Guild Wars 2

I Can’t stress this enough ….. I want to run FOTM but 99.999% of groups/Guilds expect you to be wearing all Exotic gear.
This is understandable as the dungeon looks hard but sadly i am decked out in Rares and farming Orr for the mats for my Exotics but the drop rates are so low !!!

I am a relatively new player to GW2 and took my time to get to 80 (Smelling the roses) but now i’m here it seems a rat race to get Exotics for the new content – I don’t mind some grind but when 90% of item drops in Orr are Porus Bones is does get disheartening farming :-(

These times shall be known as the porous bone depression.

Say goodbye to a good chunk of player base. Which can be translated to profit.

Earth to Anet. Come in Anet.

I agree. Farming dungeons is much more rewarding and efficient than that of farming Orr.

—I agree. Farming dungeons is much more rewarding and efficient than that of farming Orr. —

And that’s Catch 22 .

(LGF Dungeon run – Exotics only) – So need Dungeon runs to find mats to make into Exotics so i can go to Dungeons ….

Anyone else see a problem there?

Never had any problem with matts for my characters I used Frostgorge Sound a lot (it’s a much more pleasant place to farm) that and TP to sell the matts I didn’t need to get the matts I did. Orr’s only use is Karma zergs

I’ll try Frostgorge today (never been there) … :-)

Vinny.6924:

These times shall be known as the porous bone depression.

Say goodbye to a good chunk of player base. Which can be translated to profit.

Earth to Anet. Come in Anet.

Can confirm it with what I’ve done after finding out there was another loot nerf. Simply asked for refund yesterday and got my cash back in couple of hours. Funny thing is that even after having cash back my account was working flawlessly so I decided to sell all stuff and try to get precursor as I hear it has increased drop rate. I guess I spent about 40g and this gamble took a while as I was selling back some better exotics. Effect? No sign of precursor. TBH I didn’t quit because of gear tier up but because such ninja nerfs of drop rates (it’s always because of bots, bugs, exploits but in real it’s because of higher cash shop currency sales) and second event that is not only with chest in cash shop but with only chest. Game doesn’t differ much to korean style milking cow, but everything will come with time.

ive been running most dungeons just fine with rare magic find gear. no one complained. I did FotM with mf gear as well. the first lvls at least.. I rarely see people asking others about their gear, whether its exotic or not.

I for one want people in my party to run dungeon with exotics, as some people dont know how to dodge and dies too often with greens and rare. Some people just stand there taking hits and no clue of what their doing but if I know a player knows what hes doing that i am not ressing him 50% of the time then i am ok with it even if he is naked.

Yes it sucks that drop rate was ninja nerfed. They could have at least said “we nerfed the drop rate so don’t bother farming anymore” in patch notes and then I wouldn’t have wasted another 4+ hours on it. Seems like everyone has to run dungeons to make money now. Bye open world play, bye MMO feeling.

Budchgon.2108:

—I agree. Farming dungeons is much more rewarding and efficient than that of farming Orr. —

And that’s Catch 22 .

(LGF Dungeon run – Exotics only) – So need Dungeon runs to find mats to make into Exotics so i can go to Dungeons ….

Anyone else see a problem there?

Absolutely and this is EXACTLY what they said this game would NOT become. Read your own manifesto Anet! You are destroying the progression for those of us who are gathcraftsplorers which is who you wanted to attract in the first place to play this game. Remember us? The majority? The people who actually stick with games longer then three months if they have a good open world PVE content to progress with? Yeah.

(As opposed to the minority elitist jerks who run around wanted dungeons only, new tiers every month, and spvp with gear the affects damage)

This is nothing new. I saw this coming from a mile away. If ArenaNet would’ve focused on making the meta game more about skills rather than gear we wouldn’t have this problem. If all gear was equal in stats we wouldn’t have this problem. Biggest ArenaNet slap to the face for all of their fans that came from GW1.

dimgl.4786:

This is nothing new. I saw this coming from a mile away. If ArenaNet would’ve focused on making the meta game more about skills rather than gear we wouldn’t have this problem. If all gear was equal in stats we wouldn’t have this problem. Biggest ArenaNet slap to the face for all of their fans that came from GW1.

And people said I was crazy when I first posted about the hidden/ghost nerf of pent/shelt XD. If they come back and said it was a bug and that it wasn’t intentional, then I just screwed myself royal; I threw 100g coin that I’ve earned farming pent/shelt into the mystic toilet before closing down the game XD.