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Underworld & Fissure of Woe - True Endgame

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Both aspects UW & Fow are one instance not various maps u have to toggle through. Also they have thier unique lore to them.

Anyone who has played gw1 would be for this concept.
Also Humosaurus, GW 1 is dead and with the new graphics, classes, skills, abilities, it will have a different feel.

This will be undoubtly the best addition to pve. Gw1 had this as its End game and people loved it.

Underworld & Fissure of Woe - True Endgame

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So as the topic states.

We would like Underworld & Fissure of Woe added to the game.

“Underworld:”
Similar to Guild wars1, We go in with a team of 5, have to complete several events.
Each quest will test the party’s ability in one way or the other.

This will be a great opportunity for the developers to show off their creative ability.
Heck, just take events from the first game and put it in.
I used to love those, keep the reapers if you like.

Drops: ALl mobs have a chance of dropping a glob of ectoplasm.
End chest – chance at precursor and new weps (Ghastly weps, just like the Ghastly grinning shield, but all weps have that cool looking animation)
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“Fissure of Woe:”
Same deal, as guild wars 1, beat x amount of events and u get rewarded.

Drops: All mobs have a chance of dropping Obsidian shards(account bound ofc) – this gives an excellent alternate to Temple of Balth and you avoid the ridiculous conversion between fractal relics and shards.

End chest – chance at precursor and new weps (Chaos weps, just like the Chaos Axe from GW1 but instead now it’s not just limited to the axe)

Please add a “+1” more support we get, more likely they will add.

Developer Livestream Questions

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I think the biggest topic here should be:

“When is Underworld being introduced into the game?”
“Same goes for Fissure of Woe?”

We can wait for Urgoz and deep when you release Factions but the above two are must and need to come out.

If you add Underworld – all mobs have chance to drop globs and a good reward at the end +
Fow – All mobs have a chance to drop shards + nice chest (Also Chaos Axe, other weps with Chaos Asthetics would also be amazing)
That will statisfy a wet dream of every pve player and we will love you till we die.

Also this will be the perfect Endgame!

Does my Guild already have a keep claimed??

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absolutely needed

A Polling System

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thats not a bad idea

Sir, your Amateretsu is not a bad idea

Ranking in dungeons

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naah not feeling this idea at all, sorry

Crash To Desktop MainCli.cpp(591)

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ok guys, so after several weeks of finding a solution to this problem, i ended up performing a System restore to a previous date.

Once i did the restore, the game downloaded the files since the last patch and everything is now running smoothly. I recommend you guys do the same and post your results here.

I havent had a crash now in last 2 days, crosses fingers hope things go on smoothly now

Corrupted Files Causing Crashes

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Please merge this thread with the link below:
Also RvLeshrac, there are more than half a dozen that are getting this error, more than 2 dozen have posted about this in various threads and god knows how many more just gave up banging their heads.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Crakitteno-Desktop-3/first#post1177083

He has a bad texture. 197186 is a 256×256 texture. A -verify or a -repair should fix the issue, eventually.

If it doesn’t fix the issue, either the .dat will need to be copied out, will need to be rebuilt, or he’ll need to file a support ticket.

You all have different files which are bad. One of you has a bad statue model, one of you has a bad sea-floor texture.

And I think OP has a bad Kodan.

I understand why we are crashing, the real problem is that the verification/repair process is not downloading and fixing the bugged files. Because of this, we keep crashing.
Your solution is to repair, well i have repaired about 20+ times now and i have deleted the entire dat file and redownloaded everything from scratch, that dint fix it still.

Corrupted Files Causing Crashes

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Please merge this thread with the link below:
Also RvLeshrac, there are more than half a dozen that are getting this error, more than 2 dozen have posted about this in various threads and god knows how many more just gave up banging their heads.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Crakitteno-Desktop-3/first#post1177083

Game Crashes 3 Times in 15 Minutes

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Please merge this thread with the link below, its the exact same error.
Nicktion, you are in the same boat as many others

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Crakitteno-Desktop-3/first#post1177083

Crash To Desktop MainCli.cpp(591)

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The report attached by 2 other players is the exact same report i have been getting, the only difference being is that my computer specs are different ofc.
I will post my report when i get home in a few hours.

I gurantee you that there is a problem with the game trying to load certain files when visiting Heart of the Mist and certain other maps.

Also after verification and repair, it should download these missing or corrupted files but it obviously isnt doing so.

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Mesmer Portal - uptime tooltip

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How about buffing the portal, the mesmers are nerfed to nothing already.
Allow the skill to be active for 20s and leave it alone.

Crash To Desktop MainCli.cpp(591)

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I ran a Windows Diagnostic Memory Tool and there was no issues found.

My best guess is that some files are either corrupted or missing which when the game tries to access, it crashes or there is an issue on the server side.

ALso several attempts to repair have resulted in no success.
I have also deleted my entire dat file, and re-downloaded the entire game and i continue to get the same error.

Corrupted Files Causing Crashes

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I have repaired the game over and over and this is getting extremely frustrating. There is no acknowledgement of this bug and i dont know what exactly needs to be done.

I am considering reformatting my pc, but we all know that it will be a pain in the *.

Crash To Desktop MainCli.cpp(591)

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SO there is going to be no response from a Dev…this is a major problem.

Corrupted Files Causing Crashes

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Already did that about 10 times now RvLeshrac. That is not the solution.

Corrupted Files Causing Crashes

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Same exact problem here, finally i was looking all over the forums and here it is….

—> Crash <—
Assertion: A file was corrupted in the archive. Please run once with ‘-repair’!
File: ..\..\..\Game\Main\MainCli.cpp(591)
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 2252
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 16419
When: 2013-01-08T02:21:34Z 2013-01-07T18:21:34-08:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:00:23
Flags: 0

—> System <—
Name: PRATIKNEW
IpAddr: 192.168.1.2
Processors: 8 [GenuineIntel:6:10:5]
OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (64 bit)

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 17131MB/20478MB 83%
Paged: 36658MB/40955MB 89%
Virtual: 2582MB/ 4095MB 63%
Load: 16%
CommitTotal: 4296MB
CommitLimit: 40955MB
CommitPeak: 7241MB
SystemCache: 30014MB
HandleCount: 30414
ProcessCount: 83
ThreadCount: 1233

—> Process Memory <—
Private: 1092MB
WorkingSet: 559MB
PeakWorkingSet: 559MB
PageFaults: 384855

—> Game Context <—
MapId: 350
Flags: 0×241
ElapsedTime: 00:00:06

—> World State <—
<WorldState BufferCapacity=“32768000” BufferUsed=“460152” DrawCalls=“20” Fps=“62” EffectLights=“0” ImageMemory=“2286648” Lights=“0” Materials=“15” OcclusionQueriesOccluded=“0” OcclusionQueriesStalled=“0” OcclusionQueriesUnoccluded=“0” Particles=“0” Submodels=“20” TextureLoadsPending=“4” TextureMemory=“189128684” Triangles=“14574” VerticesSoftwareTransformed=“0” VideoMemoryTotal=“12754872” CameraPos=“-1250.95, 594.826, -2275.81” CameraFwd=“-0.828426, 0.51294, 0.224951” MapName=“wZY+N.l0zgm” MapNamespace=“KFafF” MapType=“Public” MapId=“350” PlayerFacing=“-0.850985, 0.52519, 0” PlayerPos=“-1609.93, 817.102, -2098.33” PlayerVelocity=“0, 0, 0” />

[DbgHelp.dll is C:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.1.7600.16385 (64/32-bit compatible)]

—> ClientContextThreadProc Thread 0×13c4 <—

—> Trace <—
Pc:004020c5 Fr:37bffd68 Rt:0087d33d Arg:37bffdc8 06c08da0 00000001 0003153c
Pc:0087d33d Fr:37bffd90 Rt:0087f53d Arg:00030242 00000000 37bffdc8 06c08da0
Pc:0087f53d Fr:37bffdac Rt:0087f676 Arg:37bffdc8 1cb03a24 10793a90 006a90b2
Pc:0087f676 Fr:37bffdcc Rt:006a9821 Arg:0892c95c 1cb03a24 10793a90 10793a18
Pc:006a9821 Fr:37bffdec Rt:006a9ac8 Arg:00000000 0892c95c 06f66040 00000010
Pc:006a9ac8 Fr:37bffe10 Rt:006a9b66 Arg:00412ce7 09340d2c 37bffe70 0000000c
Pc:006a9b66 Fr:37bffe34 Rt:0041638f Arg:3c82b7b7 00ab766f 06f6a728 06f6a300
Pc:0041638f Fr:37bffe7c Rt:00ab3a2d Arg:06f6a300 06f6a354 09340d20 00000008
Pc:00ab3a2d Fr:37bffeec Rt:00ab3d89 Arg:eb9e85a4 00000001 10771634 002955f8
Pc:00ab3d89 Fr:37bfff24 Rt:00ab3e5f Arg:00000000 06f72e40 0066c80f 00000000
Pc:00ab3e5f Fr:37bfff44 Rt:008c6f2d Arg:06f72e40 eb9e85fc 00000000 002955f8
Pc:008c6f2d Fr:37bfff7c Rt:008c6fd5 Arg:00000000 37bfff94 76893677 002955f8
Pc:008c6fd5 Fr:37bfff88 Rt:76893677 Arg:002955f8 37bfffd4 77959f42 002955f8
Pc:76893677 Fr:37bfff94 Rt:77959f42 Arg:002955f8 506b6580 00000000 00000000
Pc:77959f42 Fr:37bfffd4 Rt:77959f15 Arg:008c6f53 002955f8 00000000 00000000
Pc:77959f15 Fr:37bfffec Rt:00000000 Arg:008c6f53 002955f8 00000000 00000000

—> Error Logs <—
Verify/repair was skipped by the user.
Texture missing mip chain: 0×00ecaf
Model ‘0×010281’: UnlinkModel called on CModel without LinkComponent
Model ‘0×012bef’: Missing anim or fallbacks: zeropose
Model ‘0×011e64’: Missing anim or fallbacks: zeropose
Model ‘0×006eda’: Can’t unlink child ‘0×00e6a4’ from parent bone ‘root’, there’s no bone with that name.
File 0×30242 stream 0×0 is corrupt
Raw file 0×00030242:0×00030242 has CRC 0×4e34c71c.
Deleting file 0×00030242

—> DirectX Device Info <—
VendorId = 0×10de
DeviceId = 0×1189
Version = 9.18.0013.1090
Description = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670
Compat = 0×00100800
VidMem = 4042 MB

Crash To Desktop MainCli.cpp(591)

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  • Crash <—*
    Assertion: A file was corrupted in the archive. Please run once with ‘-repair’!
    File: ..\..\..\Game\Main\MainCli.cpp(591)
    App: Gw2.exe
    Pid: 6276
    Cmdline:
    BaseAddr: 00400000
    ProgramId: 101
    Build: 16419
    When: 2013-01-08T02:03:32Z 2013-01-07T18:03:32-08:00
    Uptime: 0 days 0:23:12
    Flags: 0
    —————————

Here is a copy of what the exact error says.

Crash To Desktop MainCli.cpp(591)

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Ok so I am not sure how many players are experiencing this bug but I cannot load into Heart of the Mists.

It crashes me to the desktop and i have reported the bug, when the game restarts, it asks me to verify my game files, i allow it to do the process, this takes almost 1 hr.

When it finally finishes, i go back in and it crashes again.

This happens to me in the following scenarios:
1. Heart of The Mist – Unable to load into at all.
2. Map Change, its crashing on random maps, last night i crashed on 3rd lvl of Fractal.
Today it crashed on a different zone.

I have also deleted my dat file, downloaded the entire game from scratch but it continues to give me the same error.

Can a moderator please help!

Client Crashes to Desktop When Switching Maps

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My client crashes every few minutes. I am unable to stay on the game to get anything done. This is getting very frustrating. Each time it crashes, it does a long Game Data verification archive b.s. which takes about 1 hr. Then i log in and it crashes again in few minutes….

Arah path 4

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Same here, have beaten p4 few times now, no bugs for my team.
We did kill all them mobs in the way tho.

Mystical Cogs

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Lol i see the update and here comes another 250 cogs, i love you Anet =D

Mystical Cogs

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Why does Tixx only give 200 Mystical cogs?
The mini pets require 250….there are no other known recipes that need less than 250.

Why not give 50 more so we can have at least 1 more mini pet. Might as well not even include the cogs as a reward….

Anyone else feel that we should get 50 more cogs at the very least for Christmas?

Please fix the dungeon rewards

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30 tokens if done on a different char.
Same char, same path on same day = 20 tokens.

Please fix the dungeon rewards

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You will only get 60 tokens the first time you do a path on any character, any repeated runs of the same path on the same day will result in 30 or less tokens.

This is not a bug, it is working as intended.

LEGENDARY at the trading post [Merged]

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Just to clarify, the game has a Cash Shop, Anet made it clear in the very beginning that you will be able to trade gems to gold if a player wanted.

Players who were unable to spend tons of time in the game could still acquire items/goals in the game by spending cash.

Its the same idea here now just with legendary. You bought the game knowing the above was going to be true.
Also this is a f2p game, this model allows players to play a game without subcription and continue to enjoy all the amazing content the dev continue to provide to us by paying no extra cost.

But guess what, the dev team still needs to get paid, severs still need to run and if some players want to spend thousands of dollars to buy a weapon and end up supporting the game then its a win for all of us.

We should all be supporting this and promote this type of decision instead of questioning any of it.

Is this intended with the snowflakes?

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Well looks like the threads were merged so a Dev has definately seen it and they acted by disabling the content which means its something they dont exactly approve off.

LEGENDARY at the trading post [Merged]

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wow i cannot believe you would actually want to Soul bound or account bound anything you made. Why?
and opening a thread like this is what causes many cool features to be disabled.
If someone is creating a legendary and wants to sell it, how is that a bug?
similarly if someone is good at grinding money then let them buy it from the Auction house.

And no one is tolling here other than you Bradesco, there are a ton of actual bugs that need to be fixed, we dont need a thread like this to float in the bugs section.

Please move to discussion instead.

Is this intended with the snowflakes?

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Actually this is not a bug, you will not retain your snowflake unless u use a BLK. Master kit has a 80% chance to retain but that is not guranteed.
Also there is no gurantee u get ectos from this, which means that if you make Oricalchum hook and setting, you have to spend 16 ores, which rougly cost 32s.
So each Salvage costs you 32s, and no gaurantee of ecto even with a BLK.
You would have to make 2 ectos each time to make profit.
Since 1 ecto is only worth 25s at the current price( which is a 6s loss + you lost 1 salavage from your kit)

Is this intended with the snowflakes?

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yup, also you need gems to get Black Lion kits unless u get lucky from daily. In which case u would have to spend real $ to get Black Lion kit to get ectos.
Which is the same as spending $ to get gems and then trade for gold.

Infact even with a Black Lion Kit, you can loose money if you salavage and dont get Ectos back. So its a gamble like everything else in this game.

Legendary treasures medal bug

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Thank you soo much for the update, i cannot wait to see the medal =)

Simin, The high priestess Dwayna bugged

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wow that sounds very discouraging, why is one path of the dungeon nearly 10 times harder than the other 3?

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Arah path 4

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I plan to do this and was wondering if anyone can confirm that this is now working?

Hop, Skip, and Jump Achievement Broken?

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This Achievement is currently bugged, the only way to get this is if the Entire party does this without falling or dying.
It does not match the description ofcource but definately needs a fix.

Messages suppressed for over an hour [Merged]

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Bump, Please give priority to this. Very frustrating when trying to make a party and the only way is supressed after 3 spaced messages(1 every 2 mins) in map chat.

Rich Oricalchum Node in EB Jumping Puzzle

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The first time i mined this node, i got 15 ores from it ever since then, i have only gotten 5-6.

This is why i believe this might be a bug.

Trading Post stealing money

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Nechoh are you sure you bought the item and not put in a buy request?
Check the different tabs to see you might have put in a buy offer and your money could just be reserved by the Auction house till a seller comes around and sells at that price.

Thief's bug exploit. Fix Needed

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The perma stealth is way too OP, at the very most they should be allowed to stealth for maybe 3 seconds and have a decent cool down, not be able to pop stealth every 2 secs and then have skills to kite away very easily.

This is not a broken mechanic, its a broken class.

Rich Oricalchum Node in EB Jumping Puzzle

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As the topic states, the rich Oricalchum Node in Eternal Battle Ground Jumping puzzle only allows 2 swings and gives at most 5 Oricalchum.

Now since its Rich, it should allow us to get aleast 10-15 ores but doesnt seem to work that way.

Has anyone else come accross this issue?

Legendary treasures medal bug

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Both Twilight & Sunrise are legendary weapons. It says in the description of the weapon. If they do not count towards the achievement then they should not be called a legendary.

Now ofc this is a bug, no one in their right state of mind can tell me that no you must do double the work to get your badge since you went for a Greatsword.

Please fix this Anet, I also am a proud owner of Twilight and would like to get some browny (achievement) points as well =)

Arah event chain bugged.

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This is not bugged on Jade Qaurry, please join our server and support us also in WvW while you are here, we look forward to you all switching your servers shortly =D!

Morgan's Leap

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the plant seems to be dead and once on top of the first, you cannot make it to the first rock, is this a bug?

Found out you need to do an event for this tree to grow and then allow you to do the puzzle

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Mesmer now triple-penalized by blind, invuln

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I agree the Mes nerfs are way over the top. not to mention they also ninja nerfed the damage output on phantasms. The only thing worse can be done is to take the race out of the game.

I really hope they revert the Mesmer changes.

Legendary Achievement

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Same, i have Twilight equipped and still no Achievement.

Southern Pact Bugged on Straits of Devastation

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You can unbug them there using some sort of pull technique and they will bug soon after again. We shouldnt be expected to pull other events into this to make the NPCs move 10 steps forward. I understand you are looking for a work-around but trust me there is none.

I am extremely dissapointed, because 3 months of grinding and now i have been waitting for almost a week for a server reset or bugged event to be fixed.

No acknowlegement from the devs that they are working on this and they are not even willing to reset the server twice a week.

Master Mining Pick = Ruined Ore Chunks

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I do not think this is intentionally this way, hence it is most likely a bug.
This has also happened to me, not a very big deal, but still should be looked at.

Happens maybe once every 40ish gatherings or so.

Southern Pact Bugged on Straits of Devastation

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Poxy, this event has been bugged on more than just 2 servers, its been bugged in every server since launch, only a few servers have gotten very lucky early on and gotten this chain complete. But as you know unless there is a 24/7 coverage, the temple will get attacked and be taken over. At which point it starts over and if it bugs then we are out of luck until servers get reset.

I have been waitting for the last 3 days to get a response since this is the only thing preventing me from getting my legendary as well.

I understand that fixing/coding this event to work flawlessly will require time but until then servers should be reset regularly (twice a week at the very minimum) to allow players to access not only this bugged event but also several bugged skill points and other events.

Or better yet, make the shards available through a NPC or possible allow that npc to spawn via an item(purchased through the gem store) Ill gladly shell out an extra $10 to be able to finally achieve my legendary.

3 months of mindless farming and now i have to wait for a bug to be fixed. this is just great.

Southern Pact Bugged on Straits of Devastation

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Can a Dev. please post us and give us either some time line on fix or next server reset?

Southern Pact Bugged on Straits of Devastation

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This event is still bugged, please restart the server or something. This is extremely frustrating.

confused about the behavior of MF

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MF works but most likely has some bugs.

If you would like to increase your drop rates, i recommend the following things:

1. Join a party, being in a party increases your drop rates since u have to do less dmg to each mob, your party members should be hitting the same mob. – I tested this several times and it works.

2. Use AOE dmg rather than single target, example: Rangers shld use Longbow barrage and 2nd wep set: Axe auto target bounces between enemies. Add traps to your build and drop them on spots where you know enemies will trigger, either spawn points or a place they will run through.
Other classes, figure out your AOE skills, Staff works good for guardians etc.
Bottom line, more mobs you tag with dmg, the higher chance of drops and more drops.

3. Dont farm same event multiple times, you will notice dimished karma returns and also lower drops after 3-4 runs. So try different events, diff maps etc.

4. Final suggestion ofc is MF. Drive your MF as far as you can.
No one is sure at this point if it increases number of drops, we know that it gives us a higher chance of rare drops but not necessarily higher number of drops.
To me i see a rare which can give me 1-3 ectos avg. 30s to be equal to 10 green drops.

So basically unless ANET confirms the true functionality of MF, we wont know but the above 4 steps will take you long ways.