Guild Wars 2

The harder the mob is to kill the better chance it should have of dropping better loot, the fastest way to get exotics in this game is from grinding or crafting, anyone else find this stupid?

As far as i know you can’t get exotic from drop anymore. Am i wrong?

I did get a random exotic drop yesterday. So they do drop. But it was my first in 350 hours of playtime.

So yeah, it’s pretty rare.

I think champions, imo, need a better reward system, even if it’s some kind of token system. I get so sick of seeing a champ it took us a solid 15+ minutes to take down only to get a pair of blue rarity boots…or heck the majority of the time no drop at all. The worst one is the champ giant in Diessa. Even though people can get him down in roughly 5 mins these days, it’s still a fight that requires a little work and 9/10 times I get no drop at all. Don’t even get me started on the Orr champs that drop absolutely nothing (not counting chests but even those rarely have anything good in them).

vets and higher do NOT drop better loot in open world (which makes sense to you, anet?) but, in fotm they do drop rares and exotics much more often. I did get 1 exotic drop in malchor’s farming sparks yesterday so they do drop but once per year… Anet clearly don’t want us to have a nice time farming what we like to and sell for money, instead they want us to farm gem store. Guess what? Devs that pretty much FORCE you to buy **** from gem store will never get a cent from me and that goes until i stop playing gw2.

Dee Jay.2460:

I did get a random exotic drop yesterday. So they do drop. But it was my first in 350 hours of playtime.

So yeah, it’s pretty rare.

I’ve gotten two from drops in 209 hours of play. Glimmerfang, which dropped from the champ risen outside of Caer Shadowfain and Axiquiotl which dropped from a trash mob in Orr.

I’ve never gotten one out of the Mystic Toilet. I don’t care for dungeons so I don’t do FotM which, apparently, is the only source of anything anymore.

The really aggravating thing is events that generate large chests which give completely useless crap. Spend an hour taking a temple in Orr? Here, have 3 silver worth of blue merch fodder and a bit of crafting material as a reward. Oh, you just took down the Risen High Priest outside Arah? Haha! No chest and the corpse isn’t lootable!

I can’t wait until people just stop doing world events altogether. I’m sorry, but I can only zerg the extremely annoying Melandru even so many times before it just starts being a PITA, and if I’m not going to get anything that can help make other bits of the game more fun I’m not going to help people do them anymore.

Anet claims they upp’d the drop rate for champs and vets. I occasionally drop blues from them after a 20 minute fight. Not worth it.

It’s sad that in general I get more valuables just by killing scores of trash than from vets/champs. Champions in particular seem problematic – unless creature in question leaves a big chest, usually noone is even interested in fighting it, and no wonder. I’m not saying they should drop exotics in heaps, but something needs to change – un-lootable champion corpse after a long fight is an insult, TBH.

Black Regent.5897:

(…) FotM which, apparently, is the only source of anything anymore.

Agreed, that seems part of the problem.

Loot drops for open world are crap. They dont even cover my waypoint costs.
Champs and Vets usually drop nothing – I mean nothing not even porous bones.

So I dont go out in the world. They are trying to squeeze revenue from open world players by making them buy gems all the while rewarding dungeon grinders with loot and gear.

I dont think it is right or fair that fractal runners get rewarded 100X times the loot and exotic gear drops for their time and I cant get 1 rare doing plinx now. I dont like dungeons and should never be forced into a gear check gated content system to make money.
One of the worst design decisions I have seen since Illum.
Yes I have stopped playing and only log in to trade on the TP.

GG anet
heckuva job anet
You have lost well over 65% of your population isnt it about time you started to listen to those that are left?

What about that Krait Witch (in Kessex Hills) takes half the map of players to take her down and you get zilch for it,the event is now dead 24/7..

Yet the Giant Event on the same map you must kill six or so ettins and you get a chest (which gives jack all too) but still, honestly the rewards system in this game is a shambles…

I agree with many that rewards for events or chain of events should give you a decent reward. I believe that taking down champs should always give 1 rare or higher and doing an world event like taking down the dragons or doing the temples and their chain events should always be rewarded with at least one exotic in the chest.

Anet needs to encourage players to fight champs and do these world events or even any difficult event. Seriously I got an exotic from killing on of those tiny spiders that die in 3 hits during the Spider Boss in AC and got bugger all for killing the boss itself.

Never see anyone fighting champs and i can see why. Hell I do it for the fun but theirs never enough people.

ya i get alot of Blue’s and Greens so i stop doing the big event’s i’m starting to get bored with the game.

The reward system goes throughout entire server/map. i presume If many players are doing fractals then this is where best chances for exos will be – if this is the case then this is bollocks.

The reward system is skewed.

You guys will be happy to hear that the champion loot drop problem has been resolved as of November 15th!

The drop rarity of Rare and Exotic weapons from certain places in the world (champions, veterans, and players in WvW) has been increased. Rares and Exotics should be much more likely to drop and every champion should be guaranteed to drop loot. This was to ensure that world loot drops were not a significantly worse way of acquiring rare and exotic items than crafting and running dungeons.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-November-15-2012/first

See? Champions are guaranteed to drop loot.

If you kill a champion and he does not drop loot, type /bug and report it.

PowerCat.5738:

You guys will be happy to hear that the champion loot drop problem has been resolved as of November 15th!

Perhaps they may want to reconsider, as the loot drops are so trivial that a champion is not work taking down in the first place.

Ha ha you guys!

Exotics drop from champions…indeed…everyone who plays GW2 knows champions never drop any loot period…

You will be telling me that the moons made of cheese next or ArenaNet have fixed champions to 100% drop loot…you jokers you…ha ha…

PowerCat.5738:

You guys will be happy to hear that the champion loot drop problem has been resolved as of November 15th!

The drop rarity of Rare and Exotic weapons from certain places in the world (champions, veterans, and players in WvW) has been increased. Rares and Exotics should be much more likely to drop and every champion should be guaranteed to drop loot. This was to ensure that world loot drops were not a significantly worse way of acquiring rare and exotic items than crafting and running dungeons.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-November-15-2012/first

See? Champions are guaranteed to drop loot.

If you kill a champion and he does not drop loot, type /bug and report it.

I love this part but specificaly the bolded word within the quote “… every champion should be guaranteed to drop loot.” That word means that it can but doesn’t necesseraly always have to. In other words they have not fixed it entirely.

I have to agree, I have also fought Vets and Champs and I have never gotten much from them so I mostly avoid them unless there are a lot of others there to pile on. The rewards suck and worse if you die there’s the double penalty of repair costs and way point costs which are scaled to your level >.< ouch. Even the event reward makes it pointless, er WAI: Anet’s gold sink, lol.

I don’t know if it’s changed but the system was also flawed in that it’s heavily favoring full parties with aoe damage when farming. I think the way it was working was the party only needed to do about 10% of the damage on a mob for each player in the party to get loot from it but an individual player also needed to do 10% of the damage to get loot at all if they weren’t in a party.

This was why there was so much spam in Cursed Shore for Peni / Shelter farming groups because it was just 5 people aoe spamming the mobs for loot. Single players regularly got skrewed over.

Ya, they should really do something about the loot from vets and champs. I rarely bother killing them anymore because they give me nothing. I mean, I rarely get a green from the Dragon chests. All blues all day long. The very very few times I get one rare, it feels like a miracle happening.

xerca.6135:

. The very very few times I get one rare, it feels like a miracle happening.

And for the time plus few silver you make on one rare….you could just farm level 1-15 zones and make more silvers

I rarely got anything from veterans, they drop nothing usually. Champs, I got white and blues and the occasional greens.

So, I usually don’t bother with the vets and champs, unless a group is doing it, and I just join in. No point doing it solo.