Guild Wars 2

I clearly remember before this patch that when I kill veterans, I was guaranteed at least a blue item drop. However now, it seems that they literally have the same drop rates as normal mobs (if not worse). Also, with champions, I used to see at least 2-3 items drop with much better rate of getting green drops. Now, all I get is a single blue item.

Has anyone seen this happening to them?

Also, what’s the point in ANet nerfing predictable drop rates. Before I love to take on the challenge of lvl 75+ veterans and a bunch of other mobs at the same time, and now this nerfed drop rate makes me just avoid them and go kill random level 50 animals.

For anyone who says this game isn’t about grinding/farming, I think misses the underlying mechanism that drives MMORPGs. Let’s take this logic:
- In MMORPG, I want to be better (if I don’t, I would be playing offline RPG)
- To get better, I need mats/money
- To get money, I need a reliable methods to find mats/money efficiently
- Possible farming methods: run through dungeon, do dynamic events
- and….. those structures just so happens to be the main part of this game, because Anet wants us to want to be better, how else will Anet keep people playing and paying for gems? (evidence seen in boosters, BL Chest, gems salvage kit, ridiculous mats for lengendaries, item rarity stats difference)

Therefore, whatever you do, you are grinding. Now there is a difference between “fun” grinds and “boring” grinds. I think when Anet says they don’t want us to grind, they meant the “boring” grinds and and promoting the “fun” version. Which brings me back to the question, if Anet wants us to have fun, why did this ghost drop rate nerf happened?

tl:dr
ghost nerf drop rates = not fun

(My perspective could be wrong, and so I would love to hear yours)

if you want to farm, you’re supposed to be in the new dungeons. everythign else was ninja nerfed leading up to this patch over and over again, and again with the big patch(regardless and opposite of notes).

the onylo viable activity in teh game right now for gold gear or w/e is entirely limited to FotM grinding.

every time there is a new patch, everybody claims every drop thing got nerfed (be it ectos, rares, what not)

and everytime i log in and play, i dont really feel a change myself.

IT depends if you do the same thing that we do AW Lore. I myself posted a topic on this same exact problem. I actively hunt veterans, why? because it’s fun and I was guaranteed a drop 80% of the time. So after many days doing this before patch, you would know what to expect. After the patch, I can’t even get a white after 10 kills whereas before I would get at least 8 blues from the 10 kills.

in the past month my farming experience doing the same variety of events(and yes it was variety) in cursed shore has progressively worsened. idk since this particular patch.

however previously this month, in teh last few weeks, i did get normal for previous months’ drops in lower level zones.

cursed shore however, has become a waste of time for me. an expensive one at that.

my drops have actualy goten better…. whats up with that

dirtyklingon.2918:

in the past month my farming experience doing the same variety of events(and yes it was variety) in cursed shore has progressively worsened. idk since this particular patch.

however previously this month, in teh last few weeks, i did get normal for previous months’ drops in lower level zones.

cursed shore however, has become a waste of time for me. an expensive one at that.

I know exactly what you mean by that: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Will-not-touch-game-for-a-long-time/first#post774190

Don’t think they will go back on it for awhile or admit they did such thing, after all they don’t want us the player to have that kind of power. Who knows maybe they will change it back without even telling us, but until then I will spend my time christmas shopping for the kids XD

I am definitely getting A LOT less rare drops now than before the patch.

Before the patch:

If I went to penitent/shelter farm right after logging in, I used to always get 3+ rares in the first event. Once I even got 9 rares in the first two events I did. Rares got less frequent as DR kicked in, but were always dropping every now and then.

After the patch:

I went to penitent/shelter farm several times, and got 0 rares and 1 rare in the fist 2 events. After that, it’s pretty much done, no more rares. Once I got lucky and got another rare after 30 mins of farm, but this is still barely worth even doing the farm for.

All this farming was done with max MF armor/weapons/jewel/food and in a group.

Same thing happened in D3 OP, the similarities are breath taking.

Guess it’s not just me that is seeing this.

Oh great.

First i miss the awesome loot from the event due to it being on between 3-6am Monday morning.

Now I’m hearing they’ve nerfed normal drops harder after telling us it’s going to improve on vets & champs?

If you want me to stop playing your game ANet, just say so!