Apologies in advance for the sloppy write up and over-simplifying things. Just drawing out some of my thoughts, questions, and potential theories. Also before I begin, know that I played during the first three weeks of GW2’s release, quit, and then came back about 1-2 weeks ago.
I remember back during the first few weeks of GW2. I got to 80 on my Warrior in a week and then did what everyone else seemed to be doing at the time for gold, farming events and specific npcs / bosses in Frostgorge Sound and Cursed Shore. Now of course, a lot of these events were bugged at the time, and some produced an overwhelmingly large amount of drops (and monster spawns) compared to the way it is now. I remember I was eventually in full Magic Find gear and had Omnom berry bars.
Again the main difference between now and then in relations to the drop system is that the number of rare + exotic drops per hour had decreased A CRAP LOAD (I know Magic Find system changed too, but I have birthday boost + account MF + omnom berry bars at the moment, bringing me up into the 230% at the moment).
I used to get 4+ exotics in a given hour. Now I’m lucky if I get 2 exotics all day long, doesn’t matter what I’m doing; dungeons, fractals, or EOTM.
Am I the only one who has noticed this change? What’s the thought process behind this?
Next, I’d like to talk about precursors. I’m particularly curious about EXACTLY how the dropping of it works. I understand that ANY npc in the entire game that has loot can drop it. That is, it doesn’t matter if you’re in Queensdale or Cursed Shore, any npc in there can drop these bad boys at any given time. With that said, how does the actual looting process work? Is it that, whenever you get a rare OR exotic drop, it “rolls its magic dice” and you have a CHANCE at a precursor?
I could be making assumptions or am overly simplifying things, but is this the way things work or no?
But there’s been no word on the street about it.