Guild Wars 2

Post here if you got a precursor from one of the chests.
Add rank and what precursor.

Ex.
The Legend
Rank 46

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LilMcGinley.3890:

This is the internet so…

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Ex. = Example, I believe..

urak.4863:

LilMcGinley.3890:

This is the internet so…

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Ex. = Example, I believe..

Awe, I thought he was saying he got one.

I want to believe!!

Not a precursor but my first chest got me an exotic called Razerstone

rank 69

Precursor? AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Consider yourself lucky if you get a rare.
It’s raining greens.

Anyone gotten an Asc ring in one yet?

Trollface.9186:

Precursor? AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Consider yourself lucky if you get a rare.
It’s raining greens.

IT’S RAINING GREEENS
HALLELUJAH

Loads and loads of greens here…

I’m singing in the greens…

Precursor chance is 1 in a 1000000 or worse…

Ascended ring 1 in 100,000…

Don’t get your hopes up…

Start praying to the RNGod

Precursor is just an exotic, so I think the chance of getting one is equal to getting any other exotic.

Why is everyone complaining about getting greens? Free siege, silver and a free chance at a precursor is nothing to be sneezed at. This didn’t exist before today so its all a free bonus for playing wvw.

Tobias Steele.2071:

Why is everyone complaining about getting greens?

Well for one thing one of the devs implied that either we would get rares or at least a good chance of rares.

morrolan.9608:

Tobias Steele.2071:

Why is everyone complaining about getting greens?

Well for one thing one of the devs implied that either we would get rares or at least a good chance of rares.

Out of four chests today I have gotten two rares. Were you really expecting some kind of hand out? The chance of getting rares from these chests appears to be about the same as pve ones. (excluding the dragon chests) That seems fair.

I’ve already resigned to the fact that I will never have a precursor drop. I’ve played around 3000 hours in this game and I have one legendary of which the precursor was purchased off the trading post. I’m pretty sure I have a better chance at winning the lottery.

I’ve got 4 greens so far.

A bit off-topic: I’m rank 161 on my necro yet I don’t plan to play on it anymore, maybe just a few ranks, since I leveld a new char for WvW. Am I really forced to play another 160 ranks on my necro just to get my ‘missed’ chests ??
Or did Anet actually think of this and made it so no matter what character I play I still get 2 chests for 160+ ranks.
Hopefully it’s the latter, I can’t comprehend the stupidity if they didn’t make the rank backlog acc bound.

Anyone know how this works ?

Opened 6 chests today, got 4 greens 1 rare 1 exotic. Was only a 1g exotic too.

At least they are trying to show that maybe in the future they might think about us!

I’m okay with greens at lower ranks and hope as I increase in ranks I get better items more frequently (e.g. 40% rare @ r25 vs. 70% rare @ r225).

Aphix.9846:

Anyone know how this works ?

They want you to keep playing. Did you really think they wanted to actually reward you for the time? No, you have to spend more.

“Run along now, peasant” -anet

Aphix.9846:

I’ve got 4 greens so far.

A bit off-topic: I’m rank 161 on my necro yet I don’t plan to play on it anymore, maybe just a few ranks, since I leveld a new char for WvW. Am I really forced to play another 160 ranks on my necro just to get my ‘missed’ chests ??
Or did Anet actually think of this and made it so no matter what character I play I still get 2 chests for 160+ ranks.
Hopefully it’s the latter, I can’t comprehend the stupidity if they didn’t make the rank backlog acc bound.

Anyone know how this works ?

Let me spin it in a different light for you. If a new player gains 160 ranks, they will get 160 chests. If you now gain 160 ranks, you will get 320 chests. You have an opportunity to get 160 chests that someone without those pre-existing ranks will never have.

I have just recently gotten more involved in WvW, so I’m only rank 19. My future efforts in WvW will be on a similar level to your future efforts in WvW, however you will be benefiting twice as much since you got into it well before I did.

By the way, I’m trying to make you feel better, not trying to argue with you.

Curo.2483:

Aphix.9846:

I’ve got 4 greens so far.

A bit off-topic: I’m rank 161 on my necro yet I don’t plan to play on it anymore, maybe just a few ranks, since I leveld a new char for WvW. Am I really forced to play another 160 ranks on my necro just to get my ‘missed’ chests ??
Or did Anet actually think of this and made it so no matter what character I play I still get 2 chests for 160+ ranks.
Hopefully it’s the latter, I can’t comprehend the stupidity if they didn’t make the rank backlog acc bound.

Anyone know how this works ?

Let me spin it in a different light for you. If a new player gains 160 ranks, they will get 160 chests. If you now gain 160 ranks, you will get 320 chests. You have an opportunity to get 160 chests that someone without those pre-existing ranks will never have.

I have just recently gotten more involved in WvW, so I’m only rank 19. My future efforts in WvW will be on a similar level to your future efforts in WvW, however you will be benefiting twice as much since you got into it well before I did.

By the way, I’m trying to make you feel better, not trying to argue with you.

Yeah, but that’s not my problem, I’m talking about NOT playing on my rank 160 necro anymore, but starting a fresh new char. As far as I’ve heard, I will never get those 160 chests unless I force myself to play on my necro again. Since currently the World Ranks are character bound (which is bad as well imo).
I am not bothered about having to earn another 160 ranks for the chests because I surely will, but just on another character.

I just got a ascended ring dropped. 6 chest, 5 greens and the lunar ring.
I heard some guildies about exotics and some bages +siege

Tobias Steele.2071:

morrolan.9608:

Tobias Steele.2071:

Why is everyone complaining about getting greens?

Well for one thing one of the devs implied that either we would get rares or at least a good chance of rares.

Out of four chests today I have gotten two rares. Were you really expecting some kind of hand out? The chance of getting rares from these chests appears to be about the same as pve ones. (excluding the dragon chests) That seems fair.

Yeah, because gaining 5000 WXP is as easy as running (or being ported up) one jumping puzzle, and so much easier than slaying a mighty dragon!

I see now why giving Jormag’s claw a manicure is worth a guaranteed rare per day along with several chances at more from the chest, but taking 8 keeps is only worth a single chance at maybe a rare but probably a green. Gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up.

Where’s the website I can get the timer info for when my server is about to flip keeps and towers so I can farm them like dragon/event chests?

(Considering how fast the instigator events in southsun are plopping out rares and how much the price of ectoplasm has fallen as a result, I can’t really believe they are so concerned about the economy crashing if they gave the WvW players a rare every couple hours or so. I’m not saying there should be a huge chance for precursors or anything, but it feels a bit odd that I can get several rares in an hour of running events in southsun but I get one single green and a blueprint for what is often several hours of hard slogging battle.)

Aphix.9846:

Yeah, but that’s not my problem, I’m talking about NOT playing on my rank 160 necro anymore, but starting a fresh new char. As far as I’ve heard, I will never get those 160 chests unless I force myself to play on my necro again. Since currently the World Ranks are character bound (which is bad as well imo).
I am not bothered about having to earn another 160 ranks for the chests because I surely will, but just on another character.

You aren’t supposed to have alts, or ever change your main. Those 4 slots to the right of your main? Those are for aesthetic purposes or extra sPvP characters.

Many vocal players called for more “progression” for their characters. A week after release the “there’s nothing to do at endgame” nonsense, that content locusts ruin every game with, began.

In order to appease these players, time gated power progression was hastily added in the form of ascended gear, and later in WvW as character bound skill/rank progression (WXP).

I have 4 “mains” which I switch between for WvW and I primarily roam, escort yaks and defend, so I don’t level fast. With the boosts to WXP gain, I got one level in 3 hours of play tonight, which is about my average time in WvW. This is just another thing that’s a good bonus for the most hardcore players (one main character, 8+ hours a day WvW, etc) but seems almost insulting to anyone who doesn’t zerg surf, or have a single main, or play all day every day.

Aphix.9846:

Curo.2483:

Aphix.9846:

I’ve got 4 greens so far.

A bit off-topic: I’m rank 161 on my necro yet I don’t plan to play on it anymore, maybe just a few ranks, since I leveld a new char for WvW. Am I really forced to play another 160 ranks on my necro just to get my ‘missed’ chests ??
Or did Anet actually think of this and made it so no matter what character I play I still get 2 chests for 160+ ranks.
Hopefully it’s the latter, I can’t comprehend the stupidity if they didn’t make the rank backlog acc bound.

Anyone know how this works ?

Let me spin it in a different light for you. If a new player gains 160 ranks, they will get 160 chests. If you now gain 160 ranks, you will get 320 chests. You have an opportunity to get 160 chests that someone without those pre-existing ranks will never have.

I have just recently gotten more involved in WvW, so I’m only rank 19. My future efforts in WvW will be on a similar level to your future efforts in WvW, however you will be benefiting twice as much since you got into it well before I did.

By the way, I’m trying to make you feel better, not trying to argue with you.

Yeah, but that’s not my problem, I’m talking about NOT playing on my rank 160 necro anymore, but starting a fresh new char. As far as I’ve heard, I will never get those 160 chests unless I force myself to play on my necro again. Since currently the World Ranks are character bound (which is bad as well imo).
I am not bothered about having to earn another 160 ranks for the chests because I surely will, but just on another character.

Well that is sadly a choice you have made, not ANet. If you were to carry on playing on your Necro then you’d get 320 chests over the course of your next 160 ranks. ANet have handled this one well imo, as they could have chose not to reward retrospectively at all.

Thrashbarg.9820:

Tobias Steele.2071:

morrolan.9608:

Tobias Steele.2071:

Why is everyone complaining about getting greens?

Well for one thing one of the devs implied that either we would get rares or at least a good chance of rares.

Out of four chests today I have gotten two rares. Were you really expecting some kind of hand out? The chance of getting rares from these chests appears to be about the same as pve ones. (excluding the dragon chests) That seems fair.

Yeah, because gaining 5000 WXP is as easy as running (or being ported up) one jumping puzzle, and so much easier than slaying a mighty dragon!

I see now why giving Jormag’s claw a manicure is worth a guaranteed rare per day along with several chances at more from the chest, but taking 8 keeps is only worth a single chance at maybe a rare but probably a green. Gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up.

Where’s the website I can get the timer info for when my server is about to flip keeps and towers so I can farm them like dragon/event chests?

(Considering how fast the instigator events in southsun are plopping out rares and how much the price of ectoplasm has fallen as a result, I can’t really believe they are so concerned about the economy crashing if they gave the WvW players a rare every couple hours or so. I’m not saying there should be a huge chance for precursors or anything, but it feels a bit odd that I can get several rares in an hour of running events in southsun but I get one single green and a blueprint for what is often several hours of hard slogging battle.)

For your sake I hope your exaggerating the difficulty you have in accomplishing those tasks, I really do.

5000 wexp is so incredibly easy to get its not even funny but in any case it’s not been made to be the wvw alternative to cof farming. Simply wishful thinking to believe that.

4 chests, 4 greens. Have a whatever day.

scanz.4536:

Aphix.9846:

Curo.2483:

Aphix.9846:

I’ve got 4 greens so far.

A bit off-topic: I’m rank 161 on my necro yet I don’t plan to play on it anymore, maybe just a few ranks, since I leveld a new char for WvW. Am I really forced to play another 160 ranks on my necro just to get my ‘missed’ chests ??
Or did Anet actually think of this and made it so no matter what character I play I still get 2 chests for 160+ ranks.
Hopefully it’s the latter, I can’t comprehend the stupidity if they didn’t make the rank backlog acc bound.

Anyone know how this works ?

Let me spin it in a different light for you. If a new player gains 160 ranks, they will get 160 chests. If you now gain 160 ranks, you will get 320 chests. You have an opportunity to get 160 chests that someone without those pre-existing ranks will never have.

I have just recently gotten more involved in WvW, so I’m only rank 19. My future efforts in WvW will be on a similar level to your future efforts in WvW, however you will be benefiting twice as much since you got into it well before I did.

By the way, I’m trying to make you feel better, not trying to argue with you.

Yeah, but that’s not my problem, I’m talking about NOT playing on my rank 160 necro anymore, but starting a fresh new char. As far as I’ve heard, I will never get those 160 chests unless I force myself to play on my necro again. Since currently the World Ranks are character bound (which is bad as well imo).
I am not bothered about having to earn another 160 ranks for the chests because I surely will, but just on another character.

Well that is sadly a choice you have made, not ANet. If you were to carry on playing on your Necro then you’d get 320 chests over the course of your next 160 ranks. ANet have handled this one well imo, as they could have chose not to reward retrospectively at all.

It’s not handled well at all. What they’re doing is making it even harder to start an new character (nearly everything in this game is soulbound). I would have been happy if we get no chests for the ranks earned before the patch tbh. Now they’re forcing me to play my necro for another 2 months if I want my hard-earned chests. Yeah well done indeed.
Could have just mailed me 160 chests, would have kittened up the economy, but I dont really care about it. Second choice is to make the world ranks account wide anyway, or at least the chest rewards account wide, meaning my rank 1 warrior would get 2 chests for the next 160 ranks.

Yeah, well handled.

Anyway, opened 8 chests so far, 8 greens.

Chest 1: 5 badges, 1 catapult, a green
Chest 2: 5 badges, 1 arrowcart, a green

Tobias Steele.2071:

For your sake I hope your exaggerating the difficulty you have in accomplishing those tasks, I really do.

5000 wexp is so incredibly easy to get its not even funny but in any case it’s not been made to be the wvw alternative to cof farming. Simply wishful thinking to believe that.

You might zerg a lot, and only roll objectives which take under 5 minutes, and not defend anything. I know that is the “meta” in many tiers. I realize if you are trying to “farm” WXP it’s easy, but often you are doing so at the expense of your sever’s points.

600 WXP per keep capture. Tonight I flipped Bay twice, each effort took about an hour, not too hard, maybe a bit easier than average for our server. For another 2 hours we made various attempts on garrison in which the only WXP gain was from tagging guards (due to siege cap bug, we couldn’t really do much inside). In between we took a few camps, and flipped the NE tower a couple times as well. I also repaired some walls, guarded some yaks, killed some enemy yaks, and some roaming enemies, and had some open field ZvZ fights. In 4 hours I got one rank. Not sure what I’m doing wrong, maybe not letting enemies live long enough after respawn….. Lots of them were only worth 3 WXP……

Have you ever done a dragon event? Was it that hard? Did you need to use multiple expensive pieces of siege, coordinate supply runs, haul kitten to defend a backline objective, throw your character to his certain death just to stall a point cap for 5 more seconds, or any of the other things WvW players do every night? Unless they’ve changed recently, probably not.

Not saying it should be a gold every 5 minutes like CoF or whatever, but seriously, if you’re ranking up so “easy” that it’s like farming PvE ANYTHING, then you are playing a different game than I am, or are just realllly good.

Tobias Steele.2071:

Why is everyone complaining about getting greens? Free siege, silver and a free chance at a precursor is nothing to be sneezed at. This didn’t exist before today so its all a free bonus for playing wvw.

A dev said lots of ecto’s…

So far I have seen 0…

In PvE you can get over a dozen rares a day doing the, ‘you can’t fail world events’ which probably is equal to getting 2 Wxp ranks timewise…

Was it really so unreasonable to expect a minium of 1 rare per chest?

Currently reward wise you are best off doing:-

1) World Events.
2) CoF1.
3) Fractals.

ALL PvE…the devs are never going to really reward WvW…they have made that crystal clear…

3 rares, 1 exotic boot, 5 greens, 1 alpha, 2 rams, 1 ballista, 0.00000ectos

Are you guys serious?…
It’s not like you get 24 silver every chest right ?
And its not like you get a rare form every 2nd dead enemy that you loot, PLUS these chests, that arent there to be farmed, you get them while doing WvW, you dont have to do anything special to get them, like the dragons where you have to spam 1 alot…

A-Net doesnt want you to farm WXP just to get these chests, they want you to play WvW and reward you for helping your server….

some people will never stop complaining seriously…

Meglobob.8620:

Tobias Steele.2071:

Why is everyone complaining about getting greens? Free siege, silver and a free chance at a precursor is nothing to be sneezed at. This didn’t exist before today so its all a free bonus for playing wvw.

A dev said lots of ecto’s…

So far I have seen 0…

I think the devs implied that ectos would be obtained from salvaging rares.
I got 6 chests, 2 rares, 1 superior AC and a few greens.

17 WvW rank chests, I have only gotten 3 Badges of Honor from every chest so far, for a total of 51 bsdges.

I think its a hoax to get more players into WvW.

RNG God hasn’t answer my calling lately

I’ve personally done a lot of testing on drop rates (wvw, chests, pve, etc) using a character I have geared/booned to have over 400-500% magic find. I’ve found – at that percentage of MF – that rares (yellow) have a 10-20% chance to drop, exotics (orange) have a 0-10% chance to drop, and precursors and greater have about a 1% chance to drop. I provide a range because of the RNG system, and RNG really relies on a large statistical pool (i.e. rares drop 20% out of 10,000 or more drops, but if you look at 100 drops, you’re more likely to see a rare drop 10% of the time.) Precursors and greater items really do have a very low drop-rate, and you’d need to farm an area for over 1,000 drops to se consistent drops – Now enters diminishing returns…

Honestly though, if you want to have better luck on the chests, you need to put on your MF gear before you open them. I always equip my MF gear before opening any chests (BL, SS, etc) and every time I’ve done that, I get minis, skins, etc.

@Bandlero

I have never made a magic find set but have been thinking bout doing so for the exact reason you use yours. So I’m thinking all I need to do is buy some cheaper level 80 armor and throw magic find runes on them and keep some magic find buff food around.

Any suggestions as to what runes, food, etc to use?

6 chests: 1 exotic (shamans amulet), 2 rare (salvage boots), 3 greens

<lvl 10

edited to add newly received chests

Aphix.9846:

scanz.4536:

Well that is sadly a choice you have made, not ANet. If you were to carry on playing on your Necro then you’d get 320 chests over the course of your next 160 ranks. ANet have handled this one well imo, as they could have chose not to reward retrospectively at all.

It’s not handled well at all. What they’re doing is making it even harder to start an new character (nearly everything in this game is soulbound). I would have been happy if we get no chests for the ranks earned before the patch tbh. Now they’re forcing me to play my necro for another 2 months if I want my hard-earned chests. Yeah well done indeed.
Could have just mailed me 160 chests, would have kittened up the economy, but I dont really care about it. Second choice is to make the world ranks account wide anyway, or at least the chest rewards account wide, meaning my rank 1 warrior would get 2 chests for the next 160 ranks.

Yeah, well handled.

Anyway, opened 8 chests so far, 8 greens.

What? In what way have they made it more difficult to start a new character? What hard-earned chests are you talking about? They’ve barely been active for 24 hours.

Before the reward chests were introduced, the World Ranks were still character bound. If a new player comes into WvW now they’ll start being rewarded for going up a rank with 1 chest per rank. If you continue to play on your Necro which is at rank 160, you’ll be rewarded with 2 chests for the next 160 ranks you gain. In what way is this either unfair or making it more difficult to start a new character?

You’re behaving like a spoilt child. You have no divine right to the 160 chests you would have got if you were to progress through those ranks after the update, but ANet has provided you with the option of obtaining them retrospectively. It is your decision to start a new character that means you miss out on those, no one elses.

Using your logic, those who had put in hundreds of hours into WvW before the Ranks were even introduced must have been livid they were not automatically given World Rank of 500.

WxP and it’s skills are still pretty useless. I see them more as a nice to have if at all. I’m level 20 or so on my main and haven’t even cared to spend the points yet (I play WvW between 1-3 hours an evening on a none daily base)

So I value the chests as a nice opportunity to get a little more cash, siege and badges while I’m doing what I’d be doing anyway. I’m not seriously hoping for a pro exotic or precursor.

Soulbound WxP now even has the nice effect, that you’re able to get more chest that with account bound WxP.

Lately a colleage offered me a piece of chocolate. So I took it and complained he should have offered me the whole bar. Kind of rude his behavior … I hope he gets fired and they employ somebody who listens to all my reasonable desires and suggestions how I can become rich.

Aphix.9846:

I’ve got 4 greens so far.

A bit off-topic: I’m rank 161 on my necro yet I don’t plan to play on it anymore, maybe just a few ranks, since I leveld a new char for WvW. Am I really forced to play another 160 ranks on my necro just to get my ‘missed’ chests ??
Or did Anet actually think of this and made it so no matter what character I play I still get 2 chests for 160+ ranks.
Hopefully it’s the latter, I can’t comprehend the stupidity if they didn’t make the rank backlog acc bound.

Anyone know how this works ?

you don’t understand that EVERYONE has to rank up to gain there backlogged chests, it just means that you’ll be getting more than everyone else

be glad that they actually decided to reward past ranks and that ranks are the same experience each level because if that wasn’t the case you’d actually have a leg to stand on

Free loot makes me so mad I just wanna smash a bro!

Bandlero.6312:

Honestly though, if you want to have better luck on the chests, you need to put on your MF gear before you open them. I always equip my MF gear before opening any chests (BL, SS, etc) and every time I’ve done that, I get minis, skins, etc.

Magic Find only affects loot dropped by killing mobs, quote from the wiki:

Magic Find is an attribute that increases a player’s chance to receive higher-quality loot from dead foes. Magic Find only affects loot dropped by foes, it does not affect any other source of loot.

Bandlero.6312:

I’ve personally done a lot of testing on drop rates (wvw, chests, pve, etc) using a character I have geared/booned to have over 400-500% magic find. I’ve found – at that percentage of MF – that rares (yellow) have a 10-20% chance to drop, exotics (orange) have a 0-10% chance to drop, and precursors and greater have about a 1% chance to drop. I provide a range because of the RNG system, and RNG really relies on a large statistical pool (i.e. rares drop 20% out of 10,000 or more drops, but if you look at 100 drops, you’re more likely to see a rare drop 10% of the time.) Precursors and greater items really do have a very low drop-rate, and you’d need to farm an area for over 1,000 drops to se consistent drops – Now enters diminishing returns…

Honestly though, if you want to have better luck on the chests, you need to put on your MF gear before you open them. I always equip my MF gear before opening any chests (BL, SS, etc) and every time I’ve done that, I get minis, skins, etc.

Dev’s have stated on multiple occasions that MF doesn’t affect chests, so I’m not sure how good MF is when opening these WvW chests.
By the way, what do you mean by “precursors or better”? What is better than a precursor drop?

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

4 chests, 4 greens. Have a whatever day.

Same here.

And I get 4 low price siege.

TallDan.6350:

Bandlero.6312:

Honestly though, if you want to have better luck on the chests, you need to put on your MF gear before you open them. I always equip my MF gear before opening any chests (BL, SS, etc) and every time I’ve done that, I get minis, skins, etc.

Magic Find only affects loot dropped by killing mobs, quote from the wiki:

Magic Find is an attribute that increases a player’s chance to receive higher-quality loot from dead foes. Magic Find only affects loot dropped by foes, it does not affect any other source of loot.

Thank you for digging that up. Saved me the trouble.

Ballistic.4531:

Bandlero.6312:

I’ve personally done a lot of testing on drop rates (wvw, chests, pve, etc) using a character I have geared/booned to have over 400-500% magic find. I’ve found – at that percentage of MF – that rares (yellow) have a 10-20% chance to drop, exotics (orange) have a 0-10% chance to drop, and precursors and greater have about a 1% chance to drop. I provide a range because of the RNG system, and RNG really relies on a large statistical pool (i.e. rares drop 20% out of 10,000 or more drops, but if you look at 100 drops, you’re more likely to see a rare drop 10% of the time.) Precursors and greater items really do have a very low drop-rate, and you’d need to farm an area for over 1,000 drops to se consistent drops – Now enters diminishing returns…

Honestly though, if you want to have better luck on the chests, you need to put on your MF gear before you open them. I always equip my MF gear before opening any chests (BL, SS, etc) and every time I’ve done that, I get minis, skins, etc.

Dev’s have stated on multiple occasions that MF doesn’t affect chests, so I’m not sure how good MF is when opening these WvW chests.
By the way, what do you mean by “precursors or better”? What is better than a precursor drop?

A Dev response.

4 boxes = 2 exotic, 2 green, 20 badges, stealth trap, arrow cart, catapult, ram.

Holy free loot Batman. I love it.

Omne.4603:

Ballistic.4531:

Bandlero.6312:

I’ve personally done a lot of testing on drop rates (wvw, chests, pve, etc) using a character I have geared/booned to have over 400-500% magic find. I’ve found – at that percentage of MF – that rares (yellow) have a 10-20% chance to drop, exotics (orange) have a 0-10% chance to drop, and precursors and greater have about a 1% chance to drop. I provide a range because of the RNG system, and RNG really relies on a large statistical pool (i.e. rares drop 20% out of 10,000 or more drops, but if you look at 100 drops, you’re more likely to see a rare drop 10% of the time.) Precursors and greater items really do have a very low drop-rate, and you’d need to farm an area for over 1,000 drops to se consistent drops – Now enters diminishing returns…

Honestly though, if you want to have better luck on the chests, you need to put on your MF gear before you open them. I always equip my MF gear before opening any chests (BL, SS, etc) and every time I’ve done that, I get minis, skins, etc.

Dev’s have stated on multiple occasions that MF doesn’t affect chests, so I’m not sure how good MF is when opening these WvW chests.
By the way, what do you mean by “precursors or better”? What is better than a precursor drop?

A Dev response.

Would be kinda hard to get those from a chest…
Uh, oh! I see what you did there!

12 chests, 12 greens.

I’d be pretty turned off by it, except I’ve gotten 3 Golems, 1 treb, and misc. other siege which I’ll use and like just under 20 silver per chest. The RNG sucks one giant hairy ball, but the rest of it really makes WvW flip over the line of losing money into making a little bit.