Guild Wars 2

Is it rarer than the rest? or is my karma with the RNG a little low at the moment.

I’ve had parts 1,2 & 4 forever, and this week decided to find a 3/4 and finish it, to get them out of inventory. Reading says go to Maguuma Jungle, but I’ve run the empyreal fragment chest run in Sparkfly Fed probably 50 times (6 chests each) and never seen 3/4. I’ve gotten a lot of 1/4’s so I discounted that hint. I’ve sold a least 100 part 1/4’s. Similarly, I can get 2’s and 4’s to drop regularly.

I read where someone was 100% in 4 tries on Spelunker’s Delve JP, so have done that 3x and no joy. I’ve done all 3 of the Dulfy page’s chests, in the process discovering a chest that I didn’t know about, but still no joy.

So is it quite rare, unlike the common as rain 1/4’s or am I still not in the right place?

Spelunker is in Maguuma so tat should be fine. I got mine from one of the small chests behind the Skritt king’s throne in Brisban.

Must be a classic RNG thing – I’ve had 3/4 any number of times lol…in fact it was 1/4 it took me ages to get in the end lol

Khisanth.2948:

Spelunker is in Maguuma so tat should be fine. I got mine from one of the small chests behind the Skritt king’s throne in Brisban.

Yes, but so is Sparkfly Fen, where I have close to 300 chests opened, and no 3/4. I’m pretty much certain they don’t drop in Sparkfly, Maguuma or not.

Not every chest in maguuma drops the scraps. Also, chest drops aren’t affected by magic find.

I know two people who found each scrap on the first chest they tried (that could possibly drop them), while most others needed to open a few. I know a smaller number of folks who had to try a lot of chests before getting them.

tl;dr it’s random, with a low enough drop rate that you can go through a lot of chests without seeing them. (And there are a few chests in each zone that won’t ever drop them.)

Morgan’s Spiral gives these scraps at a pretty decent rate. Park an Alt at the chest and open each day.

by Maguuma chest, it means the style of chest, not really the region. asura styled and sylvari styled ones contain that map piece. these can be found everywhere, not just in Maguuma areas, but Morgan’s Spiral and Goemm’s Lab (the one at the start and the one at the end can drop it) jps are great places to find both kinds of chest.

Thanks all.

I understand odds, and given a drop rate, can compute the chance of going N consecutive times without a drop, or conversely, having gone N times without a drop can get approximately the drop rate.

So, Sparkfly chests are the problem. While they are in Maguuma, they are not Maguuma chests. (in keeping with the known rule that “some of ANET’s logic is right some of the time”). I’ll just work around it.

I just haven’t hit the correct chest class enough times, so will have at it. Yes I have alts who can camp when needed. Yes, they will. I’ll hit one chest about 8 times, then leave someone behind after that. After all, I’ve had the other 3 pieces for months.

T thought to ask in case 3/4 was known to be a rare.

TY for the answers..

I finally dropped 3/4 (I believe it is rarer than the other) in the InGenium Research Facility in Blazzeridges Steppes. There is a chest in the left room.