Guild Wars 2

So in the recent patch, ArenaNet made it so we could get metal plates in the VB day event. But do to some players abusing it we now can no longer get the plates and this is BS. I don’t play GW2 but I saw the reward as a way to finally get my reapers GS but now I have to play the hunt for resource game on DS map with a less than .5% of drop rate. All Arena net had to do was change what you had to do to get not outright remove it that the worst than they could have done.

" I don’t play GW2 but I saw the reward as a way to finally get my reapers GS but now I have to play the hunt " and how exactly do your play a reaper with out playing GW2?

I meant I don’t play 24/7

Oooh. That makes more sense, well i suggest you wait a wee bit, i for one hope they implement a fix soon. Maybe do something else in the meantime, doing something you loathe is the besteht way to burn yourself out on a game, wvw player here, been there done that, there is a special rock in SW where i carved “i just can’t anymore” into

What i don’t get is how people abused it

Well, they’re going to add the box back in once they fix the bug people were abusing.

In the meantime, the price of rare Reclaimed weapons has really plummeted, with the increased acquisition rate they have from the new boxes. To go with that, you now get two gold with each set of daily achievements you finish. You should be able to buy two rare Reclaimed weapons with the money from a single daily, and those are guaranteed to salvage into Reclaimed Metal Plates.

Funny thing I already had all the reclaimed weapons skins cause I farmed them at the start of HoT

Yeah, but the skins don’t matter, you can get them from blue and green versions of the weapons easily enough. What you’re after if you want the Reaper GS collection is the Reclaimed Metal Plate, which is a rare salvage from blue/green weapons, but a guaranteed salvage from the yellow/rare ones.

Back when HoT launched, the rare Reclaimed weapons were 8-10 gold on the Trading Post as a result. By now, though, they’re down to around 1 gold each. So rather than wait for the return of the Hero’s Choice Chests, you can just buy the ones you need, salvage them, and commence your collection. That also frees you up to, once the Hero’s Choice Chests return, take the Crowbars/Airship Parts reward from them which will help you get the tokens you need to complete the Machined Greatsword collection.

So wait, Reclaimed weapons if yellow or above give u metal plate does it matter what kit u use

Yes. You are guaranteed to salvage a Reclaimed Metal Plate from a rare Reclaimed weapon, no matter what kit you use. You might still want to use a Master/Mystic kit to get a better Ectoplasm return, but you could just use a Basic if you want.

I think the exploit was nothing more than being able to loot the dropped chest (sitting there on the ground) twice. I think I did it by accident. With autoloot, got my Hero’s Chest, then went and farmed some things nearby. Came close to the chest and it seemed to re-loot. I thought “Nah, must have not looted in the first place” – until I noticed that I had 2 Hero Chests.

So, not really an exploit. More a glitch in their programming – I bet most people did it without realizing, like me.

I actually had 3 rare reclaimed weapons last night and only got 2 metal plates, so it doesn’t seem to be 100% after all.