Guild Wars 2

There is a lot of discussion on the forums about the drop ratio of portals and its time this was cleared up. There seems to be a lot of “I didn’t get a portal after 30+ hours into week long event” also. Patience people, lots of folks expecting to get drops immediately after event launch.

Anyway, tonight I pose a question to the CM or perhaps even the developers themselves.

Is the portal drop influenced by RNG?

1) If it is, is that RNG applied at the point of looting?

If it is applied at the point of looting, sorry to everyone who is complaining about this but that’s a pretty fair system in actuality – and more effective in practice than email invites.

or 2) Is it based on an account-wide system where other factors can influence the drop rate.

If so I would recommend making the portal item strictly independent from said influencing factors.

So much negativity over such a trivial event, please, lets clear this up.

The problem is, people seem to forget that beta tests are always restricted. This isn’t something like a certain item or achievement everyone can get if he just works enough. This is an quantity-limited item. Anet doesn’t want the whole playerbase to get into the next beta, so it’s only natural that many players won’t get in.

That may be sad, of course. But it’s in no way Anet’s fault. You can’t blame someone just because you’re unlucky and others are. That’s life.

Btw, OP: Good luck with your hope on getting an official response….

I agree with you completely.

I’m just looking for the “official facts” to just quell this argument.

If there’s validity in the negative arguments, I want Anet to admit it, make the change (as they have proven they can do) and rectify it.

If there is no validity in it, unfortunately sour grapes it is for those who didn’t get in. There is no conspiracy or purposeful/manufactured bad luck.

In the case of the latter… getting into the beta is not going on my CV… nor will it be going on anyone elses’.

There is a post in GW2 reddit about an Anet employee confirming that magic find has no effect on portal drop rate (has screen shots of the statement by employee with anet symbol up).

there was also a comment by a player in the same screen shot that stated that the chests in SW don’t drop portals and this was not refuted by the employee in the screen shots provided.

Thought that this information would be relevant for this thread since it seems like the portal drop is purely RNG based and not influenced by any modifying factors.

Here is a Dev post about the randomness of Portal drops:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/To-those-who-got-portal-beta-key/first#post5026022

Not sure if that is what you were looking for.

Good luck.