All good suggestions, but let me throw a monkey wrench into this…
The following information is from Brady Games “Official” GW2 guide.
Ettins – Kessex Hills
30 minutes killing – no bone shards
Risen – Kessex hills
30 minutes killing – no bone shards
Krait – Kessex Hills
15 minutes farming – no bone shards
Ebonhawke (Fields of Ruin)
- did not even see any Skritt around
Kessex Hills – Eukaryote Caves (sp?)
- Trolls – no bone shards
Gendarran Hills
- Trolls (Guardian Pass) – 30 minutes no bone shards
Lorna’s Pass
- Skritt mining hole – 20 minutes no bone shards
See what I am getting at? I was spread around a lot…but still no bone shards.
I took an hour or two break in between each attempt and tried this same concept again, two more times, and still same results.
Not one single bone shard drop today at all.
What I am saying is the “anti farm code” might have throttled crafting drops way too low when the devs added these other things as drop items….I have 5 million pounds of butter now…as probably everyone else does.