Guild Wars 2

While looking at gallery of weapons and looking for sword skins I found this:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Jormag's_Breath

I liked it very much and decided to craft myself this one. I already have a skill points to buy Eldrich scroll and mystic coins from daily/monthly achievments.
I have weaponsmith on 400 so just need 600 orichalcum ore to craft 300 orichalcum ingots and craft 100 blades from them. Given the current prices 600 orichalcum costs 14g 30s Expensive but playing casually and going to some dungeons, completing some events, I think in one month I’ll have the gold and/or orichalcum.

This leaves me with one last item on the list:
50 corrupted lodestones.

If I wanted to buy them -> 50 gold. This means for me, next several months. Not an option. Besides, what’s the fun? I mean -> somebody sells them, so they must drop from something. So I went to frostgorge sound, where jormag’s servants are, found a lot of them in the corner and started killing them. I figured out that magic find gear should help. From time to time I visit this location and was able to get 4 Corrupted lodestones until today.

Today, I was killing mobs and no lodestones dropped for me for an hour. I decided that I’ll buy magic find food and try different location. I did. I also started noting my drops. Here is what I got:

I had +129% Magic Find on my gear.
I killed 50 creatures lvl 79 (Can’t find better ones). solo.
37 of them dropped nothing.
1 dropped 76 copper
4 dropped 2 Ice Stones (16 copper per stone)
2 dropped 1 Ice Stone (16 copper…)
2 dropped Valuable Metal Scraps, that gave Mirthrill Ore from salvage
1 dropped Vicious Fang (T6 matz worth 3s)
2 dropped Large Claws (T5 matz)
3 dropped gear:

• lvl 78 Masterwork Sword
• lvl 76 Common Heavy Chest piece
• lvl 76 Common Warhorn

Now please tell me this is a joke. This is after patch that was supposed to give us better drops?

What is the thought on obtaining good looking exotic weapons in guild wars 2? What should I do to obtain such weapon and have fun on the way? Because currently I don’t see the way… other than spending 150 euro in cash shop.

Yeah, the drops seem to have gotten pretty ridiculous. One of the problems is people start talking about how much COOLER that item is compared to some legendary weapons, and, how much easier it is to craft. When people do that, all they are doing is letting A-net know which items to reduce, so that GETTING that item will become a lot harder. They want you to invest your time in getting that item you want. It could even make you spend real money to GET it. So, it’s probably a good idea to do what I do: “Pick what item you want, and keep your mouth shut”

the point is when you get less from farming, you are force to spend RM on gem shop if you really hot and horny to get that weapon.

I don’t think they changed anything but the dungeon drops and maybe the chests from meta events. Lodestones do drop during the jormag event, which is where most people go to get them or in Honor of the Waves dungeon. I think they do very rarely drop off mobs in the zone, but nothing like the jormag event or HotW dungeon.

Did you kill the right creatures? I don’t think all corrupted enemies drop them. I know the collosuses do and the quaggan do, but not sure about the others. Also, honor of the waves tends to drop them if you want to try and do it there. Same with Jormag’s claw.

And ya, the drop rates are low, but it’s a rare skin. Lodestones in general are pretty rare. It’s not something new to this patch and it’s not something people haven’t expressed their concerns with before.

I figured out that magic find gear should help. From time to time I visit this location and was able to get 4 Corrupted lodestones until today.

pretty sure he did mention he was getting them, so pretty sure he was killing the right monster.

Ah. Well then, it’s probably just a bad day of luck then for you. It happens. I still suggest Jormag and HoTW.