Guild Wars 2

I went to southsun and spent maybe 10 minutes soloing a veteran karka. I got downed when he was at 50% health. Then the zerg came along and finished him, and revived me. I strolled over to his body expecting a reward for my work. There was NOTHING. No search option. Zilch.

I’ve found that 95% of the time, killing karka at southsun yields ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. You won’t even get a common item for your work here, and on the RARE chance you do get some form of loot for your labor, it’s a single karka shell or chunk of crab meat. Tell me, why should I continue playing living story content if there is no reward for doing so? You work to make living story fun and then diminish the rewards for said limited time content. There is zero reason for me to spend time in Southsun except for standing around and then spending five minutes tapping the karka queen for the guaranteed loot for my work.

I expect no better from dragon bash either. This is pathetic.

Um… I don’t think that farming karka qualifies as part of the living story.
Anyway, are you using the MF buff that the settler negotiator gives you?

Gabby.3205:

Um… I don’t think that farming karka qualifies as part of the living story.
Anyway, are you using the MF buff that the settler negotiator gives you?

Yes. Plus a heroes banner, plus a MF booster, plus food. This isn’t a farming issue. This is a drop rate issue. I would be content with a constant drop rate of even common items. Instead, I get nothing. There is no point to spending time here other then a get in, get out scenario of events.

Truth Eretai.3129:

I went to southsun and spent maybe 10 minutes soloing a veteran karka. I got downed when he was at 50% health. Then the zerg came along and finished him, and revived me. I strolled over to his body expecting a reward for my work. There was NOTHING. No search option. Zilch.

I’ve found that 95% of the time, killing karka at southsun yields ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. You won’t even get a common item for your work here. Tell me, why should I continue playing living story content if there is no reward for doing so? You work to make living story fun and then diminish the rewards for said limited time content. There is zero reason for me to spend time in Southsun except for standing around and then spending five minutes tapping the karka queen for the guaranteed loot for my work.

I expect no better from dragon bash either. This is pathetic.

I get every time a karka shell out of a karka-veteran I fought against (if there is no other loot, that seems to be the minimum loot). Don’t know why you haven’t got anything.
Do you use the magic find-buff from the settlers? I can’t complain about my loot. I have not that luck like some others but I get a lot of green items at the island.
But when you don’t like southsun, don’t play it. Easy thing.

Besides… dragon bash will be an event. Living Story is not. Can’t really be compared.

Then I have no idea of what is happening. I almost always get something from killing anything at Southsun Cove.
Good luck.

Gabby.3205:

Then I have no idea of what is happening. I almost always get something from killing anything at Southsun Cove.
Good luck.

Then is this a bug? Can a dev respond to this, then?

agree that vet karka should at least drop a shell and one piece of loot…..but disagree with your general sentiment. the Molten facility was fun w/ great rewards (would have been fun even with lesser rewards). The settler instigator.event chains in Southsun (that are no longer running) had fantastic rewards……and the rewards for a WORKING Queen Karka chain are also good.

I would complain, however, that these living story updates are almost always rife with both minor and event-breaking bugs. Its quite embarrassing.

Also, Dragon Bash is not living story as far as i can tell……its a “holiday event” like Mad King and Wintersday. therefore, i would expect it to be MUCH better than the living story updates since both those holiday events were awesome.

There is a problem when the settler MF buff, a heroes banner buff, a MF booster buff, and a MF food buff yields ZERO drops and when there is a drop it is a SINGLE KARKA SHELL.

I want a dev to comment on this. Either something is very, very broken or the RNG is a sham.

From what I hear, MF doesn’t increase your chance for loot period, it simply increases your chance at getting BETTER loot if you actually get loot.

MF won’t make you get a drop every enemy, but the drops that you do get will have a better chance to be of higher quality. You might get a green instead of a blue, or a higher level fine crafting ingredient, ect.

Basically, you won’t get more loot with MF, but you’ll get better loot.

Electro.4173:

From what I hear, MF doesn’t increase your chance for loot period, it simply increases your chance at getting BETTER loot if you actually get loot.

MF won’t make you get a drop every enemy, but the drops that you do get will have a better chance to be of higher quality. You might get a green instead of a blue, or a higher level fine crafting ingredient, ect.

Basically, you won’t get more loot with MF, but you’ll get better loot.

When I do get loot it’s always one chunk of crab meat or one karka shell. How is that better?

If you didn’t do enough damage to the veteran karka, then you aren’t eligible for loot. The veteran karka always guarantees a karka shell. It is possible when you died, the veteran reset before the zerg arrived and killed it.

So anyway, this has nothing to do with the Living Story.

Veteran Karka have 2 bars of HP. You most likely got it down to 50% on its first form. You get exp for killing its first bar of HP. But if you did not contribute for the second bar of HP, you get no loot.

I know it’s a terrible system…

Are you suggesting that because you chose to try and solo a veteran Karka you should be guaranteed a rare drop? or that because this one karka didn’t give you any loot the whole of the living story content is pathetic?

Halcyon.3981:

Veteran Karka have 2 bars of HP. You most likely got it down to 50% on its first form. You get exp for killing its first bar of HP. But if you did not contribute for the second bar of HP, you get no loot.

I know it’s a terrible system…

This should be explained somewhere. Thank you for the information! Meanwhile, I can hit Claw of Jormag just 10 times, walk away until he finishes, and still get the dragon chest.

Loot should not be the only reason you ever do anything in this game.

Yeah, this content sucks. I am tired of the whole Southsun activity. I wondered in yesterday, looking to do something, and found hardly anyone even farming the champs. Stumbled on an ever lasting zerg of brain suckers (karka egg thingies), and thought this sucks, is not fun, bye, I am out of here. Sick of this Living Story content, prefer a large expansion anyday. Besides the MF Dungeon, I am not finding Southsun fun or epic.

Southsun Cove is a a badly thrown together mess of uninteresting rubbish. The story and presentation are weak, the NULL fight was rushed and unbalanced (as admitted by A-net in the forums) and every update is buggy as hell.

So in response to your title, you should only bother with it if you have identified something you actually want. For example, the two new backpieces are great cosmetically and easy to get. The queen is going to be a permanent addition and is a fight along the same lines as the God avatars and Dragon minions (jormag, etc), so you can ignore the current bugs and just wait until it works properly. It isn’t going anywhere after all.

I distinctly remember A-net saying Flame and Frost was a miniature prelude to living story content, and that the next chapter would be the first of “bigger and better” content. It isn’t. It’s not even half of what Flame and Frost offered. Even Super Advanture Box had more storyline than this, and was presented with far superior quality.

Your post itself is completely unrelated to your title. What on earth do bad drop rates on mobs have to do with the living story? Those monsters have always been there since Southsun first appeared. They also aren’t a part of the living story. I would recommend pressing ‘H’ and going to the achievements panel. Take a read through the Southsun section – this will inform you of the living story content and help you to complete it.