Guild Wars 2

Hello.
This is my first post on the forum, however after browsing the forums and keeping an eye on threads like these, I felt it may help just to throw in my two cents:
I got this game mid-October, and I love it. (Being a more single-player gamer, I enjoy the “cooperative” focus of GW2, whereas other MMOs pit you against the other players.)
A friend and I started characters together and play every once in a while, and before the notorious “Nov. 15” patch we were getting rare items almost as soon as we met whatever level requirement they have to drop. Not a lot of rares, mind you, but maybe 1 every second time we played, but it was enough to make us go “Sweet! I got another rare!” I’m not sure if my friend has noticed any change, but since the Nov. 15 patch I have gotten only 1 rare on that character.
Another thing I would like to add is that since the Nov. 15 patch I have made some new charatcers, and have gotten one of them to level 80. (The other two are at levels 42 and 16) Like others here, I have noticed a significant lack of drops from Veteran and Champion enemies in the world. I managed to get 100% world completion on my level 80 character, and when I was exploring the Orr zones I suddenly realized what all the complaints of “porous bones” were about. My time through the higher level zones were tough; like others have said, a lot of “junk” items, and a lot of “white” equipment items, and not much else. I did about 90% of my map completion solo, calling in help only when I really needed it, so I took down a lot of Veterans and a few Champions by myself, and was always a little sad when I wasn’t able to loot them for a reward for my time. Also like others have said, drops from big events like dragons aren’t rewarding either; I have done the dragon events ~10 times, and never recieved anything better than a green from any of them, and even getting greens from those big events make me feel lucky.
I’m not as concerned about the loot drops as many here; I don’t care about getting a Legendary, nor about getting the best armour ever (I saved up for a long, long time to get a set of exotic armour, and even then I just bought whatever was cheapest on the Trading Post) so the lack of drops is more of a minor annoyance to me, but I have noticed it is there.
This has just been my experience, but I hope adding my voice to the chorus might help give a bit more of a push for this to be fixed; I don’t want this community to derail.
Cheers.