Guild Wars 2

One of my guildies, who shall remain nameless, is still getting Fortune Scraps dropping for him. A lot. We do a lot of things together like dungeons, fractal runs, and champ trains in Frostgorge and Queensdale. The other night during a Fractal run, he got 5 Fortune Scraps, while the rest of us got none. Nor has anyone else in my guild gotten a Fortune Scrap since the end of the Zephyr Sanctum LS. But my guildie gets them everywhere, every night he plays. I asked in LA map chat once if anyone else was still getting them and got no response. Sure there’s still the weapons specialist at the BLTP that accepts them, but there’s only one person I’m aware of that still gets Fortune Scraps as a drop. I play every night for at least 2 hours, most times more. Said guildie plays 3-5 times a week.

Is this a bug in favor of my guildie? Does anyone else still get them? We’re on Ehmry Bay, if it makes any difference.

I got one or two quite a long time ago after the Sanctum finished but not for ages since. Lucky guildie!

I got a single fortune scrap the other night… from a black lion chest. :/

Sounds like he’s trolling, can he prove it with a screen shot? Maybe he gets them from black lion chest, wouldn’t surprise me if ANet is increasing the loot table on them to make the good stuff harder to get. I still have 400 or so scraps in my bank, since I don’t like any of the rewards.

I’m inclined to side with Gambit here. I think your guildie is just making it up. No one else has reported this bug in the months since Bazaar finished, and the idea that there’s a bug that only ONE person gets, in a whole bunch of different areas of the game, is extremely implausible.

Nope, certainly not trolling. Honest and upright guy, family man, over 40, been playing GW with him for over 8 years. We’re on Mumble every time we play. And yes, he pings them to us in guild chat when he gets them. Also been verified by another guildie who’s his neighbor (who is also a member of the 8 year & over 40 club), who watched over his shoulder at his house while we’ve been playing and seen it happen.

400 scraps in your bank, and you’ve not traded them for a skin that sells for 60 gold? And this is because… why?

So obviously Gambit and Zaxares, you guys haven’t gotten them as drops either, eh?

Nope. And nobody in my rather large guild has ever seen them dropping since Bazaar ended either.

MAYBE your guildie is telling the truth. If he is, and if they truly do drop from a bunch of locations as he said, the next time it happens, tell him to take a screenshot of it and post it up here. Until then, I shall have to remain sceptical.

Mind you, I personally wouldn’t mind if they were still dropping. I’ve always been a supporter of players being able to earn old skins at any time.

Sinbold.8723:

400 scraps in your bank, and you’ve not traded them for a skin that sells for 60 gold? And this is because… why?

Skins you buy with fortune scraps are account bound. I have 1250 in my bank, along with a bunch of other back pieces/helms that are all account bound :p

lol i think ur all confused. op is talking about fortune scraps http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fortune_Scrap wich u get from http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Kite_Fortune not the weapon claim scraps or tickets. and i dont think ur friend is getting these as drops i havent seen any and i play alot

Well, I don’t care if anyone believes me or my guildie at all. I was just curious if anyone else was getting Fortune Scraps as a drop. This guy couldn’t play AT ALL during the Zephyr Sanctum update, and therefore couldn’t get any scraps. He just bought the air backpiece with his scraps, and last night got a few more as drops, and has no reason to lie about it to his gaming friends who’ve been playing with him through GW and GW2 for 8 years and change. When he first got one, he didn’t even know what it was used for.

Well I don’t see why it couldn’t be some rare account related bug.

Those of you who have fortune scraps, why not buy the boxes? They give the recipes that are now selling for a lot of gold. That’s a reward many people would like.

Fortune scraps don’t drop, but fortune kites did which turn into scraps. Your buddy is definitely trollin. If he is actually getting them the way he can prove it is by screenshotting them when it scrolls down the side of his screen with other loot.

Ok, this is so funny I had to come back to this post and share it. Chatting today on mumble waiting for the marionette to drop (we beat it), and aforementioned guildie is on with us. I got on later that everyone else, and the first thing they tell me is that the mystery has been solved. First, he did play Zephyr Sanctum update, just didn’t like it because he couldn’t get used to the skills needed to travel around. I misunderstood and thought he didn’t play it. (His schedule changes every few weeks from days to nights, so us night players don’t see him for 2 weeks.) Second, he’d saved his Kite Fortunes to use as boosters- remember they gave a random boost for 10 minutes. I think you understand where this is going…. So at some point during a fight or an event, when his food buff ran out and he didn’t want to use a 30, 45, or 60 minute food booster, he’d pop open a Kite Fortune for the 10 minute boost, and NEVER NOTICED that the fortune scraps were coming out of the Kite Fortunes!

So ALL OF YOU who accused him of being a TROLL owe me an apology that I will forward to him. He is not a troll, but he was certainly a ditz!

Haha, that’s pretty funny. Anyway, I’m jealous because I keep checking out the skins to buy with fortune scraps at the Black Lion Weapons Specialists and wishing scraps still dropped. Would like to be able to nab a skin that costs 70g, haha. Good for your friend.

wait you told us his friend watched over his shoulder??? so theyre both pretty silly tbh, wow

CrossedHorse.4261:

Haha, that’s pretty funny. Anyway, I’m jealous because I keep checking out the skins to buy with fortune scraps at the Black Lion Weapons Specialists and wishing scraps still dropped. Would like to be able to nab a skin that costs 70g, haha. Good for your friend.

Most will probably return when the Bazaar returns. The same reason I’m not buying Celestial recipes is because they’ll surely come back during the Bazaar, which is in 3-4 months I think.

Tamaki Revolution.3548:

Sinbold.8723:

400 scraps in your bank, and you’ve not traded them for a skin that sells for 60 gold? And this is because… why?

Skins you buy with fortune scraps are account bound. I have 1250 in my bank, along with a bunch of other back pieces/helms that are all account bound :p

I also already got all account bound skins you can get from fortune scraps and today found another 2 stacks of scraps on an alt.
I traded them in for 50 Zephyr Boxes, got 2 exalted coat recipes (20-30g) and a couple of other valuable ones, overall value of 100g.