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I would hope that’s not the case though…if I had known that I would have picked them up when they first came out. I appreciate your input though and I’ll look into that.
Are these items coming back to the gem store anytime soon?
Can we get a confirmation as to whether or not all the Halloween skins have been mailed out from one of the forum mods?
I figure they have but I’m surprised that the TP hasn’t been flooded with a bit more of the skins (maybe a lot of people that won can’t afford to list?). Either way a confirmation from one of the mods would be great, thanks!
Could it maybe be a way to exchange fractal skins?
He’s referring to no more RNG for Silver Doubloons,
Combine a ghostly doubloon + copper doubloons + elonian wine + an eldrich scroll and there ya go! That’s the secret.
Those contracts were never removed from the loot tables…
I came across something that was posted a while back. This worked for me…it might work for you or anyone else having similar issues.
Navigate to your Guild Wars 2 installation folder.
Right-click on “GW2.exe” and select “Create Shortcut.”
Rename this shortcut to “Guild Wars 2 Port Test.”
Right-click on this shortcut and select “Properties.”
Edit the “Target” line to include /clientport 80 at the end. Note: Please make sure /clientport 80 is outside of the quotes.
Correctly Formatted Example: “C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\GW2.exe” /clientport 80 Incorrectly Formatted Example: “C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\GW2.exe /clientport 80”
Once completed, click “Ok” to save your changes. If you get an error trying to save, your target line may not have the correct format. Please try step 5 again.
Double click “Guild Wars 2 Port Test” and try connecting again.
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More so for lulz
Do you happen to remember what character model you used for your norn? I want one that looks like that but all the models I’ve tried just have them looking too big/husky.
It couldn’t be that the system itself is out of wack, right? Because the way it looks from my perspective, is that certain individuals seem to receive all of the good loot and others get pretty much none.
I think that what is being expressed is that your perspective isn’t indicative of a ‘system’ that is out of wack. Your perspective is biased; it’s not evidence, it’s the result of convincing yourself something is not working properly. Unless there is some subjective testing to see if MF has an impact, I see no reason anyone to believe crackpot theories about luck favouring random accounts. Drops aren’t based on ‘luck’, it’s based on fixed probability.
When did I ever say it was evidence? His argument is that “I get a lot of drops so it’s working as intended”. As much as you say I have no proof and my perspective is biased, his is as well. Where was his testing and his proof? Other than he got what, 4-5 WORLD DROP precursors?
I ran full MF gear and out of all the farming I did with and without it. I did not personally see any change in the distribution of loot, no more greens/blues/rares/etc…All I gave was my opinion and stated that at times I do believe some accounts are flagged. You don’t have to agree with me but that doesn’t make me any less wrong or right than the other person.
The reason I sometimes think that the RNG system isn’t so RNG is that certain people consistently get all the “Valued” drops whereas others get none. For example, in the case of precursor drops, certain people will get 10-20 (A ridiculously high amount for something that is so “rare”). Meanwhile plenty of others do the same things as said individual and never get a single one. I don’t think it’s weird that some get one and others get none but I do think it’s weird that some get so many.
I guess I look at it like the lottery, yes many people play but only one person actually wins the Mega Millions (usually). No one questions the fact that one person won 200 million one time. However, if that same person won the Mega Millions jackpot 10 times, then there would definitely be suspicion and likely an investigation.
So yes to me it’s strange that certain people consistently get stuff while others get none. Note, I am referring to people of similar circumstances, not referring to things like player A farms 40 hours a week and player B logs in once a day to do the daily. Take for example two guildies that spend 100g a week on the MF, tossing in level 80 exotics. One always pulls a prec from the batch (sometimes 2) and the other has yet to receive a single precursor.
None of us know what the code actually looks like and what their intentions were, it could very well be a normal system but it could just as easily be shoddy. Once again, this is just my opinion, not fact or evidence…
I’ve been around 100% for a while now and it took me around 860 champion bags before I got my first Exotic. I’ve also been level 80 for a good few months and only ever had 3 Exotic drops from kills.
That being said, I was lucky enough to get ‘The Chosen’ shield (260g at the time) after I spent only 9g on rare shields from forge.
Which exotic did you get? Also congrats on that, that’s a nice pull.
I’ve dumped around 300g into the MF, most of it consisted of same set level 80 exotic weapons, the rest same set rares, and the last few were just random rares out of frustration. Never got anything worthwhile, so I gave up on that. Better for me to just save up what I earn.
grinding =/= farming
If you farm long enough you’ll notice the difference and the drops.
And just cause you spend, say, 5 hours in orr doesn’t necessarily mean you are farming efficiently. Tagging the most mobs during each farming session is important too. As a guardian there are several skills at your disposable (outside of the customary staff 1)
Well now you are just being facetious or something I can’t really tell. You are basically telling me that I am doing everything wrong and you everything right. All you seem to focus on is that you apparently do everything with 500% effectiveness and all others that don’t have the same “luck” as you or whatever you want to call it, are just doing it wrong.
It couldn’t be that the system itself is out of wack, right? Because the way it looks from my perspective, is that certain individuals seem to receive all of the good loot and others get pretty much none.
Doesn’t matter if they farm the most effective spots, with the most effective classes/groups for the most time, or dump thousands of gold on level 80 exotics into the MF, they won’t get a prec or any remotely good loot. Meanwhile others can dump 50g at a time and pull 1-2 precs every time, just an example. Or on the first day of the scarlet event get 2 crystal guardians in the span of 2 hours (making 300g that day). Meanwhile, here I am weeks later still farming all kinds of champs (Yes, I know how to run the appropriate trains) and what have I gotten? 2 Rockwing Spire garbage exotics (worth 98s at the time). So yes, at times I do believe accounts are flagged on creation but who knows, I will never know what goes on behind closed doors.
However, from what I understand, it appears that you are saying/hinting that it’s fine as is because you get good loot and everyone else just needs to L2P. If that’s your stance then I don’t really have much else to say.
Sorry guys, forgot about this thread.
Yes it’s all anecdotal but I don’t believe in the “account flagged” stuff people talk about. Doesn’t make sense at all.
MF gear works but it’s not the only thing you need to consider. MF works on kill, meaning the more mobs you kill the more chances you get at higher rolls.
Compare these three playstyles:
-shelt/pen farmer (pre-nerfs)
-dungeon runner
-WvW playerAssuming all three players wear MF gear, who will have the most rolls with MF loot? It’s obviously the first one. That’s because the KILL RATE PER HOUR is the highest out of all three.
If you kill 100 mobs in an hour, that’s 100 rolls with high MF. If you kill 20 mobs in an hour, that’s only 20. So it MF is not the only thing you need to consider.
In fact, I’d rather have low MF and lots of mobs to kill rather than high MF and very few mobs to kill.
That’s why some of you may have had less exotic drops than I have (which is the point of the screenshots). I’ve had well over 80 exotic drops from the start of the game because I’m a hardcore farmer – I make it a priority to kill as many mobs as possible.
Another important thing to note is that not all areas have the same drop rate. Remember the second southsun event with Kiel? There were a ton of exotic drops dropping, mainly with the pre-fix “Settler”. The drop rate was pretty high and this was reflected in the price of exotics, which were under 80s at that time.
Right now it seems that the best place to farm is the Lab, but I think the drop rate there has been heavily nerfed with the ton of porous bones you get.
But you are assuming that those who have higher MF don’t grind as much as you do. Pretty much all I find myself doing in this game is grinding. I always need gold to buy stuff that I want. Since I haven’t gotten any high selling exotic skin/prec drops, I have to grind a lot to get the things I want. When I had 300%+ MF, I was grinding, orr, mobs, dungeons, farm zones and all of that. I never saw an increase in any kind of the loot I got. The fact that you’ve gotten well over 80 exotic drops is just luck of the draw I guess…
The same goes for other people, I’m sure there are plenty with stacked MF that have spent thousands of hours grinding everything and anything. Yet they don’t see that loot drop either. Whether it’s a wonky loot system or you just happen to have pretty good luck is unknown…but many others (myself included) happen to be on the crap end of whatever the loot system is.
Yes. Read my sig.
How does your signature prove that Magic Find works? To me it just makes me think that some accounts are flagged with good loot drops and others aren’t. You’ve gotten more prec drops than I have exotic drops…
I used to run MF gear/buffs 300%+ and never saw a significant increase in any kind of loot (uncommon/masterwork/rare/exotic) etc…
I just think the loot system is wonky /shrug.
You can repeat for 20 tokens as many times as you want atleast. The biggest issue is no more karma in dungeons.
You can but all they did was make it much slower and more of a grind…something they said they were against… /shrug
As the title asks, does anyone know why Anet decided to time-gate dungeon tokens? Before you could do multiple runs (if you had alts) and collect the full amount of tokens for each, if you wanted to spend the time doing so.
Now the full amount of tokens are only rewarded once per day per account. What made Anet go through with this decision? It doesn’t make the game more difficult, it just makes it more tedious. I thought Anet was against doing that…?
The only evidence I have that the rng is working is Anet saying it is. They been proven wrong before. So why should I take their word as proof? A: I shouldn’t.
Every day (almost as I have missed a few, but have 4k+ hrs 12+ AP) has eluded me to think that it is either broken, bugged, or just incorrectly implemented.
We all know those players who get everything and those that get relatively nothing. I saw someone give the example of a lottery. Well my reply to that is if someone consistently won the lotto, I can guarantee there’d be an investigation. If someone wins consistently at a casino, there will be trained eyes on them, examining everything, and lots of reviewing from the security room. These types of things scream of something not being right as does the rng in this game.
What evidence is there that it is working properly?
I want one of you to address this posters point. I don’t question the fact that some people get a precursor, while others don’t (or other “good” loot). What raises suspicion to me is that the same people consistently get everything while others get nothing. Why is that?
Pay attention to people posting on forums, guild chat, zones etc. The people that get at least 1 precursor will almost always get another 2-3 or more. In some rarer cases you have people getting 10+ (with 100g or less to boot – or free).
Like the person above mentioned, if the same person were to win the lottery multiple times then it would raise suspicion. Yes, someone wins the lottery every so often but I don’t recall anyone ever winning it twice, let alone 6+ times. Yet in this game where a precursor would be akin to winning the lottery (odds wise), the SAME people CONSISTENTLY “win” the lotto.
Just wondering. Do you feel the required ingredients are too much because of the cost to buy them off the TP? Or do you feel they are too much because you have a harder time collecting enough ingredients?
Note – If it’s too much because of your output, consider the fact that “rare” dyes are rare. And the rarity of “rare” dyes differ, seeing as how Abyss drops much less than Black.
I think they cost too much for what you get, as it seems the chances of getting rares from these dyes are much lower than just buying regular unidentified dye. They also changed the name of it recently, it no longer says (Rare). I find this interesting as well but /shrug.
I am aware that rare dyes are rare but when you only have 30 dyes in a batch of something you are crafting in bulk, you would think that you would get a decent amount of everything. Out of those 30 dyes you can get: Black, Celestial, Abyss, Midnight Fire, White, and I believe another 5 or so lower selling rare dyes. So you have a 33% chance at pulling a rare dye. So, when you craft 250 and you only pull out 12 rare dyes or so (0 abyss, 2-3 celestial, 1 white, 2 black, 2 midnight fire, a few crappy rare dyes) and hundreds of uncommon/masterwork it makes you wonder. Even more so is the fact that I pulled out green/blue/purple dyes from a GRAY DYE package and not just a few, about 100 or so were NON-GRAY spectrum dyes.
So yes, I am going to call bullkitten because it just does not add up. Also, it is not difficult to collect. I don’t get why people think that time consuming = difficulty. Coriander is found in a much smaller quantity if you were to go out and gather it, than other herbs. As such it takes more time / costs more and you get crap for it. As I said before the odds of getting anything good from these seems to be deceptively low. They seem to be just another gold sink I guess…
Go ahead and flame on, I’m sure someone is going to say, “Quit the game, you are bad, quit trying to scheme the game, etc…” But as I said before, I am just tired of grinding, gold is a necessity and I was just looking for alternate ways to earn some. Especially since they just keep nerfing every decent way of farming. Gotta keep people playing somehow I guess.
You realize that you come across as extremely condescending? I understand that the price is so high because Coriander is in high demand but has a relatively low supply. I did not ask them to change the mats, I just think something is not right.
It is a craftable dye that has a chance to give a rare dye. There are supposedly only 30 dyes in that spectrum. IF this is the case then why did I only see 12-15 rares and 238-235 uncommon/blues. I know it’s a small sample size BUT it makes me question what the % to get a rare from that actually is; from more collected data/bigger sample sizes. It seems that it’s something ridiculously low, such as an 80% chance to pull an Uncommon Dye, 15% chance to pull a Masterwork Dye, 3% chance to pull a Rare Dye and 2% to pull a dye from another color spectrum (which shouldn’t even happen).
Basically I was just looking for other people’s input that have attempted something similar. I was also curious if they thought that in the long run it seemed to be profitable or not. It’s not a scheme, it was just another attempt to make money, that involves a bit of a gamble. Just looking at other ways to make gold in the game, no need to get so uppity.
Also, once again they require 25 of each ingredient and 100 Black Beans. That is a lot for what the dye appears to give you, the chance of getting anything remotely good is deceptively low. They could for example change the number of ingredients required per each dye, which doesn’t affect the price of the material itself.
I’m glad you white knight for Anet though when someone was simply asking for others’ input! Have a nice evening!
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Sorry, the mats per each are 25 Coriander, 25 Orrian Truffle, 25 Walnut, and the little bit of Karma to buy the beans. So, that runs about 1g 10s per each (depends on the market) dye. Either way you spin it, i.e., if you farm it or buy it from the TP, I think it is too expensive for what you get. I would have thought that you have a better chance at getting specific rare dye but it seems they have coded it in a way contrary to that.
So, I began crafting these dye in an attempt to increase my odds at getting better selling rare dyes. Seeing as you can get Celestial, Midnight Fire, Black, Abyss and White from this spectrum of dye (some of the best selling dyes).
According to various people/sites there are only 30 dyes in this spectrum. As such I figured I’d have better odds getting rare dyes from these 30 than attempting to flip regular unidentified dyes. However, after having opened ~ 250 over the course of a month, I have found that this is not the case.
I have only gotten, 4 Black dye, 3 Celestial, 0 Abyss, 2-3 Midnight Fire and 2 White dyes. The rest were a few crappy rares (selling for less than 30s) and tons of blues and greens.
My question is, how are the odds on these dyes decided? Do the blues/greens have a 99% chance to show up with a 1% chance of a rare dye? I find it lame that they cost so much and they give crappier results than just flipping regular dye. Yes RNG is RNG but this just doesn’t seem right to me.
I’ve also found that I’ve received straight up green/blue/purple dyes that aren’t even in the gray spectrum. Can someone please explain how all of this works? As of now I just think Anet is cheating me/us and has some rigged code programmed in to push you towards the cash shop (Yea, yea conspiracy theory whatever). It’s just frustrating to be honest :|
I’ve been looking for alternative ways to earn gold in the game other than TP trading/grinding but I guess this didn’t pan out for me. I’m also curious to know if anyone else flips these dye and have you had better results?
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