Guild Wars 2

I have been aiming at this achievement for awhile now (min 200 attempts?). Just to be able to unlock the achievement seems to be a huge hurdle.Interested in anyone replying …………

I just bought mines off the TP for 55g, jormag is too boring for me to bother farming for it.

It has a pretty low drop rate, the price will drop quite significantly in another month or so.

ZilentNight.5089:

It has a pretty low drop rate, the price will drop quite significantly in another month or so.

oh if only that were entirely true… I’ve done this event 4-5 times per week in the 7 months since this was originally posted = no drop = still very rare + TP price increased 20%.

I think the “diminishing returns” code has fully engaged.

https://www.gw2tp.com/item/67276-jormags-claw-fragment

Looking at the buy/sell charts, seems like it dropped down to 30g sell price close to end of March but for some reason climbed right back up.

ZilentNight.5089:

https://www.gw2tp.com/item/67276-jormags-claw-fragment

Looking at the buy/sell charts, seems like it dropped down to 30g sell price close to end of March but for some reason climbed right back up.

I think the spike to which you referred is because the supply dropped to qty = 2 on May 10 2015. I suspect that it’s possible for TP price to decrease to something less than a 1/2 stack of ectoplasm if supply ever gets to mid double digits…

doomfodder.2906:

ZilentNight.5089:

It has a pretty low drop rate, the price will drop quite significantly in another month or so.

oh if only that were entirely true… I’ve done this event 4-5 times per week in the 7 months since this was originally posted = no drop = still very rare + TP price increased 20%.

I think the “diminishing returns” code has fully engaged.

Diminishing returns doesn’t apply to this situation. Unless 100% of the people who do the event do so with the same character and never move far from one spot. What’s more likely is that it has a super low drop rate… so low that most of us will never see one except by purchasing it through the TP.

I suspect (without any specific additional evidence) that this was intended behavior by ANet. Thus, rich players will spend “too much” coin to buy it on the TP, lucky players will get 85% of that value, and 15% will be sunk away from the economy.

I’m okay with that — there are a number of achievements that I don’t consider to be worth the effort (or gold, in that it takes effort to make that gold). At the same time, I can see why those who want to “earn” it themselves would be frustrated.