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Actually PvP AND WvW – so it seems there’s a conscious decision to nerf this trait there, but nobody’s bothered to let us know.
This is only 4% – there are no notes that state this shouldn’t be 13%
Here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Auric-Basin-Loot-Exploit-merged/first
Instead of rehashing this again, here, perhaps you could peruse this existing thread.
Good luck.
It’s not solely a HoT issue though – it’s a general issue affecting wealth distribution throughout GW2. It needs to be addressed. If John Smith is fine with it – alright, done deal.
It doesn’t really matter since there’s a built in limit to chest loot, and that limit is keys. The contents of those chests aren’t balanced around time spent to complete the meta. They’re balanced arount time spent to acquire those keys, which is constant. No matter how many alts you have you won’t acquire keys any faster than someone who only plays one character.
I agree we use keys much faster than we can chest farm. I did find a way to help get a few extra in about 5 min or less for those who get to AB meta late. The lowest I got was 12 keys, the highest I got was 22 from doing this. I usually make it right before challenges start if I’m leaving TD meta. The way I get the extra keys is during the challenge events in AB there is an event that spawns at the gate where you need to kill 9 waves. This event takes place at every gate at the same time. Kill one wave and wp to the next gate kill another wave and so on until you do all 4. You will get reward/keys for all 4 events. If you get lucky you can get the occasional vet vinewrath for additional map participation. Doing just those I can gain about 150-175% map participation, anywhere from 12-20+ keys (usually 12-15 avg.) and a little extra map currency to help buy more keys.
Still not enough keys for as many chest as we can farm but hey every key helps. So not sure why all the fuss.Maybe everyone has been doing this all along and I’m just late to the party, I don’t know.
So basically what we’re saying here is – in approx 20 minutes, you’ve earned enough Keys for ~15-25 rares + all the other loot in the chests. Can nobody see the problem with that? The loot/effort ratio is WAY too high – it shifts wealth faster than any other method.
It doesn’t really matter since there’s a built in limit to chest loot, and that limit is keys. The contents of those chests aren’t balanced around time spent to complete the meta. They’re balanced arount time spent to acquire those keys, which is constant. No matter how many alts you have you won’t acquire keys any faster than someone who only plays one character.
So why do we even open chests? Why not just give us the loot instead of keys? We could just spend map currency and instantly get the loot that was in the Grand Chests.
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Bringing a lot of rares/ectos into the market should just lower the price of ectos or will just slow the inflation that’s currently happening.
That’s not the problem here, the problem is how little effort is involved in acquiring so many rares, and the main limiting factor not being effort (or even time) – but actually external forces – IE SSDs and fast Internet.
I would assume the reason is for the same reason you can loot noxious pods, caches, and cargos on multiple toons. Doesn’t really seem exploitable and if they were to “fix” those chest then they would need to “fix” all the other loot chest so that they work the same.
Those aren’t NEARLY as concentrated nor as valuable. Tarir you just open 5 chests, get 5 rares + a chance at high value mats. They’re near each other and there’s no veteran/champ mobs killing you and slowing you down. Plus the Meta takes very little time.
Close, but no cigar.
Is there any reason these aren’t locked to be opened only once per Meta? It seems pretty exploit-y to be able to use alts to unlock the same chest several times each Meta.
This also benefits those with quick SSDs and quick internet – rather than benefiting players playing the game well.