The drop rarity of Rare and Exotic weapons from certain places in the world (champions, veterans, and players in WvW) has been increased. Rares and Exotics should be much more likely to drop and every champion should be guaranteed to drop loot. This was to ensure that world loot drops were not a significantly worse way of acquiring rare and exotic items than crafting and running dungeons.
This doesn’t work. We just killed a bunch of veterans, not a single one gave any loot at all. That may be statistically possible, we just killed the champion shark at the new island though and it didn’t give any loot too, although it should according to the patchnotes. As far as “should be guaranteed” doesn’t mean that you don’t know if your own patches may work.
/e: the broodmother also didn’t give any loot.
Iruwen Evillan, Human Mesmer on Drakkar Lake
Seems like they give loot after the meta event chain ended.
Iruwen Evillan, Human Mesmer on Drakkar Lake