Guild Wars 2

I’ve got a level 30-ish Necromancer and since the update which was supposed to gear the loot drops to your profession, it felt like all I was getting were leather/medium armor drops from the area I was in. (Gendarran Fields)
Today, I started a random Necro and again, 99% of the armor drops I get are medium leather, and my friend, who also started a Necro with me has the same issue. (Sylvari starting area for both of us).
I’m almost level 10 and out of about 15 armor drops, all have been leather, no cloth. About the same for my friend except she got a single cloth glove drop.

I’ve not had this issue with the “wrong” armor dropping on any characters level 1 to 33 of other professions, so is our luck actually just absolutely terrible or are the Necros now seemingly rigged to receive mostly medium armor drops since the patch?

I played a necromancer after patch with similar results. Mostly leather armor drops, a few cloth, a couple of heavy. I got some pistols, too.

I didn’t seem to be getting any dramatic number of items that were useful for a necro. I went to a karma vendor to get better armor.

Ah yes, exactly my point.
I wasn’t necessarily in need of the armor, (I mean, that’s what Karma and crafting are for) I just found it strange that a Necromancer was mostly getting leather armor, and I imagine it can be frustrating for a new player that may need the armor and I think it needed to be reported regardless or else it may continue on.

I’m going to bump this again, it’s still not resolved. I’m tired of my poor necro not getting any cloth loot, either for salvaging or for use. It seems now though, I’m getting 98% heavy armor.

I have this issue too. I made a necromancer after patch to check those new class loot changes. And I got so many gear I could not wear at all. I thought this could just be me but as it seems others have this issue too.

I think you’re going to see this on all cloth armor types because the economy would tank if bots were allowed to level a toon to 50ish at linen salvage levels and then park it for the sole purpose of opening chests farmed by other toons. The most common drop is usually the lowest value salvage in my experience as much as I hate to say it.

Muusic.2967:

I think you’re going to see this on all cloth armor types because the economy would tank if bots were allowed to level a toon to 50ish at linen salvage levels and then park it for the sole purpose of opening chests farmed by other toons. The most common drop is usually the lowest value salvage in my experience as much as I hate to say it.

No, no, this is abnormally low. As in, I have not gotten a SINGLE cloth item whatsoever since the patch. But when I played a mesmer, I got cloth drops. Played an ele, I got cloth drops. My Necro? Now I’m only getting heavy armor. Useful drops should NOT be THIS ridiculously low to the point where I’m scrounging for gear. When I made a necro to play around with yesterday, she didn’t get ANY useful loot except for what was given as level up/story completion. It actually made a noticeable difference in efficiency.

Pre-patch, you got loot more often that would be useful at least momentarily. Now it’s just heavy armor and sometimes leather drops. As I mentioned, I saw more cloth drops on other classes than my necro who is getting absolutely nothing whatsoever.

I’m not asking for them to drop like mad or hand things to us, but since the patch changes, they were supposed to up the chance of useful loot dropping, and as I said before, it works for every single other class… just not on necromancers.

I have to agree with this. I started a necro just before that update and have leveled all the way up to 80, and right the way through, got almost no items at all she can use. Definitely less than 1 in 10, maybe less than 1 in 20, and this is still the case now she’s level 80. In fact I also have the problem that she gets low-level gear too, I thought that would improve as she leveled up like with my ele, but no, still mostly low-level whites. Completely different to my ele. My poor necro just gets nothing of value, or profession-specific, at all. If my ele had such bad luck with drops I’d never have got anywhere

I mean, even from Karka Queen, which I do nearly every day, I just get my token rare-in-a-chest, then the actual drop is all low-level, low value, mostly whites. Seriously. And the token rare is always something she can’t use, just to add insult to injury Yesterday’s rares I think I got a mace, a pair of medium armour boots, and a pistol from champ drops

Honestly, until I saw this thread I just thought I was going mad lol

Oh no, I’m so sorry to hear that it affects you too, but I’m glad I’m not alone. It’s sad. I’m fairly new to the game (but I played back a year ago on trial), and so far my highest IS my necro, about to tip 40 using level 33 gear simply because I cannot get any drops and what I do have is karma gear! I’ve started multiple other light armor wearers and necromancers alike, but never had this problem until the Sept. patch. I noticed it one night while messing about, but thought maybe I was just having bad luck or it was the area, but lo and behold, it kept happening, even on newly started characters.

I’m so glad it’s not just me and my friend having awful luck on our ‘mancers, but I’m also sorry you’re going through the same thing. Hopefully Anet will look into this because it’s just sad, and in the meantime I really hope you manage to get some drops.

Yep, we’re totally not crazy. I leveled all last night and seriously only got one singular piece of cloth armor that was useful, plus one low-level white piece. Other than that, I got nearly a whole set of green armor for my Engineer, plus multiple blues and a couple of piece of heavy armor.

I should mention this was from fighting SEVERAL veterans and two champions on top of going around for hours unlocking hearts and such in the map (Fields of Ruin), and a chest or two (which is where I managed to get lucky enough to get the chest piece.).

Valid bumping. This really needs to be looked at. Perhaps not as terribly as some other issues, but still enough to warrant a fix.

yep got it too. my ranger mostly got light armor drop and weapon like staff etc, my necro got bow and all kinds of medium type armor.

Ishtar.6457:

yep got it too. my ranger mostly got light armor drop and weapon like staff etc, my necro got bow and all kinds of medium type armor.

Ugh, really? I hadn’t played my ranger since the patch, so I didn’t know. Necro was the only one I personally saw the issue on.
I’ve been playing Guardian and my Necro mainly, but my friend was on her Mesmer a lot and got appropriate drops. Guardian gets appropriate drops, Thief does, I’m pretty sure Ele does, and I want to say I believe I’ve played my Engineer since the patch and got appropriate drops. Other classes, I can’t speak for. Thanks for letting me know that it happens on a Ranger though. Good thing I have a lot of surplus leveling armor for her.

C’mon, Anet, could you please look at this? It’s gonna be frustrating for newbies joining too, since Necros (and Rangers) will have a hard time getting leveled due to bad gear drops and may not know to buy karma armor or craft their own.

Going to bump. I’m almost level 50 and I still haven’t gotten any armor. I was lucky to get a somewhat decent dagger.

my ranger keeps getting heavy armor drops and some light armor. rarely gets medium armor drops. i think ive only gotten medium armor from pers story rewards and some champ bags in eotm.

I’m going to bump this and see if anyone is still having the issues after the patch, as nothing was mentioned in the patch notes. I just got the game patched so I’ll go run about in a while to see if they’ve fixed it.

Edit: They’re still bugged.

Bumping. Come on. This is really ridiculous.

Maybe it’s working as intended and ANet plans on making new traits which allows us to equip medium & heavy armor?

On a serious note, yes, it’s annoying. On my necro, I tend to get heavy armor drops and on my guardian it seems I only get medium armor drops.

Bad luck pandemic or game bug? Who knows..

My necro is main for WvW. I’ve noticed a definite, and significant bias towards medium since patch. So it’s hurting income. It’s gone on far too long now, and is too consistent to be just a run of bad luck.

It should stop the profession loot weighting at level 80.

It is not only hurting income, but crafting professions as well. I’m struggling to get through leveling tailoring because of the sheer lack of drops. I’m not against heavy and medium armor dropping once in a while, but it’s ridiculous when I am FORCED to purchase extremely expensive armor just to need to do it again 10 levels later. (if it were only bits and pieces I’d be fine with it, but I shouldn’t be FORCED to buy whole entire sets due to absolutely NOTHING dropping.)

I’ve yet to get an 80, as I just bought the game a few weeks ago, but I had played it previously before the Sept. patch and before that during a free trial period and I know definitely for sure that this is really really screwed up for some professions. I hadn’t seen an issue with my guardian or my engineer, but I’ve not played them enough to make a full assumption. I know that the discrepancy is really visible when I play them for 10-30 minutes at a time and get a whole set of useable armor versus playing my necro for 3-4 hours at a time and getting absolutely nothing at all.
It’s happened to my friend as well, so it’s definitely not bad luck.

bump. Seems to be an ongoing problem.

I played on my ele last night, for the first time in a while – I was absolutely stunned by the drops, just in a different league to what I’ve become accustomed to on my necro. It really is very noticable when you switch back to a necro after playing another profession (or vice versa)

i have no idea what are you talking about , played EOTM all night yesterday with my necro and got tons of light armor to salvage for silk .. i get heavy armor too but not in the way you describe .. in fact , since the patch i play exclusively my necro in cursed shore and EOTM because i want silk. I have an Ele and Mesmer and the loot are similar ..

I played my lvl 80 Necro and got nearly all leather armor drops.
Switched to mesmer alt and the light armor showed up again.

Definitely still bugged. Fix.

Has this been fixed yet? I haven’t been playing since my last post and am about to start playing again (as soon as I get this kitten of a launcher to patch), and it will severely disappoint me if my necromancer still gets nothing.