Guild Wars 2

I’m concerned because of prices weirdly changing recently. For instance, I got Ilex of Dreams today, a nice looking exotic sword from Twilight Arbor. I can sell it for 10-15g, whereas 3 days ago it was worth over 300 gold, which was a stable price. Rapid drop took place after quaterly update. Why is that so?

More players doing dungeons due to increased rewards maybe.

The drop rate for those weapons has been massively increased. It is either guaranteed or near guaranteed from reports Ive heard

Yeah, it might be a factor, but it would have to be 30 times more players… I heard droprate had been increased. Is it true?

Paijan.3502:

Is it true?

Yes. It’s in the patch notes.

yes, we are getting 100% exotics on different weapons each. so everyone is doing aetherblade once a day. right now almost all weapons are at 5g and most expensive at 55g. i just finished doing it and got the staff, did 3 days and got 3 exotics.

The economy tends to change dramatically after any major patch because it affects what people are playing and what they’re buying.

In this case it’s because they dramatically increased the drop rate of the weapons, and also improved dungeon rewards. So more people are doing the dungeon and many more of them are getting the weapons, and as a result the supply shot up.

(Having said that I hadn’t realised Ilex was so cheap, thanks for letting me know, I’ve wanted it for ages but could never justify the price.)

Thanks for the update. There’s a couple of weapon skins I’ve always wanted but I wasn’t about to pay several hundred gold for.

That probably has to do with my support ticket I sent in last week. It was about the commander stat recipe books being a highly disjointed in drop rates compared to other recipe books. On April the 15th.

“So I have finally noticed that in Dragon Stand certain stat recipe book drop from Noxious Pods is almost completely nonexistent. Even with doing Dragon Stand for over 30 to 40 times, I have yet to get one Commander stat recipe book. What is even more disturbing is that the Commander Jewelry recipe book does not seem to drop at all. Yet you have a merchant NPC in Dragon Stand that gives out the recipe to make Exquisite Burl Jewels. Furthermore in places outside of Dragon Stand I can get other recipe books at a steady rate. As a matter of fact I am sitting on almost close to 16 Minstrel jewelry recipe books. Why do Minstrel recipe book (especially for jewelry) have such a ludicrously high drop rate?

The reason why I bring this up is due to other items that have been effected by the same problem before. One of those being Final Rest which practically never dropped; until it’s drop rate was fixed. Now I can understand cosmetics being locked away by low drop rates. Heck, I play the Aether Path in Twilight Arbor hoping to get one of those ultra rare Aetherized Nightmare Weapons that never really drop. Due the shoddy drop rate for those particular weapons (close to getting a precursor it seems).

However new stat based items is kind of inexcusable by having these disproportionate drop rates. Particularly when it’s this blatantly obvious there is a bug somewhere causing this issue. Stat based items should not be locked away like this at all. It’s bad enough that some stat based items are time gated account wise. However if you have multiple GW2 accounts you can easily get around a few of these time gates.

If anything check to see if the commander jewelry recipe books is dropping at all in Dragon Stand. If you don’t believe me.”

Support sent this back to me:

“The Commander Recipe Books are supposed to be a very rare drop, but it is possible that the drop rate may be a bit extreme. I’ll let the developers know about this and have them take a look into the drop rate to see if some leniency may be possible. However, I will not be able to confirm or deny a possible change to the game so I really won’t be able to let you know if this will be adjusted. However if it does, it should show up in an upcoming patch so be sure to check those patch notes!

Let me know if you have any other problems you want me to look into!”

Guess what got fix and what didn’t?