Guild Wars 2

For a while I was getting an armor piece every couple of days. Running DS meta’s 2-3 times a day. I was slowly filling out my leystone armor sets, put in the time, see a reward, no big deal. Now? I’ve used over 200 machetes since the last armor piece I got to drop and have not gotten a single armor piece. Have the armor boxes been removed from noxious pod loot tables? 292 magic find.

Hello RNG!

I actually do think they adjusted the drop rates. At HoT launch people suggested doing this achievement since it was the easiest ascended armor piece you’d ever get. beating DS gave a 100% chance of getting a chest box, and the pods were giving out armor pieces at about 1 per 10 pods. I got about half my armor set in the first week after first getting to DS.

I haven’t gotten a chest piece or an armor piece from pods in any of my last 10-15 DS runs over the past month.

I got all ley-stone armors 2 months ago, 9 from story,6 from DS runs and the others from pods

Normally I don’t take the RNG threads seriously, but it is possible they changed the drop rates on leystone armour boxes because they did overhaul the pods to give more crystalline ore at one point.

That being said, the 2nd last DS run I did (few weeks ago) I got two boxes (of the same type) back to back.

That achievement is much much easier to do by farming story.

What I’m seeing here is that folks think it comes down to either a drop rate change or just plain RNG. It would be nice to get some clarification from Anet if there has, or has not, in fact been a change to leystone armor drop rates that accompanied the changes to crystalline ore.