Guild Wars 2

I have been playing WvW for a while now and a bunch of my guild mates (in a good WvW guild) keep getting ascended drops and I have not gotten one. I only get masterworks and fines from bags of loot and I never really get anything from rank up chests either. Does the rarity of that stuff increase with rank or what?

nope, just RNG. I went through hundreds of ranks getting nothing, then multiple asc pieces within 20 ranks of each other, then hundreds more with nothing etc.

Nope, each wxp level reward chest is just as awful as the last one with mediocre chances of getting yellows and oranges. Once in a blue moon you’ll get an ascended item though.

Your best bet is to zerg around with a staff ele or guardian and just go for quantity.

I happened to get a bunch of ascended drops in the second month I played WvW (2 armor chests, and 2 rings, as well as almost 2 exotics daily). The last year however, I’m lucky if I get more than 1 exotic a month. So yeah welcome to RNG on acid trip.

And no, Magic Find stat doesn’t affect this.

Well you can get more ascended drops with a high level of magic find, but even then it’s very rare.

that’s only for drops from kills. Not drops from rank up chests i believe.

Sundays. I don’t know why, but all the good things I ever got from rank chests or victory chests were on sundays and an other player had found a precursor on the same day.

Once I’ve heard some rumors, that you have a higher chance of a precursor drop if you kill a bg-player. Now I’m starting to believe this ;-) .

I’m absolutely convinced that the RNG is salted with the account ID because I have a few accounts and some seem to be more lucky than others. Just speculation, of course. My former guild leader would get precursors off killing yaks like it was nothing.

Lucky accounts exist 100% for sure. You simply can’t deny it anymore.
Especially when you compare precursor drops from the mystic forge.

RNG – when the drop rate so low that you can not reliable farm for it. You will find a few very lucky players and some that are not so lucky. Either way the drop rate for an exotic is very low and the drop rate for a precursor even lower.

Awhile ago one of the precursor Mystic Forgers posted that their is a ~0.7% chanced of getting a precursor using 4 exotics. That was from over 2 years of data or ~27,000 attempts. So their will be a handful of people that get lucky.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/32uj3o/data_200_precursors_for_science/

It’s all RNG, I could go months without any asc drop and then few times I had multiple asc drops within days of each other.

Had 2 pre drops (from red keep guard and one from dredge), the 2nd happened on the day my guildie was planning to buy pre for his legendary ^ ^

OP. You don’t. wvw rewards are the worst of any area in the game- even EoTM gives way better rewards.

There are no reward tracks like spvp.

Boss fights drop rubbish (and are over in seconds).

Drops are determined by tagging so staff guardians can merrily rack up 10-20 times as many drops as some caster classes.

Yeah, if you are looking for loot, WvW is the worst place to do it.

I’ve gotten 6 or 7 ascended drops (random weapon chests/rings) from WvW rank up chests. That’s out of almost 1500 ranks.

For the most part drops and rewards are craptactular in WvW, but once in a blue moon you may get an ascended drop. It does happen but its pretty rare.

Those that have been doing WvW haven’t been doing it for anything other than the pure love for WvW.

Personally I’m mostly annoyed by all the green and blues, can’t you just give me the hard cash and materials instead, so it doesn’t fill up my bags with... trash. Just feels so useless.

Most i got from lvl up cheast on wvwv rank.

Exotic armor from badges and pray to the RNG God!

Getting tired of it now, TBH.

Been playing almost every day, for just under 6 months and have only got one ascended weapon (which I was grateful for) and a few rings.

I only really do WvW, because I don’t enjoy the way dungeons are designed and/or the way people tend to play them and I just can’t go on like this, financially.

I hear PVE-only players say they can make 70g a day; whereas, I only normally make about 5g, if I’m lucky.

I didn’t mind ploughing real money into the game, to begin with, but I have to draw the line somewhere.

So, if I can’t make some kind of in-game “living” from playing the parts of the game I enjoy/can tolerate, I will just have to play something less expensive instead.

1700+ ranks and never got an ascended weapon or armor chest ;c

Tigaseye.2047:

Getting tired of it now, TBH.

Been playing almost every day, for just under 6 months and have only got one ascended weapon (which I was grateful for) and a few rings.

I only really do WvW, because I don’t enjoy the way dungeons are designed and/or the way people tend to play them and I just can’t go on like this, financially.

I hear PVE-only players say they can make 70g a day; whereas, I only normally make about 5g, if I’m lucky.

I didn’t mind ploughing real money into the game, to begin with, but I have to draw the line somewhere.

So, if I can’t make some kind of in-game “living” from playing the parts of the game I enjoy/can tolerate, I will just have to play something less expensive instead.

6 months and you got an ascended… Lol, try playing from headstart and main WvW only, no fractals, no dungeons… Gold is hard to make, gear is hard to get, and oh yeah, not one ascended armor/weapon chest. Guess I need to leave the part of the game I like and try fractals, oh wait, people are a** holes and judge by achievement points, which if you only WvW is not very high. Yet, my account seems to have permanent bad luck.

kill veterans, any veterans, guards, mobs etc. on one lucky day i got a Dusk. yesterday a guildie got a Dawn from veteran harpy. yeah, rng sucks.

its complete RNG, im rank 1700 and can count the ascended drops i got from wvw on one hand. I’ve also never had a precursor drop.

Otaur.9268:

Tigaseye.2047:

Getting tired of it now, TBH.

Been playing almost every day, for just under 6 months and have only got one ascended weapon (which I was grateful for) and a few rings.

I only really do WvW, because I don’t enjoy the way dungeons are designed and/or the way people tend to play them and I just can’t go on like this, financially.

I hear PVE-only players say they can make 70g a day; whereas, I only normally make about 5g, if I’m lucky.

I didn’t mind ploughing real money into the game, to begin with, but I have to draw the line somewhere.

So, if I can’t make some kind of in-game “living” from playing the parts of the game I enjoy/can tolerate, I will just have to play something less expensive instead.

6 months and you got an ascended… Lol, try playing from headstart and main WvW only, no fractals, no dungeons… Gold is hard to make, gear is hard to get, and oh yeah, not one ascended armor/weapon chest. Guess I need to leave the part of the game I like and try fractals, oh wait, people are a** holes and judge by achievement points, which if you only WvW is not very high. Yet, my account seems to have permanent bad luck.

I know exactly what you mean.

I don’t do dungeons and fractals, either, except once in a blue moon.

Haven’t even done all the dungeon paths yet; let alone any moderate/high level fractals.

I got the ascended weapon from WvW – in a borderland, not in EOTM (which I also haven’t really done until recently).

I’ve “only” played for 6 months, but I do play a lot of WvW, in terms of hours, so it’s not like I only play 2 hours a day and still got the weapon, if that makes you feel any better?

I totally agree with you about a lot of people’s attitudes in dungeons and fractals and just dislike the whole skip>stack>melee thing, which is why I tend to avoid them, as well.

I did a few with a guild I just joined, recently and they were patient with me (and my WvW gear), which was obviously really nice of them, but I just don’t see why people are forced to play PVE to make gold?

Even EOTM is less than ideal – you get more loot, but the terrain is horrible for (potential) group PVP.

It’s confusing, with too many chances to die from falling, until you learn the map and once you do fall, you can’t get back to the zerg.

That’s even assuming you enjoy constant zerging, of course…

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a gorgeous-looking map and far more interesting to look at than the regular WvW maps.

I think it would, actually, be really nice for solo PVE, for example, but I can’t help finding it confusing how that is the way new players are supposed to be eased into WvW.

As it’s so much harder to navigate than the “real” maps are.