Guild Wars 2

Let me preface this post with my situation: The Koutalophile collection has been part of the game for over a year now and I’ve been casually playing WvW this whole time. It’s not really my thing, but I still participate here and there. I’ve killed every single type of enemy on every single map many times over, including guards, tower bosses, keep bosses, castle bosses, random mobs, and thousands of players. In all this time, I haven’t received a single Siege Commander’s Spoon drop. Not one. I am one of those unlucky kittens who simply cannot get a break from RNG woes and I’m losing time, money, and mostly patience every time I’m fruitlessly banging my head against that wall.

Now before you saddle yourself on your high horse and tell me that the drop rate isn’t that bad and that I should just keep playing, let me say that this post isn’t just about me. Obviously, I am frustrated to the point where it’s not amusing anymore by any stretch of the imagination, but I am very well aware that some avid WvW enthusiasts have literal stacks of these spoons. I’m fairly certain that people who keep getting these spoons every time they happen to roll on the exotic drop table aren’t any more satisfied with it than me not getting one. Seeing an exotic drop should be something that you find rewarding and a 10s spoon is just a buzzkill for many.

So, to that end, if anyone at Anet comes across this thread, can you please remove the spoons from random drops that are nothing but an annoyance to both ends of the spectrum and put the spoon in the Laurel Merchant or Heroics Notary store where people who actually need it can pay for it with their hard earned currency.

Unfortunately I think anet nerfed the drop rate of all the exotic spoons needed for that collection. You just get broken spoons everywhere now. I’m not sure why they nerfed it, it’s not like the collection reward of a lvl 20 exotic ring and 3 AP is that great – I guess anet just work in mysterious ways.

I know you said that you don’t want to hear that you should just play more, however as a rabid collector of siege commander spoons I can give you a tip on how to get that item: in my long, long hours playing wvw I’ve noticed that they seem to drop more when I manage to do a lot of damage to the npc. The best way to get this item imo is to go camp flipping and sentry flipping (possibly shrine flipping now) by yourself or with a friend. When I’m running with a zerg they hardly ever drop.

Use magic find food and boosters if you have them, it helps! Good luck!

I’ve done a fair bit of solo camp flipping, even before the supposed stealth nerf, and it’s simply not happening for me. I don’t enjoy grinding WvW for hours on end and I’m just tired of playing the kitten lottery. The people who actually enjoy this kind of pointless RNG are such a minuscule minority that I honestly can’t tell why Anet won’t take a hint after 3 years. We have all this fancy currency that we earn in every area of the game, but we can never spend it on things that are actually supposed to reflect our invested effort.

HoT is very slightly more consistent in that regard and I was really hoping for some tokens on world bosses, more stuff in relic/karma/laurel stores, and less RNG overall and I was beginning to feel hopeful when I saw Mini Gwynefyrdd at the Halloween vendor, and then I was sorely disappointed to see that there have been almost no improvements on that front everywhere else.

Still, this might be the only situation where I’ve heard people on both ends of the spectrum whining and it’s so easy to fix the issue, especially now that we have yet another WvW merchant with another new currency.

Sorry for the late reply, I somehow missed your post.

Keneth.6490:

it’s so easy to fix the issue, especially now that we have yet another WvW merchant with another new currency.

I agree. Back when the collections came out, it seemed to me that they were mostly just to keep the players busy and playing until the arrival of the expansion pack. Now that it’s here and anet doesn’t really need to keep us entertained with old content, they really could introduce some vendors that sell those spoons. As you already mentioned, the wvw spoon could be sold for proofs of heroics, the fractal spoon could be sold for fractal relics and I’m sure anet could find a way to make the Tequatl spoon available to those who repeatedly played the content but didn’t get the drop (in exchange for broken spoons maybe?).

I had a few drops since HoT, however they were all grey and labeled as Broken Spoon. Perhaps its no longer available?

It’s still available, it just drops a lot less than it used to. Same thing with the fractal and Teq spoon.

From what I understand now, the broken spoon simply replaces the relevant spoon as a drop if you’ve already acquired it. It should not drop if you don’t already have the spoon that you’re supposed to be getting. I’m not really sure what the point of this change was, but the broken spoon is a junk item, so there’s no longer that, “Oh, an exotic! Oh… it’s a spoon.” factor. I guess that might have been part of the reason. While this change somewhat alleviates the problem on one end, it did absolutely nothing for those unlucky sods who are unable to acquire the spoon(s) because we’re not RNG lottery winners.

Keneth.6490:

From what I understand now, the broken spoon simply replaces the relevant spoon as a drop if you’ve already acquired it.

This makes me sad. Rip my spoon collections. :’(

I hope you’ll get your spoon soon, Keneth.