Guild Wars 2

I see a lot of mention of drop rates being lower recently then they had been. Both in terms of lodestones and rare items in general. I wonder if adding the wintersday gifts to the drop tables somehow caused this issue we are experiencing. Or if there are just a lot of people facing a period of bad draws from the RNG so that it feels like things are worse off.

Here is an example of one outing I had since the wintersday patch. I spent 1.5hrs farming sparks with 150 MF. I am fine not getting a single lodestone as that happens. But the only rare drop I got the entire time was a Platinum Doubloon. In the past weeks if I did this I would get 3-6 rare drops between items and lodestones. I know this is not any sort of evidence, only a personal experience.

Since the Wintersday patch I have been getting Platinum Doubloons from the lvl79 Sparks and haven’t been seeing Lodestone drops like I was before. Or even random rares for that matter.