Guild Wars 2

I used 2 sigil of accuracy and before the recent patch where evidently they have fixed sigils cause my crit rate was increased it would appear that they do not stack so I changed my off hand to a rage sigil so now i get boosted speed on my attacks plus5% crit, so with evidence provided with patch fixes I would say sigils do not stack!

perceived drop rate is a joke I have noticed a substanional drop rate reduction over the last few weeks at least 75% less drops then i was, I put it down to a flooded market with certain items, which also reduces there value to players. (bots flood the market) Legit players get Punished with DR and the rates from farming are droped substantionally. Ive posted a few times here and alot of people are apparently haveing the same issues altho some players seem to be confuesed with chest loot to mob loot benifits from Magic Find. Magic Find from info I have only affects mob loots and Jormag chest LOOT is totally random and LUCk is needed to achieve the pre legendary drop. But If u are farming for ascended items or legendary mats required u need alot fo 400mats which the drops seem to have droped for me bye an astounding 75% in a short space of 2-3 weeks i mean 20 elaborate totems down to 0-5 in a hour! and thats just 1 mat im farming
at the rate of 1-4 corrupted lodestones per day I need 200 thats a lot of days farming! for little reward to none Anet You need to listen or your guna lose alot of players who do buy gold regulary and wont recomend the game to any one let alone post good stuff on facebook about the game!

puffintoast.6501:

zeus.5248:

Errtu.8276:

Ladies and gentleman let me return with my paranoid messages …

For last 2 days, approx the morning of the forum topics release ive written some stuff about not recieving any good drop/not getting any exotic (except map reward&karka chest) after that; my luck suddenly increased i mean yesterday i run all 3 paths on AC/TA and 2 paths on CoF and i recieved like 8-10 rare and 1 “named” exotic …

And again im telling you i guess Anet just find people who are typing here and increase their drop rate for few days or so or maybe its like a bribe … and will end soon … but today after 4 dungeon runs AC 3paths and Cof 1-2 i recieved 2 rares

That means ive recieved nearlly the total rare count ive farmed till yesterday in 1 day // and i got 1.5k TA tokens / 1.9k CoF tokens think about it am i wrong ? or that just happened to me by a “Coincidence” ?

Same thing happened to me today While I was running HOTW it was really strange,while I wasnt getting any reward for a month now suddenly I start getting a satisfying amount of them Not sure if its coincidence or…?

After letting my emotions get the best of me, and consequently spending far too much time posting often and at length in our old treadmill thread, oddly enough the same thing happened to me as well. Instant rares appearing…
I made a point of thanking the live drop-rate tweaking team through the chat, for the gesture they had made, regardless of what their motive or reasons were, and logged out again.
It just felt too, well, cheesy. I don’t know how to explain it.
I don’t want to be rewarded for complaining at length about a serious issue, whether it is to make me shut up, or as a thanks from a bound and gagged dev team behind their Nexon taskmasters’ back.
And so here we all are on our new treadmill, attempting to prove our perceptions to the actual database, while everything we poured into our old thread fades.
I am feeling rather peeved at being shoved back to square one and reset, the slate wiped clean(ish), and being told to prove it all over again.
It’s easy to see why you did it – that last thread was incredibly resilient and loaded with uncomfortable items, and was surprisingly long-lived on your front pages for something so embarrassing.
I have to say, though, your lock and reset was most unimaginative. Surely the Nexon import team could have brought some of their PR spin into the discussions before the post, and gave us some flavor to go with the shamefully contemptible dribble you churned out?
As our last thread was locked due to being ‘answered’ by this new thread, I am wondering at what point this new stomping ground for our dissent and seething discourse will be ‘answered’?

I dont farm for rares cause i can farm nodes and make 30 rares a day with out breaking a sweat at low cost or kill a few mobs that drop 350 mats and get what I need to make the said ammount of rares, the mian issue with drops lately for me is lvl 400mats and lodestones which seem to droped bye 75% of wat I used to get 2-3 weeks ago and I feel that as other people have said Bots flooded the market so Anet have reduced the drop rates on said items! Also DR affects ppl after 1hour or so farming the same area.

DarkWasp.7291:

Claw of Jormag event:
%140 Magic Find
25+ corrupted enemies killed (I know because my MF sigil was at 25)

2 drops total, one from a champ and one from a quaggan.

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Exotic drop rate:

Prior to Lost Shore (which includes the majority of my farming):
1 Exotic total from drops/chests (Not including dungeon specific sigils and runes)

After Lost Shore
5-7 Exotics total (Not including dungeon sigils or Fractal chest accountbounds)

The increased exotic rate seems to have applied to me successfully

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Rare drop rate:

Prior to Lost Shore (which includes the majority of my farming):
10-30 Rares per 4-9 hours high level gameplay

After Lost Shore
2-8 Rares per 4-9 hours high level gameplay

The increased rare rate seems to NOT have applied to me successfully

Other notes:

• I’m an obsessive clicker (1 2 3 4 5 are bound to extra buttons on my mouse) despite having auto attack on, I don’t really let it do its job
• The majority of my drops prior to Lost Shore came from Penit/Shelt in Cursed Shore
• I replaced one of my MF earrings and now have 3% less MF
• I’m a ranger who uses greatsword for farming, pets are red moa and river drake
• No matter how much damage I do, I rarely get tagged for kill credit from Veteran enemies in crowded areas unless I have a loot group

MF does not work on chest loot so jormag doesnt count!

Resk.6412:

(continued from above)

To the Developers:

This is a test scenario showing the current drop rate when fighting enemies as experienced by a player. Details on character type, fighting conditions, and additional variables are noted.

TEST SCENARIO

Character: Level 80 Necro.
Armor: Exotic (orange) weapons, armor, and accessories.
Magic Find: 0%
Area: Frostforge Sound
*Frostforge Sound was chosen for this test due to the high quantity of different enemy types, providing a larger test base.

ENEMY COMPOSITION

Enemy Information: 25 enemies total. Level Range 77-80. Defeated solo, without the aid of minions or other players. Unless noted, one of each enemy listed was defeated.
Enemy List: Longhorn Ram, Dolyak, White Moa, Icebrood Wolf, Icebrood Hunter, Ice Elemental, Minotaur Bull, Ice Imp, Arctodus (x2), Snow Troll, Moose, Grawl Shaman, Ice Worm, Ice Drake, Alpine Skelk (x2), Icebrood Colossus, Artic Jellyfish (x2), Ice Shark, Barracuda, Icebrood Fish, Icebrood Kodan, Corrupted Quaggan.

REWARDS

Gold Received: 62c
Total Items Dropped: 13
Drop Types:
- Craft = 4
- Salvage = 1
- Wintersday Gift = 2
- Gray (Junk) = 5
- White = 0
- Blue = 0
- Green = 1
- Yellow = 0
- Orange = 0

TEST SCENARIO

Identical test scenario as above was repeated one hour later. This time, Magic Find was set to 95%.

REWARDS

Gold Received: 72c
Total Items Dropped: 6
Drop Types:
- Craft = 2
- Salvage = 0
- Wintersday Gift = 0
- Gray (Junk) = 2
- White = 0
- Blue = 2
- Green = 0
- Yellow = 0
- Orange = 0

Well its obvious why u got no drops 0%MF

if the drop rate is related to the ammount of loot on the BLTM then we have bots to blame for that and ANET needs to fix the Bot situation cause legit players trying to earn a crust and make gear or earn a living in order to be able to play the game in the game without the purchase of gold each week. We shouldnt have to purchase gold just to play the game. But I feel the only way to afford to even run dungeons atm I need to buy gold each week just to be able to repair my gear. Im sure that is not intended bye anet and Bots are to blame, more people need to report bots and anet needs to have strict measures in force to ensure that these bots are removed from the system and not able to return Im sure ISP adresses linked to these bot accounts should ensure this. And also ensure that legit players are not being banned in the proccess!!
I hope that ANET fix these issues cause honestly feel over the last 3 weeks my drops on lodestones and lvl 400 mats have droped substantionally bye 75% which when u need 250+ of each material you are looking at months and months of farming for the same material. /age 700+hours in 45 days. And I feel im an average player!

in some areas the bots are too prolific and the spawn rate suits them and other farmers for materials else you would be standing around waiting for spawn to get the materials u need ie. lvl 400 mats I feel that there needs to be more mobs that spawn the materials u need not a niche area on the massive map that has 30 mobs that drop a certain material item you need. as for heart quests Ive not found any that i couldnt solo with my eyes closed I think it is gear related that u cant solo heart quests.

I dont know if any body else has noticed the substantional drop rates on farmed materials from mobs over the last few weeks, I normally farm for an hour in each spot before DR cuts in and then I change my farm spot, but the last week or so its like DR is on all the time. I mean my farmed mats for the same time seem to be 75% less then 2-3 weeks ago and gradually each day less and less down from 10g in a hour farming to 3gold if I am lucky. Grawls at firesnake trail used to drop for example 10-20 elaborate totems 50 intricate totems 10-20 ancient bones 50 large bones 50 heavy trinket bags 20-30 large skulls(average figures but rarely 75%less as in the last few weeks) every day after farming for an hour, now 10 of the lower grade mats rarely any elaborate totems at all 5-10 heavy trinket bags. Why may I ask has drop rates droped so much, and is any one haveing similar issues.

Short bow / long bow combos are way cool switch between them for DPS burst control and fast attacks the only good attack(DPS burst) on long bow really is rapid fire anyway, but i agree the dreamer does not look cool for a male ranger> :P