Guild Wars 2

I was happy to see that they adjusted the upleveling/downleveling mechanic to always give you your level of loot. That being said, I was wondering if that means that uncommon/rare crafting material drops will be doled out reflecting your level or that of the mob still? (i.e. if I kill a lvl 40 fire elemental, would I be given a molten shard/fragment or would I instead be given a molten lodestone/core)

I hope the crafting mats are still dropped based on enemy level, otherwise it would suck for crafters…

Maybe, but it would make farming lodestones far, far more tolerable for certain legendaries. If this were the case, lower level dropped crafting mats could at least be made to split into lesser grade mats via MF.

Or at least I would hope.

Bufnitza.3284:

I hope the crafting mats are still dropped based on enemy level, otherwise it would suck for crafters…

Yea, that could be interesting. As soon as the patch downloads I am going to go kill some drakes in Metrica Province (Asura starter map) and see if they drop armored scales for my level 80. I see your point, it would result in a dramatic decrease of low level crafting materials.

Low lvl enemies still drop lowlvl crafting materials.
And i have seen more lvl 70-80 equipment drop than usual in lowlvl areas.

But still i think the downscaling should be steeper, it’s still way too easy in the lowlvl areas, and drop value increased a bit to compensate.