Guild Wars 2

What sort of luck is the general playerbase having on Karka Shell drops? This weekend I killed 250 young karka and got 14 shells. At that rate it will take a realllllly long time to gather enough shells to buy that Exotic Earring set from the vendor (2000 shells for the set).

Keep in mind you can wear only one of the earrings per character. It is classified as unique.

You are doing better than me. My character killed over 200 Karka and only got 4 shells. They don’t seem to drop very often.

Lol the drop rate seems to be going down then, spent about 6 hours, prob close to 500 kills, got 2 shells. Someone did mention to me in zone chat there was a way to upgrade or trade off regular shells for karka shells, but no one could tell me where. If that’s true this won’t be as bad as I thought because I must have gotten nearly 200 of the regular shells that day. So if anyone knows anything about that, please let me know.

I was there yesterday, got about the same drop rate as during the opening weekend. Unless Anet said something in patch notes, the rate should be unchanged. Even a long string of bad luck doesn’t mean that you won’t do better later!

With ~150% MF on, I can kill 3-4 young karka per minute, or around 100 per 30 minutes, and during that time I have been getting 4-7 shells. I suspect that a rough estimate of young karka’s base drop rate (with zero Magic Find) for karka shells is about two percent.

Tierce.5370:

With ~150% MF on, I can kill 3-4 young karka per minute, or around 100 per 30 minutes, and during that time I have been getting 4-7 shells. I suspect that a rough estimate of young karka’s base drop rate (with zero Magic Find) for karka shells is about two percent.

I would imagine karka shells aren’t magical and therefor don’t drop more often because you have worse gear.

farmed for ~ 15 minutes will my ele. Killed somewhere around 50 karka, got 4 shells. I assume if you get a group for it then it would go much faster.

Would the drop rate of karka shells be influenced by diminishing return? So the more karka you kill, the lower the drop rate, unless you take a break every now and then?

@Marnick, I’m assuming magic find does what it’s advertised to do. The funny thing is that I usually carry Valkyrie and I kill noticeably faster with my Explorer’s set and its +power and +precision. I’ve found the third stat is unnecessary for farming especially when using consumables.

@Paradox, I assume the drop rate would be influenced, but nobody really knows how.

What I’ve been doing is assuming (so many assumptions, I know) Diminishing Returns won’t kick in for at least an hour and a half. Thus I farm for 30 minutes and take a couple minutes’ break when my consumables run out. Then I’ll go back for a second session. I’m only really farming for about an hour at a time.

At 3-4 young karka dead per minute, I’ll get ~10 shells per hour. That’s still painfully slow, but I wanted to get a feel for how long it’d take to farm all 1000 shells for the exotic accessory.