Is Arenanet testing the loot waters?

Is Arenanet testing the loot waters?

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Posted by: Neural.1824

Neural.1824

The recent change to champion loot has a lot of people talking, but many have found their place, for now, in the pavilion, farming champs and destroyers there.

What I’ve noticed is that by far the most commonly dropped crafting item in the insignia/inscription class is T5 and T6 claws.

What I find curious is that there appears to be this big spike in these materials dropping, AND these materials just so happen to be used with insignias and inscriptions that are currently slated to be reworked due to Arenanet’s stated desire to remove magic find by the end of this year.

I don’t want to assume that each section of the pavillion drops these on the majority, but I figure that if each section had it’s own “more likely to drop” material, that we’d all be farming which ever spot dropped vials of powerful blood. Since we’re not, I’m inclined to think this is an instance-wide thing.

I just find it curious, and it’s got me wondering if Arenanet is just testing the waters to see how people will react, while doing said testing with a material they expect to lose a lot of value later on.

Where are my gem sales? I want gem sales! Nerf EVERYTHING!

Is Arenanet testing the loot waters?

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Posted by: Navi.7142

Navi.7142

That was one of my first thought as well. They do it on purpose. And it has to be done due to what will come in the future.
They’ve done it before. (I know they have, but as it is too early in the morning it just slipped my mind, as soon as I’ll remember it I will post what it was..)

Proud to wear my tin foil hat.