There are 3 types of drops,
1. Equipment drops which is made up of armour, weapons, jewels, back pieces,
2. Crafting drops which is made up of fines, bags and salvageable.
3. and Junk drop which is made up of anything that gets sold when you hit the sell junk button.
On Nov15 something was changed that changed the drop mechanic for a lot of players. Now while ArenaNet says they didn’t change the mechanic maybe another change did.
They may say that they didn’t change the drop mechanics but this says otherwise.
Martin Kerstein
Head of Global Community
" Corrected drop rate for Unidentified Dye.
On November 1, we introduced a change that unintentionally increased the drop rate of Unidentified Dye. Today’s game update corrects the drop rate for Unidentified Dye."
Interestingly enough this change was made around the time loot went sour…
IF not that exact update it was the one that caused the increased drop rate (typo error probably) but we know they were tweaking numbers since they accidentally increased the unid dye drop rates; the Nov 1st patch notes dont say anything about tweaking loot but it happened, so my question is this what all were they tweaking? Regardless they did/do tamper with drops at one point or another.
I have a magic find set. I use it a lot, when I’m in cursed shore event farming. I notice drastically good drops when I’m running with a party, while I have my magic find stuff together. I got 6 rares from one event, and in an event like Plinx, I average 3. I use a lot of magic find, over 200 with boosts.
My question is, for people who complain about it being a waste of a stat. If I wasn’t using magic find, I’d be using toughness. What does toughness do? Makes me harder to kill.
That’s nice and all, except that I’m using a ranged weapon, with 4 party members, and 15 other people. I could be totally naked, jump into an enemy mob, and STILL never die, because constant rallying. It’s good for farming, but I never use it in dungeons, fractals, World vs World, or anything else other than strictly farming for money. Why do I use it when I farm? Because I don’t need any kitten toughness when I have 30 people around and the enemies pose not a single threat.
That being said, I don’t think magic find has any place in dungeons and stuff, unless everyone agrees that it’s okay for that person to use it.
Lucky you. those sound like my drop rates pre Nov. 15th patch
Must be nice not having the perma DR bug..
220g since launch 900+ hours.
Would be more if i didnt waste approx. 150g in mats trying to get a precursor in the mystic toilet :/ (which i no longer try to do)
Out of the 7 zotic drops ive had in this game (2 from the karka chest) in 900 hours of play.
3 of them came from the Urban fractal.
I’d agree that the loot tables here are pretty good XD
So this is ridiculous, stand for 1 or 2 mins at any ore vein at timberline falls and random people appears and dissapears to mine it, not just 1, i have counted prolly more than 20 in the last few hours of leveling in this area, and i cant report them, seriously whats wrong with ANet? People hacks like this and no one cares…
You remember a few months ago? When you had the ranger/bear bot trains? People were shouting and yelling, “ANet why are you not banning the bots?” Lo and behold, after a mass ban later, people simply stopped talking about them.
They are working on it. They care, and they are working on it. They are fully aware of the problem already. Threads like this do not contribute in anyway to their effort to combat bots.
I’m not sure how it is on your server but on JQ the bots trains are still alive and kicking mainly in Orr, Southsun, and all the lvl 1-30 zones.
They just found better hiding places for their pathing, such as the teleport hack.
For example in hiding places if you go into the deep seas of Southsun you will see dozens and dozens of teleporting farmer bots mercing fish 24/7 with no one the wiser.
They got smart it seems since the dumb guy/guys that were running the ranger bots in plain sight got caught these ones will probably be around awhile.
Most of the bots i see in Southsun teleport all over the place (mostly in the water), so those are fairly easy to spot as “bots” and yes ive had a few invite me to party also; they spam it
It would also be cool if they offered something like FoW also and give us Obsidian armor again XD (we already have obby shards and ectos in the game as it is) and make the skins for it class based and not light/med/heavy, like say take the old models for warrior,ele,mes,ranger ect. (the classics) and use the same models for GW2 and make some new ones for the new classes of course. It would definitely bring in a crowd either it be for prestige or cash or just a fun challenge.
If people are looking for someone to blame they need to blame Anet. They sell gold and that is gold that STAYS in the economy.
I proposed a fix for precursor prices … they buried it in “suggestions”. I suggested an NPC selling precursors for 100/200 based on one hand or two handed. Leaving drop and Mystic JOKE rates how they are. A gold sink that removes REAL amounts of gold from the system. Considering most gold that is bought is purchased for the precursors this is something they seriously need to do. Not to mention it would be EASY for them to implement.
The DR isn’t there to keep us from grinding. It is there to push people to the Gem store. If you honestly can’t see this then you need to stop drinking the koolaid. Selling gold and seriously limiting the ability of your customer to farm it by DR is so sleazy I am embarrassed I pushed friends to buy this game and I have been supporting them since they became a company.
I have been finished with all parts for my legendary and needing my precursor for 2 weeks now. Dusk is 500 gold and will rise before I get to 500 gold. I have several friends in the same boat. You know what? Working for something you will never catch up to because of DR isn’t fun in any way shape or form.
Thats actually a really good idea that i wish they would put into the game.
It would take down the filthy rich that currently control the pre market (The ones that bought up all the cheap ones durring the Lost Shores event and then sky rocketed them back up for even more profit; and the ones that got lucky and didnt get a ban from the karma glitch at launch.)
Well, I think the only way to end this madness is to stop using the TP.
I know people CBF and use it to even get crafting material, but, like ANet suggested, they want us to explore the whole world of tyria. So why not do this. Everyone just farm across the zones and not bother using the TP.
Watch how quickly they will adjust the prices to try and get the “customers” back.
P.S. Maybe then we will get a respone from ANet…
I agree, it seems the only way to get their attention is a boycott.
I see in the near future if this dosnt get acknowledged there will be a viral firestorm dragging them through the mud.
And all they can do is realize they brought it upon themselves :/
Yeah i remember getting DR on karma after 20 mins of doing events back when i was grinding out karma for my obby shards, but hey at least back then we still got loot XD
GW1 vets will notice this is just like being “coded” and “non coded”
But in GW1 if you were coded from over farming ectos in UW for a week straight stopping for a month would reset it (i commonly went on hiatus and would notice my loot improve 10 fold)
But here that dosnt seem to be the case as many have quit for a month+ and came back to see if it has changed and it hasnt…
My guess is its working as intended, BUT its not resetting the “coded” status (DR is pretty much the same thing different name i suppose, but coded was area/time based and not number of kills/number of events based) probably do to a bug or some such nonsense.
I played GW1 for 6 years and there are only 2 areas that were nostalgic to me, the Dukes place in the plains of ashford and the old LA town center that is under water.
Most places are totally “new world” like the fractal where you play as a charr taking over Ascalon; that is NOT Ascalon :P
2 die-hard friends of mine that have managed to keep playing confirm many of the problems written about here and also let me know about the population levels.
You miss that bit or just choose not to see it?
600+ hours here i can confirm most of the complaints here also, lol mainly the loot being total crap for most people.
On top of this they started nerfing the players ability to make gold in the game. I am not ignorant mind you, I know that some of the nerfing was to deal with the bot problem but a lot of it, in my opinion, was devised in a plot hatched by the corporate accountants to force the sell of gems.
This is a very bad argument.
Today, for someone to buy Mjolnir using gems, it would cost more or less one thousand dollars. How much more do you think that item would sell if it cost 20 dollars?
The reason why farming has been nerfed – as it should be – is in my signature. Farmers and grinders are complaining that grinding is unrewarding, but GW2 was from the beggining meant to not be a grindy game. If you bought GW2 to grind, you have the wrong game.
Sorry, but i have one thing to say about your signature
Long story short.
No, they don’t care.
Not a single Mod post about this issue is proof enough; and all the legit (no flaming) threads about the issue (people simply posting their previous and current experiences with loot and statistics to a degree) are simply sent to the “Trash Bin” as the message states its becoming a “conspiracy” thread roflmao ive about had enough..
The only way a Thief does 2x damage than a Warrior is if they are full glass cannon.
In which case you would just be 1 shotted at fractals 15+ while the Warrior is still alive doing damage.
Ive noticed the loot change as well been playing since launch and there is a huge difference.
That said if all you really want is rares just do daily runs of dungeons from CoF ranging up to Arah and just use the tokens for the rare armors and salvage them for ecto.
Granted ecto is a chance salvage but i very rarely get 0 from 3 rares, you dont get the straight up sell value of the rare from the TP but hey ectos are money.
Im sure there are people that view threads just to see whats going on and they never post. That or they are afraid of being policed by mods, i can understand that considering ive once been infracted for simply saying “Welcome to Guild Wars 2” I wouldnt call forum posters a minority since anyone at any time can/do visit the forums especially for things like patch notes (that seem to be getting rarer by the month)
Ele isnt all that weak if you build correctly, Check the FA/DH/HoD thread in the wvw sub and look at all the people claiming eles for hacking when they are just beast lol
Yeah i had to manually set C for “target closest” weird how its not the default since it was the default in GW1, even still my target randomly drops for no reason even when my hands are off the keyboard/mouse just auto attacking a champ that is standing still.
That crazy Mario jump vista or w/e near SE was such a major pain as a max sized Norn. :/
The camera will just constantly bounce off the back of your head the entire time you climb lol.
Ive already farmed my 1 million karma for my legendary (havnt made clovers and i am still basically broke lol) but my 2 cents for getting karma is have a guild that keeps the buffs up, and run: plinx, pent, shelters, jorfast, tars, arena, rakken, and just tag the broodmother and the champ abomination (or if there are multi events up at once kill a few mobs then run the next, you only need to do 20k dmg or so to the champs to get full gold credit.) I dont remember my avg. karma per hour but i do know that in one weekend i got 200k, keep in mind its very boring lol and its a constant battle with DR. Hope that helps
I got a key from a lvl 2 moa in the norn starting area yesterday on my main, i think the keys only drop in starting areas, since i have only seen them there while leveling and getting the daily. 10,000 loots in Orr 0 keys.. 1 shot a moa bird get a key.. lol
