Guild Wars 2

since, as always, you are the only ones benefiting from the “goodies”…1:30 hours in labyrinth only greens drop.

Its seems to be encourage to play hard day 0 of things, get maximum from bugs and get alone with it, except for those of karma weapons who were severely punished as scapegoat.

Dont get me wrong, im truly enjoying the Halloween event and thats ok for me but if there was a bug with drops, ok fix it but track it too as karma weapons and make them delete it, no need of bans, but make it fairer. Let the drop rate untouched so everyone can benefit or make the ones who took advantage to give items back

Got 2 when it first started, both salvaged and sold. Didn’t know it wasn’t supposed to have that high of drop rate. Because the drop rate was so high the prices of exotics dropped like crazy. Which is bad. So no, don’t put it back. You want my 3g i made off exotics take it but i don’t want to see exotics going for 17s on TP in 3 days thanks.

I’m American, from Ohio, I noticed that the drop rates were very high and wasn’t sure if it was a bug, so i left to go do clocktower for a couple hours before coming back. I would have had more than 2 if i was a gold seller. Why are you so mad bro?

BTW: how racist to call all gold sellers and botters chinese.

My brother got 17 exotics from the Labyrinth in a few hours. By the time i got off work, nothing but blues and greens. Such is life =(

Apologies, see comment under my comment with a comment directed at and unspecified source and got defensive.

I apologize yet you continue to attack me. I see, please continue the assault.

DUAxWolff.2759:

Got 2 when it first started, both salvaged and sold. Didn’t know it wasn’t supposed to have that high of drop rate. Because the drop rate was so high the prices of exotics dropped like crazy. Which is bad. So no, don’t put it back. You want my 3g i made off exotics take it but i don’t want to see exotics going for 17s on TP in 3 days thanks.

Really? Checked scepter: same price of 2 days ago
Staff: same price of 2 days ago
sword: same price of 2 days ago

Do i have to continue? Let’s face it, who reported it was who got a prereq and halloween weapons, then when done, reported it attempting to destroy the farm. And anet even destroyed it too. Ridiculous.

Giles Marchand.6970:

You have to keep in mind that this was 16 hours ago and the price has gone back up.

The price 16 hours ago was exactly the same for everything. I didn’t see any drop except a couple silvers. Nor prereq for free at 20g. We all know what i wrote is the truth.

Wow one person stops attacking the next one starts,

Did you check the sigils, runes, ectos? Do you have the statistics of by the hour prices? I was their when the price of fire sigil dropped 50s in 2hours. OF COURSE its back to where it was before because the supply is back the original. I am simply stating that i don’t want exotic drops to be that frequent because I don’t want the economy to tank.

Any1 else wanna yell at me or can i go to bed now?

Also im not denying that people exploited it. Im saying its over now.

The trading post has been in shambles due to unintended game design oversights since the week of release when people found out you could get 4 ebon vanguard weapons for 1k karma and get a chance at a legendary base weapon with them.

None of the tens of thousands of exotics that were obtained in this way by RMT companies were dealt with.

All the farming with the labyrinth chests did was allow normal players to catch up to the economy a little bit, though the effects weren’t nearly enough.

Yep, you nailed it OP. Well done. Your 100% right. Anets plan is always to release content with a couple of bugs in, see who can exploit it the most, then fix it.

Theres also a one-world government, Roswell had a crashed alien, and elvis is living in france serving burgers.

This wasn’t an exploit discovered. This was just a proper loottable with exotics, as it would have been from beginning on every chest, expecially big ones like Balthazar, Grenth, Dragons. Finally they made a proper loot table, and wow, they just destroyed it.
Who gives a kitten of the economy. The economy doesn’t rotate around exotics noone buy. Who the hell buy unnamed exotics. Nor ectos, on sale for 15 s.
Cut the crap of your ruined economy, you all just had what you wanted, your prereq and halloween weapons, and when done you all reported it, no need to hide on the shade of a finger.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

This wasn’t an exploit discovered. This was just a proper loottable with exotics, as it would have been from beginning on every chest, expecially big ones like Balthazar, Grenth, Dragons. Finally they made a proper loot table, and wow, they just destroyed it.
Who gives a kitten of the economy. The economy doesn’t rotate around exotics noone buy. Who the hell buy unnamed exotics. Nor ectos, on sale for 15 s.
Cut the crap of your ruined economy, you all just had what you wanted, your prereq and halloween weapons, and when done you all reported it, no need to hide on the shade of a finger.

Bobobejumbo.4951:

My brother got 17 exotics from the Labyrinth in a few hours. By the time i got off work, nothing but blues and greens. Such is life =(

Yes this is how its supposed to be .. you are right ..

and ectos dropped to 12.8s today .. i thought you knew everything about the prices ..
and you don’t care about the economy?

one of these things is not like the other

E: also +1 to giles

Ectos for 13s? Nice. Time to work on my jewelry sets.

Like if a few ectos sold from someone bored to sell on tp and noone bough from weeks with 2 silver less is ruined economy, right. Anet seems always ready to listen when it’s time to nerf, never when it’s time to make things fun, or at least fair.
A per day chest with same exact loot table was ask too much, right. And was destroying the economy of ectos, yussss

meh nothing will happen….lets just pretend this never happened, no arenanet?

But those people thought the karma weapons were supposed to be that cheap…. Give me a break. One guy says he gets 17 exotics, and nobody stops to question? I can understand that some people didn’t know, cause thye saw 1 exotic, or none. But the ones who saw more than 1? Give me a break. Where else in the game do you see exotics drop like that? And to say that it was a make up for the BLC is a joke. Why would they allow everybody to get these weapons that they had to make super rare to paying people? If they were gonna give free exotics to the people they screwed with the chests, it would have been in the MKC. Not an event chest.

I know somebody who got 9 exotics in less than 1.30…
Now he’s rich.

I’m getting so God kitten mad this is so unfair..

So instead of letting Mad King’s gear become a cheap magic find set – a selected amount of players (of whom most are living in American time zones) earned 80+ gold in less than 2 hours.
This drastically increases the prices of rare items (pre-legendaries)!. Somebody who had no chance to exploit this bug need approximately 48 hours of nonstop-coast farming to keep up with exploiters in the bidding competition!

yet more bad game design and bugs in this holiday event. ArenaNet has really made a mess of things.

There were exotic weapons being sold on the tp yesterday for as little as 15s. Level 78s no less.

I submitted a bug report on the chests – sorry if I spoiled everyone’s fun (I probably wasn’t the only one). I figured they somehow swapped the rare drop rate with the exotic one (considering no one was getting any rares at all).

rollback the exploiters please.

This is total bullcrap. How are you supposed to get the full mad king set with the current restrictions? Is it even possible? Lol this is straight up lame.

Bobobejumbo.4951:

My brother got 17 exotics from the Labyrinth in a few hours. By the time i got off work, nothing but blues and greens. Such is life =(

Would it be fun to have a chance to get something like your brother did? I think they just should have put in diminishing returns instead of a nerf to the drop rate and the 24-hour timer for this reason.

I got 1 exotic from a chest, the rest was crap. I did the “Halloween Events Completed” achievement then left. More fool me. Should have stayed and farmed a few hours. Typical.

honestly a 2 hour, or even a 5 hour time limit for this would be acceptable but 24 freaking hours is outrageous…

Yep, pretty ridiculous as usual. Implement something with semi-okay loot and then nerf it until no one wants to play it.

I got home after the patch to nerf the loot into oblivion, got a single chest with 1 green and 1 ToT bag before the next patch to make it “once a day” went live. Now all chests are bugged (even the first go of the day) so “once a day” is “never”.

Also, this was never driving the price of all exotics down, only level 72-76 junk exotics, which weren’t that expensive to begin with. Hardly the massive economic crisis people are trying to pass it off as.

Palleon.1657:

Snip and elvis is living in france serving burgers.

I am not sure about the Aliens or the Government… but I KNOW I saw Elvis last week at McDonalds! :P

ChairGraveyard.2967:

Yep, pretty ridiculous as usual. Implement something with semi-okay loot and then nerf it until no one wants to play it.

I got home after the patch to nerf the loot into oblivion, got a single chest with 1 green and 1 ToT bag before the next patch to make it “once a day” went live. Now all chests are bugged (even the first go of the day) so “once a day” is “never”.

Also, this was never driving the price of all exotics down, only level 72-76 junk exotics, which weren’t that expensive to begin with. Hardly the massive economic crisis people are trying to pass it off as.

I echo that. They aren’t even level 80 exotics and from what I hear all the skins that are used are crafted skins on top of it. It’s not like you’re even getting any special skin either.

Anet if you wanted us to pay hardcore out the nostrils for skins why don’t you just give the game a 5 dollar monthly sub or something… I mean kitten yo. It’s ridic.

Hey Anet, maybe sometimes you could just test your patches a couple hours before releasing them? That’d be great, thanks.

Sadly the game is more fun when Anet messes up. Stuff progresses much smoother and makes the events more worthwhile. Sadly the only exotics that dropped were below lvl 80, so nothing really happened. Ectos were still dropping in price anyways.

Shuguard.7125:

Sadly the game is more fun when Anet messes up. Stuff progresses much smoother and makes the events more worthwhile. Sadly the only exotics that dropped were below lvl 80, so nothing really happened. Ectos were still dropping in price anyways.

What did you just say?

Maybe you are unlucky mate , but fact is , it dropped the halloween craft weapons.

If anyone got 2/3 of those , he is looking for at least a pile on 500/600 gold 1/2 months from now.

oh guess i was just unlucky. Oh well life goes on.

It wasn’t an exploit.

I didn’t even enter that area until well after the nerf (I was at work when Phase 2 went live) and I got an exotic trident. Yeah, it’s a trident, but considering the one I had was kind of suck I was still excited.

Exotics are still in there. You just can’t keep opening the chests over and over and over.

Rainshine.5493:

I didn’t even enter that area until well after the nerf (I was at work when Phase 2 went live) and I got an exotic trident. Yeah, it’s a trident, but considering the one I had was kind of suck I was still excited.

Exotics are still in there. You just can’t keep opening the chests over and over and over.

You can open then once a day , i did it on my 3 lvl 80s , best item? green bow.

And yes you could exploit it , just had to relog , then you could open infinite chests.

Im over complaining , i learned my lesson , wait for patch , exploit the game , that is the way.

I’m saying I don’t think the drop rate was changed, only the rate of opening the chests was changed (so you have fewer chances). Believe me, nobody was more surprised than me. First exotic I’ve ever had drop.

I played the Labyrinth and as you say, I exploited; I got one level 76 exotic that I could not use, so I traded it for one I could.

How am I rich?

Since the “nerf” I have not received anything but a few greens and ToT bags. So let’s see, basically in ~24 hrs I got an exotic (That will soon be replaced).
Obviously that is too much to ask from a once a year event.

If you’re not willing to be ready to play 24/7 and willing to exploit everything then apparently this isn’t the game for you

Doesn’t matter if exotics are there if all you get is greens the one time you can open it, or if it just bugs and doesn’t let you open it at all.

And besides, waiting 30+ minutes for that one low level junky exotic that’s going to sell for 20-40s is not worth it anyway. You can make a good deal more than that in 30 minutes of Cursed Shore farming.

As long as the loot is horrible I’m sure ArenaNet is happy, that seems to be a major goal with the game.

My exotic was level 80…

Apparently it was too complex to give people who hadn’t opened any chests yet a single exotic (or rare, for that matter).

I got one green on my level 15 character, nothing but whites on any of my level 80s.

People, cry a lot on these forums. Just saying.

The loot table was not the exploit, the metagaming of logging in and logging out to hit a new overflow to do it again and again was the exploit. They had to nerf it to stop THAT, so you want to get angry with people, then get angry with them doing that. Had they just walked around killing mobs and waiting for the thing to spawn, Anet would not have changed it..instead they were killing 6-10 champion mobs every 20 minutes. Anet needs to get their testers to break the system, its like they dont realize how to break their own rules.

Just did the family size chest on 2 of my alts and on one of them i got a black lion chest from the chest and my other alt i got a small moldy bag. I am fine with them nerfing it a bit, but giving me crap like that on a 24 hour event chest is total bullkitten.

Ditton.3149:

The loot table was not the exploit, the metagaming of logging in and logging out to hit a new overflow to do it again and again was the exploit. They had to nerf it to stop THAT, so you want to get angry with people, then get angry with them doing that.

The people “doing THAT” had zero impact on my gameplay. I couldn’t care less what other people get, especially when the items are soulbound and useless for PvP.

I do care about the fact that a massive boss chest currently gives less rewards than killing 5 random mobs in the same labyrinth. It’s just silly.

And after the whole resource node fiasco, Arena Net still hasn’t learned to save the “visited” flags to each player’s (or each character’s) database record, instead of making it a property of the server? Someone needs to read the memo.