Guild Wars 2

Anet’s decision to limit how many times I can get a chest from a boss has limited the chances a player has to get a precursor for a legendary weapon. I don’t understand why Anet wants to limit how many of these are dropped, but it stinks that so many lucky players who were able to farm dragons and other boss chests for these precursors before Anet changed it. I have been working on getting a drop of a precursor for almost a year now and am extremely frustrated at this situation. I do not and can not understand nor support why Anet wants to change the game so drastically for the worse. Well, I don’t think this post will change anything but I felt that I had to vent my frustration over this here.

How many times? You know how many of these chests are in-game? It takes me hours just to get through a sliver of them. Anyway it’s not the amount of available chests, it’s the % to the drop. 30 chests I’m lucky to even get 1 exotic worth 1g. I’m not even considering an legendary any longer, sold off all those mats. The only other thing you can do is play the mystic toilet as many do. Pull out the CC# and buy tons of gems, convert to gold and buy exotics to dump in, working as intended me thinks. Legendaries should have been the standard for the game, most weapons should have looked nice imo, making the game look nice, but this makes more money I guess.

Do you really think it would make much of a difference if they made these chests farmable?

Furthermore, why are you bringing this up now? The daily chests were changed long ago.

mherren.7560:

Anet’s decision to limit how many times I can get a chest from a boss has limited the chances a player has to get a precursor for a legendary weapon. I don’t understand why Anet wants to limit how many of these are dropped, but it stinks that so many lucky players who were able to farm dragons and other boss chests for these precursors before Anet changed it. I have been working on getting a drop of a precursor for almost a year now and am extremely frustrated at this situation. I do not and can not understand nor support why Anet wants to change the game so drastically for the worse. Well, I don’t think this post will change anything but I felt that I had to vent my frustration over this here.

When I was doing the world bosses (before they nerfed it to once per account per day) to farm enough gold for my legendary, I never once got a precursor. I did all the world bosses as soon as they came up all day, every day for about a month. I got 1 exotic warhorn from Jormag (didn’t even sell for 1g), and 1 exotic zombie hand (think it was a sceptre) from Tequatl, which sold for 1.2g. I mostly just did the bosses to salvage rares for ectos.

WatchTheShow.7203:

When I was doing the world bosses (before they nerfed it to once per account per day to farm enough gold for my legendary, I never once got a precursor. I did all the world bosses as soon as they came up all day, every day for about a month. I got 1 exotic warhorn from Jormag (didn’t even sell for 1g), and 1 exotic zombie hand (think it was a sceptre) from Tequatl, which sold for 1.2g. I mostly just did the bosses to salvage rares for ectos.

That’s pretty low. A few weeks ago when most were farming invasions, I had 3 exotics from world bosses in one day. Really odd. But usually, I’ll get a few a week. More often from temples, least are from dragons. I seem to get them more often from some places than others. Like MAW, pretty rare, but I remember when they added the bonus chest, it was on overflow until they nerfed it all to daily. Have gotten I think 1 exotic from my many MAW runs, a trinket which is on my guard.

My precursor (Dusk) didn’t come out of a chest, but dropped from a level 6 hatchling. I think I’ve only gotten an exotic from a chest, of any kind, once or twice. (Oh, I did get the Energizer from the Karka chest back in November, but it was only worth 30g.) They seem more likely to fall from mobs, for me. You just never know when that odd roaming beastie might drop something fantastic! =)