Guild Wars 2

I recently started playing this game again, and the first thing I noticed was mobs very rarely drop any loot now. Back then I could get an unidentified dye or a green weapon by killing moas now I’m not getting anything even from legitimate enemies, even when I kill ppl on WvW all I get are a couple of thorns

I’m getting a fair deal of loot, from normal mobs and also WvW kills.
However, that will be because I currently have 107% magic find.
What’s yours at?

61% so you mean to tell me I have to grind, getting loot then salvaging it, just to obtain loot. what has this game come to?

next patch notes:

BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
General
- Fixed a bug where dungeons reward gold
- Fixed a bug where event completion reward gold

BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
New Items and Promotions
- You can now purchase, for 2000 gems, a monthly subscription for loot. Now killing mobs will be rewarding as never before. Junk items as guaranteed loot from every mobs!

No you don’t have to grind. You get loot as you do stuff anyway so your MF will naturally rise. I do no grinding whatsoever so my MF is at a modest 140% or thereabouts. It’s (meant to be) an exponential curve. As you do more stuff you get loot that in turn gives you more MF which in turn begets more loot as your MF climbs. Some people have reported that very high levels of MF can in fact bring in less loot or at least lower value loot. But there’s no statistical evidence of that yet.

Pure Heart.1456:

I’m getting a fair deal of loot, from normal mobs and also WvW kills.
However, that will be because I currently have 107% magic find.
What’s yours at?

MF does not affect the quantity of loot only the quality…

20% of my 107% is from an MF utility infusion… but, yeah more is more…

papryk.6273:

Pure Heart.1456:

I’m getting a fair deal of loot, from normal mobs and also WvW kills.
However, that will be because I currently have 107% magic find.
What’s yours at?

MF does not affect the quantity of loot only the quality…

Which means the OP’s trash drops are appearing to me as blues, greens… etc.

papryk.6273:

next patch notes:

BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
General
- Fixed a bug where dungeons reward gold
- Fixed a bug where event completion reward gold

BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
New Items and Promotions
- You can now purchase, for 2000 gems, a monthly subscription for loot. Now killing mobs will be rewarding as never before. Junk items as guaranteed loot from every mobs!

Hit the nail right on the head there.

Unidentified dyes no longer drop as loot since the April 15th feature patch. That probably explains why you aren’t getting them anymore.