Guild Wars 2

Just finished the “Only Zuhl” jumping puzzle, the one where the lava hurts. There is a Giant Destroyer Troll at the end you have to kill to get the chest.

Kited the Troll around for 15 minutes while avoiding his lava attacks, he has a ton of hp. But he died and I eagerly awaited opening the chest for my ubah reward..

Two WHITE items… LOL.

I am ecstatic. That was the bestest reward ever. I am so excited that I finally won the game. Now I can go do something else. I think ALL hard earned chests should have only white items in them. You would keep so many people playing that way. They love white items after busting their tail for such a fine reward…

Hadn’t logged in about a week before today. After opening that chest I remembered why..

Laters.

Cool story, bro.

I’m pretty certain chests don’t drop white items…

If you’re doing JPs for the loot, then you’re doing it wrong anyways.

Also some JPs have extra champs at the end with smaller chests in addition to the Splended Chest at the end of the JP. The champ chests typically give you rubbish, though you can sometimes steal the treasure from under the champs nose without having to fight it.

Steam Rock JP on Southsun Cove has a champ past the end, with his own chest, you can sneack the chest, but if you have a 4-man or larger sized group with you, I would advise fighting it. For fun of course. It’s a challenging boss.

Zero Angel sums it up in the first line of their post.

I do the jumping puzzles because I enjoy them, not for the loot. Nobody does in fact, because they never drop anything of worth. Almost all chests are worthless and that is the point (for those of you too obtuse to figure it out without cue cards).

Did the steamrock jp the first day and found the second chest behind the champ while I was up on that island. Sneaking behind the champ was obvious and I looted the worthless junk that came from that chest.

It’s become a standard joke amongst my friends at how bad chest loot is in this game. But having a chest drop two white items is just wrong on every level and everyone knows that. So again the point is –
- chest loot itemization needs to be redone.

In fact, nobody does champs or any of the interesting out of the way encounters because the vast majority of players ignore the content when chests consistantly drop crap loot. I do the ones I can solo because I enjoy the challenge. I can even solo some champs if I’m bored enough, but I know ahead of time the loot will suck. Most players want more tangible rewards for their time and I don’t blame them.

I’ve done most of the jumping puzzles already, only went back to this one because I skipped it when leveling. I expected the chest loot to be crapola but getting two whites was a new low.

Again, chests should never drop white loot… ever. And chests in generals are a joke.