Guild Wars 2

I’ve run 2 fractals since the south sun cove patch went live. Myself and everybody I’ve run with has noticed a major decrease in the drop rate after southsun cove that was not documented in the patch.

Has anybody else noticed this? Is it intentional or a bug?

Did lvl 38 run, got better loot than on average, rng.

insert standard reply of “RNG”.

2 runs is not a valid sample…

Loot in fractals has been bad for a while. Nothing new here.

It’s not 2 runs, its 2 runs x 5 people (which is 10 runs.) It was also also a drastically noticeable change. Have you guys run the high level fractals and disagree, or are you just posting RNG?

I ran a 48 and got a skin. Others got exotics. I call RNG until a lot more info comes in.

Last run I think it was 5 rares, a exotic and 3 cores..

RNG is RNG.. and 10 people is not a valid sample size. I can have a week with bad drops, 10+ runs, and then the next day get half a dozen T6s, cores, rares out the wazzoo.

Don’t think drops have been changed at all, they have ALWAYS wildly fluctuated for me, like getting 5 rares one run and 0-1 for the next three.

However the last two 3x lvl runs I have been on I got a skin for both, but these runs were weeks apart so I doubt it’s the result of any change.

It’s just RNG, they did a shadow nerf a few months ago in fractals because there was a big increase in players running fractals and not to many running the other dungeons and they wanted to keep people running them dungeons so they nerfed the loot to do that and people complained on the forums and they finally said thats why they did it but a lot like to run it still and we are sure they have big plans for fractals in the future with 30 lvls still unopened and they could add any paths to the place they wanted to, including living story fractals…

Quorum Of Four.6837:

I’ve run 2 fractals since the south sun cove patch went live. Myself and everybody I’ve run with has noticed a major decrease in the drop rate after southsun cove that was not documented in the patch.

Has anybody else noticed this? Is it intentional or a bug?

Drop rate of what?

ive done 48 , 38 , 28 and lvl 9 today, ive gotten 4 exotics and a skin. the droprate is fine

LOL, 2 runs. That’s nothing! I did 1 Fractal run and had terrible drops. That is a much more reliable statistic.

I can tell you with 99% certainity that the drop rate was NOT increased.

I have done 4x 48 and 4x 38 runs and NOT ONE SINGLE SKIN OR RING dropped for me.

I hate this stupid RNG.

Player Character.9467:

2 runs is not a valid sample…

Thank you! But we must be forgiving, not everyone is familiar with probabilities or even just the scientific method.

They actually increased them…

That or some sort of DR mechanic unclear.

First day after patch me and lot of people i checked (talk about 100-200 players that start to be an evidence being the difference really noticeable) started to drop 6-10 rares/orange per run at 38.

Before it was 0-3
That mostly about mobs while chest drops are awful as ever.

We seen the usual decrease in drops since starts so now we are almost back to the starting point.

Also there is the fact that drop quality is actual TRASH….

Account bound exotic are worthless salvage material….
Yellows like exotic from chests don t have runes/sigils

So they Worth less than open world drops.

Add to that the inlfation on T6 mats due to karka 200% magic find and improved loot tables.

As the usual trend, when people complain about a thing being broken, it get NERFED :/
Also they buffed/added mobs and stuff….

Don t know what actual reasoning is behind this….

Unless a dev explain what s happening and what is in their mind i can t really wonder.

What i know is that LFG is becoming thinnier every day….and friends are leaving so feedback/actions are really needed.

Always get crap. Even months ago. Never get any decent loot in any dungeon or w/e.

I get lodestone from lvl10 maw chest yesterday with my alt’s personal lvl9 so it’s just RNG.

I have never got 6-10 rares / exotics from fotm except a few times maybe, if this happens you to it’s either the luck of the RNG or you are wearing mf gear. That’s it.

2 runs yesterday and I got 2 rares at lvl 14 and nothing on lvl 40. I did fill my bags (120 slots) since we did dredge at 40 but not one rare or exotic.

Personally I don’t think drop rates have changed that much.
I however have seen more mists materials drop more often than “normal” with me getting at least 4 shards in the past 8 or so runs.