Guild Wars 2

Any idea how long it takes for DR to fully wear off once it’s kicked in? Farmed SC skelk for crates a couple of nights ago until I only looted greys, blues and the occasional crafting mats but no more rares or greens. Since that, I’ve done fractals, world events, some dungeons, stood idle in LA, did jumping puzzles and daily completions and even completed an entire zone on this character. Last night I went back to SC to kill skelk again. One of the first skelk yielded a rare sword, then DR seemed to knock my teeth out again… Looted almost a full stack of dark stained claws (grey items) in the hours following but not a single crate. That’s with 300% magic find. A guy farming the same area looted 11 crates in the same time… Is it possible I still suffered from (some or all of) the DR from the time before?

Bubi.7942:

Elbegast.6970:

GoldenTruth.2853:

One thing I don’t get is why Anet made the chance of getting a ticket so low, as well as made the crates so easy to farm. As long as a person knows how to farm crates they will get on average, around 1-5 crates an hour (along with a good amount of T6 mats). However, if you buy a crate using gems to gold each crate would be over 4g. Putting these two together I don’t understand why anyone would buy crates over just farming them unless they were pressed for time.

Anyway, so far I’ve opened 46 farmed crates and have only gotten a portable forge, a focus skin, and some karka slaying potions. But meh, I can’t really complain since all the farming has netted me about 80g in mats.

Farming gold is easy. I can easily farm 100+ gold per day by, literally, standing in one certain spot in a specific zone (a zone I will not name). However, in Southsun, I have yet to see even a single crate drop.

Averaging doesn’t work in the face of diminishing returns and RNG. It’s great that you have had so much success. Not everyone is as fortunate.

I feel this is a bit overexaggerating.

1st: I highly doubt there is a place where you can stand and farm 100g. Due to DR, that seems impossible to me. Even with my farming route and +320MF I get around 8-10g/hour, then have to stop becouse of DR. Standing in the same place killing mobs over-over should kick DR in like in 10 mins.

2nd: I have learned statistcis, and I know that what I am about to say is nowhere near a representative group but: I have farmed with over 20+ different people. All of them have gotten crate drops. For some it took 10 mins, for some 2-3 hours.

So imo you are either highly overexaggerating or the unluckiest person in the world (sort of like an anti-lottery winner).

I’m not exaggerating. I have never gotten a crate drop in Southsun. I’ve finished the achievements, have both back pieces, have done all the current dynamic events and not a single kitten crate.

As far as my secret gold farming spot, DR doesn’t seem to affect the mobs’ loot drops. It’s a glitched event. It will be fixed…eventually. Until then, I will reap the free gold.

Well doing all achievments and events is far from a guaranteed drop.
I think I got my first one after those things too. Rack up on some mob kills on farming routes if you want the crates.

Today these crates are removed from drop tables anyways, right?

Hermes.7014:

Today these crates are removed from drop tables anyways, right?

Nope, they’ll stay until the 11th afaik

I got one the first day the patch hit. I thought then it wouldn’t be so bad. 2 weeks later I haven’t seen another one yet.