Guild Wars 2

Can I know why I never get anything from the Jade Maw chest? All I’ve been getting for the last couple of days are nothing but blues. I used to get some cores but now nothing. I was doing level 16 and I did it twice and I only got blues.

Is this is a sick joke? This is not fun at all.

Bad luck, thats all.

It’s RNG. I get bad loot some days and I get good loot some other days. Regular dungeons are more reliable for money stuff anyways, so I just do fractals with my static group mainly for relics. Fractals is our way to wait out DR.

Run 26+. Loot’s better, I swear.

2-3 golds every run. All day every day. Pretty consistent.

Except that even in 26, if a random noob joins your team at fractal 10, you dont know, then all the loot gets scaled to level 10, in essence making you run a harder fractal, for no reason. So only run 26 if you know your teammates are 26+ too

I was getting 3-4 rares every fractal 10-19 before this patch… now I get 1 or 2 lol.

JJBigs.8456:

Except that even in 26, if a random noob joins your team at fractal 10, you dont know, then all the loot gets scaled to level 10, in essence making you run a harder fractal, for no reason. So only run 26 if you know your teammates are 26+ too

According to the forum responses and the Wiki this is not true. Loot is scaled per person.
Quote from the FotM Wiki:
“For each player, rewards are based on the minimum between the selected Fractal Level and the player’s own Reward Level.”

they nerfed the loot, don’t listen to trolls, believe what you get in your bags. I do and I don’t get squat anymore. The people who are saying they get all kinds of loot still are just trolls. Anet is ruining the game, they nerfed the loot in the only real dungeon they have. kind of stupid in my opinion, they should have added more loot and more fractals, now I dont want to go there anymore and I’m telling my guildies to do the same, it sucks there, waste of time.
Only thing in this game to do now is events, and I hope that holds me off until ESO comes out…

I wasn’t commenting on whether or not the loot drops have gotten worse because I feel that they are worse. I was just saying that a lower level joining your group shouldn’t affect what loot you get. I had a guild mate join that was fractal level 17 on a fractal level 28 run and still got 7 rares. Very next day I ran 28 again with everyone above fractal level 20 and only got 1 rare. Clearly the fractal level of each group member had no effect on my looting.

I used to get at least 6 – 8 rares a run at lvl 28 and now I go most days with 1 -3 rares and the occasional day where I get what I used which is more like 6 – 8.

IceWyvern.2019:

Run 26+. Loot’s better, I swear.

2-3 golds every run. All day every day. Pretty consistent.

^ this is wrong lol..since the last patch I’ve noticed that about half the time maybe even more so than that, you get like nothing at all but a bunch of crappy blues/greens from the chest. I run 30/26 daily, its hardly profitable anymore, really makes me want to stop doing them, jade maw should guarantee a couple cores + rares, not all this crap that nets me nothing for my work.

I just finished reading a closed thread on Fractals loot after the latest patch in which Colin and Mark both stated that Fractals loot wasn’t changed in any way.

I have to disagree. Based on the loot I’ve been pulling out of Fractals over the past few weeks, it simply cannot be true. I recently finished my Fractal Frequenter (500/500), so I’ve run plenty (both pre and post-January patch). Rare gear-looting has seemed to have been better in the last week or two, but it’s oddly been from mobs (which is weird ‘cause I don’t use any MF) rather than out of boss chests like it used to be.

As for the Jade Maw chest: Before the patch, a few cores/a lodestone and a rare/exotic were (seemingly) fairly common in that chest, both in 10+ and 20+ dailies. Recently, however, I feel lucky to get a piece of rare gear and/or a valuable core.

Whether or not drop rates were changed, some types have DEFINITELY been changed/added. I say this because I’m now offloading a bunch of Glyphic and (I think) Krytan weapons after each run. Aureate weapons are new to the Fractals loot table too – I don’t remember ever salvaging those rares before the latest patch (Verdant sure, but not Aureate).

Anyway, Fractals loot is not where it used to be. Maybe where it used to be was a little too good – I can’t really say. But from then to now, for me at least, there is a difference that cannot be accounted for by RNG.

There was a system in gw1 that nullified any possibly farming you could do I think they added that to gw2. 90% of the karka shells I get is from on of the first three karka’s I kill after which it takes maybe 20 more to get another karka shell. I think the same happens to everything. The more a chest is looted the lower the chance to get good drops.
The reason that it was said that nothing had changed is because the loot automatically changes.

X-File level conspiracy theory or not, I too have seen a drastic decrease in the quality of loot. I rarely have a run with 1 rare in it. A level 28 run last night yielded not one yellow from the Maw chest. And I had only 2 rares for the whole run. That was a good night. I don’t get nearly as many cores or lodestones. They seem to hardly drop from the Maw chest at all any more.

Honestly, it has gotten to where the time is not worth the rewards.

I still have good luck with the jade maw chest.

The normal end boss chest from each fractal however…

the cosmic ballet goes on..

never get tired of RNG stories from this game, after a while i just accept its crap. (the RNG not the stories)

I think they’re secretly encouraging everyone to run in full magic find gear :P