Reward Updates: Fixed a bug on certain world boss chests that was causing them to drop fewer rewards than intended. These chests can now only be looted once per day, to encourage players to fight multiple bosses and spread out across the world.
Jeffrey Vaughn: 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!
Pahahahaha.
So it was in Shadow Behemeoth all along. I was watching this item hunt from afar since November, and all along people were putting the pieces of lore together like a jigsaw and were totally convinced that it HAD to be Shadow Behemoth that dropped it. Even though the event was bugged for the longest time, thousands of players would camp Behemoth after every patch, so they could run the event in its rare, un-bugged state.
None of them dropped final rest. Not one. But because it was bugged, rare to succeed and so on, people accepted that we might just be unlucky, and it’s not dropping for us
Eventually, they fixed the event chain and Shadow Behemoth could be run multiple times a day without bugging out. The players descended on it in their thousands, running it diligently every day for hours and hours. They ran it so many times and it still did not drop. Now they were absolutely convinced that it could not possibly be SB, and started to speculate where the elusive Final Rest actually was!
Anet knew all along that it was Behemoth, but it seems that their RNG routines are so complex that even game designers can’t give us a straight answer on what a particular item’s drop rate is, because it’s too complex for anyone to calculate. Even with the event itself working normally, it still could not be dropped. I refuse to beleive that there was ANY chance of dropping it before the Feb patch, because no matter how low the rate was, someone should have dropped it.
GW2’s uber-complex RNG droprate system seems to have been bugged all along, in all sorts of ways. Last month they fixed it for Champs not dropping any loot, this month they’ve fixed it for event chests not giving out what they’re supposed to, who knows what other little anomalies are out there…
Either way, they knew it was SB, and they knew players had run SB so many times that they had basically discounted it from the search. It seems kind of cruel for Anet to see those posts, look at the player data, realise that 0 players inventories or banks in the entire game had Final Rest in them (seriously, they must have done this, right?), and not just own up that it was not dropping as intended, and just tell people what event was supposed to be dropping it.
