Guild Wars 2

My wife and I just helped out some guildies with the Ascalonian Catacombs (story mode). We each played a character who hadn’t yet played through the dungeon since we’d already done it with two other characters.

Four weird things happened:

1.) In the cinematic that played after defeating King Adelbern, my wife’s character was shown. She hadn’t started the instance, so we were both surprised. No real problems yet, just sort of confusing.

2.) After we accepted the rewards, some of us commented (not negatively, for once) on the headgear we received. My wife said, “I didn’t get a headpiece!” Sure enough, we looked through her inventory bags, typed in the “Search” field, and even right-clicked on her equipped headpiece to see if it was listed. No such luck. We also noticed that she had accumulated maybe 13 silver less than I did in that run, despite her much greater percentage of Magic Find.

3.) After completing the dungeon, I received a letter from “my herald” informing me that I’d gone and stirred up trouble beneath the catacombs and I should deal with it before it gets out of hand and gets him fired or something. My wife received no such letter, even after cleaning out her mail.

4.) She had died twice during the dungeon, but when she went to repair, none of her armor was damaged. This isn’t really a complaint, just another symptom.

We knew it was weird when we saw Symptom #1, but it didn’t seem that important at the time. She was level 80, so I might have assumed she had run the dungeon already and forgotten about it if not for Symptom #4. She was with the party the whole time, didn’t switch characters, leave the instance, or anything weird like that.

Has anyone else had these problems?

Magic Find isn’t supposed to affect the amount of money you get, just the quality of the drops. There is some food that increases magic find and increases the amount of gold dropped from monsters, but the two things are separate.

Also, when a player dies from a fall (instant kill, no intermediate downed state), there is no armor damage.

Account.9832:

Magic Find isn’t supposed to affect the amount of money you get, just the quality of the drops. There is some food that increases magic find and increases the amount of gold dropped from monsters, but the two things are separate.

Also, when a player dies from a fall (instant kill, no intermediate downed state), there is no armor damage.

I think I must have presented it poorly. I only mentioned the MF because I expected people to suggest that I had higher MF than she did (regardless of the actual effect). I never suspected it had an actual effect on the amount of coins dropped. And the difference in coinage was after selling the abundance of junk and blue items we received.

Also, her deaths weren’t from falling in the Ascalonian Catacombs, they were from hordes of ghosts. I’ve actually played this game enough to realize that there’s a difference, believe it or not.