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Exotic Drop Rates?
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people always remember the times things happen, not the times they don’t.
If you’re out looking for exotics, you remember getting them all the time, so of course your estimate is higher. you might think to yourself: “I’ve found maybe 4 in recent memory, and recent memory is maybe 2 weeks, so I found 2 per week”, forgetting that 2 of those were from the mystic forge, and 1 of them was purchased off the TP.
On the other hand, if you’re looking for all the times you didn’t get an exotic, your general impression is that you haven’t gotten any in a long time, and you can remember 2 weeks back, so you get less than 0 from 2 weeks.
human memory is highly unreliable. Just ask Sammy Jenkins
I remember mine pretty clearly simply because I’ve put every exotic I’ve ever gotten straight into the bank so that I could use it with an appropriate character once they’ve leveled up. So, that amount is currently two exotics. :P
I have bought exotics for my other characters, though, I just haven’t had the heart to sell the only exotics I’ve ever had drop.
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then there is the RNG excuse
if we’re comparing our experienced drop rates:
In the last 40 boss chests I’ve opened, I only got 1 exotic.
I did fractals level 28 2 weeks ago and found 2 named exotics, both from the maw fractal (yes, 2 in one fractal – it was so much more awesome than 1 worth twice as much. both were worth ~2.5g)
The only exotic I’ve found from a dungeon in the last 2 months (I run about 9 dungeon paths a week) was a exotic sigil of puppy.
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I drop one exotic every week at least. No, I’m nota hardcore player, 800 hours since start.
It is RANDOM, and basically reset what- four weeks ago was the last documented change? So really in four weeks Otaur saw zero, before that who knows!
Reach into a cup and pull out a numbered ball within it (lets say there’s 10 consecutive balls) read the ball – then put it back into the cup. The logic problem is that for each “negative” does not bring you closer to the possitive…
As someone who has both won and lost THOUSANDS playing two-up (one day a year) trust me when I say your mind wants to put in those patterns you report, it really does.
Your first mistake is trying to talk for others… When I said 0 I meant 0 exotics since beta through now. Not in 4 weeks… I have never had an exotic of any kind, from drop, chest
, nothing ever. All my exotics from karma, tokens, tp. Thats it.
Still never had an exotic drop ever. Have played since BWE1. Rares for me are perhaps 1, once a week now, which is better than they were. From launch to about a month ago, I had never even seen a rare drop.
The only exotics I have ever received were from high end map completions.
Today I would have been happy with one yam. But there were no “root vegetable” nodes to be found in Haranthi today for some reason.
To Date: One. A straw effigy named ‘Mojo’ that my Mesmer is happy to use. I obtained it in the [level 1-3?] Ascalon Fractal, sometime earlier this year. The rest of my drops, since release, have been an exercise in disheartenment.
About 3 or 4 exotics in 1,021 hours (not including map completion).
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Outside of the Karka event chest (got 2 weapons then, and the one account bound ring). Which I honestly would count that out of the equation in terms of drop rates cause that was a rare event. Not including Map Completion either (that been done on my main since like September, haven’t got that far on any alts).
I’ve only had two exotics drop ever. And that was only after the chest changes recently. One is a torch I’m still trying to sell and another was exotic Melandru’s bloom accessory.
I’d say thats pretty normal for something that is supposed to be pretty rare. I also run with no MF gear outside of food and banner buffs. So I would say its about right in my pov.
It still blows my mind people are getting 3 or 4 a week though. Granted they probably play more then me (only 465 hrs since headstart) and roll with MF buffs/gear all the time.
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I’ve gotten 2 exotic drops total, one while in Orr and one (a piece of jewelry) from the maw. I don’t remember how many rares I had gotten before the change to the chests but it wasn’t very many. The chests are what I am using to get rares for my alts while leveling them and for when they reach 80.
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If I recall correctly it was around the 400 hr mark where I got my first exotic drop. And, maybe the second around the 1k hr mark. Pretty bad by any standards. However, since I’ve settled into level 80 life I’m seeing the 1-3/week pattern. I’ve had two since monday this week. I play mainly open world PvE, DE’s and the like. One of my exotics this week was from a fractal run. I don’t like dungeons in this game and don’t spend a lot of time there, but from what I saw in FotM, the best drops are there. BTW, I’ve never gotten anything interesting from a world boss and don’t really understand the attraction those events hold. Given travel and down time it really seems a waste of time to me as I can have more rares in less time doing normal Orr farming.
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I have yet to get an exotic drop in my travels, not really worried too much about it. Took me a few CoF runs to get my GS, about a week to get a full set of Draconic exotic gear.
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Prior to the Feb update (the band-aid loot fix), I had 2 exotics drop in the world (not including chests).. one was from a corrupted quaggan (Berserker’s Torch of Grawl Slaying) and during a Claw of Jormag event I had Vera drop from an add.
Chest drops, I’ve had perhaps 3 from memory.
Since the meta event chest loot buff I’ve had 6 or 7, nothing worth more than ~3g and nothing I’d even consider giving to alt’s.
I can’t understand why the exotic drop rates are so low, as if they weren’t low enough before the Feb patch, including rares as well.. seems the only people who get exotics in ‘decent’ quantities are those who frequent dungeons or do fractals. Why they don’t drop more often in the world from mobs is confusing and frustrating. It’s like they deliberately don’t want us to make money or have an ‘easy ride’ from time to time. I know how over-zealous they are about protecting their precious economy, but let’s face it, the ethics of that were blown out of the water with the Feb update. Make them drop more often in the world as well, not just from chests.
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Alright, time to pretty much shut down all the speculation in this thread.
I’ve been documenting all my exotic drops since January. I’m primarily a farmer of shelt/pen (before the February nerf) and pretty much full MF gear (minus booster and infusion)
I have had 31 exotic drops since then. Majority of them from event mobs
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For every fractals run I seem to get an exotic (so one a dayish), and if not including fractals then about 1-3 a week from random play.
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I don’t know why people even care how fast they drop, they are easy to buy, and don’t sell for very much really. That some people still link even rare’s that drop is utterly head scratching.
Now you put ascended in as rare drops, which they actually should, and you will have a valuable commodity and something to get excited over finding.
I’ve been level 80 for about 2 weeks, and after a couple of dungeon runs and about 10 chest bosses, I got no exotics so I was beginning to think they were super rare..
Then, yesterday I dropped 2 in 2 consecutive bosses! The first was the modnir boss in Harathi Hinterlands (Staff worth 7gp) – did not even know Modnir was a chest boss so got lucky here. And then from the Shatterer (Axe worth 2gp).
From what people are saying I’ve been lucky, but hopefully some more will drop…
I started playing again a week or 5 ago and have received two exotics from world events, which I do daily.
Never looted on any mob, got some in fractals (but AB), and of course, the 100% exploration of high-level area gave me exotics.
I’ve probably gotten around 6 or 7 since release, drop chance 0.0000000000001% just like everything else useful in the game. The up side is 2 of those exotics sold for around 6g on the TP… but I had no use for any on my character.
I’m not counting the ones I’ve gotten from map completion or the useless halloween jumping puzzle boots that couldn’t even be salvaged or sold, those are guarantee’d afaik.
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as i see it, my personel drop rate is much lower than my guildies, friends and even my second account my son uses. ive been in gw2 since beta – i have 6 80 toons, all with map completion and a 70. here is my concern and would love an answer to.
2 million karma spent on orion boxes and no mini risen balth
40 runs in molten dungeon and no jetpack or mini
thousands of event chest and no precursor
why is this happening? and how is this going to be corrected?
2m Karma, do you have pics or vid? Cause 0 minis seems a lil off, maybe you should write a ticket. I have 5.. Some people have 20+ >.>
The molten runs I can understand, 40 for a low drop rate isn’t too “suspicious”.
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