Guild Wars 2

So far, I have three Coats from the event, three Shoulders from pods and two Gloves from pods.

Do helms, boots and pants drop from pods or am I doing somthing wrong? Do they drop less?

From my experience, it is highly random and RNGesus loves surprisingly few people.

Was running DS frequently, initially i seemed to get quite a few leystone pieces off the event itself and pod runs after . Haven’t had any drop in ages and seem to get pure crap from pods guess its a case of diminishing returns.

i’ve gotten everything but shoulders, and shoulders is what i’ve been trying to get for a long time. just rng

I’ve resorted to making more 80’s n running em through the missions to get the final armor box…..
after quite a while of minimal box drops, n those that do, being duplicates……

An Update and a Suggestion:

I’ve been dumping all of my airship parts and aurillium bits into the Machetes and have been doing DS quite a bit more in the past several days. I still need 7 more Laystone armor pieces for the Collection.

Right now I still need: 2 leggings, 2 boots, and all three helms.

I got enough XP in DS to complete the last half of tier 5 Itzel and both t6 Itzel and t6 Nuhoch on this map (with only a couple of Tarirs mixed in when DS map wasn’t user friendly).

I understand that the Collection isn’t a requirement, it’s just another one of this side-goal achievement things with a reward attached, but the drop rates on the laystone boxes could use a tweak.

I’ve enjoyed the DS runs, especially the almost-fail map that defeated the towers with only 2 minutes left on the clock and I’d been doing the middle zerg circle for literally and hour while North and South kept resetting. It was fun in it’s own way, how the map tried and tried again to work together and finally did it.

But there comes a point in time when players say “forget it,” stop trying the achievements and move on.

PvP and WvW’s fun since other players make the maps more dynamic each go, but in PvE too much of the same makes you feel like a trained rat doing the same maze over and over with little or no reward.

the best option is speedrun trough the HoT story on alts, if you have then. It takes around of ~1:30 hours to 2:00 hours. Free chooseable piece of leystone armor at end, plus all the rewards you get trough the chapters.

MauricioCezar.2673:

the best option is speedrun trough the HoT story on alts, if you have then. It takes around of ~1:30 hours to 2:00 hours. Free chooseable piece of leystone armor at end, plus all the rewards you get trough the chapters.

Seems to be poor achievement/reward design if this is the case, which it seems to be. I got my initial Leystone pieces in a decent amount of time, not right away but I did put the time in for them and that’s fine. Then I do a long series of runs totalling 10,000,000 + XP done on the DS map with quite a few meta completions and get nothing.

If they require alts running through for this and/or other achievements, just make “Completing Story Line on X-number of Alts” an achievement by itself… and make X = 9 or 10 characters so you have to use the gem store

But I digress. Drop rates need adjusted.

MauricioCezar.2673:

the best option is speedrun trough the HoT story on alts, if you have then. It takes around of ~1:30 hours to 2:00 hours. Free chooseable piece of leystone armor at end, plus all the rewards you get trough the chapters.

Thats kinda what I did to get a full exotic Viper set.

The look of leystone armor mixed with Mistwarden was amazing, by god, i cant stop to look myself.

As others have said, running the story on alternative characters is the way to go. Also make sure to save the boxes until you can complete the collection if you are doing DS parallel to this.

You really don;t want to run out of characters for any armor type boxes when you are missing that 1 super seldom random drop which you have to run DS for now all day.

Lysander Freeman.4186:

Seems to be poor achievement/reward design if this is the case, which it seems to be. I got my initial Leystone pieces in a decent amount of time, not right away but I did put the time in for them and that’s fine. Then I do a long series of runs totalling 10,000,000 + XP done on the DS map with quite a few meta completions and get nothing.

If they require alts running through for this and/or other achievements, just make “Completing Story Line on X-number of Alts” an achievement by itself… and make X = 9 or 10 characters so you have to use the gem store

But I digress. Drop rates need adjusted.

Its not how it is designed to be made. Its just a les painful and more easy way to acquire it. Or you can keep shoting at luck, that is how it is designed to be. At the very least, this particular one have a guaranteed way to be made, so I thought would be nice to suggest it here.