Guild Wars 2

So I logged in this morning and did an hours of Plinx grinding in the Cursed Shore. I generally don’t do more than an hour at once every other day or so because of the Karma DR and general boredom.

I did this with my standard MF set…which, including Omnomberry Bar….should reach roughly 150% MF. With this set I was accustomed to getting a rare roughly every 2nd event or so. Maybe 1-2 per Plinx chain.

However today I went the entire hour without a single rare drop. Not only that….loot in general was scarce. My bags were never fully at the end of a run. There was always plenty of space left. Something that wasn’t typically the case.

The thing is….the past week in general Plinx runs have been very unrewarding in terms of drops. Hence I’m wondering if there has been any changes made to the Diminishing Returns formula or if I might be running into some other kind of “soft barrier”.

Of course it’s entirely possible that this is down to pure bad luck….but after a few hours you’d expect things to normalize.

I find that going to another zone, doing some events/hearts resets it for me.

This happens to me regularly with the Claw of Jormag event. With my wells, marks and DS I can tag and deal decent aoe dps to the waves of adds that the dragon spawns. Yet for some reason the only loot I get is from the chest upon completion. Even if its the first time I do the event that day. I’ve switched it up and gone single target dps to destroy things faster and harder thinking my dps output was the reason… still nothing. Think its just another bug going around.

Another hour of Plinx today with nothing to show for it.

I’ve been using Karma boosters for the first time this week and all it seems to do is to lower your Magic Find and increase the rate at which you hit Diminishing Returns.

I’m not longer willing to put this off to pure bad luck. Not when it’s an hour a day…spread out over multiple days.

I’ll be running without Karma Boosters next time and see how that affects loot.