Guild Wars 2

is the wooden chest drop working correctly as it should be?

per the big January update: “In PvE, if a player is awarded loot by killing a creature and the loot is of uncommon rarity or higher, a chest will appear that contains the loot that would previously have been on the corpse. If the rarity of the loot on the creature is lower than uncommon, the loot will remain on the creature’s corpse”.

As of now, I’ve seen about….10ish chests, and I have gotten one rare out of that as of last night, and the rest are pretty much common or white. As matter of fact, I don’t recall getting an uncommon from it at all. I don’t think that’s what meant to happen at all. What’s going on?

The uncommons are still on the bodies I think. The chests just hold the “good” stuff. At least that’s how it’s worked for me.

All it means is that your rare drops now come in chests. Green and below will still be on the critters corpse.

well, I’m pretty sure I’m not crazy….. I’ve seen the chests (that are for me, that I can loot, since I know you can see other people’s chests), and when I loot them I dont get uncommon and above, I’ve gotten common and below.

for instance, I’ve gotten a common hood from the chest and a white pistol, and I was really confused. I even confirmed it with a guildie/friend who said he has gotten common and below from the chest.

Helenorz.2547:

well, I’m pretty sure I’m not crazy….. I’ve seen the chests (that are for me, that I can loot, since I know you can see other people’s chests), and when I loot them I dont get uncommon and above, I’ve gotten common and below.

for instance, I’ve gotten a common hood from the chest and a white pistol, and I was really confused. I even confirmed it with a guildie/friend who said he has gotten common and below from the chest.

I agree, it’s bugged. I still get yellows from corpses, and I still get junk in chests.

Vol.5241:

Helenorz.2547:

well, I’m pretty sure I’m not crazy….. I’ve seen the chests (that are for me, that I can loot, since I know you can see other people’s chests), and when I loot them I dont get uncommon and above, I’ve gotten common and below.

for instance, I’ve gotten a common hood from the chest and a white pistol, and I was really confused. I even confirmed it with a guildie/friend who said he has gotten common and below from the chest.

I agree, it’s bugged. I still get yellows from corpses, and I still get junk in chests.

Same. The net effect is that the chest doesn’t mean anything. I don’t feel any better seeing a chest rather than a corpse and I believe the chest was instituted to psychologically indicate reward for play, the missing game element.

Yes the chests are bugged badly, i keep getting rares/exotic on corpses, and some times on chests, also i have got GRAY, blue and green items on chests, it seems pretty random.

I’ve only gotten 3 chests so far, 1 green, 1 blue, 1 white – so if they are supposed to drop rares they are definitely bugged.

The chests really make things worse, I’m confused why they added it.

Everyone still loots all bodies and it only contributes to more culling.

hharry.1967:

Yes the chests are bugged badly, i keep getting rares/exotic on corpses, and some times on chests, also i have got GRAY, blue and green items on chests, it seems pretty random.

I’ve gotten gray as well. and seriously, in the beginning I had to pay attention to the chests because it sorts of blends in with all the dead corpses (say you aoe a big mob or something, you know), and I’m get paranoid that I’m not looting the chests.

but at this moment I dont feel like the chests are anything to be excited about, if it’s so bugged that I dont get the right stuff from it. As matter of fact, I dont recall EVER getting an uncommon from it at all (nor did the aforementioned guildie/friend either.)

I think i’m going to mention this in the game bug forum.

My loot drops have gone to kitten since this patch, not a single chest has dropped and I’m lucky to be able to loot 1 in 10 corpses now. (While a very low percentage is actually my level.)

Seems like half of my guilds loot drops have gone up, while half has gone the same way as mine.

The guildies on the downside all played for around an hour last night then logged out, because less loot is less fun to us.

I don’t see the point in the chest for the ‘good’ loot. Its not even working correctly. I got a chest and it had a white item in it. This just seems something random they added that isn’t really needed or doesn’t work. I’d rather have them fix the “get the pact survivors up on their feet” event in Cursed Shore that’s STILL bugged.

I don’t classify a basic grade level of a helm, aka white, of rare value. In my opinion, the only things that should be in the chests are masterwork and higher items.

The very first wooden chest I looted had a white chest piece. I laughed so hard I had to show it in the EB map chat, and several others showed similar trash from theirs. The 2nd wooden chest had a green weapon, and the third had a blue item and some other random item. So I don’t think it is working as intended.

i have the same.
nothing rare from the chests, just random crap

Blues and greens appear in the chests as well.

I’ve had a couple of chests that I haven’t been able to open at all. Weird.

I’ve been getting blues and whites from the chests and the occasional green and one time a rare. Seems like they screwed the drops up again though because I’m rarely getting green drops now. Anet needs to stop stop kittening with the loot tables.

It would be funny to findout the chest are working as intended and that the core of the problem turns out to be that some players ARE in fact in a state of permanent DR by no fault of their own. Then again I doubt the developers would ever admit to this should it be the case.

I haven’t seen one of these chests yet. O_o

I found one of these chests in orr , was much smaller than i thought it would be, mine had a green weapon in it , not rare or exotic.

OmniPotentes.4817:

It would be funny to findout the chest are working as intended and that the core of the problem turns out to be that some players ARE in fact in a state of permanent DR by no fault of their own. Then again I doubt the developers would ever admit to this should it be the case.

I believe I’m in that group experienceing perma DR.

The only thing I’m getting is moldy bags in Orr. If I go anywhere, anywhere in the entire world, I get porus bones only. I don’t even grind any specific area repeatedly.

Game over for me.

Vol.5241:

The chests really make things worse, I’m confused why they added it.

Everyone still loots all bodies and it only contributes to more culling.

What do they mean by chests? Are they on-screen popups like daily chests? Or something dropped on the ground at a different place than the corpse?

its on the ground , its a small little wooden chest . was suposed to let you know you got a rare quality item or higher from the mob.

Errant Venture.9371:

Vol.5241:

The chests really make things worse, I’m confused why they added it.

Everyone still loots all bodies and it only contributes to more culling.

What do they mean by chests? Are they on-screen popups like daily chests? Or something dropped on the ground at a different place than the corpse?

Actually shows up as a little chest on the ground. Adding more images that need to be rendered, pretty much causing more culling problems and they don’t vanish after you loot them. Not the greatest idea, it’s on par with the bags in www.

I’d prefer they drop the requirement to press a key to pick up loot and just have it auto-loot items into your inventory (still have loot appear briefly on the right side like it does already). Saves time and saves needing to have the game render the gold sparklies or the wooden chests.

I have received one chest. It had a common dye in it. I have received dyes normally as well, on the corpses since the update. I think the chests may be RNG. Wish they would also have a sound like thud. Remember in GW1 the thrill of hearing the little dye drop noise?

Arsenic Touch.7960:

Errant Venture.9371:

Vol.5241:

The chests really make things worse, I’m confused why they added it.

Everyone still loots all bodies and it only contributes to more culling.

What do they mean by chests? Are they on-screen popups like daily chests? Or something dropped on the ground at a different place than the corpse?

Actually shows up as a little chest on the ground. Adding more images that need to be rendered, pretty much causing more culling problems and they don’t vanish after you loot them. Not the greatest idea, it’s on par with the bags in www.

That has nothing to do with the primary cause of culling in WvW.

I really don’t understand why they felt that introducing these chests was a good use of time and resources. Did I miss all the threads from players complaining that looting corpses was too difficult? Aside from the fact that they are buggy and more time now has to be devoted to fixing them, they can also be difficult to spot (why not make the bright Gold?) so assuming they are working as intended, you now have a greater chance of missing the best loot.

OmniPotentes.4817:

It would be funny to findout the chest are working as intended and that the core of the problem turns out to be that some players ARE in fact in a state of permanent DR by no fault of their own. Then again I doubt the developers would ever admit to this should it be the case.

if only that’s the case. My first couple of drops of the said chest happened within the hour I logged on, in Orr, day of the patch launch, trying out the new dailies. So unforunately, (for me at least) it wasn’t DR.

I was told by my friend that this chest thing was first introduced in the beta. He didn’t like it whatsoever and it never made it past beta. I take it as the community didn’t care for it at all…which makes me wonder why it’s being implemented. Honestly, it doesn’t matter to me, but it need to work correctly or else it’s completely pointless.

I dont know if they check every single threads here, but it’d be great if they do and can perhaps address. If it’s not working as intended, that’s fine, I just wanna know so I don’t get excited when I see a box on the ground :-/

Ontop of fixing the bugged chest, they should change their color, make it shiny or something they are hard to see.

Anybody here had instances where you’re unable to loot the chest?

Farmed a bit of pent/shelter and had a total of 3 of those chest which I was unable to loot.

Anyway, I agree that this chests are useless. ANET’s priorities are a bit kittened if you ask me. Why add low value additions/changes to a game while other bugs remain since beta. (Like the blurry TP text when interface size is set so small)

./shrugs

Ive had 3 mob chests. 1 Blue 2 green.
Ive had several ~10 blues/greens drop yesterday from corpses on the ground and 1 yellow from a corpse.
Chest not consistent but I’ve had no trouble seeing it on the ground.

The one chest I got contained a named exotic (the first exotic in since the Karka event chest for me, aside from area completion rewards ^^°), but I wouldn’t doubt they are still bugged.

I finally saw a chest – in Orr. It had a green item in it. Shortly thereafter (while running along with a group) I looted two rares off corpses. Two! When I regained consciousness, I immediately logged out. Just to be on the safe side. I mean, what if I an exotic dropped? I might never recover…

Also got one gossamer scrap. Just one. But that’s one better than the none I’ve been getting lately.

I get grey junk items from the chest.

Yeah I got barb from the chest, yay!

I had a chest drop yesterday. Had a plain old Claw in it… I had farmed about a dozen of them from corpses earlier.
So the whole chest thing doesn’t work yet. But it’s really exciting to find a chest show up, isn’t it?

The chests are indeed broken. Keep getting blues when a chest pops up, and its only supposed to be rare or higher. I get all excited for nothing.

The good thing about the chest is knowing if you need to bother with drops in Orr. If its not a chest you can bank its porous bones.

chests in their actual form bring nothing (beside being totally bugged). When I first read the patch note I was all: Whoah! This is so great!

Because I thought chests would pop up on the right side of the screen like daily&monthly chests do.

well, I think chest on the ground is completely fine, I just want it to work correctly and for it to be brighter/more noticeable so I won’t miss it!

You can see other players chests, that is why you cannot loot them.
They certainly take up much less draw time and processor than the complete enemy.

The only thing I’ve gotten out of those chests is green items, nothing else, blue and white are on the bodies.

I’ve only noticed one or two of these, possibly because I’ve primarily played on my guardian since the update. The chests are likely spawning inside the enemies body, and getting looted by just tapping F on top of the pile of dead things. Of the ones I did notice, there have been no rare items, only blues.

Also worth pointing out the patch note’s reference to these being for loot that is “uncommon” or higher in quality doesn’t make any sense.. GW2 does not have “uncommon” as a loot rarity type, but I assume it’s referring to masterwork/green as this is how mini packs and inventory bags refer to greens.

mrstealth.6701:

I’ve only noticed one or two of these, possibly because I’ve primarily played on my guardian since the update. The chests are likely spawning inside the enemies body, and getting looted by just tapping F on top of the pile of dead things. Of the ones I did notice, there have been no rare items, only blues.

Also worth pointing out the patch note’s reference to these being for loot that is “uncommon” or higher in quality doesn’t make any sense.. GW2 does not have “uncommon” as a loot rarity type, but I assume it’s referring to masterwork/green as this is how mini packs and inventory bags refer to greens.

good point….for some reason I automatically thought uncommon is pretty much green, but that’s not what the green ones are called…

They’re not bugged, it’s used for culling issues in PvE. Before you would have a ton of lootable corpses on the ground that caused framerate lag over a simple common drop.

Now when the game detects that there is too much corpses, it converts all of the bodies into chests. It does not matter if they are uncommon or greater.

I don’t really get the point of the chests either. Why add another item to loot rather than just leave it on the corpses? I’m gonna be looting the corpses anyway so just double the effort now.