Guild Wars 2

Tag as fast as you can and deal enough damage to get credit and you’ll get loot. There is a limited number of people that can get loot from anything in this game (as shown with the ember farming).

Aberrant.6749:

Tag as fast as you can and deal enough damage to get credit and you’ll get loot. There is a limited number of people that can get loot from anything in this game (as shown with the ember farming).

To the best of my knowledge, everyone was getting rewards before they patched the update so it’s not a limit issue.

I have gotten rewards from the knights for every single fight.

Get a group, get off your low levels and tag like you mean it.

I’ve never gotten loot and I’ve done some major damage.

Flintgold.5761:

Aberrant.6749:

Tag as fast as you can and deal enough damage to get credit and you’ll get loot. There is a limited number of people that can get loot from anything in this game (as shown with the ember farming).

To the best of my knowledge, everyone was getting rewards before they patched the update so it’s not a limit issue.

It seems to be a general limit that the game has. If you had done the ember farm stuffs back when that was going on it had the same exact limitations on tagging/loot that these did. It’s nothing official, but it’s a theory gathered by people that did that stuff before and it’s re-appearing now with the knights.

There were people @ the ember farm going I did XX,XXX damage and didn’t get loot… but when I would run away from the main pack (so I was hitting them early/quickly) and hit the champs just a few times (it really doesn’t take a lot of damage to tag) and draw them over to the large group then my whole party would get loot from it.

i’ve done the event several times to make sure i can get loot. i max on dps and full party—still no loot… i use meteor shower every time i get the chance to on top of the RGB attunements….

Flintgold.5761:

Aberrant.6749:

Tag as fast as you can and deal enough damage to get credit and you’ll get loot. There is a limited number of people that can get loot from anything in this game (as shown with the ember farming).

To the best of my knowledge, everyone was getting rewards before they patched the update so it’s not a limit issue.

Incorrect, didn’t get several times yesterday before the update, see here as well.

LoFidelity.2704:

i’ve done the event several times to make sure i can get loot. i max on dps and full party—still no loot… i use meteor shower every time i get the chance to on top of the RGB attunements….

Meteor shower has a long wind up/animation/cast time (or whatever you wanna call it)… so you’re not hitting them early enough.

how am i not hitting them early enough if i’m getting numbers from the damage on top of casting it frequently?

I’ve had fairly good luck with loot. My first time I did blue from the start, got loot, then green from about 60% HP, and got no loot. Then later we did them all in a row, B-G-R, and I got loot from each. Then later we did the same loop but some people had been working the red and got it down to 50% or so before we showed up, and I got nothing from that one. I’ve never failed to get loot from a Knight where I was there from the start.

We did green then blue then red in overflow, i did loads of damage not a single drop from any knight and a lot of people had the same issue.
You only get once chance to make a first impression and this finale falls very short in eyes, a sad ending to a LS i have enjoyed for the most part over the many many months.

LoFidelity.2704:

how am i not hitting them early enough if i’m getting numbers from the damage on top of casting it frequently?

Early =/= frequently

early
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in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.

frequently
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often; many times; at short intervals.

Hit them more quickly at the start.

All I got for trying to do the event and not getting loot most of the time even though I was often first there several times. Is that once again it is a better idea to farm dungeons and once again just buy everything with gold then it is to actually do the event.

The above is getting really really really really really really old.

I was in group, lvl 80 full berserker gear 30/25/x/x/x warrior, in a group, there from the start, stayed alive and didnt get loot twice in a row. If this is because I didnt do enough damage, this is messed up!
People needing to be grouped in order to tag mobs is just bad design in a game that is all about not having to group for open world content in the first place. Seriously.

Fix it so it drops loot for everyone!

Aberrant.6749:

Meteor shower has a long wind up/animation/cast time (or whatever you wanna call it)… so you’re not hitting them early enough.

This (again) has nothing to do with being not grouped, dealing not enough dps, or not getting your dps early enough.
Example from the last fight:
whole map starts burning blue down. I’m grouped, decent dps, and am one of the first to start attacking. One person from group gets loot, rest (including me) do not.
Whole zerg moves to green. Again, arriving with the first wave of zerg and dps-ing nicely till it’s dead. This time noone in the group gets anything.
We move to red, which has been attacked during all that time by a smaller group. When our zerg arrives, red is already at 50%. Me and my group, due to some delay, come after the main part of our zerg arrives. We start dps-ing but we do not manage to cause much damage before red is burned down.
…this time i do get the drops.

This is not the only case, by the way. It is clears that there’s something buggy with the loot tagging of these bosses. It’s not the usual behaviour at all.

Cayenne.5341:

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People needing to be grouped in order to tag mobs is just bad design in a game that is all about not having to group for open world content in the first place. Seriously.

Fix it so it drops loot for everyone!

^ This. So very much this!

Astralporing.1957:

Aberrant.6749:

Meteor shower has a long wind up/animation/cast time (or whatever you wanna call it)… so you’re not hitting them early enough.

This (again) has nothing to do with being not grouped, dealing not enough dps, or not getting your dps early enough.
Example from the last fight:
whole map starts burning blue down. I’m grouped, decent dps, and am one of the first to start attacking. One person from group gets loot, rest (including me) do not.
Whole zerg moves to green. Again, arriving with the first wave of zerg and dps-ing nicely till it’s dead. This time noone in the group gets anything.
We move to red, which has been attacked during all that time by a smaller group. When our zerg arrives, red is already at 50%. Me and my group, due to some delay, come after the main part of our zerg arrives. We start dps-ing but we do not manage to cause much damage before red is burned down.
…this time i do get the drops.

This is not the only case, by the way. It is clears that there’s something buggy with the loot tagging of these bosses. It’s not the usual behaviour at all.

I have never had that experience or heard of anyone having one like it… ever… including with this event. But if stuff like that is happening then yea it’s something different than what was going on before.

Aberrant.6749:

I have never had that experience or heard of anyone having one like it… ever… including with this event. But if stuff like that is happening then yea it’s something different than what was going on before.

You might not remember, but there was one time when it was behaving like that (including the inconsistency of getting/not getting drops that didn’t seem to match any recognizable pattern) with champs and world bosses. It required several patching attempts from Anet before it got finally fixed.
This looks exactly like return to the old days.

When was that-ish?

You need to be in a group, i killed 2 of them earlier today without being in a group (gold on both and was sitting in the circle nearly the whole fight so was doing full dmg) and got absolutely nothing from them, jumped into a group and got drops from every one of them one of which no one from my group was even at the fight and still got loot.

My son did it without a party before the patch and was getting loot every time and he was playing a low level. I played a level 80 necro before the patch and got loot off the blue one time (three runs before patch) and nothing from the other two. After the patch, I played level 80 ranger and engi and I never received loot. I was in a party of two for all my runs.

I got loot earlier today (was not in a group) but nothing on the 2nd go later. Maybe you can get the boxes only once a day? Can anyone confirm or dispute?

My loot experience so far:
1st time: yes no no
2nd time: no no yes.

The second time, the hologram event bugged out in Scarlet’s drill so I said eff this and went back to WvW where I belong.

I do plenty of damage. It was not a tagging/damage issue.

been in every knight fight, was dpsing as much as i could, i am zerker/valk full ascended… still some knights just don’t drop loot even if i was in fight from 100% to 0

It’s a bug. I have no problems in other group events getting the rewards. For the knights I usually get the gold medal for contribution but no reward chest. I’ve done 15 knights now and have only got rewards twice (fully grouped most times). I’ve stopped playing the event due to the frustration, its pointless.

Seems like we get the loot once per day and server.
Today I had two runs on home server. Got loot for the first run and nothing for the second. Then I switched to an overflow and killed them there and got loot.

Its definitely bugged giving no loot…

Everyone in game is saying it.

In fact for a ‘finale’, final episode in a Living Story that’s been going on 16 months, the loot overall in this 4/3/14 update is EPIC in its CRAPNESS, even by Anet standards which is very, very low.

Well, I don’t mind, loads of other new games to play now giving fantastic loot. I will just do the basic achievements and not log in for 2 weeks or so. Only ‘feedback’ Anet listens to, players not logging in….

Ten assault knight events now, only got loot on one occasion. I’m done with this unrewarding event. Fix your broken tagging credit system please.

Yes once per day per overflow… really needs a fix…

Between these knights dropping loot only about half the time, and the constant server wide DCs, this event is really taking a toll on me.

Wait around an hour for the knights to spawn only to have a server wide DC that kicks you to another OF when you relog. Have to wait around again.

One time, get DC during the knights and get into an OF that is on the last knight. Great, at least I can try to get to the hologram now. Get up to the hologram and try that, only to have everyone DCed up there.

Wait around for nearly an hour just to MAYBE get some loot and MAYBE get the chance to actually fight the hologram? Waste of three of my hours last night is what it was.

Like everyone else said. I was coming here to post but someone else did.

This has been happening to me as well. I have been getting loot from one or two of the knights, but I never got loot from all three. It is inconsistent between one and two of them dropping loot. It is definitely a bug of some sort, or a loot cap being reached.

I can see them moving it to once per day, but if that’s the case, then its a stupid, stupid decision. I was hoping to earn the cores for colouring my backpieces, I didn’t want to drop down gold for it in the TP. Before the latest patch I did 4 knights and got 4 sets of loot and only 1 core. After the patch I’ve done 4 knights and no loot.

I stayed with the game for over a year, I have over 8000 achievement points. I realize that the loot drops are terrible, I haven’t gotten my precursor yet for example. But if they’ve scaled back on the rewards AGAIN, requiring 10 cores per colour, and getting only maybe 3/4 of a core a day that means 40 days of this event that will only last 2 weeks. Forget it.

The frustration level is too high. I’ll probably check back after work to see if they’ve fixed the loot issue. But if not then I’ll probably tell my guild that I’ll be moving to another game when I find one. It depresses me that I have to do this. But it has just gotten too be too much.

If its geared to how much damage you do, then I guess the game doesn’t want you playing different builds. I run an elementalist in ascended celestial armor, traited to power and precision, with some left over for vitality. I can dish out the damage but not as much as others, and I can support and heal when needed better than those who can deal out lots of damage. But if this isn’t enough damage to get loot and I have to change to assassins or zerkers, than what’s the point? I don’t have the ~500 gold for another suit of ascended light armour, and I only have 4 of the thread in the bank, it’ll take me 32 days to make enough for another suit the event will be long gone by then.

Now I wouldn’t have minded dropping down some gold on the TP if I was short 1 or 2 cores to get the coloured backpieces. But with the loot drop rate the way it is now that 1 or 2 is now 21 if my luck holds out to 1 for every 4.

Another thing with the loot drop rate at once per day (as it feels, it might not be), we’re going to get a lot of people in after reset, maybe for 2 or 3 hours and then the event will be abandoned till the next day leaving those who work different times (night shift) SoL.

Say what you will about loot being the end-all-be-all to the game, but I personally enjoy getting it and it’s where a lot of my fun in the game comes from. I’ve done the knight fight several times at this point and not gotten a single drop of ANYTHING. I have no interest in spending time beating on a huge HP sponge with nothing to show for it but an armor repair cost if I go down ankitten ot enthused about doing the fight again if this remains the case. I’ve seen people get several deluxe gear boxes and those power cores from a single fight, but I’m not one of them. If an event’s large boss monster gives loot at all, it needs to be guaranteed loot to all participants (even if it’s crap loot it’s still SOMETHING) because otherwise it breeds resentment towards other players who did get drops and causes people to not even want to do the event.

I don’t even care if it’s “two blues and a green”, having something in your bags after a fight is a psychological motivator to do the event again in hopes for that big payoff. Having nothing to show for it just sours people on even attempting it because it feels like a waste of time.

Last night, I took down eight knights and got loot from five of them. My damage distribution was roughly equal across all five fights.

You do not need to be in a group. Stop spreading crap. I ran the event 6 times yesterday, never in a group, got drops from 1 out of 3 bosses. Ran the event twice today, in a group and got 0 drops. The event is buggy, as usual with these releases. If nothing drops, there’s no point in doing it

Yeah, Last night I was in it for Red, then Blue then Green. I got it for Red and then nothing else. This was after the patch. There was no bugginess and I was able to complete the whole thing through Scarlet, but yeah, I was expecting more. I also did not receive the assured bonus for having completed the event that was described in the notes.

I’ve been playing this game after 7 years of EQ2 and considering switching to it as my main game. This loot bug/rule/mechanic (whatever ya want to call it) is my biggest issue with the game. I have put in big numbers on these Knights and many times I was hitting them as early as their “immune” status broke off.

The last 3 runs into the zone i was there for the start on the first and was at the next 2 knights from at least 90% down and only got kharma and silver.

It’s probably an old issue with this loot and im most likely just complaining about something that has been an accepted problem in the game for a while, but as a new player considering leaving another MMO to make a fresh start in GW2 it’s a deal breaker.

My 2 cents

Last night I killed 6 knights. I got zero loot. I was solo. I was present for each fight and all that blah blah. No loot from knights.

Pipra.7580:

Last night, I took down eight knights and got loot from five of them. My damage distribution was roughly equal across all five fights.

I just killed three more knights and got zero loot. Lame. Totally.

having trouble with not getting any loot at all from killing the knights.. i have been trying all day/night long and never got any loot at all whats the deal ?

Bug thread on this is here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Not-getting-loot-from-Legendary-Bosses/first#post3719671

Was lucky and got in another overflow. Again I got loot for every knight.

I didn’t do a whole lot last night but I didn’t get loot 3 out of 4 times, which is extremely odd for me. I generally don’t have an issue (even solo) doing more than enough damage to get my ‘kill credit.’ Considering the sheer number of people that did not get loot from the Knights (grouped and ungrouped alike), I believe that there may be a bug in their calculations. Hopefully they will double check.

I fought and killed 4 knights last night. The first dropped loot though we failed to kill all, but the next run through we killed all of the knights, I was there and participating from the time the first knight became hostile, saw lots of damage numbers, got no loot from any of the three.

Okay then. I followed the tip, got a 5 man group going and we tackled all three Knights. Got 6 bags from each.

I think this is a pretty definite answer about the loot problem.

Zero loot. There definitely appears to be a bug. This is not a legitimate issue with tagging. There’s some type of block problem — it’s like a DR or time gate that’s broken.

Did this run several time with 2 different classes with very high damage and didn’t get a single drop off the Knights. Just confirming that I too have the same issues. I saw there was a late patch last night not sure if that corrected the issue this morning or not but I will know again in 5 hours when I off work.

Been there too. Was dealing sky high Guardian Wand damage. I got no loot. I am a sad, sad panda.