Guild Wars 2

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

Medazolam.3058:

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

Dude, what’s the point… they’re not interested in when DR kicks in any more than the drops we’re getting.

Apathy is a deadly virus, and it’s started from them this time. They don’t give a crap about us or our time invested into kills for equal quality loot, so why should we give a crap about them? Like I said in my last post, this whole thread is a red herring.

pretty awesome the very next post was from the game director.

Hardly.

Far from awesome anything tangible is being done about it, all I see is a lot of fit-farting about. They can tell us what they want. Run tests all you like, the reality is you can tweak drops at the touch of a button, a’la the unidentified dye drop fiasco. But you won’t make the game more rewarding for honest players, and as such people are leaving this game, as you can see from this thread. You CAN do something about it but you WON’T, not even as a remedial measure until you figure out why some people (quite a lot now) just aren’t being rewarded properly for their efforts. What happened to rares and exotics dropping more frequently? Was that for the whole game or just fractals? Legitimate questions that need answering.

I am not posting in this thread to antagonize or bicker back and forth, but you must accept for some people (myself included) rares and exotics are indeed dropping more often. In fact since Jan. 28th loot has been much better for anyone i talk to in game (i see it in groups since i always ask them to link rare or better for my personal reference). I am posting to try to help or at least assist in determining what is not working as intended for the people who see the exact opposite loot drops. I thought it might be helpful to get a consensus on when people feel DR has hit them, i’d bet there is quite a range of definitions. You apparently don’t think that will help any, fine. Now the person best suited to answer your questions (game director) has stated that there is no overall bug with loot, no blanket nerfs, etc. So there is your official response. I hope your gameplay experience improves and becomes more enjoyable.

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

Dude, what’s the point… they’re not interested in when DR kicks in any more than the drops we’re getting.

Apathy is a deadly virus, and it’s started from them this time. They don’t give a crap about us or our time invested into kills for equal quality loot, so why should we give a crap about them? Like I said in my last post, this whole thread is a red herring.

pretty awesome the very next post was from the game director.

ColinJohanson.2394:

TheAgedGnome.7520:

I’ve noticed recently (since Jan 28th patch?) that the world populations seem to be decreasing, at least for NA servers. There are no Full servers, and where there used to be just a few High compared to Very High, there is now sometimes about 60/40 Very High/High.

I’m not trying to say the sky is falling. I’m just curious. Is this a reflection of population changes? Has ANet upped the capacity per server?

We created more capacity a little while ago guesting went up live to allow more chances for people to move around their home worlds if they wished to do so. In game population wise, you’ll be excited to know login numbers and peak concurrency numbers have been slowly going up or staying consistent depending on the day going on 6 weeks in a row now. We’re very excited to see that =)

I can def see that on my server (Ferg crossing), maybe since we have never been ‘full’ we got a lot of the new players when the other servers were full. However since the holidays there is a very noticeable increase in population on our server. The starting zones are pack and i’ve haven’t seen so many people in orr since launch.

Congrats on the success, i am certainly enjoying the game!

Just in another effort to see whats going on, how about everyone shares their observation/view on when DR kicks in for them. Specifically, how do you yourself define that DR has now started for you. Please in an effort to gain a general consensus. be as specific as you can be.

if you have not tried engineer with flamethrower, power/tough/vit armor, zerker trickets, traited for flamethrower i.e juggernaut, also backpack regen. eqip elixer S and R and then add omono pie (this is enssential), just give it a shot. quite simply, you will not die as long as you have targets to hit. of course if there are no enemies around, you mostly likely not going to die anyways.

Ok i played for about three hours this AM, did my daily level 10 fractal run, got good loot as always, then killed the shatterer (one rare), the sunless (all green/blue), then farmed events in orr for an hour and a half. My whole group was getting rare drops, in one shelters event i got 4 rare weapons (also got about 25-30 porous bones in that event). In the last week i have got 2 exotic drops from mobs. Also T6 mats drop like crazy on Orr now both from moldy bags and on their own. I did not always get a rare per event, but it at least averages out that way. So it appears yet again there is no overall bug that is effecting everyone’s loot rate, it appears to only affect some people.

I keep posting in this thread because i am just try to help. I highly suggest farming in a full group, if you are at the orr events with like 20-30 people and you are not in a group, you just wont get as many kills thus less loot. Magic find def has an effect, i use full MF armor plus food. I have bad loot days where i get no or very few rares, but it seems the loot has taken a significant bump up in quality since last patch.

Yep just harvet 20 items

Ok more farming in Orr, still getting about 1 or 2 rares every couple events, T6 mats are dropping a lot blood, totem, scale you name it. Also got an exotic bow drop off of a vet mob at the temple of melandru event, other person there got an exotic rifle, off a champ spider. Also lodestone market is dropping big due to two new ways to get them. Moldy bags are everywhere now too.

I farm in full group, as much MF as I can get, kill a lot of mobs every event, etc

Also those new loot chests are pretty hard to see, maybe add some more effects on them?

I’ve already done both dailies, easy, easy, easy… And fun

Peope said they wanted more variety to get ascended, here it is. WvW badges appear to be next month and after that I bet there will be a karma vendor as well.

Got one of the new chests, nothing special inside. Got a level 80 rare doing the destroyer event. Appears to be much more T6 mats dropping in Orr and the new karma boxes are definatly a gamble, I got a few lodestones but other report getting junk. Also loot a lot of greens in both Orr and the destroyer event. These are just observations from a couple hours so not long enough to make a definitive statement on loot.

Spent about 100k karma, made about 10 gold. I see lodestone prices dropping very soon, like now.

shaktiboi.5194:

Medazolam.3058:

from first pass over the patch notes, it appears there may be some changes to the loot in the game.

Disagree. To me it seems they very carefully said nothing at all that would imply a fix to the DR problem and crappy loot in general. They only upped the drop rate of a specific Mouldy Bag drop (higher level crafting items).

funny post, i only stated there appears to be a change, which you disagreed with then one sentence later proceeded to list a change to the loot.

anyways, i hope they adjusted the loot or the DR if that was indeed the problem for the people who appear to be affected or having an issue with loot drops.

EDIT: already got a molten core from heavy moldy loot bag, I think the loot tables have been adjusted

from first pass over the patch notes, it appears there may be some changes to the loot in the game.

Yeah, there is nothing you can do besides report them unless you recorded your run and then just pass it onto Anet and I am quite sure they will get banned for a few days. However, I am also sure no one is paranoid enough to be recording whole dungeon runs, but if this problem gets out of hand, I could see people doin in in pugs.

Report them, best you can do right now.

Also remove names from your post, against the rules

I highly suggest grouping when doing events, can not stress that enough, if you are doing the events in Orr with lots of people there. I find I still get credit for kills solo, but a greatly reduced drop rate. If there are not a lot of people there than this isn’t really an issue. Only a problem if you need to ‘compete’ for kills.

There will be no more golem in a box in WvW next week, no word on other items yet

There are several programs you can download, I want to say MSI afterburner, GPU-Z and CPUID HWMonitor should all give you temp info and are free.

I see SolarNova already posted what you need, please post again when you find the issue and if you find a way to resolve it. Good for other people who might be having problems.

I can understand a lot of you are getting frustrated but you have to realize that not everyone is affected by these bad drops. It seems some people have DR stuck on their accounts, I have no proof that this is the reason, but it seems like a possibility. Since not everyone is affected, it may be hard for anet to find the problem.

Couple questions:

do you group often? What are others in your group getting for loot?

Do you use MF? How much?

Do you get better loot in dungeon/fractal runs (serveral runs, not just two or three)?

I am just trying to help, I am not nor are any of my guild mates affected by the bad loot bug.

As someone who was against new gear and not really a dungeon player, I was surprised how easy it was to get my first ascended ring. Now I am well over half way to the backpiece. Yes it is a little bit of a grind, but the loot in FotM is good to very good and once you know the levels, they can be fun/challenging. I highly suggest doing them as a guild party to reduce rage quit and grief at the early levels.

However, why not use Karma? Make it very high cost but still use a currency obtained for many sources

Decrypter.1785:

Medazolam.3058:

Safe to say there will be a lot of changes to professions skills/traits

Any confirmation or are you speculating ?

Total speculation, however look at all the other monthly update notes.

Safe to say there will be a lot of changes to professions skills/traits

Kerithlan.1659:

Pannonica.5378:

Why didn’t you reflect? The little golems are projectiles.
Oh… and: Shaking head at the removal of fun items from WvW.
Why can’t you just ‘tone them down a bit’?

Nothing is preventing them from creating WvW-only consumables, which honestly is better and the route I believe they’re going.

I like this idea, could add some new dimensions to WvW fights

Some AoE are like this, for example all engineer grenades attacks are AoE but the actual grenade has to hit the target as well. Just being in the area does not ensure a hit

Rifle, its the Charzooka for sure

I use the charzooka (drop off jormag claw ice elemental) on my engineer when I am not using my main kit weapon. Rifle is a viable weapon in many builds.

Easily just had the best hour and a half of farming I’ve had in a long time,tons of greens, 10 rares (12 ectos), two dyes, and lots of t5/t6 mats. Did the usual 3 events in Orr in a full farming group, full MF. FYI I also got over 100 porous bones, but kept on going. Everyone in my group was getting rares.

Just hope this helps anyone who is have poor loot

Flamethrower, it is just fun.

ndrangles.5183:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Natural_Vigor

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Adrenal_Implant

I have been confused ever since I found these two.

i’ve never even noticed that, always thought it was lack luster for a grandmaster trait, but just wow.

You want to see something funny/sad regarding traits? Check out section 5 in the list of engineer bugs and then we can have a conversation about the best/worse traits.

It’s been bugged for about a week on Ferg crossing anyways :-)

I doubt it’s going away, I hope not at least, it’s a fun event!

i get dye fairly often, at least 1 ever 2 hours doing events is high level areas. Also they seem to drop from harvest nodes as well, in WvW i get a few that way, and the bugs there

VOLKON.1290:

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Just want to step in here for a second to comment on a few speculations:

There will be no mounts, no Cantha and no dragons coming with this story arc.
Sorry if that destroyed some dreams.

So… we can rule out Dragons riding in from Cantha on the backs of unicorns then?

so much awesome in that post.

Related, if no dragons, who is cause all the ruckus up in the north? i like the mystery aspect, nice to see some story lines being added.

rootnode.9546:

I remember the Q&A from last week….“bug fixes are first priority compared to new content”, and voila…new content.

you this post before you even see the list of fixes for this month. for all anyone knows there could be 4 bug fixes for every new item added.

patience is a virtue

if everyone can use it, then it cant be overpowered.

be careful what you ask for, one the nerf bat starts swinging, it is hard to stop.

EDIT: maybe ‘overpowered’ inst the right word, i mean it cant be unbalanced if everyone can use it.

WvW, real fast. Can not do it in Orr, no mob variety.

Those using laptops, I highly suggest running a temp monitoring program while playing.

wildcode.5403:

Medazolam.3058:

You get one rare for every 15 hours played? Wow, that is terrible.

Some of us can only wish for this rare drop rate … I was lucky and got 2 rares (below lvl 70) yesterday, but I usually only see a rare every couple of days

Do you also see this rate in dungeons and WvW?

You get one rare for every 15 hours played? Wow, that is terrible. Where are you farming? What are you killing? Those rates are just awful. Just out of curiosity do you do dungeons/fractals? If so how is your loot?

Also I know on Ferg, the farm parties in Orr get rather big on the weekends and we are a low pop server, do you group up to get more kill credit?

Just trying to help, you must be very frustrated.
Also I terms of selling vs salvaging rares, right now it seems like I get a lot of salvages with no ectos, that I could have sold for 20S or more. Also now that I don’t flush ectos down the drain cause I got the 77 clovers. Of course sometimes I get 3 ectos, random being random.

Honestly, the hardest part of fractals Pre-big agony is learning what to do. Level 1 swamp prob has the most rage quit of any dungeon in this game.

Yes it is worth it. The loot is very good and post level 10 you can get ascended rings (best in slot stats).

look at the cost of turning them into lodestones, if profitable, do it. if not, sell them

I wear full MF (so sigil) plus omnomberry bar, change zones often, go in and out of WvW often. Use flamethrower to tag/kill mobs. Harvest every node i come across. Kill all mobs around, i.e. i kill risen even in the elemental areas. Also put all greens in the Mystic Forge, get a decent amount of rares this way, those items are not reflected in the following.

Yesterday: two hours farming in Orr 5 rares, also spent an hour farming charged lodestones, my farm buddy got one, i did not. In the Orr Pent/Shelter/Jorfast events seems like i get one rare every two or three events or so.

Last night in WvW: 3 rares in about 30 minutes, nothing really notable for the next hour plus. Lots of BoH though. used a MF booster since i need food and armor for stats and effects in WvW.

This morning farming earth elementals: 1 rare, 1 onyx lodestone in about 5 minutes, first time i got a lodestone there. couple rares at Orr events after.

My personal observation: 1) rare drops are likely to happen right away in a new farming location. by far most of my good drops happen within the first 10 minutes in a new zone. Personally i have been getting a lot of rare items lately and a good amount of dyes. On a side note, it seems like it would be more worthwhile to sell the rares you loot than try to get ectos from them.

So you think the developers don’t want player feedback?

Maybe I’m over reacting but my poor engineer is really in the ropes here.

Nerf the flamethrower? Aka the miss-thrower. Hahaha, talk about a kicking some one when they are down.

I play an engineer and I love it, but seriously, it is very clear from all the major nerfs and bugs, the class is not what they envisioned it to be. It appears they really have no idea where to go with the class. The AoE nerf is crazy, most of these attacks take active aiming, miss often and are indicated be a big red circle.

Keep in mind grenades just got a 30% damage nerf in the last update, just remove them from the game already.

Would you be happy if they added a new separate achievement called ‘Peaceful Explorer’, a title of ‘been there.’, silver star next to your name (instead of gold), no gift of exploration awarded (just some exotic armor piece and the usual high level map rewards)? This would require only the non-WvW vistas, POIs and skill points.

Feni.4306:

If you don’t care about advancing in fractal levels and just want the monthly you could keep resetting fractals till you get an easy one. Like the dolphin one or the cultist hammer.

this, find a group of low players just wanting to do monthly and your all set.