 large scales
13 incandescent dust
17 hardened leather sections
3 elaborate totems
16 potent venom sacs
4 powerful venom sacs
6 piles of vile essence
3 powerful blood
4 vicious fangs
13 intricate totems
4 ancient bone
1 armored scale
Nothing spectacular. Didn’t they say they increased drop rate of powerful blood in containers too? 3 out of 250 bags does not seem that great of a drop rate.
I dont think cores or lodestone drop from moldy bags. Only certain bags do i believe, like the bags that drop from inquest drop onyx lodestones. But kitten that drop rate blows…ill just be TPing my bags i guess
The elemental cores/lodestones cannot drop from these bags, but the undead version of the lodestone has a chance to drop. The T6 pile of crap (putrid essence)…which I got none of (I have 25 of those anyways, so didn’t care). I went with heavy moldy bags because they drop so often from Orr, I just decided to get a max stack of them and open them.
Yeah these bags are dumb. The bags that potentially hold anything worthwhile have such horrible drop rates though. But following Anet’s model, this is not surprising. This is also why I have 25 putrid essences and 4 charged lodestones. Lol.
For a couple of days I have been opening packs of 100-200 of this (I think 500-700 in total, cant remember exactly). I was also curious about what the result would be, if it would be worth it to get some of the rarer bag drops.
Depending on the drops, you pretty much get back what you spent by selling the 400 crafting items (the rest is usually so low value that I dont even bother selling it, lol). I also got 2 giant eyes which helped even the budget.
Either way, the drop rates are pretty horrible. Getting a paltry 200 bags legit would take AGES. Its not like every Orr mob drop them either. You’d have to kill like 1000 mobs? Not exactly worth it for the loot that comes out the bags, when considering them alone.
For a couple of days I have been opening packs of 100-200 of this (I think 500-700 in total, cant remember exactly). I was also curious about what the result would be, if it would be worth it to get some of the rarer bag drops.
Depending on the drops, you pretty much get back what you spent by selling the 400 crafting items (the rest is usually so low value that I dont even bother selling it, lol). I also got 2 giant eyes which helped even the budget.
Either way, the drop rates are pretty horrible. Getting a paltry 200 bags legit would take AGES. Its not like every Orr mob drop them either. You’d have to kill like 1000 mobs? Not exactly worth it for the loot that comes out the bags, when considering them alone.
I spent almost a day farming to get ~350 bags.
Don’t disturb me, I have a cat in me at the moment.
250 is a pretty small sample size.
About a month ago I opened 3000 Heavy Supply Bags and got:
49 Onyx Cores (1.63%)
11 Onyx Lodestones (0.36%)
You can only get heavy supply bags in WvW correct? Getting 3000 of those would be a pain unless you buy them from the TP, but that would get expensive. They have worse drop rates than the heavy moldy bags.
250 is a pretty small sample size.
About a month ago I opened 3000 Heavy Supply Bags and got:
49 Onyx Cores (1.63%)
11 Onyx Lodestones (0.36%)
You can only get heavy supply bags in WvW correct? Getting 3000 of those would be a pain unless you buy them from the TP, but that would get expensive. They have worse drop rates than the heavy moldy bags.
WvW would be heavy loot bags.
Khyla Shadowsong ~ Charr Ele, Engi, Mes, Ranger, Guard, Thief, War, Necro
Northern Shiverpeaks ~ [dO] Drop Otter
I have been farming sparks for the last 2 weeks and all I can get is 3 lodestones for a total of 3! Only if some of these bags would give charged lodestones not only cores.
nice nerf from anet