Guild Wars 2

HOT was been out for awhile now and one thing that I was looking forward to was the new states of items. But HoT came and went and one stat just out forgotten or even at one point was even part of the game. This stat set is known as Trailblazer. Which at the current time is not worth its price due to Arnet **** move of making the rarest and most expensive stat set to buy or find. For those who are not aware the current price on TP is around 7-10 gold per one and it take 3 to make either the insignia or inscription. You might be wondering what this item is the Maguuma Lily. Yep 7-10 gold for a flower. Why is it so costly welp that is cause ARNET in all their infinite wisdom made it only spawn from Jungle Plants. Now that would not be that bad if not due to the fact that Jungle plants can drop about 12 different items including the Lily. So normally you would have a 1 in 12 chance of it dropping. But let me break it down for you in terms of estimated drop rate.
(Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Jungle_Plants)
Cassava Root 82.43%
Flax Fiber 9.46%
Pile of Allspice Berries 5.41&
Maguuma Lily 1.35%
Pouch of Black Pigment 1.35%
and there is about 7 other items that can drop but theirs is less 0.001% chance.
Why would they do this I don’t know? Many reasons come to mind. One ARNET forgot to code them in more drops but when the HoT came out they couldn’t fix it so they just found the easy place to code them in. Two they didn’t even think about it. Or even They just don’t know how their economy works in their own game. All good reason if you think about but still Trailblazer will most likely never see much use or play for some players who lack the income to buy them from the TP. The reason I wrote was with the hope that ARNET will see it and maybe just maybe adjust the drop rate to improve the manner in witch this item can be found.

1 in 12 isn’t correct since not all of those are mutually exclusive but I don’t think that is important. I think what is more important is that HoT maps are just crappy to go gathering. The fact that the main item gathered from these is Cassava Root which is only used to create account bound items doesn’t help.

Khisanth.2948:

1 in 12 isn’t correct since not all of those are mutually exclusive but I don’t think that is important.

You are right I just guessed 1 in 12 cause of the fact there about 12 items in total that can drop from jungle plants.