Guild Wars 2

I’ve been leveling toons so some of it is to be expected. I used to occasionally get a rare. I haven’t gotten an exotic in well over a month. Even the dyes haven’t been dropping. what gives? Is it just my luck as of late? How is everyone else faring?

Dyes don’t ever drop anymore; they were removed as a drop back when they made identified dyes account bound. You can only get them from the gem store, TP, black lion chests, or the laurel vendors now, I believe.

As for other drops, I haven’t noticed a change in the rate of good drops for me. I have good days, and I have bad days.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Dyes don’t ever drop anymore; they were removed as a drop back when they made identified dyes account bound. You can only get them from the gem store, TP, black lion chests, or the laurel vendors now, I believe.

As for other drops, I haven’t noticed a change in the rate of good drops for me. I have good days, and I have bad days.

Thanks, Didn’t know that dye no longer dropped. What about black lion keys? Haven’t gotten any of those either, except through personal story.

Black lion keys have always (except for right after launch) been extremely rare drops. I’ve gotten maybe three since launch, outside of Personal Story/Living Story, map completion, or the gem store. So, not getting those is the norm.

I get the usual greens and blues. Anywhere between 1 to 5 rares depending. Last run in SW, I just finished that run maybe ten/fifteen minutes ago, I got Usoku’s Needle. Oh, and a bandit weapon from the bandit chest. That pretty much sums me up.

Try completing a map

I often get rares, exotics and the occasional black lion key depending on which map.

I got three exotic drops last night doing a set of scale 19 fractals.

There’s going to be some luck involved no matter what you do, but there’s certainly ways to improve your odds. Doing fractals, particularly higher scales (and I’m aware 19 isn’t particularly high) will get you more rewards. Right now, doing Silverwastes runs is very rewarding, so you could try spending some time there as well. Go to Dry Top or Cursed Shore, stack your Hallowe’en consumables for Magic Find and see what you get out of events there. Give Tequatl a shot if you haven’t yet.

There’s lots of loot out there to be had.

You can still get dyes by doing story quests. Those loot bags at the end of each story quest have a pretty high chance of dropping dyes. I had quiet a few dyes from those including my abyss and celestial dye

When my main hit lvl 39, (she’s almost 70 now, yay!) I started doing World Boss events since she is guaranteed a rare from the bonus chests. I wiki-ed a list of all WBs in lower level zones and unlocked the WPs needed for those events, and between spawn times, complete the rest of the map as well.
Rares from lvl 40~60 can earn you some decent gold
It’ll probably be some time before she hits 80 (I play a few hours each week, and also lvling 3 lowbie alts too), but I have saved up enough gold to buy her full 80 exotic armor and weapon sets when she does can’t wait!

It will be rare to pick up exotics. I know you are just asking about the loot results in general but if you wanted to up your chances of getting exotics then fractals have a definite advantage over the rest of the game. I usually get 1-3 exotics per run whereas i could not get an exotic drop for days in WvW, PvE, World Bosses, or other special events combined.

TY all for your feedback

It is very hard to get exotic unless you are lvl80. Since there are very few exotic that is lower than lvl80.

And I think it is harder to get exotic champ bag unless you are lvl80.

I’ve been playing on Silverwastes lately, so I’ve been getting ALL the loot Exotics are rare drops though. It took me about 4 months to get my first exotic drop! My second was Dusk, so it evened out somewhat.

Really I’ve got like 6 exotics in the last few days (I guess without actually counting, but still I got a lot). I guess RNG is being all random.

CureForLiving.5360:

I guess RNG is being all random.

Someone should fix that.