Guild Wars 2

Has there been changes made to the loot table because I’ve been getting more rares but most importantly. We did AC last night and I got a jug of karma out of the chest from killing Kholer?

Even though the rest of my party didn’t get any jugs they did get more rares. Unless I’m just imagining it or if I’ve just been really lucky?

I still pretty much only get blues and such from dungeons, but one of the people I dungeon run a lot with seems to be getting lots of rares, way more than usual (and he’s not running MF gear or anything).

I know that they were working on having dungeons give better loot, and I’ve recently been getting a lot more rares than I used to. After looking around while writing this post, I found some quotes from Robert Hrouda

Robert Hrouda.1327:

It’s not an exploit to skip Kholer. He’s a bonus boss that unlocks a central waypoint, drops loot, and also gives a chest.

People skip him because:
A) He’s hard if you don’t know what you are doing, and don’t communicate enough.
2) Our changes to our token rewards moved the tokens out of his unlocked chest, so people don’t feel they have to fight him to maximize gains
III) Our dropped loot is abysmal, so you’re not finding anything of value.

Solutions:
A) He’s supposed to be hard, it’s explorable mode. We should aspire all our bosses across all difficulties to be of similar difficulty.
2 and III) We are currently re-working and changing our loot for dungeons. I had previously hoped that it would be in for the next patch, but it requires a lot of tuning and testing, so it might take another patch.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

@Sebber,

I’ve been very vocal about the changes to dungeon loot here in the dungeon thread and my hopes it would be in by this next patch. While I still hold out hope, I don’t think it will make it in since it needs more tuning.

JonPeters.5630:

To SteveMJH,

Same thing that Rob said about dungeon loot is also true in open world. I recently started looking at this and its literally such a bad chance of getting good loot from those big world bosses. Champions as well, the numbers are just too low. The Halloween patch is just too close to put this in and test it, but we are also working on improving this.

Jon

Whether or not they’ve gone ahead and added the new update, well, I don’t know. But like I said, I’ve been getting better drops than usual.

Our group noticed this too while running CoE last night. we got maybe 4 charged lodestones between the 4 of us in mumble, in 2 runs. we also got multiple rares and charged cores. If they did ninja loot table fixes I am glad they did it ninja. and I hope they keep it ninja. makes it more cool (mostly because, you know… ninjas?)

Maybe they made some minor changes but nothing major yet? It just seems too much of a coincidence that our loot quality suddenly gotten a tiny bit better. I’m about to run another dungeon and will see what the loot is like. It could be that it’s only been adjusted for certain chests/bosses

Okay so I didn’t get any rares this run but I did get two cores which I haven’t had in a while. Maybe it was a coincidence? Maybe they adjusted a tiny bit? Not sure…