Guild Wars 2

Anyone else experiencing low/sporadic loot bag drops?

So, Ive noticed lately that the loot in WvW (some days) will drop very rarely, despite my activity/kills not changing. Here’s a bit of a record of the past few days:

Monday: loot rarely drops (about 4-5 items total after 2-3hrs, less than 5 badges)
Tuesday: normal drop rate (bags are full multiple times a night, plenty of badges)
Wednesday: loot rarely drops
Thursday (today): loot rarely drops

I can’t remember the days before this, but I know it was the same sort of pattern – some days would be normal, some days I wouldn’t get much of anything. I used to have full bags every night I played WvW.

I kill 2 people and loot a few vendor trash spikes. Then I get killed, and it costs more to repair my armor from dying once than what I got from killing two people. Now, I didn’t do events and a lot of money comes from that, but isolated world PvP is where you will die and it’s not profitable to kill players unless you’re behind a cannon or ballista.

I usually get an honor token or two in 1 out of 3 bags that drop. Maybe 1 out of 4. The rest of the time it’s gray items worth 12c a piece and the occasional blue. With an honest day of WvW I might just get enough greens to put into my portable mystic forge.

I remember the days when a few hours of WvW would fill your bags like you were leveling PvE. But those days are long gone. Now the vast majority of money is from completing events and the majority of tokens is from jumping puzzles if you chose to do them.

Gear for magic find.

Problem?