Guild Wars 2

Over the past 10 days significant amount of players expressed their dissatisfaction with ‘Unidentified fossil’ drop rate from chests in Dry Top area. And yes, I also fall into that category. So far I opened 80 chests and still not a single ‘Unidentified fossil’.

I have a suggestion here. Anet can solve this crisis by rewarding players with 1x ‘Unidentified fossil’ for completing Entanglement story content. This idea should have been implemented from the very beginning.

‘Unidentified fossil’ uses our favourite drop system R—N—G method. Mathematically speaking there is a good chance that significant number of players will never get ‘Unidentified fossil’ no matter how many chests they open. This is a huge blow to all those players bothered to come back to GW2 just for ‘Season 2’ story content. What is the point of introducing weapon skins that can be crafted if you are not even bothering to prevent the worst case scenario for some players not being able craft a single ‘Ambrite weapon’ throughout the course of season 2 story content? I think we all know the answer to that…

I have gotten two unidentified fossils just by drops over the last 10 days and I was out of town for 4 of those days. Definitely RNG and I was totally surprised each time I got one. Then it was a grind to try to get the geodes for the recipes I wanted.

Another issue is you also need the Nomad Orichalcum Recipe in addition to the Recipe for the particular weapon desired and you need to know which fossil matches up to that recipe in order to get that as well. No way to tell other than going to some third party place like the wiki or Dulfy to find out. In game it is impossible. At least with the recipe there should be a hint when looking at it to figure out which insect you need as well as letting you know you need to have that inscription to make it.