Guild Wars 2

For the love of Zhaitan, let me loot something I can actually use! Please, please change the loot drop mechanics to take into consideration your current profession and level.

When I am playing my ranger I get 90% heavy and when I am on my guardian, I loot 90% light. Times when I do loot the correct armor type, the level is 5 to 7 levels below my current level.

I can not even express how looting armor specifically for your current profession and level would make the “grind” so much more enjoyable. Outside of the loot drops, I am loving the game!

Thanks!

I’m okay with loot drops, but I would much prefer map completion rewards to be something I can use. But at least I can always trade with guild mates!

Athens.6125:

For the love of Zhaitan, let me loot something I can actually use! Please, please change the loot drop mechanics to take into consideration your current profession and level.

When I am playing my ranger I get 90% heavy and when I am on my guardian, I loot 90% light. Times when I do loot the correct armor type, the level is 5 to 7 levels below my current level.

Did you notice that the drop level is related to the area you are in? If you are getting drops 5-7 levels below your level you are playing in an area 5-7 levels below your level. Play in higher level areas. Your suggestion only encourages high levels to farm loot in low level areas.

As for type of drop, they need to be random or the availability of that type of armor/weapon will become imbalanced in the market depending on which class is grinding the most.

And why should this be a problem? With the TP just sell the stuff you can’t use and buy the stuff you want.

You will continue to loot items appropriate to your level even if you are playing in an area dozens of levels below you. It does not constantly happen but there is a decent frequency related to this kind of drop. I can still get level 80 gear from level 7 mobs. The quality of that loot does drop. I had noticed though that there is a difference in whether the type of item can be used by the character that loots it. I primarily play a Warrior so I don’t have as many weapons which I cannot use as some classes have. There does seem to be an issue with my Warrior looting a lot of armor that it can’t use. My question is whether this is intended to produce more trading action. If so, I can understand it. If it has nothing to do with trading then I think it could be looked at. Unless, well, we are also meant to play multiple classes and then trade items between our own characters. This just seems like an unnecessary inconvenience to me though so I’d rather that not be the reason.

You have to consider the logic of the character’s action. A character would not spend a ton of time intentionally, preferentially collecting items of no value to itself. It would take things it could either use personally or could sell/trade. So I’m looking for an explanation that we are intended to sell, trade, or salvage a larger number of items in order to support the flow of trade for the server.