Guild Wars 2

So, i’ve finished all but one collection, and that is the reaper collection. And the simple reason why i havent finished it is because Pristine Shadow Claw simply wont drop. I’ve spent more than 20 hours only farming shadowscale without it dropping. All the other items you had to kill for dropped within the first 5 minutes of killing the mob that it would drop from.

Why does the Reaper have to be so much more annoying when it comes to the collection? Even the event you have to do in Metrica took the better part of 6 hours to get because the drop rate on the bloody crystal is so low. I have read about others experiencing the same thing, where the things you need for reaper simply doesnt drop, at all! While the other profession collections drop either on the first mob or within a few minutes of killing it. I refuse to belive that Pristine Shadow Claw is THAT much rarer than the other items you would need for other collections. So either someone did not do their job properly or it is bugged, as with so much else in the expansion.

You might be hitting Diminishing Returns there. I admit I haven’t had it drop myself, but that’s because I personally don’t fight smokescales very often, and don’t spend any time in the particular area.

I guess i was lucky then? My Pristine Shadow Claw dropped relatvely fast. Though i admit is was the item is was the most worried about since it is purely random.

Mine dropped when I wasn’t even aware I needed it, I was running about as a ranger at the time just clearing an annoying group of smokescales that were in the way.

I think mine dropped from a smokescale I killed during the axemaster fight. Good luck getting yours!

It’s one of the first I got and I’d probably give it to you if I could since all my character except my revenant have their tyrian map completion and what gate me to finish these collection is the fact that you don’t get reward for hot map completion if you have the tyrian 100%…

Dadnir.5038:

It’s one of the first I got and I’d probably give it to you if I could since all my character except my revenant have their tyrian map completion and what gate me to finish these collection is the fact that you don’t get reward for hot map completion if you have the tyrian 100%…

Wait… what? You don’t get a reward for it?

It’s currently bugged and should be fixed soon, according to Anet.

Nop this is a bug that they couldn’t fix yet. So if your character have it’s “star” for map completion, this character become unable to gain map rewards from “new maps” : all HoT maps + southsun cove, silverwaste and drytop.

If fell it’s pretty funny to be punished for doing my map completion. Kitten bugs!

It only drops from smokescales in “Skyclaw Peaks” in Verdant Brink. There are about 4 of them there that rewspawn every 4-5 min or so. Think I got it from a veteran one but wiki says go there. Me and my friend got it both in about 25min.

I got it from reward bag from one of the new PvP reward tracks – think it was Verdant Brink one.

got one, I wasn’t even looking for it lol. Just a random drop while doing events.