Guild Wars 2

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/10na32/nerf_to_mfrare_drops_since_last_patch/

Discussion there. The issue is droprate for rares has plummeted, even with more magic find since around the 25th. This is NOT an RNG or statistical probable. This is no diminishing returns, as my green and blue drops have stayed the same.

With 130% MF I was consistently getting more than 2 rares per hour doing some hard grinding. Meaning it would be RARE to 3 and Id NEVER get less than that. Typically the numbers would be 4-6 per hour. Getting only 2 would happen maybe 5% of the time. Almost never. This is over 150+ hours or so.

After the 25th or around that date, 23rd or so I have consistently never been getting MORE than 3 rares per hour. The only thing that has changed on my end is I have gotten more magic find. This has been going on for 36 hours or so now. To put this into a relative prospective, this is like haing a 99% crit rate and getting a string of 10 non-crits in a row. Can it happen? Yes. Changes of it happening? 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Id like to know what is going on from an official response if anyone has it. If this is another part of their anti-bot code, that’s just harming real players again or what is happening?

Thanks and see you ingame.

pokesthread..

What your saying is true, some seem unaffected but wont say why, but they do know something, a few friends of mine have been exploiting for tons of gain, leaving me out of the loop, they love the new high prices now inflicted on us because of this. And make tons of money selling rares because of it. Proof is in the market, just look at any exotic, or legendary, prices keep skyrocketing.

I personally am affected as well, 4 days of trying to get ONE lodestone drop at 140% magic find? in multiple locations. and ZERO rares in 2 days of farming in Cursed Shore? and the rest of Orr, nonono. They must not like having such high numbers of players.

My suspicion is a post that was put up, claiming that too many players achieved legendary items. Causing them to look into more options for new content like Ascension gear and Fractals ETC, when I find it I’ll link it.

So now they created the ascension system and nerfed legendary drops it seems to stop one problem caused by the annoying power gamers. And created even more rediculously priced endgame gear and pissed off players, I thought they were enjoying all the players they have. But fear of players leaving brought on by power groups who superfarm have caused them to start taking actions that will reduce their players for certain, some from high prices, others from frustration of endless grinding. All the things that Guild Wars 2 was known for putting an end to, coming right back…

Here’s a more in-depth thread about this issue: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Change-in-loot-parameters-or-a-bug-Merged/first

Would be nice to hear the official word on this. Sadly, the devs remain silent.