Guild Wars 2

Many players seem to be experiencing little to no success of being able to acquire even just a single drop for a Passion Flower over multiple attempts to harvest all Passiflora nodes in Southsun Cove.

Most reports average about 1 flower per day, though some are saying the have not received one in over 100 harvests in Southsun Cove, even under effects of guild harvesting banners.

Current market value on a single flower averages 40s placing the total cost of a full set of apothecary jewelry close to 170g, enough gold to craft every other full set of exotic jewelry from scratch.

Part of this cost is due to high number of ingredients required for the set, currently a total of 375 flowers while other sets would only require 25 orbs, which have a higher drop rate in the current state of game, and are craftable via component upgrades.

Most players just seek an answer as to whether or not the drop rate is bugged, or if the recipes are in need of change for the jewelry set.

Recent patch notes quote that the drop rate of passion flowers from passion vines has been increased but there is still some question as to whether or not this was a nonspecific reference to passiflora nodes or if there is another node that is being missed by players. Clarity would be appreciated on this topic as well.

Just looking for any sort of word on this topic.

THIS. please PLEASE please PLEASE normalize karka shells/passion flowers to the rate of t6 mats/orbs on exotic gear. yes that means 5 karka shells and 5 passion flowers per exotic. they already cost more than t6 mats and WAY more than t6 orbs as it is.