Guild Wars 2

From Nov 15th notes:

“The drop rarity of Rare and Exotic weapons from certain places in the world (champions, veterans, and players in WvW) has been increased. Rares and Exotics should be much more likely to drop and every champion should be guaranteed to drop loot. This was to ensure that world loot drops were not a significantly worse way of acquiring rare and exotic items than crafting and running dungeons.”

Why hasn’t this happened, been fixed or explained to us? Not trying to be a k.i.t.t.e.n. here, but this is pretty black and white. The notes and that this hasn’t happened and hasn’t been addressed, I believe.

“Should be guaranteed” is a bit tricky wording, but I read that is “It should drop, we want this to happen, if not it’s a bug, please report and we’ll re-address that until it does work”.

Not seeing this at all.

I’ve never fought a champ that didn’t drop something, be it just cash or trash loot, after that patch.

Vayra.3290:

I’ve never fought a champ that didn’t drop something, be it just cash or trash loot, after that patch.

I have seriously 1 in 20 drop loot, just like the rest of RNG in the game. Interesting.

I have found that some champs don’t consistently drop loot (ie, the jormag phase 2 ones), even when I did the majority of the damage to them (via the bomb packs) – this was back when the event was actually worth farming the first phase for.

The win is if they did drop consistently, that creates a rallying point for people to meet and work together. As it stands now, it becomes a place to refrain from.

I’ve only had loot drop from champs maybe 30% of the time.

“This was to ensure that world loot drops were not a significantly worse way of acquiring rare and exotic items than crafting and running dungeons.”

Does anyone feel like there is absolutely no way this is even remotely close? No-one sees world drops even remotely close the dungeons or crafting reliability. Not only do you choose the skins and stats of crafted and dungeon gear, you also know you will get something. World drops are still terribad and champions are still ignored.

Shiren.9532:

“This was to ensure that world loot drops were not a significantly worse way of acquiring rare and exotic items than crafting and running dungeons.”

Does anyone feel like there is absolutely no way this is even remotely close? No-one sees world drops even remotely close the dungeons or crafting reliability. Not only do you choose the skins and stats of crafted and dungeon gear, you also know you will get something. World drops are still terribad and champions are still ignored.

agree wholeheartedly

We have been discussing this for almost a month on this thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Change-in-loot-parameters-or-a-bug-Merged/first

The loot drops for all open world kills, including champs and veterans, have been reduced significantly since the patch that was supposed to make it better.

There was another thread about this about 2 weeks ago. Have yet to hear a dev response about it though.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Veteran-Champion-drops-non-existent/first

Shiren.9532:

“This was to ensure that world loot drops were not a significantly worse way of acquiring rare and exotic items than crafting and running dungeons.”

Does anyone feel like there is absolutely no way this is even remotely close? No-one sees world drops even remotely close the dungeons or crafting reliability. Not only do you choose the skins and stats of crafted and dungeon gear, you also know you will get something. World drops are still terribad and champions are still ignored.

It’s definitely nowhere near what people get in the dungeons no, it’s why we have a near 1000 post thread with 3xk views on the loot bug issue. People are tired of wasting their time. This game was supposed to be open-world-centric not dungeoneer-centric and thus is the main reason why people have said multiple times that they went back on their manifesto.

The only thing they have changed since is they made T6 drop more often from the bags one gets from risen in Orr and svanir in the gorge. I haven’t seen a rare in a very long time. Apparently there’s a bug with DR and with MF as well. DR doesn’t turn off for some people and is account wide, and MF works in reverse of what it’s intended to do for many people, people increase their mf only to start getting porous bones all of a sudden.

Shiren.9532:

“This was to ensure that world loot drops were not a significantly worse way of acquiring rare and exotic items than crafting and running dungeons.”

Does anyone feel like there is absolutely no way this is even remotely close? No-one sees world drops even remotely close the dungeons or crafting reliability. Not only do you choose the skins and stats of crafted and dungeon gear, you also know you will get something. World drops are still terribad and champions are still ignored.

Agreed .. i have never seen an Exotic dropped anywhere in the Open World, and Rares drop maybe one ever 2 hours when i’m actually farming.

Also the Champions i killed in Orr after that patch all dropped nothing, nada, null.