Guild Wars 2

So i have been reading up on DR since i think it is now somehow effecting me. I know Anet has gone on record saying it will never effect normal players and only bots and that no one else will notice it. I believe this is a false statement. They have also gone on record saying:

“While we need a safety net to stop unanticipated economy-breaking exploits and botting, we have no desire to stop farming. Farmers are a part every online economy and when they are doing normal game activity they do not cause any harm. If a player finds a normal game activity fun and would like to keep doing it, that’s fine with us.”

So having read all this info one would think that DR is something not to be worried about, howerver…..

Ive been playing for about 1-1.5 months now, first character lvl 80 for just over a week now. So obviously now that im lvl 80 im farming for exotic ingrediants as im only wearing rare lvl 80 crafted gear currently. Im trying to get armored scaled and tier 6 blood for 2 sets of armor, one for my lvl 80 warrior one for my guardian who im still leveling.

For my armored scales im farming frostgorge sound and killing lvl 78+ jellyfish and ice sharks. This went well for the first 2 hours and i got 4 armored scales as drops. I have since spent over 30 hours of gameplay farming these same mobs(never more than 3 hours a day) and have recieved ZERO more armored scales. If this isnt DR i dont know what is.

As for blood i also farm in frostgorge killing minators and trolls. Like above i did well for my first few hours and got 6 drops. Since then ive put in another 10 hours and recieved zero drops of blood.

As far as rare drops which as you all know are needed for the ecto ive been getting kitten on those as well. The whole time leveling my warrior i would get a single yellow drop per day on average(i play 2 hours a day on work days and 10-12 hours a day on the weekends) I am totally 100% ok with this as that works out to a yellow every 3-4 hours of gametime which i think is totally acceptable. However since hitting level 80 and i think triggering DR i have yet to recieve a single yellow at all from any chest or drop. The only high level yellows i have obtained to harvest for ecto have come from the mystic toilet when i put in 4 high level greens.

I think its very suspect i went from one rare a day to none in the least few weeks, this is to long of a gap to be chalked up to RNG it is very obviously DR.

So my question is how do i disable DR? do i not log in for a whole 24 hour period?(because i have been logging in every day for dailies so if i need to not do this to disable it i need to know so i can skip a few days)

Also how do i reset DR for farming, in my above quote it clearly states they have no issue with farming, so why am i getting screwed so much just trying to obtain 30 tier 6 ingrediants for a set of armor? its not like im trying to even make money on the TP im doing this to get a set of exotic armor because as far as im concerned thats the end game, im not going to grind for legendary thats just a ridiculas grind that would easaly take 6-12 months and im not that hardcore.

So why am i getting kitten by DR when every piece of material i have read about it says it will not effect normal players and that they are ok with farming.

Also worth noting im getting the no chest for dragon glitch, i do the dragon in frostgorge all the time since im there alot and twice now have recieved no chest out of maybe 20 runs at it, so 10% of the time im getting screwed there too.

Vary your gameplay. Don’t sit in one zone all the time, don’t sit in one spot all the time, don’t kill the same mobs all the time.

You can get t6 mats from various sources, and unless you have been struck by the perma dr bug your best bet is to move around the world not concentrating on anything to a ridiculous degree. You can buy t6 mats with laurels, you can get them from loot bags both in world and dungeons, you can make them by transmogrifying lower level mats in the mystic forge… use the various sources to your gain instead of sitting in one spot.

Also… you aren’t going to find any “real” information about DR on this forum or any other… only speculation and hyperbole. Nobody outside Arenanet knows how DR works, because they have specifically not told us anything about it… we can only speculate about how it works and what it does. Some of us more level headed about it than others… but none of us informed.

bluewanders.5297:

Vary your gameplay. Don’t sit in one zone all the time, don’t sit in one spot all the time, don’t kill the same mobs all the time.

You can get t6 mats from various sources, and unless you have been struck by the perma dr bug your best bet is to move around the world not concentrating on anything to a ridiculous degree. You can buy t6 mats with laurels, you can get them from loot bags both in world and dungeons, you can make them by transmogrifying lower level mats in the mystic forge… use the various sources to your gain instead of sitting in one spot.

Also… you aren’t going to find any “real” information about DR on this forum or any other… only speculation and hyperbole. Nobody outside Arenanet knows how DR works, because they have specifically not told us anything about it… we can only speculate about how it works and what it does. Some of us more level headed about it than others… but none of us informed.

Well i did try going to orr to get heavy moldy bags but found that this was a waste of time and usualy just got silk scraps from them. I have started just selling them on the TP its more worthwhile IMO.

Where are some good spots to farm for armored scales and blood?

Im only at 50% map completion so am missing alot of areas to explore is there another level 80 frozen zone like frostgorge i should be looking for as well that might have what i need?

The dredge loot bags drop t6 mats including scales… you can find them in the fractals, and in frostgorge. Maybe sorrows embrace… although I haven’t run explore on that one enough to know (or remember) I got any t6 ther.

Blood and scales drop from mobs in southsun cove too.

Don’t concentrate on just “killing things repeatedly” to get your mats… they drop rarely because they are rare mats… your best bet is to collect things from various sources and convert. Gold to mats on the tp… lower level mats to higher level mats from the mystic forge…. laurels to mats…. loot bags to mats… in addition to killing. You’ll find the game a lot less frustrating when you don’t focus into a single thing and pound away at it relentlessly…

bluewanders.5297:

The dredge loot bags drop t6 mats including scales… you can find them in the fractals, and in frostgorge. Maybe sorrows embrace… although I haven’t run explore on that one enough to know (or remember) I got any t6 ther.

Blood and scales drop from mobs in southsun cove too.

Don’t concentrate on just “killing things repeatedly” to get your mats… they drop rarely because they are rare mats… your best bet is to collect things from various sources and convert. Gold to mats on the tp… lower level mats to higher level mats from the mystic forge…. laurels to mats…. loot bags to mats… in addition to killing. You’ll find the game a lot less frustrating when you don’t focus into a single thing and pound away at it relentlessly…

Thats just it though i have specific goals so i need specific materials, its not like im after any t6 mat im after blood/scales specifically. Never occured to me about the dredge and those mining bags though, ill give that a shot for sure.

Also havent discovered southsun i dont think so ill go there and try farming there as well.

One more thing now that i have a few things to try for the mat drops lets talk about the rare drops specifically, anyone know how to reset the DR as far as rare drops goes?

I did a test starting the other day in the Lost Shore map killing the Barracuda, Turtles and those big Scorpian fish or whatever they are as I was specifically hunting for armoured scales myself. Here is what I noted:

Test 1 – 2 hours without ANY kind of Magic Find gear but using a +50% Magic Find Booster + omnomberry bars:

Armoured Scales – 19
Large Scales – 67
Rares – 2
Greens – 7
Blues – 8
Whites – 7

Test 2 – 2 hours with different char with FULL Magic Find gear with +50% Magic Find booster + Omnomberry bar:

Armoured Scales – 7
Large Scales – 80
Rares – 1
Greens – 9
Blues – 4
Whites – 13

I know it looks odd as it seems I did better WITHOUT Magic Find gear but that’s what my drops were for each test being 2 hours on 2 seperate days with 2 sepearate chars.

Hope that helps in someway somehow.

Paulytnz.7619:

I did a test starting the other day in the Lost Shore map killing the Barracuda, Turtles and those big Scorpian fish or whatever they are as I was specifically hunting for armoured scales myself. Here is what I noted:

Test 1 – 2 hours without ANY kind of Magic Find gear but using a +50% Magic Find Booster + omnomberry bars:

Armoured Scales – 19
Large Scales – 67
Rares – 2
Greens – 7
Blues – 8
Whites – 7

Test 2 – 2 hours with different char with FULL Magic Find gear with +50% Magic Find booster + Omnomberry bar:

Armoured Scales – 7
Large Scales – 80
Rares – 1
Greens – 9
Blues – 4
Whites – 13

I know it looks odd as it seems I did better WITHOUT Magic Find gear but that’s what my drops were for each test being 2 hours on 2 seperate days with 2 sepearate chars.

Hope that helps in someway somehow.

It sure helped me get convinced im getting absolutly kitten by the RNG and DR since ive got 4 armored scaled in 40 hours of farming and zero rares dropped in almost 2 weeks now.

Sad to say but if your results are what most players are getting and what i stated in my first post is what my game is going to look like from now on then its time for me to find another game to play, which is sad because i like this one but im sure not going to keep playing if im getting kitten that bad, there is no point.

Paulytnz.7619:

I did a test starting the other day in the Lost Shore map killing the Barracuda, Turtles and those big Scorpian fish or whatever they are as I was specifically hunting for armoured scales myself. Here is what I noted:

Test 1 – 2 hours without ANY kind of Magic Find gear but using a +50% Magic Find Booster + omnomberry bars:

Armoured Scales – 19
Large Scales – 67
Rares – 2
Greens – 7
Blues – 8
Whites – 7

Test 2 – 2 hours with different char with FULL Magic Find gear with +50% Magic Find booster + Omnomberry bar:

Armoured Scales – 7
Large Scales – 80
Rares – 1
Greens – 9
Blues – 4
Whites – 13

I know it looks odd as it seems I did better WITHOUT Magic Find gear but that’s what my drops were for each test being 2 hours on 2 seperate days with 2 sepearate chars.

Hope that helps in someway somehow.

I think it’s just RNG. Perhaps you got lucky on one day and not on the other? :o

Either way, we need a much bigger sample from multiple players to actually come up with anything.

I think I have been in your situation too. There went a period for a long while where I was getting no rares. I never tried to farm either I just used to never get them at all. I have 8 chars (covering all races and all classes) so I play between them now and then and I don’t know but I think for some reason some of them just have better luck than others. I have seen others pretty much say the same too so I’m not sure what is happening.

With regards to the DR tho I usually follow this rule: stay in no place for any longer than an hour. I am usualy always on the move except when I’m bored and just mucking about in Queensdale so I guess this is why I don’t see the DR too much.

I wish you luck, but I do suggest trying out Lost Shore for those Armoured Scales as it seemed a fairly decent way for me to get them.

Biggest argument I’ve been having about their handling of the T6 materials. Instead of just giving us a Karma vendor for these things they add RNG bags to the laurel vendor that only drop three things at a time. too expensive. tried five of those things, got exactly 0 gossamer scraps. 0

three things needed in a karma vendor:

1. Lodestones
2. Powerful Blood
3. Gossamer Scraps

Those have been the biggest pain to farm since launch.