Guild Wars 2

For the past week, I’ve attempted to find reclaimed armor in HoT expansion zones so I could salvage it for reclaimed metal. Not only have I found no rare reclaimed armor (not unexpected,.. it is “rare” after all) but I’ve hardly found any green or blue reclaimed armor items at all.

I’ve played in all four zones. Does anyone know if ANET nerfed the reclaimed armor drop rate? Or, can anyone give me advice? I’d rather not pay 13-15 gold for a rare item from the TP. Mostly because I enjoy earning items. I saw many rare reclaimed armor on the TP, so some folks are getting the drops.

Honestly, I didn’t expect blue/green reclaimed armor drops to be so rare. Is this another area ANET plans to fix in the next couple of months?

Thank you in advance for any advice/assistance.

Reclaimed armor? There’s reclaimed weapons.

Supply and demand.

Obviously reclaimed weapons are in shorter supply than demand, otherwise the 13-15g (were up to 15-18g) for a rare item drop wouldn’t be.

Not sure there are any rare reclaimed armor drops per se. I know caches in Tangled Depths can reward reclaimed weapons, but don’t expect to be getting more than 1 per day (if at all).

Your best bet is to either wait until prices fall further due to demand decreasing, or keep farming until you get lucky.

Never heard of reclaimed armor, reclaimed weapon on the other hand just salvage greens, much cheaper.

Flax seeds are 5ish silver, mastercraft reclaimed weapons are 15ish so every 3 flax = 1 reclaimed.

Mastercraft has an average of 1:44 to salvage for a metal plate so far for me so your total cost for each is 130ish flax seeds.

Happy Harvesting!

Learn where Strongboxes and other treasure chests are in the Magus Falls zones. Figure out a route you can take to open several of them each day. There’s a small chance in each of those chests to find a rare Reclaimed weapon as a bonus item on top of the chest’s usual contents.

Tangled Depths is an especially good map for that, you can find several chests on the way to the Flax farm from the start of the zone, and then glide on past the farm into the Ogre valley for several more. Being able to get seven chests in 10-15 minutes should net you Reclaimed weapons eventually.

Thanks all! Yes, I meant Reclaimed weapons, not Reclaimed armor (my bad. obviously, I’m a casual…)

I do collect a lot of Flax seeds. I could also sell a bunch of other items to raise gold for a Rare reclaimed weapon. I was hoping to avoid that though .

I figure I’ll go the strongbox route. I know where a couple of them are.

Happy hunting all and thank you again for your response.

Problem is – when you’re on the wrong RNG end, you’re on the wrong RNG end. I usually get junk out of JP boxes and chests. Been doing the 3 boxes in TD with 10 characters on a daily route + a few chests at other locatiosn + noxious pods + exalted pods + … whatnot.

So you can say just from the 3 boxes in TD (1 strongbox, 2 chests) I have opened over two hundred and I got like 4 gold armour pieces in total. No gold weapon and, of course, never a reclaimed one … very, very frustrating.

HtFde.3856:

So you can say just from the 3 boxes in TD (1 strongbox, 2 chests) I have opened over two hundred and I got like 4 gold armour pieces in total. No gold weapon and, of course, never a reclaimed one … very, very frustrating.

Then it’s time to expand your rotation!

If you’re getting one strongbox and two chests from TD, then I’m guessing you’re flying up from the zone entrance to the Flax farm, while getting the Strongbox and two small chests on the way. Lets add some more chests to the mix.

Before you go for the Strongbox, take the updrafts leading farther north to the vista just north of the Flax farm landing. There’s a chest there next to the vista. That one’s easy enough. Now comes the fun part, which will need Lean Techniques.

After farming your Flax, at the outlook over the Ogre Camp, there’s a small ramp leading up to the right before the cliff. Climb all the way to the top of that, then jump off and glide/lean along the right wall. There’ll be a narrow ledge you can land on. Carefully wiggle your way to the top of that ledge if needed, let your gliding endurance recharge, then jump off and glide/lean towards another larger ledge along the wall about the same distance away as your first glide. It’s tight, but doable. Get up on that ledge, recover again, then glide/lean alongside the wall one more time to land as far up on the southern ledges as you can.

From there, hop across heading east, keeping as high as you can. If you glided properly, when moving east, you’ll see the broken nose of an airship. From your ledge, you can glide/lean over to the tip of that nose. Climb up the broken airship from there, go inside, and head down to the bottom level of it to find a Splendid Chest to loot. Climb back out of the airship and exit on the side to wind up higher up on the ledges you initially landed on at the south. Head west and jump/glide across a small gap to find a nest of Adolescent Electric Wyverns (unthreatening enemies), there’s another Splendid Chest in the middle of them. From there, you can glide towards the west/center edge of the Ogre valley, where on a raised ledge just above the ground level is another chest to loot. After that seventh chest, you can hop down to ground level to collect a bit more Flax, perhaps some Crystallized Supply Caches, and usually an Ancient Wood node somewhere as well.

Adding these extra steps will more than double the number of chests you’re looting with each character in a day, and once you master the gliding along the ledge to reach the southern chests it doesn’t add much time at all to the routine. If you slip up and fall while attempting those ledge glides, you can head to the eastern edge of the Ogre valley and use bouncing mushrooms to get up to the airship and the Splendid Chests, but that takes longer than the gliding route.

Xiahou Mao.9701:

HtFde.3856:

So you can say just from the 3 boxes in TD (1 strongbox, 2 chests) I have opened over two hundred and I got like 4 gold armour pieces in total. No gold weapon and, of course, never a reclaimed one … very, very frustrating.

Then it’s time to expand your rotation!

If you’re getting one strongbox and two chests from TD, then I’m guessing you’re flying up from the zone entrance to the Flax farm, while getting the Strongbox and two small chests on the way. Lets add some more chests to the mix.
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You’re missing the point … as I said … when you are on the wrong end of rng you ARE on the wrong end – no matter how many or what chest you try because all chests have the same rng sequence but a different loot table. 180 Tequatl chests and I have to show one (!) tequatl fang + a ton of exotic spoons and that’s it. I don’t get stuff out of chests – 2 years of doing up to 8 JPs a day are proof of this.

As I said in another post – a friend and me we are both parked underneath LA in the JP for the silver doubloons. We are over a year down there – his silver doubloon rate is 8x higher than mine. ANets RNG sucks – I suppose it has to do with the seed which seems to be rather static. I have the same issue in GW 1 – but I will not complain there because I’m on the other side of the curve there – soloing beach will net me 6 obsi shards or more. That’s way above the average … and it is consistent.

Edit: In addition to that – when I finally get a goldy out of a box it is 80%+ armor not a weapon. When I return from Silverwaste CF I get one gold weapon for about 10+ gold armors.