(edited by Sterling.6908)
Exotics + Precursors Thoughts (Drop System)
Just wanted to go ahead and give this a quick bump.
I think there might be 5+ threads on the lack of loot in the first few pages of the discussion forum, so no you are not alone. The community has been begging for a way to craft or discover/quest for precursors for a long time. Anet stated that we would likely have craftable pres at the end of 2013, which obviously didn’t happen. That’s fine – if they make them craftable I really want them to get it right the first time. But there’s been no word on the street about it.
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So I just got a precursor today… no joke. Friend convinced me that I oughtta throw in 40 yellow level 80 greatswords for the lol’s of it, so I bought the cheapest ones I could and got this!
LoL Magic Find. Magic Find never gave me a kitten thing. Didn’t matter if I was decked out or didn’t have a shred of it on, still got the same old crud. You’re lucky if you get 2 exotics all day? I’m lucky if I get 2 from drops a month.
I believe the drop rate of precursor’s from enemies is below 1%. Maybe even with a zero in front of it, so not .5%, but .05% for example. The odds are disastrously low. That being said, of course people get them as drops. I’m just not holding my breath in the least of EVER getting something of that magnitude to drop from an enemy. The only exotics that ever drop from enemies for me are usually only worth a few gold.