Guild Wars 2

It seems to me like there is something not-so-random about the RNG system for loot.

There are quite a few people who get good loot much more consistently from chests regardless of the event or number of times (minimum 2 ectos per event), while others consistently get jacksquat and question why they bother doing chest events such as dragons.

Can this be looked into?

Why are some accounts inherently luckier than others?

Aye, its like quite a few of us are stuck with a bugged DR or something.

Because the RNG is a harsh, spiteful goddess who can only be appeased with blood sacrifice.

Or, alternatively, because dice being evil is a fundamental law of the universe.

In either case I do agree, loot tables need to be fixed. They really should be giving consistently high rewards, or else events will always feel worthless. Most of the flak surrounding the Ancient Karka boiled down to the fact that the event chest rewards were SO MUCH BETTER than normal event chests….this is something that simply wouldn’t be a problem if they just fixed world event chests.

I wish it was just pure bad luck, but I seriously doubt it. And its not just the chests.

I’m theorizing bugged DR with BlackWolfe.

RNG should be random, but when it ceases to be random and ALWAYS rewards you with terrible loot, it means you’re being punished with DR.

The problem is, my toon suffers from this and I don’t “farm”.

I believe the only time the DR “resets” for me is when I enter and leave a dungeon.

This means that if I want decent loot from world events, I need to do a dungeon between each one?

Please listen to these folks, it stopped being a random mysterious phenominon the moment they told us they were adjusting drop rates.

I got to say I think it is bugged too. I was getting exotic drops at least every other night for a while after the patch on the November (if I farmed in Orr). I got 3 exotic drops one night. I was also getting plenty of rares. Then the patch at the beginning of this month seemed to cause my drops to be mostly bad. No more exotics and very few rares. I talked to some people in a farming party and some agreed the drops seemed nerfed while others said they had gotten 15+ rares and an exotic. I had gotten maybe 2 or 3 rares. Crafting materials were also dropping less. I haven’t farmed much yet since the resent patch, so I have no idea if it is still bad for me.

I am wondering if something is buggy with the DR system.

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I got to say I think it is bugged too. I was getting exotic drops at least every other night for a while after the patch on the November (if I farmed in Orr). I got 3 exotic drops one night. I was also getting plenty of rares. Then the patch at the beginning of this month seemed to cause my drops to be mostly bad. No more exotics and very few rares. I talked to some people in a farming party and some agreed the drops seemed nerfed while others said they had gotten 15+ rares and an exotic. I had gotten maybe 2 or 3 rares. Crafting materials were also dropping less. I haven’t farmed much yet since the resent patch, so I have no idea if it is still bad for me.

I am wondering if something is buggy with the DR system.

I would really like to see a dev response on this.

There have been at least 3 threads on this that reached something along the lines of 22k views each since the middle of last month.

I was playing this FoM with a warrior who has 6+ ascended rings, legendary (percusor from MF) and he is still a noob (signets, no desire for team play, died very fast)
Guess what, on that run he got another ring! Did he pay for diamonds or something so they reward him, cause it’s really stupid now, really no need to work on your skill, just grind grind grind grind.

Just did 5 more of the various chest DWE’s and received zero green items, let alone yellow. it’s been two weeks since i’ve seen a yellow. outrageous

Ran pent/shelt and the grenth events last night for about 2 hours with a friend, me lvl 80 full mf gear, banner, food, my friend lvl 76 and a xp booster no mf at all, needless to say my buddy received about 9 rares and a ton of t6 mats, me in my MF gear 1 rare 4 vicious claws and a ridiculous amount of porus, and large bones.

So I log in this morning and do a few more events no MF gear at all, no boosters of any kind in the first 5 minutes 5 rares and a ton of t6 mats.

Yeah loot and magic find work great! Something is definetly goofed.

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Ran pent/shelt and the grenth events last night for about 2 hours with a friend, me lvl 80 full mf gear, banner, food, my friend lvl 76 and a xp booster no mf at all, needless to say my buddy received about 9 rares and a ton of t6 mats, me in my MF gear 1 rare 4 vicious claws and a ridiculous amount of porus, and large bones.

So I log in this morning and do a few more events no MF gear at all, no boosters of any kind in the first 5 minutes 5 rares and a ton of t6 mats.

Yeah loot and magic find work great! Something is definetly goofed.

Thanks for confirming this.

I bought MF as my first “starter gear” when hitting 80.

I will now divest myself of as much of it as possible at whatever cost is necessary.

I don’t have much gold for obvious reasons, but it seems I’ll be unable to make any at all if I don’t replace my existing MF gear immediately.

My only guess would be that when you equip MF, the MF% completely replaces your base MF% (for example, if your initial odds were 1.0:X, and you then equip 40% mf, instead of your odds becoming 1.4:X, it becomes 0.4:X)

It would be awesome if every single mob dropped something no matter how bad it was.

Bear in mind that people will come in here only to complain that they have bad luck, a lot of people will experience ‘normal’ drop rates and will not say a word.

Saying that, I agree, the loot is generally terrible.