Guild Wars 2

So despite my better judgement, I keep coming back for more. I lost count how many hologram kills I have so far, and I swear the best drop I got (just once) was an exotic valued maybe 2g. Normal routine is show up 1/2hr early or more to get a spot not in overflow, then another 1/2 for fighting. A couple hrs of work a day for what is normally for me 6 greens per chest >.<.
Now yes I know a few of you are gonna brag about your kitten Scarlets Kiss…if you do so here, kiss my kitten.
How many other think the loot sux? Would it be to much to ask to put a gold or couple in there, for those of us with lousy luck?

You’re pretty lucky. I think the best I might have got was a Rare once (well maybe at most 5 times). All other time all kitten greens. Even out of the ultimate bag, I’ve gotten jack kitten (once maybe a green recipe and once 5 dragon coffers (which also gave me jack kitten)).

Most of the times I actually defeated Scarlet I got a box of junk. Yesterday I almost defeated Scarlet twice and both times I got some ‘A serious error occured’ and got kicked out of the game (thanks ANet!).

And sadly, because everyone and their grandmother is guesting on my server I nowadays usually start and see the knights fail so I can’t even get to Scarlet anymore.

So yeah, I kept coming back because there isn’t much else to do. And I’d love to get that gun but the droprate seems to be the same old 0.00001% and it will be a cold day in hell if I am going to pay 225+ gold for one.

Ended up getting 2 scarlets rainbows in a few runs. Best part was I got carried thank you anet for continuing to make open world events easy loot

Aveneo.2068:

So yeah, I kept coming back because there isn’t much else to do. And I’d love to get that gun but the droprate seems to be the same old 0.00001% and it will be a cold day in hell if I am going to pay 225+ gold for one.

That’s why I keep coming back too. Would love those rifles but I am not paying 225g or even 110g for a cool-looking-but-barely-visible holo-rifle. So I keep returning for over an hour of fighting per attempt at the outside chance I’ll beat the 0.0001% odds of getting a drop.

after doing Teq 300+ runs with bad exotics, no mini, no wings, no ascended weapons.

i better.. BETTER, be getting something good off of this event. so after a couple of runs (38+) 4 scarlet’s kiss, 1 rainbow, a bunch oh horrible blues and greens, about 8 mini magnus from the bags, and two rather nice looking exotics from champ bags.

edit: oh and 2 jetpack skins n_n

^ this is what makes the game feel horrible. One person can get such amounts while most of us get only Greens. I’ve killed the holo at least 30+ times with nothing to show for it. In fact, I’ve lost money during this event because I care about my map and servers performance and buy pots of food and help out when I can.

More so, I’d bet my damage/contribution is higher than most receiving great drops. Heck, several have claimed to have gotten several Scarlet Kisses already. Again, the disproportionate rewards from RNG make some players feel great, while others feel like kitten.

It’d be kinda cool if the rare RNG rewards could also be obtained from working towards getting it too. That way you can either get lucky and get it fast or do the event enough times to get it that way too.

Though I guess it would kinda lose the rare aspect like that.

And I’m still praying for my first precursor (and I’m still upset about not getting a single VS dropped from numerous VS farming in GW =( )… At least it’s being consistent… RNG is RNG, guys!!

I’ve only been able to finish it once, and I got bags of supplies, a couple greens, a blue, and one rare item that didn’t even salvage out to anything. I plan to do it again this weekend, and we’ll see if I get anything good.

Funny thing is that I didn’t really care if I got anything or not. I was just having fun. (gasp)

The chest is great, you are just aiming for the wrong reward.

It happens that i’m actually after my first legendary and i needed 250 obsidian items… http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Obsidian_Shard …and the only way to get them is through an insane amount of Laurels or fractals currency or 500k karma. That’s TOO much imo, but then i noticed… every scarlet chest drops 3 obsidian items and i love that.

I did Scarlet 74 succesful times, enough to save me more than 450.000 karma! and i got 222/250 of the obsidian items needed to craft my legendary The chest is worth it every single time.

Elrey.5472:

The chest is great, you are just aiming for the wrong reward.

It happens that i’m actually after my first legendary and i needed 250 obsidian items… http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Obsidian_Shard …and the only way to get them is through an insane amount of Laurels or fractals currency or 500k karma. That’s TOO much imo, but then i noticed… every scarlet chest drops 3 obsidian items and i love that.

There are ways to efficiently farm karma still. Most of them also offer better drops than this event does (barring perhaps cores, before their price plummeted).

I’m sure we’ll see the rifles again in the future, if the Ultimate Citizen’s bag teaches us anything.

Unknownhero.6745:

So despite my better judgement, I keep coming back for more. I lost count how many hologram kills I have so far, and I swear the best drop I got (just once) was an exotic valued maybe 2g. Normal routine is show up 1/2hr early or more to get a spot not in overflow, then another 1/2 for fighting. A couple hrs of work a day for what is normally for me 6 greens per chest >.<.
Now yes I know a few of you are gonna brag about your kitten Scarlets Kiss…if you do so here, kiss my kitten.
How many other think the loot sux? Would it be to much to ask to put a gold or couple in there, for those of us with lousy luck?

I was about to agree with you, before I realized the more meta bosses actually award a handful of Rares. I’d rather the meta bosses get a buff in loot, since Scarlet’s Prime Hologram isn’t difficult. Just demanding.

Add me to the list of people who have gotten basically jack squat from the hologram chest.

Sure, a bunch of greens, a few yellows, handful of power cores… standard stuff. But the only “special” things I’ve gotten from either the chest or the Ultimate Bag were a couple of Zealot recipes worth maybe 50s each (probably not even that, haven’t actually bothered to check), a Mushroom Loaf recipe worth 5s, and a couple Celestial recipes worth 10s.

I’ve gotten better loot from killing the random mobs in Lion’s Arch during event downtime. Gotten an exotic (a cheap armor exotic mind you, nothing decent) and a charged lodestone in the last couple days from random mobs.

Event loot is just bad when there’s such a great reward for only a few and most get junk. I’ve completed 15 hologram kills and best things I’ve gotten were 1 rare worth 31s and an exotic recipe worth 52s. That’s it other than greens.

This is the epic loot we can expect from completing every one of the story metas for the entire living story event, including the finale…greens.

Eyelusion.8205:

Event loot is just bad when there’s such a great reward for only a few and most get junk.

See, the thing that bothers me more is that the few seem to get something not only once but, multiple times. There has to be hidden account loot modifiers/tables.

Elrey.5472, you can guest to a server where the Temple of Balthazaar is open and spend that karma on shards. I had over 5 mil karma on Ebay and guested to another server and bought 3 stacks of shards with my karma for ascended crafting. Still no precursor, though, and no way in hades I’m gonna buy it off the trading post. Check gw2stuff.com to see where the temple is open.

One of the worst loot patches of the entire LS and they save it for the end. I swear I wish people would stop buying gems until they get rid of this RNG nonsense.

But seriously, my guild has felt half empty the last month because this stuff is boring.

A couple nights ago I got a rare from that chest. That was my wake up call and I stopped doing that event. Well over an hour of show up, wait, fight, fight some more, get a yellow item….

I can do better than that on the Maw, Wurm,Golem, Fire Ele train, in about the same amount of time. Anet has no clue about event rewards.

Chest bugged out on me the first 3 times, but I’ve also had it spawn properly about 40 times and only greens to show for it aswell. RNG is RNG, if you can’t take it farm something with consistent rewards (dungeons/champ-trains/powertrading/node-runs/woldbosses) and buy the things you like, still includes some RNG in most cases, but it’s not like waiting for the jackpot to land on your lottery ticket.

I’ve attempted it a few times at my parents over the past few days and I keep getting thrown out somewhere around the end (sometimes knights, but usually last phase of the hologram-fight) this is hopefully the fault of my parents connection and thus temporarily (6 MB upload/download my kitten.) So I think my chances are done for this Living Story

WHOA You got a rare! That’s awesome

Seriously, I’m only getting greens :P

Just to remember, even if you only get greens in the chest, you still get the Ultimate Citizen bag which always has at least one rare piece of equipment in it. So it’s not quite as bad as most people are making it out. The guaranteed rare is there.

Elrey.5472:

The chest is great, you are just aiming for the wrong reward.

It happens that i’m actually after my first legendary and i needed 250 obsidian items… http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Obsidian_Shard …and the only way to get them is through an insane amount of Laurels or fractals currency or 500k karma. That’s TOO much imo, but then i noticed… every scarlet chest drops 3 obsidian items and i love that.

I did Scarlet 74 succesful times, enough to save me more than 450.000 karma! and i got 222/250 of the obsidian items needed to craft my legendary The chest is worth it every single time.

If you play WvW 450k karma is nothing.

Ultimate Kill The End Thing Chest Experience….

Elrey.5472:

The chest is great, you are just aiming for the wrong reward.

It happens that i’m actually after my first legendary and i needed 250 obsidian items… http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Obsidian_Shard …and the only way to get them is through an insane amount of Laurels or fractals currency or 500k karma. That’s TOO much imo, but then i noticed… every scarlet chest drops 3 obsidian items and i love that.

I did Scarlet 74 succesful times, enough to save me more than 450.000 karma! and i got 222/250 of the obsidian items needed to craft my legendary The chest is worth it every single time.

50 Found Belongings + 2s gets you an Obsidian Shard, too.

think ive done this nearly 200 times (knights / holo) and no rifles. people i know have done it just a few times and get a rifle. rng is so irritating lol. havent even been getting cores from the knight event to compensate :P, im ready for a new patch!

Anet treats the in game loot like it is real. they did this in GW1 also. If you think the loot drops here stink, try running dungeons in GW1 and spend hours getting past all the mobs and defeating the boss, only to get a rare sword with horrible stats.

Evon Skyfyre.9673:

Anet treats the in game loot like it is real. they did this in GW1 also. If you think the loot drops here stink, try running dungeons in GW1 and spend hours getting past all the mobs and defeating the boss, only to get a rare sword with horrible stats.

Dude…. dungeons in Gw1 were fantastic and full of adrenaline that is why many people, including me, didn’t pay attention to the rewards. Pure nostalgia. The rewards were varied, sometimes great and sometimes complete trash, but it was the fun of doing a dungeon with a group and a possibility of failure (unlike in gw2) that made it so exciting. I still remember doing Urgoz Warren….
Here in gw2 there is no possibility of failure, you just res back. Not to mention that you can solo AC and CoF, pathetic.

I’m still seething because my guildmate got Scarlet’s Rainbow after doing the whole event for the first time. And I’m just sitting over here with my crap greens and maybe one rare.

Yeah I only get greens from that chest too. Done it a few dozen times now. I spoke to a guy that came back to the game after a year of not playing – he got both the kiss and the rainbow in back to back runs of it. RNG is RNG

Broke the habit, early, but go back to it once in a weekend. Honestly, I would rather farm Orr for nearly non-existant T6 than smash my fingers in the Scarlett door.

those 6 greens were pretty cool for 30mins of work.

cough

DeWolfe.2174:

^ this is what makes the game feel horrible. One person can get such amounts while most of us get only Greens. I’ve killed the holo at least 30+ times with nothing to show for it. In fact, I’ve lost money during this event because I care about my map and servers performance and buy pots of food and help out when I can.

More so, I’d bet my damage/contribution is higher than most receiving great drops. Heck, several have claimed to have gotten several Scarlet Kisses already. Again, the disproportionate rewards from RNG make some players feel great, while others feel like kitten.

Welcome to Guild Wars 2 RNG logic. The few get all the nice stuff while the rest of us get squat (or blues and greens) ><.

Xiahou Mao.9701:

Just to remember, even if you only get greens in the chest, you still get the Ultimate Citizen bag which always has at least one rare piece of equipment in it. So it’s not quite as bad as most people are making it out. The guaranteed rare is there.

Oh you mean that bag that keeps giving me a Sentinel’s weapon/armor that’s blue?

You’re not guaranteed a rare in that thing either. If you are, then I’ve been gypped.

DeWolfe.2174:

^ this is what makes the game feel horrible. One person can get such amounts while most of us get only Greens. I’ve killed the holo at least 30+ times with nothing to show for it. In fact, I’ve lost money during this event because I care about my map and servers performance and buy pots of food and help out when I can.

More so, I’d bet my damage/contribution is higher than most receiving great drops. Heck, several have claimed to have gotten several Scarlet Kisses already. Again, the disproportionate rewards from RNG make some players feel great, while others feel like kitten.

The lack of agency in rewards is what killed Warhammer Online’s population. Sad to see Developers insisting on repeating the same mistakes.

Wouldn’t it be great if ANet would suddenly allow us to exchange our Blade Shards for stuff like Scarlet’s Kiss/Rainbow?

But who am I kidding. The only ones that benefit from RNG rewards like these will the the TP flippers.

khani.4786:

Oh you mean that bag that keeps giving me a Sentinel’s weapon/armor that’s blue?

You’re not guaranteed a rare in that thing either. If you are, then I’ve been gypped.

I get the blue Sentinel’s weapon sometimes, too. But in addition to that one “previous LS reward” slot from the Ultimate bag that’s usually a Sentinel’s weapon or Dragon Coffer/Quartz/etc., you also get 3 greens or better and one yellow or better in normal equipment as well. That’s what I’m referring to when I say a guaranteed rare.

Going back to Escape From LA, I’ve never opened an Ultimate bag that didn’t have those 3 greens and 1 rare in addition to the other stuff. In fact, yesterday I opened my first Ultimate bag that had 2 greens and 2 rares instead.