Guild Wars 2

Well I’m back after a break and am wondering before I dive back into them – the fractal weapon skins. Once they do drop – is it a random skin like in the old days, or is it a box where i choose my fractal skin like with ascended gear boxes that drop at teq or jungle wurm?

Still a random drop. There is in fact a box that allows one to choose the skin, but apparently it only drops from levels above 50, which don’t exist. So yeah.

Still the same and to add to it, if you left pre Fractured patch: yeah, they reduced the drop rate badly.

From what I remember is a 10-15% to a… what? 2-3%? Kind of.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18IHVJao5j85KOp6lBTOgO8qs4VYD3Xty-jKPZo8o-Q4/pubhtml

Taku.6352:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18IHVJao5j85KOp6lBTOgO8qs4VYD3Xty-jKPZo8o-Q4/pubhtml

Oh yeah that
We have had to do our own loot recording to show Anet that they had been doing something wrong. We had to make the proof.
Because simply telling them to look at their loot tables was not enough.
Meanwhile they hid behind their RNG excuse.

This looked dramatically like when the playerbase cried at the ectoplasm “nerf”: they devs did not believe their customers, until proof was made.

It’s really interesting to look at how anet deals with RNG. It gives them a very convenient excuse to hide and tell us that we are wrong and blablabla … meanwhile we grow more and more dissatisfied.

Yep, that’s the power of RNG: you can’t have much rational expectations. Therefore you have no expectations. Therefore Anet can do whatever they want. But their customers do care enough to show the devs that they are wrong. It’s painful but we do that.

I am pretty sure the devs at Anet also use RNG to do their daily work: they must two lotteries, one that produces at ramdom an aspect of the game, and the other that produces at random an action:

Ecto – Nerf => done!
Fractals 50+ – Remove => Done, yihaa!
Fractal skin boxes above 50+ – Implement => Nice!
TA foward up – Remove => Woohoo fun!
Dailies – Rework => Done!
Dailies – Rework => Re-Done!
Dailies – Rework => Again? Ok done!
Zelyhn – Ban => Ohh no, but done anyway!

All hail GReNth

10%? It felt like 1% to me… but then again, I got my own personal rngesus.

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

I am pretty sure the devs at Anet also use RNG to do their daily work: they must two lotteries, one that produces at ramdom an aspect of the game, and the other that produces at random an action:

Ecto – Nerf => done!
Fractals 50+ – Remove => Done, yihaa!
Fractal skin boxes above 50+ – Implement => Nice!
TA foward up – Remove => Woohoo fun!
Dailies – Rework => Done!
Dailies – Rework => Re-Done!
Dailies – Rework => Again? Ok done!
Zelyhn – Ban => Ohh no, but done anyway!

All hail GReNth

made me lol XD