Guild Wars 2

Instead of just getting bags and random gear, why not add a very rare chance to get an item from your opponent inventory on a WvW kill in order to add an interesting anticipation aspect to the complete randomization of loot.

That chance could be affected by magic find and be around 1/1000 at 0% magic find, 1/333 at 300% mf.

Obviously legendaries and precursors could be excluded from the list, or the chance to get those items could also be a % of the overall %.

I don’t think this should be in wvw but I’ve always wanted since GW1 a high end area with high risks and high rewards with exactly this feature… but I think it should be a pvp-style dungeon… so that it is a mix of pve and pvp – if you get to the end chest you get a legendary but it is a free for all – no parties allowed everyone can kill anyone. In order to get the chest, however, there needs to be some sort of co-operation to kill some boss or something but only one person can open the chest per week – so after the boss is dead then it is a free for all fight. If you die you lose one piece of armor or a weapon – regardless of how expensive it is – take a rubbish weapon and you might not win… take a good weapon and you may lose it… but you may also pick up a lot of good loot too.

Sooooo, everyone will just stash their stuff in their bank?

People these days can’t handle Ultima Online kind of loot system. But would be cool to have a chance to get a “copy” of a non-major item in the opponent’s bag, like % of the stack of food, boosters, etc.

Oh boy, i wonder what people would do.

I know wear only soulbound gear, and throw all essential items into the bank! Then carry around a ton of spikes because reasons.

Chaba.5410:

Sooooo, everyone will just stash their stuff in their bank?

And run without an armor/secondary weapons/foods/minis/mats/etc? Not probable
They could well do the opposite.

TexZero.7910:

Oh boy, i wonder what people would do.

I know wear only soulbound gear, and throw all essential items into the bank! Then carry around a ton of spikes because reasons.

You really think people would run with an inventory full of spikes just to deny their enemy loot? Anyway, spikes are a loot treasure you already get normally, I was talking about inventory items.

yanniell.1236:

…..But would be cool to have a chance to get a “copy” of a non-major item in the opponent’s bag, like % of the stack of food, boosters, etc.

I really like this idea. Pretty much any slightly better chance at getting better loot without any risk is a nice little bonus in my eyes.

Xillllix.3485:

Chaba.5410:

Sooooo, everyone will just stash their stuff in their bank?

And run without an armor/secondary weapons/foods/minis/mats/etc? Not probable
They could well do the opposite.

To be fair, you did not explicitly include equipped gear in your definition of “inventory”. When someone looks at their “inventory” in this game, it only shows stuff in their bags, not their equipped gear. A player has to look at a their hero screen to access equipped gear.

Yep, there would be a subset of players running with an inventory full of spikes just to be kitten. And then what is the point of the system anyway? Spikes, mats, some armor and weapons, and other loot are already dropped.

And fill most of your inventory space with 1 porous bones per slot. Kinda like how I stocked up on useless maps in Lineage II before I went on a pk rampage

Guess I’m that kitten haha

gennyt.3428:

And fill most of your inventory space with 1 porous bones per slot. Kinda like how I stocked up on useless maps in Lineage II before I went on a pk rampage

The rewards from WvWvW are already bad enough! You kitten!

Could be interesting. Although I wouldn’t much care for my loot getting stolen. Maybe getting a copy of what I may have in my inventory. Although I wouldn’t mind getting rid of thousands of bloodstone dust, empryeal fragments, and dragonite….
Had too many bad experiences with PK in text based MUDS with getting gank by a group and having all my stuff I spent 4 months gathering stolen…

Chaba.5410:

gennyt.3428:

And fill most of your inventory space with 1 porous bones per slot. Kinda like how I stocked up on useless maps in Lineage II before I went on a pk rampage

The rewards from WvWvW are already bad enough! You kitten!

Then it would be business as usual lol. :P

gennyt.3428:

And fill most of your inventory space with 1 porous bones per slot. Kinda like how I stocked up on useless maps in Lineage II before I went on a pk rampage

I immediately thought of this sort of thing as well LOL.

pdavis.8031:

Could be interesting. Although I wouldn’t much care for my loot getting stolen. Maybe getting a copy of what I may have in my inventory. Although I wouldn’t mind getting rid of thousands of bloodstone dust, empryeal fragments, and dragonite….
Had too many bad experiences with PK in text based MUDS with getting gank by a group and having all my stuff I spent 4 months gathering stolen…

Yeah I meant a copy of the item… not the actual item. Sorry for the confusion!

I can see it already lfg – selling kills 1g ea – will equip legendary, immobulus, vision of the mist, etc……

Would be fantastic if we could loot a corpse for 1 piece of gear/weapon of our choice after they are dead for a couple minutes.. Would solve the dead mesmer in a keep problem real fast.

Liston.9708:

I can see it already lfg – selling kills 1g ea – will equip legendary, immobulus, vision of the mist, etc……

As I said you can easily remove precursors and legendary items from the code and apply limitations.

that is the trade off… if you take good equipment then you have an edge to win but more to lose… if you take poor equipment you reduce your odds of winning but have less to lose.

With my idea…
I would also make it a one time entry per week… once you die, you can’t re-enter the area for a week.

Eventually, what will happen is that you will have guild groups co-ordinating on teamspeak to complete the boss and take it in turns of taking the chest… but you will have rival guilds… so you will end up with a multi-gvg.

Id empty my inventory after every fight.

Interesting idea, but it would never happen. ANet’s always been keen on keeping PvP/WvW fairly “gentlemanly”. Allowing players to “steal” items from their foes would run counter to that ideal.

If instead the victor got a copy of the enemy’s item though… Well, I can imagine that in every fight, everybody instantly ganks the person wielding a Legendary, a Dwayna backpiece and Ascended armor.

OP want my spikes and hooves ?

Just sounds like a really good way to duplicate items and RWT with people from other servers.

Win trading looms on the horizon with this. It’s a good idea, but the holes need to be addressed to avoid issues like the above post ^

Xillllix.3485:

Instead of just getting bags and random gear, why not add a very rare chance to get an item from your opponent inventory on a WvW kill in order to add an interesting anticipation aspect to the complete randomization of loot.

That chance could be affected by magic find and be around 1/1000 at 0% magic find, 1/333 at 300% mf.

Obviously legendaries and precursors could be excluded from the list, or the chance to get those items could also be a % of the overall %.

Oh, great, let the player farming begin… Look people, a guy with legendaries and ascended armor! Let’s get him!

As many said before, the only thing that it would accomplished is to make us use our storage a lot more before entering the fray…

If it’s just a duplicate system, just consider you can have the exact same loot with the current system. Especially with a low drop chance like that, duplicating a random exo from your opponent’s bag will be exactly the same as looting one. But you also have the chance to get a spike.

Xillllix.3485:

Instead of just getting bags and random gear, why not add a very rare chance to get an item from your opponent inventory on a WvW kill in order to add an interesting anticipation aspect to the complete randomization of loot.

That chance could be affected by magic find and be around 1/1000 at 0% magic find, 1/333 at 300% mf.

Obviously legendaries and precursors could be excluded from the list, or the chance to get those items could also be a % of the overall %.

NO!! I had this in another game. This would alter the intent of GW2 to make this less of a money sink or time sink game. Please do not do this!

As said before, the best way is to get a C-O-P-Y of a NON-MAJOR item from your opponent’s inventory, like a small amount of food, or a booster ou some silver coins. Nothing drastic, just something to make the WvW loot a little funnier. Noone would lose anything.

yanniell.1236:

As said before, the best way is to get a C-O-P-Y of a NON-MAJOR item from your opponent’s inventory, like a small amount of food, or a booster ou some silver coins. Nothing drastic, just something to make the WvW loot a little funnier. Noone would lose anything.

So basically… the current system??

You can’t get anything from your opponent’s bag as it is today. What was the last time you got some Koi Cakes from an enemy’s loot?

I dropped an item worth 2 silver, sold it to the npc, and bought a Koi cake. Also, yeah, killing upleveled to get that op +1% damage on centaurs?

Actually, Argon made a good point. It could result in players deliberately exploiting the system to duplicate items. (Even non-major stuff can get pretty pricey, like Pots of Lemongrass Poultry Soup. Or Foxfire.) And if the system got adjusted so it only gave you trash and blues, then… what’s the point?

So yeah, it’s not gonna happen.

yanniell.1236:

You can’t get anything from your opponent’s bag as it is today. What was the last time you got some Koi Cakes from an enemy’s loot?

Sorry wrong quote, meant to quote this “a small amount of food, or a booster or some silver coins. Nothing drastic”.

Current system already gives me nothing useful :P

I’d welcome some -40% condition food loot. That kitten is getting more expensive every day. =P

yanniell.1236:

I’d welcome some -40% condition food loot. That kitten is getting more expensive every day. =P

They’re introducing more condi into the game soon so expect a price hike.