Guild Wars 2

Hadn’t had any until recently, got a few from common mobs in Orr. Never from a chest though.

Only exotics I’ve gotten (other than off the TP :B) have been from zone completions.

No Exotics looted or from chests in 500 hours and 2 lvl 80’s. I know they can be looted, but seem a bit too rare. Though I know they dropped MUCH more the first week of live. I had thought exotics were removed from the loot table completely but someone recently posted on in map chat; that was looted. Yes a few exotics from zone complete that were salvaged as unusable

614, 0 exotic :/

Got a lvl 80 medium shoulder pads exotic but quite worthless since market rate was 11-12 silver for it. ZZZZZ. Drop area is low lvl area =D Magic Find % around 70. Rare drop at least 2 a days with around 4-5 hours of game play. Non farming gameplay. Farmers tough luck.

I’ve had the [Axiquiotl] (lvl 80 exotic rifle) drop for me in WvWvW.

are we including stuff from dungeons because i have a complete set of sorrows embrace light armor, one of the 1st on my server to get it

i seem to get alot of exotic medium armor from drops, gotten around 6 or 7 exotics

I’ve played for 350+ hours. I think I have gotten one exotic in total, and it was for map completion. I have never gotten one as a drop. I usually feel lucky if I even get a rare drop. Although, usually my luck isn’t that good. Last time I killed Claw of Jormag I got four blues and two greens. Yay…

Never had one drop, only gotten them from zone completion.. and lately I haven’t even got any rares, must be weeks since I got my last rare.

I didn’t even know you could get them from mobs, I’ve only ever gotten oranges from zone completion.

400 hours in, no exotics.

Never any rares from chests or WvW either.

I’ve played my main character 175 hours and 15 minutes,,, and gotten 6 exotics. None of which are usable by him but I am holding onto for alts.

I’ve gotten 1. I was doing the event chain to unlock CoF and a mob dropped an exotic torch.

At first I thought it was a bug.

374 hours now, still just the one exotic pulled from a random Orrian mob in Malchor’s Leap.

Been about two or three weeks now since I have picked up an exotic drop. At 100% map complete there’s no reliable way to get them other than random drops.

328 hours. From mobs and world chests i have gotten 0 exotic items (inc equips, runes, etc). Dungeons rarely rune of balthazar maybe 6 times in over 200 runs or so. 100% map completion for 70-80 zones would give 2 useless exotics that were lvl 70-78. Other than that nothing…

I got one from a mob in Orr that was unusable by a Necro (dat’s me!). Asked in map chat if anyone wanted it and a nice warrior fellow offered me 3g for it. SOLD

Didn’t know you could get these from drops, I crafted my whole set in about a week.

300+ hours. I have had two exotic drops. One an emerald of some sort for weapon upgrade, and the other a level 80 named shield, “Rivetwall”.

The emerald dropped for me in Orr. The Rivetwall dropped in HoTw from a trash mob.

Drop rate seems acceptable to me. I mean, I would expect them to be more common in Orr and dungeons. And I barely spent any time in Orr and have only been focusing on explorable mode dungeons for the last week or so.

I have 300+ hours of play, but less than 100 have been spent doing content that is likely to yield exotics.

I get rares more regularly. Some days I might get two or three, others I see none. In a day I might do 4-5 explorable dungeons. Some I get from mobs, some I get from chests.

Make sure you eat your magic find food before dungeons and Orr events. Also, the 30 min magic find guild banner and the three day buff stack with food. I don’t have magic find in my armor, but I always have a food or guild buff active.

Over 376 hours and not 1 exotic drop.

I got my first last night. Level 76 exotic axe worth 40s on the TP. I salvaged it expecting several ectos…..and nothing. I got a signet worth 2s. Massive facepalm.

I didn’t even know that rares dropped until I was around level 60 when I got my first one. Haven’t gotten an exotic random drop, just from map completions.

Nope, they are too rare and cause legendary exotic requirements to be too high, the more exotics in circulation, the cheaper they will get and the more attempts in the forge ppl can have. Simple fix to the problem.

In this thread someone said they got 1 from zone completion, so i finished the shore and got 2 exotics, level 76? WTF it’s a level 80 zone….

350h
0 mob drops, 0 from chests, 0 from instances….I detect a pattern here…

I have had one exotic drop which was strangely enough a level 74 weapon….. certainly raised an eyebrow with that drop.

Fortunately I get quite a few yellow drops which I salvage immediately for ectos and sigils sigils I flog the ectos go into the bank to drool over at my leisure

Okay, so i have over 600h (been playing this like a real mofosaur) and i haven’t gotten a single exotic weapon/armor piece… If they’re THAT rare its same as they weren’t in the game especially since all i do in the past 400h is dungeons and if dungeons don’t drop those, what could?! I got multiple superior sigils/runes as drops (mostly dungeon chests) but who cares about that when they’re like 3s at TP… This is actually my biggest problem with gw2, there’s NO drops worth any1’s time. Loot in gw1 was much better and the reason gw2 dungeons are so dead. Why do them when all u get is tokens lol doesn’t make any sense i dunno who came with this kind of idea.

I actually did,yesterday in SE exp,and it was shockingly an upgrade.

only exotics i got was from world completion and highest lvl was 78.

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In this thread someone said they got 1 from zone completion, so i finished the shore and got 2 exotics, level 76? WTF it’s a level 80 zone….

It’s random, even the level.. I got 2 lvl 80 exotics for doing the same thing.. nothing I could use as both were heavy armor, but still…

if exotics are this rare and we need four of them the same type for rng legendary precursor... it jus makes me so sad

I have found mf gear to be a huge waste of money and time. Never using it again. Thanks for wasting my time.

You know.. I don’t think I’ve ever played an MMO where I’ve felt so unrewarded for doing random things. Don’t get me wrong, I like the game, but droprates are just bad.. porous bone anyone? The most epic looking chests ever 99% of the time drops vendor trash. The only thing that rewards something decent are zone completion.. the 70+ zones that is. What’s left are the karma/gold/badges/shards grind, but then you’ll have to deal with DR.

It’s just that kind of game I guess, my first b2p game.. I’m still enjoying it though..

Haha yeah the drops from the giant dragon chests as so terrible you’d be much much much better off killing wolves in starter zones as they too drop yellows 76+ but more often.

665hrs played 0 exotic drops :<

Darmikau.9413:

Or do you know someone who has?

No and no.

Yet there are plenty of 80 exotics that aren’t crafted, or at least not crafted via crafting skills (maybe “crafted” via mystic forge) in the trading post.

Basically there seems to be ways that most players do not know about to produce exotics. There’s not even a hint of how to do it in the game itself and it’s tough to find the info out of game. So a small number of people get rich via questionable means while eveyone else hopes for a random drop that’s not happening?

There are some really stupid design elements in GW2, and mystic forge is one of them.