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As I mentioned before, if you are able to party up with someone on that map on the original server, you can right click on their portrait and join them.
until the map fills during prime time and you can’t get in due to “map full,” which happened to me for 3 hours yesterday. Or until you’re running around doing things in queensdale and are removed to overflow, not from zoning, not from anything, just blink “you are now in overflow.”
Guesting has been the problem from the beginning. You take a server with high population, add in a ton of guests, suddenly you have the crippling lag that we all experienced until these new overflow limit changes.
Remove chests for guesting players and force them back to their home server. Just get rid of them. It’s screwing my experience on my home server, and they are screwing their home server fellow players by not being there to make these events more populated.
The guy above citing worse drops making roughly 1g per AC path is making 3 times what I make per AC peth.
to clarify, that was for a full clear of all AC paths, not 1 path. With omnom bars used, I used to pull around 4g for completing all paths, since wintersday I’m lucky to break 2.5g for completing all paths.
In about 700 hours played since release, over 8 characters (7 at 80, last one at 43), I’ve noticed a distinctly lower quality of drops after 11/15, and in the past month it has been even worse. Before 11/15 I made enough money to support leveling those characters mainly from dungeon loot and rewards and loot from DEs. Drops were slightly better around christmas in dungeons and large-scale events (got all 6 of the exotics I’ve ever received outside of completion rewards during wintersday), but since then I’m lucky to see a green in a blitz of multiple dungeon paths. Running MF boosters and omnom bars seems to have increased my green drop rate, but rares and exotics have become non-existent since after wintersday. My usual profit from a full clear of AC has dropped from almost 4g with an omnom bar to less than 3g in the past 2 weeks due to receiving less overall drops and drops of worse quality, along with less silver received on average for champ kills despite use of omnom bars.
The usual CS farm routes before 11/15 netted me at least 1 rare per hour. I have yet to see a rare in CS since 11/15. I usually run with 0% MF during both time periods.
I usually run my daily through wayfarer foothills, killing many veterans and 2 or 3 champs as part of events. Rarely do these champs drop loot, the worst offender being the svanir’s dome event champion, from whom I receive loot maybe once a week. The frozen maw champion I receive loot from (not including chest) about 3 times a week. I understand this is a low-level zone, but as it is my most common zone to kill stuff in open world content, it is easiest for me to track. Other champions in other zones I’ve seen no increase in drop rate despite statements to the change, and when I do the quality of drop is usually blue. The first champion mob in CoE path 1 (the icebrood wolf) rarely drops anything for me, and when it does it is usually a junk item.
Dragon event chests I consider to have a good drop if I get a yellow seal. Normally I get 2 green seals and the rest of the loot is blue, and very rarely (maybe once a week) I get a rare weapon.
Conclusion is that drop rates are worse than before 11/15 and not working as intended.
tl;dr: I don’t have any specific data or numbers to show other than what I distinctly notice. And I have noticed that, despite a slight increase in drops during wintersday, drops have been generally of worse quality since the end of wintersday, and overall worse (including the bonus I received during wintersday) since 11/15. In ~700 hours I have never seen a lodestone drop, not received a precursor in over 1100 GS into the forge and 600 hammers, and outside of wintersday I have never seen an exotic drop.