Guild Wars 2

A combination of both. Super low drop rate + bugged event for the longest time^^. Even then level 80’s almos never did event~
I’m jus happy I kno where to go now, and that they buffed large chest drop rates, I hade doing dragons or this an getting all blues, barely covers the cost to teleport >~<.

Probably they had a number such low, such that id didnt fit a float anymore and was rounded to 0

Amadan.9451:

i’m happy we finally know where to find one, i cannot wait till i get my chances.

now, what will be the next scavenger hunt?

Hmm, how about the light tribal armor? Eh, ok that one’s just not available in pve so I guess it wouldn’t work as a scavenger hunt.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

There’s nothing I can say that will change any minds—but I did say that the staff had an extremely low drop rate, and we did just boost the odds of rare items appearing at the end of large events. Congrats to those who got one!

and here’s to Anet lowering the drop rate soon.

Bursts.1540:

and here’s to Anet lowering the drop rate soon.

That was my first thought when I saw the build update or maintenance or whatever message pop up on my screen…

Geez I have no interest on that, but see? RNG takes away all the fun, it should be the last step of an involving hunt; this is how precursors, I mean, legendaries should be in the first place.

The truth is that you guys were hyping up way too much, and because there was no real HUNT behind the acquisition of this staff, the devs thought about smashing your dreams at once. I feel bloody sorry for you…

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

There’s nothing I can say that will change any minds—but I did say that the staff had an extremely low drop rate, and we did just boost the odds of rare items appearing at the end of large events. Congrats to those who got one!

So with that mystery solved…where’s my Wings of Dwayna?

finally found two on the TP!!

Well, if its dropping like crazy, there goes my rags to riches idea. Hope I get one for my mesmer.

so it was bugged after all? this is pretty lame :/

wildcode.5403:

Well, if its dropping like crazy, there goes my rags to riches idea. Hope I get one for my mesmer.

I have a couple theories as to why.

*The drop rate was broken, and fixed in this patch.

*The drop rate was impossibly small, and increased exponentially with this patch.

Either way, I’m expecting a nerf to the drop rate within a few hours.

Quarktastic.1027:

…
Either way, I’m expecting a nerf to the drop rate within a few hours.

And add “stealthy” to it.

I just got Final Rest, confirmed it drops at swamp. Sold it for 186g

looks like 3-4 were just found after this last round of SB kills by looking at orders filled on the TP lol.

Oh well one of these days I guess Ill be able to make my fortune. By the time people figure out Final rest is dropping every couple hours I imagine it should be down to 10g or less with in a day or so. Get the money while you can peeps lol

Smoeki.2756:

looks like 3-4 were just found after this last round of SB kills by looking at orders filled on the TP lol.

Oh well one of these days I guess Ill be able to make my fortune. By the time people figure out Final rest is dropping every couple hours I imagine it should be down to 10g or less with in a day or so. Get the money while you can peeps lol

Exactly what I was thinking. I didn’t want to risk putting up a custom price just to get undercutted like crazy. Sold it the minute I got it.

Hexgame.4802:

I just got Final Rest, confirmed it drops at swamp. Sold it for 186g

stop trolling plz this is/was a serious discussion.

Holesale.2640:

Hexgame.4802:

I just got Final Rest, confirmed it drops at swamp. Sold it for 186g

stop trolling plz this is/was a serious discussion.

I’m not trolling…

I’m fully expecting the chest drop rates to get nerfed. I’ve seen at least 1 person linking an exotic drop on every chest event. On my first behemoth kill, 2 people got final rest out of around 30 people.

Healix.5819:

I’m fully expecting the chest drop rates to get nerfed. I’ve seen at least 1 person linking an exotic drop on every chest event. On my first behemoth kill, 2 people got final rest out of around 30 people.

Actually, that sounds WAY more appropriate vs. the kind of “loot” that dropped before.

I don’t see the issue. 2 exotics out of 30 people from a zone event? I don’t see why that is a problem. Exotic isn’t even top-tier anymore (well for some gear, the rest will follow shortly). :P

Anyone else notice that before this, the chat code would display as [] but now it displays as [Final Rest]? Interesting.

exotics wasn’t droping from chests = ppl whine
exotics drop from chests = ppl whine
logic?

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Anyone else notice that before this, the chat code would display as [] but now it displays as [Final Rest]? Interesting.

That’s because they finally added it to the game I kid, I kid…or do I…I’m not entirely sure anymore.

Final Rest drop rate implemented in recent patch.

Keeps your eyes peeled! It’ll be cheap as chips in a week. GG ANet.

More like “We finally added Final Rest and fixed Shadow Behemoth to actually activate”, amirite?

talk about feast or famine lol…. we just had two people get it in one kill. This thing is gonna be worth 2g by this time next week. Just goes to show… if the entire game population doesn’t know how to get something, chances are there’s something wrong with it.

This thing is gonna be worth 2g by this time next week.

Good, good. I could use a cheap skin.

Could a dev confirm, that the drop rate for this is normal ? seeing as only what only 2 days ago it was said that if 10 people were to farm it everyday you would see it in 7 months …. ?

So, drop rate has been buffed (extremely) but we can only loot the chest once per day now, right?

I hope it is normal. Not just because I got a Final Rest either :P

As someone else said, the previous expectation of a single drop (10 people running it once per day every day for 7 months) was absurd. Much more realistic that one drops every few events on average.

For what it’s worth, I did it on 4 80’s today. I got Final Rest on my 4th. Nobody seemed to get one during the other 3, but another person got one when I did.

Oh all this freaking time I’ve been suckering poor people into Zho’qafa to get BIG FAT chest full of blues and some BIG FAT greens and the whole time it was on the stupid shadow behemoth? I was doing it because it was the only events that made sense. It was a legendary boss, in catacombs(thematic), on a timer, in the open world, with a big chest, and nobody ever did it. Those champion abominations made it ridiculous to the point that I always found it half-finished where the first abomination always spawned and now I find there was nothing in there worth getting the whole time.

That huge zerg of players I saw at the shadow behemoth every time and not ONE Final Rest dropped? Yeah, I seriously doubt that was working right. Now it’s going to be a bargain-bin skin. What a waste of time.

At least it’s fitting. The NPCs always whined the catacombs didn’t have anything and that it was a wild goose chase. I didn’t know how right they were.

Only one chest per day now? I’m not wasting any more time on this.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Only one chest per day now? I’m not wasting any more time on this.

Its one per character isn’t it? All the world bosses are like that now aren’t they? (I haven’t done one yet since yesterday, only tried AC, which I definitely do not like the changes (at least to path 2, couldn’t get past kohler in my path1 group)).

Regardless of where it drops, how often it drops, or even if there are 16,789,101 of them in the BLT next week, it was fun looking for it!

My only sadness comes from the fact that it drops from such a “common” event. I was hoping for a much more out-of-the-way place to discover.

With the sheer attention and interest this thread generated, I hope Anet realizes how much people love treasure hunting. Final Rest was a/an unique enough skin to have people looking for it. Putting lore bound weapons/armor that are unique into rewards for completion of rare events would be a huge boon to those looking for more ‘end game content’.
I hope they see the potential for this kind of thing and build off of it. Work required: 3D modelling of new skin, testing for clipping with all races, adjust loot table and plop some hints into the world or use existing dialogue/books.

Infernia.9847:

With the sheer attention and interest this thread generated, I hope Anet realizes how much people love treasure hunting. Final Rest was a/an unique enough skin to have people looking for it. Putting lore bound weapons/armor that are unique into rewards for completion of rare events would be a huge boon to those looking for more ‘end game content’.
I hope they see the potential for this kind of thing and build off of it. Work required: 3D modelling of new skin, testing for clipping with all races, adjust loot table and plop some hints into the world or use existing dialogue/books.

Treasure hunting is one of my favorite things to do in MMOs, dating back to FFXI – the thrill of finding something rare like that is a big time rush, it’s like a bucket list of sorts.

That said, I’ve always known at least where the treasure actually is…

Infernia.9847:

With the sheer attention and interest this thread generated, I hope Anet realizes how much people love treasure hunting. Final Rest was a/an unique enough skin to have people looking for it. Putting lore bound weapons/armor that are unique into rewards for completion of rare events would be a huge boon to those looking for more ‘end game content’.
I hope they see the potential for this kind of thing and build off of it. Work required: 3D modelling of new skin, testing for clipping with all races, adjust loot table and plop some hints into the world or use existing dialogue/books.

I really enjoyed having motivation to search and do DE’s I wouldn’t normally, but as someone who really wanted this staff for my own, I’m really happy the search of ‘where’ is over^^.
Tho this thread is full of alot of Q _ Q from people who were jus hoping to exploit the staff as some random thing to make munny~! bahahaa, it has now a reasonable drop rate. no 500 gold 4 youuuu, go back to pray for a precursor you can rip people off with~!

Hopefully if this whole ordeal does anything it’ll encourage them to take a closer look at their test servers and why repeated discrepancies keep occurring between it and live servers.

It’s weird that they buffed the drop rate so much. Why was it set so low to begin with if it wasn’t bugged (think it had to be).

Anyway, there are 15 of these already on the TP so far, many more sold already. At this rate it’s going to go from the rarest most sought after item (that no one actually found in that time) to a common skin for whoever wants it.

Infernia.9847:

With the sheer attention and interest this thread generated, I hope Anet realizes how much people love treasure hunting. Final Rest was a/an unique enough skin to have people looking for it. Putting lore bound weapons/armor that are unique into rewards for completion of rare events would be a huge boon to those looking for more ‘end game content’.
I hope they see the potential for this kind of thing and build off of it. Work required: 3D modelling of new skin, testing for clipping with all races, adjust loot table and plop some hints into the world or use existing dialogue/books.

Exactly. I’m glad I’ll finally be able to pick up my garglestaff, but I’m sad the mystery is over!

Is shadow behemoth bugged? People are saying it’s broken right now. Confirm/deny?

Nurse.1085:

Is shadow behemoth bugged? People are saying it’s broken right now. Confirm/deny?

its working fine o.o

Been on two different servers so far today looking for that rascal – either the timer is wrong, or SB is taking the morning off.

Nurse.1085:

Is shadow behemoth bugged? People are saying it’s broken right now. Confirm/deny?

Wouldn’t be surprised if that latest emergency ‘add sparkles back’ patch would have intentionally broken the event again, just to give the devs time to set Final Rest back to 0.00000000000000000000001%

Still, a bit of a shame it’s at the Behemoth. That event in Orr in a remote location where you have to escort those archaeologists through a cave with the 3 or so veterans and an Eye of Zhaitan at the end would have been more fitting imo.

I realize Shadow Behemoth was bugged for the longest time, and that the drop rate for Final Rest was super low, but this event has been farmed a LOT. Hard to believe no one ever got it to drop.

And now the chests have been buffed to drop better stuff, no mention of buffing the drop rate of Final Rest in particular. As low as a drop rate that Final Rest had, it has to have a pretty high drop rate now. And that is not just due to the chest buff. A four times increase in the chest drop rate would not cause this many Final Rests to drop at once.

I enjoyed the hunt and the search, but with this many dropping this quickly there is no way that this was working as intended pre-patch. Going from a uber-low drop rate to one this high? Come on man!

I love that these chests are now giving rares/exotics as rewards like they always should have.

Aveneo.2068:

Wouldn’t be surprised if that latest emergency ‘add sparkles back’ patch would have intentionally broken the event again, just to give the devs time to set Final Rest back to 0.00000000000000000000001%

Watched someone get it in my server 30 minutes ago. I don’t think it’s going to be increasing in rarity anytime soon, just decreasing to a reasonable price.

I’m now curious what exotic is dedicated for the chest for Zho’qafa Catacombs since we figured out Final Rest.

I was personally hoping more for Final Rest to be in the catacombs cause it felt more work was put into getting to the chest, compared to SB’s chest.

Alkron.1345:

Watched someone get it in my server 30 minutes ago. I don’t think it’s going to be increasing in rarity anytime soon, just decreasing to a reasonable price.

Oh, don’t get me wrong; I actually like it when prices drop to affordable levels. Heck, I’m currently on my Mesmer waiting for the behemoth to spawn. If I manage to get Final Rest, I’m just going to give it to my guildmate as he wanted one for his necro ever since he saw it in the PvP locker.

LoL 18 on TP in less than a day of patch, this weapon will be so common soon, well it was fun, I’ll get my last necro staff when it’s down to 10g.

Glad I was able to get 186g for mine last night

Still, a bit of a shame it’s at the Behemoth. That event in Orr in a remote location where you have to escort those archaeologists through a cave with the 3 or so veterans and an Eye of Zhaitan at the end would have been more fitting imo.

Champions. Trust me I know all about this one. They were 3 champions, 2 of which were abominations that cannot at all be crippled or stunned and will completely wreck everyone if you have enough bads around to feed them rage. To make it go smoothly you’d actually have to get tactical and tell everyone to loadout any abilities that apply chill effects, I used ghost pepper popper food to apply extra chill if I was lucky enough to be doing this at in-game nighttime and I even bought a chill-on-swap sigil for my backup pistol that I’d spam every 9 seconds with kit swaps.

There are also veterans in there, in order to get the Zho’qafa event to even spawn, you have to have cleared the area of 3 events, two of which are vets, and then the start of the escort for the actual chest itself spawns to the east on the beach. It’s a semi-complicated chain with some pretty ridiculous difficulty for some little world event in the corner of a deserted map. The chest never really drops anything good, the only rare I ever got in that boss room was off the boss itself.