Guild Wars 2

Before the introduction of this exotic spoon, I used to receive exotic drops on average of 1 per day in WvW. Since this silly collection of spoons started I don’t believe I have received a single drop of an exotic that was not in a bonus chest while in WvW. Please fix this. We do not need these spoons. They are beyond useless.

Thank you.

I think you’ve been insanely lucky if you’ve been getting an average of 1 Exotic a day from WvW.

Stuff like the recipes and map scraps introduced with the September feature pack seem to be additional drops on top of the existing loot tables. I think it’s likely that the the Spoons are the same.

I don’t believe I was ‘insanely lucky.’ I play a lot of WvW. I kill a lot of things. Now every time an exotic chest appears, it’s a spoon. I’m convinced they screwed up the drop tables for exotics by making these spoons exotics and having a high probability of dropping once you roll an exotic. Since I don’t do much pve, I don’t know if the same is true for there.

Still no exotic drops.. hello… is this being looked into?

I’ve been getting a number of exotic drops in WvW as well as a number of spoons so perhaps you are just on a very unlucky streak – everyone goes through that now and then!

SolarWind.5693:

Before the introduction of this exotic spoon, I used to receive exotic drops on average of 1 per day in WvW. Since this silly collection of spoons started I don’t believe I have received a single drop of an exotic that was not in a bonus chest while in WvW. Please fix this. We do not need these spoons. They are beyond useless.

Thank you.

Must of been soooo nice.. I get 1 exotic a month lol

Otaur.9268:

SolarWind.5693:

Before the introduction of this exotic spoon, I used to receive exotic drops on average of 1 per day in WvW. Since this silly collection of spoons started I don’t believe I have received a single drop of an exotic that was not in a bonus chest while in WvW. Please fix this. We do not need these spoons. They are beyond useless.

Thank you.

Must of been soooo nice.. I get 1 exotic a month lol

Yes, it was nice. I sometimes play 16 hours a day though.. so it’s time spent. Do people saying I’m lucky play as many hours? Think about how much time you actually spend playing x how many things you kill during that time.

I also play mostly wvw and can be happy if I get max 3 rares per day, havent seen exotic from drop for a few months and after patch I got 4 Spoons in total (still better than ascended ring) so cant say if spoon changed exotic drop rate…

But I have to agree, if you were getting 1 exotic per day, you were very lucky…

in PVE people used to get fangs of Tequatl, Runes of the sunless, and bone fragments, as well as many other exotic weapons every dy. Our server group does it daily.
Since the introduction, exotics are dropping less, and most of them are spoons. I have 11 spoons to date. I use to get one of three listed above every day, sometimes a good one

1 exo/day even at 16 hours a day seems like an excellent rate to me. I have 200+% MF and even when I kill a ton of foes each hour, I rarely see as many as 1 exotic in 50-60 hrs.

Also, I suspect that spoons are part of a different drop table entirely, i.e. they don’t affect how often you get other exotics.

Or, just maybe, now that the new WvW Tourney has started, you’re finding yourself staying in one map more often. This will drastically increase DR. I’m 99.9% positive that exotic spoons have entirely different drop rates/loot tables. This would be like me claiming, as a dungeon speed clearer, that looting exotic champ bags is lowering my exo drops. The two are not connected in anyway. There’s not a “Hey! This guy just dropped something flagged as Exotic” code working against you.

These spoons are not that terrible :P They drop a lot more than other exotics and they can be sold for 10s each

the exotics I get are most times below 1g worth
Also like 1 time a month

Last I also had a lucky periode where I got 16 exotics in just 4 days but obtained this in pve/wvw/dungeons

I’ve noticed a reduction in open-world exotic drops too, but it goes beyond just exotics. The frequency of rare drops seems reduced since the patch. I run with 330-350% magic find, and since the patch the change has been noticeable. A night of WvW that used to get me 4-8 rares might get me 1-3 now.

I also tried hitting a Dry Top dust storm, where pre-patch, I used to end up with 3-4 rares and a few T6 from a single set of dust storm events. Now I get 0-1 rares, and most of the time it’s 0. T6 seems to have dried up too.

Another thing: since the patch, it seems like more of the mobs I kill don’t drop anything at all than ever before It’s not just a tagging problem, because it happens with solo-kills too. Sometimes I’d almost guess i was stuck in some kind of unshakable DR.

I’m going to do some more data-collection to try to figure out if this is a real issue, or just a serious slump due to the extra-streaky RNG in this game. It’s difficult though, when all I have is perceptions of how it used to be, but I never kept any data on my drops.

Hmm. I average an exotic drop every 1-3 days, and that’s with about 4 or 5 hours put into WvW each day. Sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re junk (I get an awful lot of Guild Defenders, for example). Last night an exotic Berserker’s Ring dropped, and I was thinking “meh, probably worth a gold or so but it’s at least something” to find out that they were listing on the TP for almost 16 gold. That’s more than most exotic drops I’ve gotten out of the game, aside from the occasional pieces of armor with strength runes on them.