Guild Wars 2

it seems like every patch the drops keep getting worse and worse. I just got 5 blues none of them were over 70 1 was lvl 7 and another was lvl 1. It soo sad that 90% of my drops are no longer lvl 80 gear what has happened?

I might get only 1 yellow per day if i am unlucky which is not unusual and other day that one yellow was lvl 40. So my one yellow per day is not even 70+ . Pls dont respond with are you on a lvl 80 char…of course I am would be stupid to complain if I wasn’t.

Drops have always been one of the worst things about WvW cause they were always terrible compared to runing dungeons etc but now that the gear isn’t even the right lvl most of the time its just stupid please please fix loot lvl 80’s dont want gear under lvl 80 especially not under lvl 10

I’ve gotten exotics, two of them named, and rares in WvW recently. That’s RNG for you.

Maybe I’ve been extremely unlucky with the RNG as well but I have never gotten an exotic from WvW, and I do a lot of it. As it stands currently, I don’t do WvW for the drops other than badges of course; I do it for the fun of it… and for the karma.

IMO… the only drops they need to adjust are the badges. Take them out of the jumping puzzles and put them in the wvw loot bags. Leave the siege and toss in another green item into the jp chest.

Sorry to the baddies that can’t pvp… but they don’t deserve wvw badges for not doing anything to help their server do wvw. Right now they don’t even have to do the jumping puzzle… just pop in and ask if there is a mesmer around to port you str8 to the end. -.-

If you’re trying for drops to sell… do things like flipping mole/ogre. They have some nice stuff in their loot bags and drop them quite often.

I have gotten 2 yellows from WvW ever since I started playing in sep.

I just can’t understand why we have to put up with soo many low lvl drops now. It used to be you would never see items below 70 if you were 80. I see them nonstop now its rediculous. I have no issues with the drops other then frequency the drops are insanely low lvl

Ive seen a zap and a dawn drop in WvW. I guess its all random idk

Daxx.5076:

I just can’t understand why we have to put up with soo many low lvl drops now. It used to be you would never see items below 70 if you were 80. I see them nonstop now its rediculous. I have no issues with the drops other then frequency the drops are insanely low lvl

That’s true… and I have noticed that for a while we’ve been getting loot based on the level of the person we killed. Getting a level 40 blue isn’t an appropriate reward if you have to kill that level 40 in the middle of a zerg -.-

The drops from bags are based on the level of the target you killed. It seems you are fighting a lot of low level players.
The loot scaling added in PvE, where low level mobs still reward you appropriate to your level loot (sometimes) doesnt seem to apply in WvW.

So you wont see (or very unlikely) any lv70 or higher rares from enemies that arent level70+ themselves. Its where most of my woolcloth has come from, low level (around lv20) players in WvW.

Anyway, if you are suddenly fighting another server a lot, or there is some real-life thing going on, that causes a massive influx of low level players into your enemies WvW (Like, i duno… holidays…) you will suddenly see a steep drop in loot quality.

Terrahero.9358:

The drops from bags are based on the level of the target you killed. It seems you are fighting a lot of low level players.
The loot scaling added in PvE, where low level mobs still reward you appropriate to your level loot (sometimes) doesnt seem to apply in WvW.

So you wont see (or very unlikely) any lv70 or higher rares from enemies that arent level70+ themselves. Its where most of my woolcloth has come from, low level (around lv20) players in WvW.

Anyway, if you are suddenly fighting another server a lot, or there is some real-life thing going on, that causes a massive influx of low level players into your enemies WvW (Like, i duno… holidays…) you will suddenly see a steep drop in loot quality.

For me it’s usually about 10-20% loots is lower than level 80… that’s a decent drop in overall loot quality. However means that only 10-20% or so of the people I’m fighting are lower level… and the rest are high/capped.

To kill a lower level player is nearly as hard as killing the 80’s when they are all mixed together and protecting each other in a party/zerg. The game scales players up to try to even things out… heck… a lowbie can use siege just as well as a capped player can. It’s not right to lower the quality of my loot when the difficulty of what I’m doing hasn’t changed much. Thus the all loot & loot bags should scale with my level and not theirs.

Well lower level players do go down much easier. Especially in zerg on zerg a lv80 zerg will easily wipe a zerg twice or even three times its size if its all lv20s.

But that is just one example. There are situations where level doesnt matter, for example sitting on siege. Or when scaling takes the kitten and awards you with a 30k HP Guardian and a 1,8k per tick non-crit Ranger with its Volley. Some people deliberately use lower levels to exploit crooked scaling, especially with guild buffs.

So i agree with you that loot from such players shouldnt be dramatically worst. And it currently is. Take note, the lootbags can also contain lootbags (lol lootbag inside a lootbag). The bags from higher level players are of a higher quality and can contain T6 materials. Or you get salvageables that can be turned into t5/t6 materials.
Possibility of ectos from rares, exotics, ancient wood salvage, ori ore salvage, powerful blood and other fine T6 mats to even cores and lodestones.

In my opinion the drop rate has gone up, in the last month or so I have had 3 exotics drop, which is more then I can say in any PvE farming I have ever done.

Best part is we only have to wait TWO WHOLE MONTHS for a possible partial incentive for something that has sucked a kitten since release. And then there are the non-existent badges… I’m so tired of wvw; I really don’t see the point anymore between the kitten drops, the rampant exploits and the lack of goals.

You were expecting parody? Please

Not like we choose to have low lvl’s in WvW we should not be punished by having our time wasted fighting them. I am not a thief I dont get to pick a choose who I fight. I can’t just say oh look 5 non80’s I just wont fight them since they will give me nothing of value. Fact is I kill whoever I come accross in WvW if the other team is stacked with lower levels that is not my fault in the slightest and I should not be punished for it.

Are lower lvls easier to kill for us geared 80’s? yup they most certainly are. Are they soo easy that we should just not getting anything of value from them? they most certainly are not

I never dropped anything worthwhile in WvW. In fact, i go farm Cursed Shores regularly just so i can keep on earning some gold. It shouldn’t be like this. WvW players should get all they need within WvW.

I have gotten 2 named exotic armor pieces in the last 3 weeks. I had never gotten an exotic drop before in WvW with 700+ hours on this character(or the rest of the game for that matter). I have also gotten multiple rares; some days I get 3-4, others none. It is still RNG, but the loot table has almost certainly been improved lately.

I have horrible RNG in general… Drops in WvW are pretty scarce and often leave me feeling sad. I play for the love of battle. But i would love some really rewards for the amount of work i have to go through.

Maybe increased RNG in zerg battles the longer your able to survive and pick up your bags?

Maybe… Controlling the Sentrys posted along the road markers gives you a general increased boon? like +3 to all stats and +5% magic find in the area of the sentry and make it like 5000 range?

If they made they drops in WvW worth it the PvE population would find reason to play WvW. That and it would insprise old players to come back.

And… Anet… New maps… If not in February then sometime in the future… make it a secondary focus, but still a focus ya?

I’ve never even gotten an exotic drop anywhere than karka chest and map completion, so WvW is just par for the trash course for me

Bastionhawk.7120:

I’ve gotten exotics, two of them named, and rares in WvW recently. That’s RNG for you.

I make 5-7g an hour killing trash mobs in PvE, with zero risk. Unless those two exotics had Divinity Runes, it really does not matter.

It makes me sad I HAVE to PvE every day to make up for the amount of coin I spend in WvW.

i’ve got maybe 2 exotics in one month of wvw and I play quite a lot.

I get averagely maybe 1g profit playing mostly wvw all the free time i have.

I think it is ok that wvw reward is less than pve I can live with that. But I still think wvw rewards are quite low. Badges are much more difficult to get than dungeon badges and you don’t really get anything with them. I do contribute a lot in wvw but I get less badges than 20 minute dungeon run a day. And armor you get with them is mostly useless.

I think partial reason for bad random drops here is ridiculous MF gear and boosts. They’ve nerfed the drops so with normal combat gear you get nothing. And since there are not really so many chests in wvw… Not that I’ve gotten anything from dungeon chests ever either. Only grinding fractals here and there seems to do anything nowadays.

WvW is going to die soon if anet doesn’t start “fixing” things and game is dying otherwise too unless there’s something else to do than fractals. Grinding infinite gold makes some ppl happy but I have courage to claim that it’s not majority of us. :P

well ive got a few a rares over the past 2 weeks and got a named exotic last night

(although I was a n00b and deleted/sold two pieces of my WvW armor by accident, and now have 2 pieces of MF gear on xD)

I’ve gotten exactly 1 exotic drop for killing a player and I’m always in WVW with tons of kills.

It could be worse you could be getting talons for 70% of your drops from wvw kills. I tell you there is no reasons for junk items to be in pvp kills. Drop proper lvl drops and badges. No junk from pvp kills which take alot more effort than pc.

I don’t really recall getting anything awesome in WvW. Got one of the Christmas recipes tonight which was nice.

Tbh though I’m there to rip off enemy heads and wee down their throats. So long as I can pay for the bits and pieces I need to make my enemies miserable not too fussed about shiny itamz.

I made an Asura for their T3 armor, but at 80 all I do is WvW.
It would be great if doing WvW would help me towards my goal, but as long as they make it so we can get Ascended gear (excluding Agony since there is no need for it in WvW) from it ill be more that content

Drops are pretty bad, but recently I started to pvp more since I finished my ascended rings (after weeks of stupid grind) and just this week I got two named exotics.
One worth 8g, the other worth 4g.

I have looted 3 exotics and at least 20 rares in the last month from wvw player drops alone, this does not include the few dozen yellows I have gotten from flipping supply/towers/keeps. I am not sure why everyone seems to be having issues. I would be for a slightly increased badge drop rate, though even this does not seem to be too low. Kill more, guys?

I’ve gotten 10 or so exotics this last week from FotM. More rares than I can remember and a wad of lodestones, cores, and T6 mats.

In my entire playtime of WvW, I’ve gotten 2 exotics and maybe 5 rares. I solo 99.99% of the time although in zerg so my badge count is also laughably low at 360 or so right now out of the 500 needed for the gift.

Aberrant.6749:

IMO… the only drops they need to adjust are the badges. Take them out of the jumping puzzles and put them in the wvw loot bags. Leave the siege and toss in another green item into the jp chest.

Sorry to the baddies that can’t pvp… but they don’t deserve wvw badges for not doing anything to help their server do wvw. Right now they don’t even have to do the jumping puzzle… just pop in and ask if there is a mesmer around to port you str8 to the end. -.-

If you’re trying for drops to sell… do things like flipping mole/ogre. They have some nice stuff in their loot bags and drop them quite often.

So if you aren’t happy with the drops in PVP, just stop, take a minute and just go PVE for a few hours!

That is your solution…

come on bro.

A small group of troll back then complained that WwW loot compared to the open world was too good.
In fact i had to admit, kill streaking through player body while also collecting rare type of random equipment and blueprint was indeed too rewarding ( such a shame! ).
As for now, WwW drop are mostly badge and nothing else.
Funny how listening to the wrong side can hampering the concept of long term battle.

I just want to know why I can’t get bags to save my life on my condition Necro.

It’s very lame. I have as many badges on my level 40-50 Mesmer and Theif as my level 80 Necro, my first character that I’ve done more WvW on than any other.

On the plus side if you like to collect junk like talons you in a win in wvw. Instead of just putting badges and weapons/armor in drops they put stuff that has no reward in it.

Look I better not get any more junk killing guild claiming lords, they supposed to drop badges not junk.

Arenanet has broken system with badges which first of all shouldn’t be associated with legendaries to begin with in game anyway.