Guild Wars 2

First off, this is not another complaint thread. Please don’t turn it into one. Before you ask, no I did not get a precursor from the chest.

Yesterday a million or so people opened the same boss chest within a short time frame. Most people (logged in with max level characters) got an exotic or two. A small percentage got Precursors.

I’ve been reading a lot of complaints about how it was unfair to add exotics and precursors to a one off chest, so thought it worth adding a counter to the argument.

What if they didn’t add exotics and precursors to a one off chest. What if they actually did, was improve the quality of boss chests in general (including the precursor drop rate).

What if the special thing about the chest after fighting the boss, was actually the item ’Ancient Karka Chest (Double-click to unpack wondrous things) ’ and the exotics and precursors will be found more often in all boss chests.

The notes for the update include :

• The mighty Zommoros has slightly increased the drop rate on Legendary precursor weapons from the Mystic Forge from both Rares and Exotics.
• 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.

My thoughts exactly. I haven’t tried a dragon in a while but I’ll be giving them a go during the Thanksgiving break.

According to what I am reading and the reports I have been shown. It is not a small amount that received precursors.

IomegadriveOne.5291:

According to what I am reading and the reports I have been shown. It is not a small amount that received precursors.

Well his theory could still hold true man. What if the drop rate for precursors was raised to 10%?

Go kill 10 dragons and get back to us.

Clearly the “certain champions and veterans” only applies to some obscure ones because I’ve gone champion hunting and I’m still finding lots of them dropping a white or nothing at all.

IomegadriveOne.5291:

According to what I am reading and the reports I have been shown. It is not a small amount that received precursors.

As I asked earlier, please don’t make this a complaint thread.

Now, the point of this thread is that the notes suggest that they improved the exotic drop rate. Precursors are exotics. Now, if a large number of people got precursor exotics, then a large number ought to continue getting precursor exotics from boss chests, and the gold value will diminish.

However, compared to the number of people that opened the chest, it was a very small amount that received precursors. Even if the market was now flooded with 1000 new precursors (which it isn’t), that’s still less than 0.1% of people who opened the chest.

It sounds more like the market value of precursors are still way too high. People raging believing they were screwed out of a “free 300g item”. I fear this is going to come up everytime they do an event with an exotic reward in the future. Its like legendaries are the cause of most of the drama with special events around here.

I think the main issue here is that the chest drops 2 guaranteed Exotics (aside from the 20slot and the access).

If you look how the loot table works then you would understand that this event holds the highest chance because of the reason above.

as long as anything has a chance to drop exotic then you have the chance of getting precursor.

Not a big fan of precursor drops, would rather see some sort of quest chain as leaving it to chance will disappoint many more than it satisfies.

Now I might change my mind if I get lucky…

Anet has stated that the precursors were becoming too unreachable and that they were making changes to that.

This one time chest was only a part of these changes. The drop rate from the MF has also been increased and further changes can be expected to happen.

Obviously if people expect that this chest was a one time thing and that getting precursors would be getting back to normal after that than obviously people would be upset. But that isn’t going to be the case so no worries.

I’m still getting only blues and greens from dragon chests tho.

You know, I have no problems with the loot rate; it’s a common thing in all game design. Some people get lucky.

That being the case, I wonder if Magic Item Find Rate runes effect that? Meaning if you had +100% magic find on your stuff, would you have an increased chance of, say, getting a precursor?

Speaking of, there are other places where Precursors do drop… just very, VERY rarely

The problem is that gold in general isn’t that easy to get, it takes a significant amount of grinding to get decent gold and non-hardcores are just going to get bored fast. So if you make gold easier to get and take pre-cursors off the market so they are attained by other means then this game, might start heading in the right direction.