Guild Wars 2

People are reporting over 20 hours and several days of non stop farming. With magic find of over 500%.

The drop rate might not be affected by magic find. It’s the first closed beta and the number of invitations may be low, only a couple of thousand.

How many people do you suppose they want in a close beta event?

If 10 portals drop an hour (across all people) we get:

10/hour *24 hours in a day *7 days (right?)

That gives us 1680 invites, plus any email invites that are sent. That may be a bit light, let’s suppose 5,000 people.

5000 / 7 / 24 = about 30 / hour over the course of the entire week. They could adjust the rate as needed if the law of large numbers doesn’t converge quickly enough for their target.

Consider how many people are spread across all layers of the Silverwastes map on average. The drop rate on the portal is going to be so incredibly tiny that farming specifically for it is silly. Your best mindset is to just play DT or SW as you normally would, and the portal is just bonus.

and yet, some people even get 2 portals which is utterly useless.
why not flag accounts that already have it, redistribute those duplicates to others that have been farming for days without success. (me included)

Latinkuro.9615:

and yet, some people even get 2 portals which is utterly useless.
why not flag accounts that already have it, redistribute those duplicates to others that have been farming for days without success. (me included)

Almost impossible to answer that point without being privy to the technical implementation details under the game. It may simply be impossible or impractical to include a check against whatever database/table is tracking that information every time a loot event is generated in those zones.

I have been doing silverwastes constantly now for the last 3 days without success and will keep trying until the end probably without much hope for a portal drop. I do feel, though, for these closed beta’s with probably low numbers being included compared to the player base that it would be better to stick with the old system of selection at random from subscribers to the newsletters. Maybe use this system of drops when the beta event is much bigger and they can make it far more common. It does seem a bit like torture for those who will put so much effort in for no reward – I know its by choice but still – also maybe they could implement a system by which after a certain number of events or kills the portal is added to the loot, but without informing the players so it would still appear as a random drop.

Latinkuro.9615:

and yet, some people even get 2 portals which is utterly useless.
why not flag accounts that already have it, redistribute those duplicates to others that have been farming for days without success. (me included)

sad moment in the map, someone gets a portal, 5min later, gets a second…

Pickles.9436:

Latinkuro.9615:

and yet, some people even get 2 portals which is utterly useless.
why not flag accounts that already have it, redistribute those duplicates to others that have been farming for days without success. (me included)

sad moment in the map, someone gets a portal, 5min later, gets a second…

definitely so bad and wrong.. and soul destroying for those putting so much effort in to obtain one…

Latinkuro.9615:

and yet, some people even get 2 portals which is utterly useless.
why not flag accounts that already have it, redistribute those duplicates to others that have been farming for days without success. (me included)

this is turning me off from even trying

give the extra portals to those who actually NEED the kitten thing

It’s not because you spent XX amount of time farming something that you have the certaincy you’ll get that item.

I find it quite amusing to see people who farm hours on end to get a portal and complain they don’t get it.

It’s only for a beta test where a very small portion of the map will be available with only a fraction of the content that will be in HoT available.

It’s not as if this item gives you access to a super duper secret zone where you can drop super duper items….

Why don’t you spare yourself all that stress and deception? Play as you do usually, and if you drop a portal, good for you. Otherwise, it’s not the end of the world. Just wait for the open beta when the expansion will be much more complete and will give you access to a lot more stuff.

Blanche Neige.7241:

It’s not because you spent XX amount of time farming something that you have the certaincy you’ll get that item.

I find it quite amusing to see people who farm hours on end to get a portal and complain they don’t get it.

It’s only for a beta test where a very small portion of the map will be available with only a fraction of the content that will be in HoT available.

It’s not as if this item gives you access to a super duper secret zone where you can drop super duper items….

Why don’t you spare yourself all that stress and deception? Play as you do usually, and if you drop a portal, good for you. Otherwise, it’s not the end of the world. Just wait for the open beta when the expansion will be much more complete and will give you access to a lot more stuff.

If i play as I normally do, I wouldn’t be in maps like SW and DT, in fact, that would be the last place I would be. I would probably be leveling my mesmer instead.

Jordo.5913:

If i play as I normally do, I wouldn’t be in maps like SW and DT, in fact, that would be the last place I would be. I would probably be leveling my mesmer instead.

Why are you forcing yourself to play something you don’t want to play?

To have the privilege to become an unpaid tester for Anet?

so after 22hours of farming in 3 days got nothing so gg anet pls next beta make normal email invitation. Stop wasting people time for farming item what dont drop. I play from start every day and dont get anything and my friend start play gw2 3 months ago and he get invitation for first beta and after 20 min he got Portal ????????????????????????????? really anet???????

Dormitrius.7635:

Wtf anet i have spend 10 hours nonstop in dry top/silverwastes doing event runs,chest farms and no single portal has droped i have used magic find banners,food ect. to pump my magic find up,not a single one dropped.
i hope the others have have more luck than i have.
but for today its over.

I’ve spent more than ten hours, and have seen the total of 3 pinged in map.chat. And I don’t believe these people to.be trolling as they had been there as long as me, if not.longer, and no one had asked. They just pinged. I know one was doing the same defence as me and that’s how I know how long they had been there, and the other I had seen earlier on. The drop.rate seems very low, but with out knowing how many maps.are open, and how many people are getting a.portal per map, per cycle, its had to say that the drop rate is bad. ANet must have a target they wish to reach, and the drop rate is to reflect that. I think(and this is just guessing) that the poor drop.rate to start had made people stay away/not bother, so they increased the drop rate, 1) to get more people in. 2)To get the numbers they need.

When ever ANet say chance, what they really mean is a Snowballs chance in hell. At least for the vast majority of player’s. Who will get nothing from all the hours they’ve spent, other than vender trash, and more ascended mats than they will.ever need.

Pecar.1236:

so after 22hours of farming in 3 days got nothing so gg anet pls next beta make normal email invitation. Stop wasting people time for farming item what dont drop. I play from start every day and dont get anything and my friend start play gw2 3 months ago and he get invitation for first beta and after 20 min he got Portal ????????????????????????????? really anet???????

They’re still doing email invites as well. If you are content with that, then why are you farming?

^ this quote though

Drop rates are abysmal…on top of which you add RNG…on top of which you add DR.

Standard ANet stuff..i have no clue why everyone seems so kittened off and surprised at a this..you’ve been playing this game for so much time and you don’t know ANet supports the lottery system for everything they do, with no guaranteed reward?

Rebound.3409:

Drop rates are abysmal…on top of which you add RNG…on top of which you add DR.

Standard ANet stuff..i have no clue why everyone seems so kittened off and surprised at a this..you’ve been playing this game for so much time and you don’t know ANet supports the lottery system for everything they do, with no guaranteed reward?

Ok, why do you think the drop rates are abysmal? What number of drops, or chance were you expecting? Remember this is a closed beta invitation. The only reason I can think of for why you would think it’s an abysmal drop rate is because you want to have them let a whole bunch of people into this closed beta. Is that what you want? I’m honestly curious because you aren’t the only one who thinks this. But at the same time, I don’t think you’ve quite put the drop rate into the context of what it is that’s dropping or simply have different expectations than I do for a closed beta.

Blanche Neige.7241:

Jordo.5913:

If i play as I normally do, I wouldn’t be in maps like SW and DT, in fact, that would be the last place I would be. I would probably be leveling my mesmer instead.

Why are you forcing yourself to play something you don’t want to play?

To have the privilege to become an unpaid tester for Anet?

because I’m like everyone else who is licking their chops to see something new in the game, which hasn’t happened since the beginning of January, I also want to know if I like the Revenant or if I should just use my tomes on the Mesmer

Jordo.5913:

I also want to know if I like the Revenant or if I should just use my tomes on the Mesmer

Then wait for the open beta to come.

I feel like a lot of people feel like they’re entitled to get one.

Jordo.5913:

Blanche Neige.7241:

It’s not because you spent XX amount of time farming something that you have the certaincy you’ll get that item.

I find it quite amusing to see people who farm hours on end to get a portal and complain they don’t get it.

It’s only for a beta test where a very small portion of the map will be available with only a fraction of the content that will be in HoT available.

It’s not as if this item gives you access to a super duper secret zone where you can drop super duper items….

Why don’t you spare yourself all that stress and deception? Play as you do usually, and if you drop a portal, good for you. Otherwise, it’s not the end of the world. Just wait for the open beta when the expansion will be much more complete and will give you access to a lot more stuff.

If i play as I normally do, I wouldn’t be in maps like SW and DT, in fact, that would be the last place I would be. I would probably be leveling my mesmer instead.

Focus on what you want to do and not what you feel you have to. I ran SW again for a day or two, realized this portal is not worth the headache and went back to finish my ranger. It’s just beta, and a sectioned off beta at that.

In fact I plan to take a break of GW2 after this weekend so I’m not heading into HoT burnt out.