Guild Wars 2

Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere, but I was wanting to know if anyone else has noticed there’s a bit of a disparity between certain chest drops that are now collectibles?

Strictly speaking, I’m referring to the Carved Bone Spoon and the Jormag Claw Fragment as stark comparisons.

This week I’ve played on different toons at different times of different days, and at Tequatl after it gets defeated, the first item to drop out of the chest is the Carved Bone Spoon. 4 out of 4 times this has happened (100% rate). This makes me think there’s no RNG in this, and that it’s designed to be a given drop. Has anyone else noticed this, or NOT gotten the spoon from the chest yet? I’d like to hear your thoughts.

Conversely, I’ve played multiple toons again at differing times of the day at the Claw of Jormag event – sometimes 3 times a day – and not once have I seen this fragment drop from the chest. Now this makes me thing the complete opposite of the Tequatl chest, and that RNG does have a very heavy hand in this. So far this week with approx. 25 Jormag events done, I’ve seen 0 fragments. Again, I’d like to hear your thoughts on this, particularly if you’ve acquired one of these.

tl;dr: why is there such a stark comparable drop rate between new collectible items from event chests?

The teq spoon is just another collectible you need while the claw fragment is the trigger to unlock the jormag defense collection.

Pretty sure the Teq spoon isn’t a guaranteed drop, it seems to drop fairly frequently but not 100%.

The spoon is not 100% drop, I have killed Tequatl & not received a spoon, although it is more welcome than a bloody Rune of the Sunless, as it sells for 5x the amount
Tequatl is harder than Jormag
Jormag’s Claw Fragment is not account bound & the spoon is.

Perhaps the Tequatl spoon has a higher chance of dropping, and the Jormag fragment a much lower one.

If the fragment opens up the collection for Corrupted weapons, wouldn’t it make more sense to have its RNG bound to say corrupted creatures, and not as an extremely rare drop from a chest?