Guild Wars 2

I’ve been running FOTM 48 for a few months now and I feel like there may have been a change to the drop rate around when they fixed a few bugs for the Southsun update.
Prior to the changes, my party often received any number of weapons from the daily chest, the normal RNG kind of thing.

The last few weeks, every run I have had, one person always gets a weapon, and one or two rings are dropped. Has anyone else had a party get more than one weapon in a run since the Southsun update? I feel like they may have made it so only one person per group gets one (still 20%).

That’s the thing about RNG. It’s random. You might get 100 skins a row, or like me, not have any skin at lvl 48 for 19 times in a row. I did get a ring last night, woohoo -_-

Anyway, it’s random, so it might feel like an increase, but it’s just chance.

Celly.5912:

That’s the thing about RNG. It’s random. You might get 100 skins a row, or like me, not have any skin at lvl 48 for 19 times in a row. I did get a ring last night, woohoo -_-

Anyway, it’s random, so it might feel like an increase, but it’s just chance.

While I agree with you in spirit that there probably hasn’t been a change in the fractal weapon rate (though I can’t say personally because I don’t do a lot of 48 runs), just because it’s “random” doesn’t mean it’s not constrained within a specified rate. A clean six-sided die gives you a random result on each roll, but it’s still a dependable 1/6 rate for any given number. In this game, that rate can be changed behind the scenes which will affect your results.

TL:DR “Random” doesn’t mean “it could be anything and there’s no way to estimate”.

It seems like they are trolling us or something over all the fractals threads made. My parties used to get mostly 2 skins a run and sometimes 0-1. Now we get 0-1 mostly. Ever since the patch for the canach/null dungeon….er instances… my groups have been barely getting any skins. We only do 48 and I’ve gone most days since then.

actually its quite true…
I play fotm 48 from 1 to 4 daily…

Before april 30 patch skins dropped as they should.

Post dragon bash i ve still to find a single skin dropped in Group and i already did 4 runs….

Now from gettiing an average 1-2 per run to 0 for 4 the difference is noticeable quite a lot…

Its true that rng is rng but its an unlikely result to see 0 skins drop on 4 runs X5 players at 48.

This is part of a Master plan that Karka Queen is doing because Jade Maw leave her on Valentine’s Day… the only way to get her revenge is reducing drastically the drop rate of Fractal Weapons, too bad for us players.

Good luck guys!

You guys are thinking too much, there is no update on fractal weapon drop rate increase >< been doing 48’s daily and i get nothing , including rings . geez