Guild Wars 2

I just seen this.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Upcoming-mega-boss-chest-change/first#post1656442

Looks like the overflows for dragons is going away.

<- goes buying ectos before the price rise up

Does this mean that the guarenteed drop is always a rare or is an exotic possible from this?

Keiran.1896:

<- goes buying ectos before the price rise up

everybody will do this so the market will be even more flooded with ecto’s after the change.

Ecto has just risen by one silver in 30 seconds. I watched

Mad guys have started buying stocks.

(PS: too bad I have no gold left, already spent everything on my legendary^^)

The day of the patch release is going to be fun to watch on the TP. I can already see that going crazy. I need to get off of work so I can buy some before the price goes up.

Good. No more overflows.

I wonder why they are not making this change NOW and wait for the end of the month patch…

At least they are giving us some notice about it, instead of just posting it on the patch notes. This should help keep the rage at a low level since we know it is coming ahead of time.

Fine change by me.
Never had a day where I could complete the 9 bosses on the timer site.

This is a proper response to the abusive use of guesting but please keep in mind that on high population servers that there will still be overflow (even if guesting was turned off) due to the quality of loot still being worth the 5 minute event. With it being Account bound that should help with the number of players at any given event, although certain times on certain worlds may still be a crap shoot.

Does that mean I can get a chest each day for each dragon? Or only rares from ONE dragon?

Keiran.1896:

Ecto has just risen by one silver in 30 seconds. I watched

Mad guys have started buying stocks.

(PS: too bad I have no gold left, already spent everything on my legendary^^)

Prices now up 5s as of this writing. Actually thinking of leaving work now to buy a few. Looks like supply has been cut in half.

PearlGore.7419:

Does that mean I can get a chest each day for each dragon? Or only rares from ONE dragon?

A rare loot chest for each dragon & other mega boss events. Can only get it on one toon however, so no more alt farming.

PearlGore.7419:

Does that mean I can get a chest each day for each dragon? Or only rares from ONE dragon?

I think one special chest per mega-boss per account…

“…each boss’s guaranteed rare item drop will be moved to a separate chest (visually similar to daily achievement reward chests) that can only be acquired once per day across an account.”

It means that there is, once again, no good reason to have an alt.

Between the dr system, laurel system, this most recent change, etc etc etc it really seems Anet dislikes anyone having alts period. Not a big fan of this nerf it just seems like punishing us because they can’t get there own loot sytem right.

Saw this coming a mile away. Here’s hoping the next time they buff loot drops in a meaningful way it actually sticks.

Cheers. Maybe I can do events on my server again.

Seems like a good change to me mostly. I really didn’t mind ecto prices tanking but I didn’t farm chests on alts anyhow so this just means more money for me hopefully:)

Questions I’d like a dev answer to:

1) I, and many others, didn’t see a rare 100%. It wasn’t “guaranteed”. Is it now?

2) What about people get multiple rares? I’ve seen up to three.

3) What about the exotic rate, will this be limited to the “daily chest” or still the normal one?

Amun Ra.6435:

Keiran.1896:

Ecto has just risen by one silver in 30 seconds. I watched

Mad guys have started buying stocks.

(PS: too bad I have no gold left, already spent everything on my legendary^^)

Prices now up 5s as of this writing. Actually thinking of leaving work now to buy a few. Looks like supply has been cut in half.

Seriously, I could buy 50 for ten gold a couple days ago. Now the price is 16 gold for 50 and rising.

Sheesh.

Ricky Da Man.5064:

Keiran.1896:

<- goes buying ectos before the price rise up

everybody will do this so the market will be even more flooded with ecto’s after the change.

Ya it should be funny to watch every one sell there ecto they are buying now at the same time.
This dose not effect me at all and will not effect most players of GW2 it will only hit the ppl who where trying to make as much gold as they could.

A great change to a huge problem!

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Amun Ra.6435:

Keiran.1896:

Ecto has just risen by one silver in 30 seconds. I watched

Mad guys have started buying stocks.

(PS: too bad I have no gold left, already spent everything on my legendary^^)

Prices now up 5s as of this writing. Actually thinking of leaving work now to buy a few. Looks like supply has been cut in half.

Seriously, I could buy 50 for ten gold a couple days ago. Now the price is 16 gold for 50 and rising.

Sheesh.

Prices now up 10s, that was very fast.

I was hoping for something like this, excellent update.

yesterday i sold 250 ectos. price raised from 25 to 33….. come on…. this game rly starts to freak me out. latest changes just created anger and content updates r a joke….

Everyone is buying Ecto and make no profit and I buy rare items <24 silver and make profit.

The way I understand it is that you’ll still be able to get the 1 boss chest per character that contains a random assortment of loot. But you’ll only be able to get 1 guaranteed yellow item per day. Which means you can still do all the bosses on each character. You just wont be guaranteed 50 yellows if you do 10 bosses on 5 characters. The yellow rate from the “normal” chest will be the normal yellow drop rate. So you may get a yellow or you may not :p

SO! basically they stopped people from farming maw 100 times a day by limiting the chests per character. But to compensate they gave people a guaranteed rare thinking they’d only do like ~ 10 per day. But it turns out people ended up doing 50 per day! So now they realised that people would start to abuse it they reverted chest loot back to normal :p

Lame. They finally had a decent reward for building up alts and now just like laurels, having alts will be meaningless to advancement.

There is no “abusing it.” They set the rules and put the incentives in place and we respond accordingly.

If loot drops weren’t so generally miserable changes like this wouldn’t cause the problems they do.

Going from “you may get 1 rare drop every 2-3 weeks” to “you are guaranteed a rare from each boss chest 1 / day / character.” What did they think was going to happen?

I don’t understand why there can only be one source of good drops at a time?

For the record, I only did the boss events if I happened to be in the area when they kicked off.

Another nerf, ANET at it’s best, the Dynamic events are all that GW2 has going for it right now, you make it a 1 time a day thing and you’re gonna lose a lot of players, this game is failing HARDCORE, only thing to do all day is pvp and farm the events and now that will be gone, soon so will most players, you dropped the ball ANET.

LOL this is so sad and funny at the same time.

I’m glad ANet is trying to fix the problem, but like always, players freak out like nuclear winter is looming.

Sighhhh…

Graybes.8251:

A great change to a huge problem!

Too many players participating on a daily basis is the kind of problem MMOs dream of having. I’m not so sure that shooting rewards in the head is a solution that’s really going to benefit ANet as much as maybe improving the stability of the events would have been.

If only there was some kind of instanced content that gave decent rewards so overflows wouldnt be an issue.

Nike.2631:

Graybes.8251:

A great change to a huge problem!

Too many players participating on a daily basis is the kind of problem MMOs dream of having. I’m not so sure that shooting rewards in the head is a solution that’s really going to benefit ANet as much as maybe improving the stability of the events would have been.

Improving boss fights and the game engine? Definitely the better solution.

However, most likely very difficult to implement. Hence this is the best solution for now. Good to know that change is coming, and coming soon.

You mean like if dungeons were gaurenteed to drop at least one rare? My goodness, the things you say…

Mega bosses will still offer garanteed golds (once per day). And there are still several mega bosses to battle. In other words, players will still keep doing them, and the rewards will still be good.

Great fix.

EDIT: If each dungeon path offered one gold per day, it would also be pretty cool.

I like the new change, from a person who has 9 80s, now i will have time to do pve without constantly doing events for the chests and level more 80s

I know it didn’t mention drop rates…but will other drop rates be affected by this changes…specifically precursors/exotics?

Thanks ANet. I needed to have some more free time for other games, school work, etc. Now that you’ve ONCE AGAIN nerfed ways to actually make money (thereby increasing grind if you want any more), this just gives me a great reason to put the game down once I’m down doing my dailiers.

Cheers ANet, keep on making great decisions.

Death Reincarnated.3570:

LOL this is so sad and funny at the same time.

I’m glad ANet is trying to fix the problem, but like always, players freak out like nuclear winter is looming. I just wish there were some advantages to having alts to make up for the expense of gearing them out.

Sighhhh…

It’s not that a nuclear winter is looming. I’m just kittened off that they, once again, kitten people with alts. You could make it so you can only get 1 rare / day / character across all bosses. Instead, they changed it to 1 rare / day / boss across all characters.

I know, people with just one character are “special” and need to be catered too. I just wish there was a little compensation to help mitigate the expense of gearing an alt.

easier fix would have been just make it so you couldn’t guest to do the chest again.

It is not really kittening people with alts. The market was tanking with all the rares flooding it coupled with the fact that you could guest and get the chest again. This was making it so people that actualy were on the server could not do the event due to overflow. It is a sad change but a needed one.

TooBz.3065:

Death Reincarnated.3570:

LOL this is so sad and funny at the same time.

I’m glad ANet is trying to fix the problem, but like always, players freak out like nuclear winter is looming. I just wish there were some advantages to having alts to make up for the expense of gearing them out.

Sighhhh…

It’s not that a nuclear winter is looming. I’m just kittened off that they, once again, kitten people with alts. You could make it so you can only get 1 rare / day / character across all bosses. Instead, they changed it to 1 rare / day / boss across all characters.

I know, people with just one character are “special” and need to be catered too.

It’s kind of cute that you don’t realize how silly you sound, thinking you deserve a special advantage for having alts (when almost EVERYBODY who plays seriously enough to worry about farming dozens of events per day has at least 2 or 3 80s).

Still unsure why you rolled up alts if it was such a horrible and un-enjoyable experience. Oh wait, like almost everybody else that plays this game, you did it because it was fun and you wanted to…

TooBz.3065:

Death Reincarnated.3570:

LOL this is so sad and funny at the same time.

I’m glad ANet is trying to fix the problem, but like always, players freak out like nuclear winter is looming. I just wish there were some advantages to having alts to make up for the expense of gearing them out.

Sighhhh…

It’s not that a nuclear winter is looming. I’m just kittened off that they, once again, kitten people with alts. You could make it so you can only get 1 rare / day / character across all bosses. Instead, they changed it to 1 rare / day / boss across all characters.

I know, people with just one character are “special” and need to be catered too. I just wish there was a little compensation to help mitigate the expense of gearing an alt.

This is the way it was.. Garaunteed 1+ rares, per day, per character acrossed all bosses,

Nike.2631:

You mean like if dungeons were gaurenteed to drop at least one rare? My goodness, the things you say…

That’ll be nice. However, it won’t solve the overflow/lag issue in the open world since the rewards won’t be mutually exclusive. People will just do open world & dungeons. If limited time, highly doubt people will choose doing dungeons (Except CoF 1, but enough people do that anyways…) over easy yellows in Maw/FE/dragons which don’t require grouping and don’t risk failure over bad PUGs.

Though honestly, an exp dungeon run gets you 2 guarenteed rares from tokens anyways, as well as close to ~1G guarenteed gold. It’ll be nice if it was buffed, but it’s not like it’s pitiful or anything.

I mean whats the point of these mega chests anyway,when you should have fun and not rewards in the first place dont place a huge chest there that tranforms fun to frustation. Make the items at least useful (blue) but the chest drops ALL kinds of crap and most of it, is not even salvageable, no wonder it had this rushing effect on it.

I agree with TooBZ.
If loot drops weren’t so generally miserable changes like this wouldn’t cause the problems they do. Just make a proper percentage on it and not this 1/100 or 1/1000 bullkitten.

Arenanet adds in guesting for players loyal to their servers who want to still play with their friends. Player abuse the system by farming bosses and create huge overflow problems across servers. Players QQ about guesting problems.

Arenanet seeks to solve above problem by changing the loot system so that players can only be garunteed 1 rare a day, giving players no reason to farm and thus, reducing overflow problems. Players stop QQing about guesting, and start QQing about loot drop nerfs.

This is why I refuse to work in Customer Service. There is no pleasing you people!!!

Eh, I get bored after like the 3rd boss fight anyways. At least this means after the 2nd fight (depending on if you have a daily for group events) I can go do something else. Which I usually do anyways lately.

Really it was inevitable. As long as we get a guaranteed rare (or exotic) a day I can’t really complain. Thats more then I used to get through random drops.

I do think the guesting issue needs to be looked at though. I know people guest a lot supposedly. Personally my server I’ve never hit a overflow for the fights, but a lot of complaints I have seen about guests.

Yes, thank you. Guesting was being abused, and hopeful now this whole overflow problem will go away.