Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been working on Ydalir and the only item left missing is a Wyvern Scale. I’ve been farming it for a week now! Every day I dedicated 2hrs of farming in Verdant Brink, Wyvern Cliffs area. I see people come and get the drop within 20-30min usually. I also read that some people had better luck getting it from the Matriarch. I’ve tried both methods and this Scale just avoids me like crazy. I’m sitting here now just absolutely frustrated already and burnt out by this farm. I’m so sick of it. Every day. Sit on the cliffs, wait for Wyverns to spawn, aggro them all together and kill. Repeat.

Am I doing something wrong? Am I super incredibly unlucky with the drop or is it possible that I’m bugged? Because I think this item can only drop once per character so if for some reason the server thinks I already got it once, it wont give it to me again…

I don’t really know how these drops work but all the other ones only dropped once for me so I think its the same for the Scale.

Go to a different location…..?

starlinvf.1358:

Go to a different location…..?

There is no other place. This is the only place for farming the scale. There’s a Wyvern area in Dragon’s Stand as well but it’s not friendly for farming. It’s often contested cause of the meta. The best place is in Verdant Brink where I mentioned and going for the Legendary Wyverns whenever they spawn. I’ve been doing these with no luck.

I remember getting it almost instantly, you are either extremely unlucky or more likely there is a bug preventing the drop.

RNG collection items can be pretty awful. I got most of them fairly quickly then I had to kill oakhearts on multiple maps for quite a while to get the item that drops for Yggdrasil.

UPDATE: In case anyone else comes across as feeling bugged. I finally got it just now after more than 14hrs of overall farming for this P.O.S. Scale. It’s really annoying when drops can get bugged as there’s no way to tell if it’s RNG or bug. Finally got Ydalir. Note that I switched characters and it dropped within 30min of farming on my 2nd character.

They should really increase the drop rate of these achievement items, at least on bosses. Matriarch and Patriarch should have a very high drop rate on them IMO. I’ve killed them both so many times and they never dropped it. I ended up getting it from a regular Wyvern in VB at the Wyvern Cliffs.

They can’t increase the rate. It already drops nearly-instantly for some people.

Usually, everyone has one RNG item that takes forever. For me, it was the Tiger’s Claw. For you, it was the Wyvern Scale (and recently, Aged Ecto).

The thing that I do is try not to worry too much about finishing quickly. I’ll park a toon near a possible farming spot and spend 5-10 minutes max killing. I also find changing toons helps: it probably doesn’t affect my chances, but it feels like it does. At the vary least, it’s a change of scenery, which makes it less tedious.

And eventually, things with relatively high RNG (as these have) will drop. It’s just a matter of being patient for “eventually”, aka soon™