Guild Wars 2

blakkrskyrr.7413:

khani.4786:

Husband opened 3100 coffers by yesterday and another 500 this morning….nothing.

about 30 minipets and enough taffy to kill Abbadon.

He’s so disgusted with the drop rate that he’s not logging in for a while and downloaded RIFT. So yeah. Rare is one thing, next to impossible is another. Getting a ticket seems to be next to impossible. Disgusting.

yeah. not sure if this whole RNG plan is creating healthy competition. wonder how Anet responds to people leaving because of this insanity.

They probably don’t care because they’ll find some other person to buy the game and spend money.

It’s still sad and I don’t want him to leave because eventhough the Southsun event crapped on my head re: me wanting a scelerite ticket. I’m going to tough it out and keep going. I still want one of those kitten scelerite weapons though >.<

khani.4786:

khani.4786:

My stats:
I opened about 600 and got one ticket.

After I got my ticket I’ve been giving all of my regular coffers to my husband, and our guild has donated some too.

He’s at ~3100 regular coffers opened. nearly 30 holo dragon knights, enough taffy to kill Abbadon, potions and food. and Not.One.Single.Weapon.Ticket.

We will be continuing to battle the evil RNG Dragon tomorrow. Wish us luck.

And he opened another 500 this morning. No ticket. He’s disgusted with this and has downloaded RIFT.

50 more opened today, still no ticket. I have almost a full stack for him to open after I get home from work, but those will probably be more nothing.

It wouldn’t be so darn frustrating if the tickets were tradeable. He is seriously considering uninstalling the game and that makes me sad.

This is a game, it should be fun and have rewarding drops. The gameplay is fun, we love the free to play and the content but there is no reward. The dungeon rewards suck, loot droprates suck, and these RNG boxes are a nightmare and full of crap.

I wanted a Scelerite weapon ticket so bad that I spent way too much of my real money on trying to get a ticket from chests as I barely got any as drops during the event despite spending nearly all day there roaming, killing mobs, doing events, farming specific mobs. Everything there was to do on the island, I did it….I even repeated the Karka Queen event multiple times for no reward in hopes for drops from the adds. Over the entire course of the event I had maybe 10-15 chests drop. And then on top of it the chance to get a ticket was so bloody rare that every time I opened a chest I was bitterly disappointed. So at the end, I had no hope left and on the last day I bought another 20 chests from the market, hoping to get a weapon ticket….and nothing.

So here comes Dragon Bash. Hey look, they coffers drop regularly from everything!! And we can even trade the coffers! Surely there has to be a better chance to get a ticket this time. Then we find out “Oh yeah those paid coffers we were telling you about that you were thinking would have a good chance at a ticket, yeah we were just yanking your chain. We’re going to change the wording on that after we release the event.” “And about those regular coffers that drop by rare we mean that it’s more likely you’ll get a date with Logan Thackery”

To quote my husband "This is crapping on all of us who’ve bought gems to support them. And crapping on all of us who bought the game. And basically saying “you’ve been behind us the whole time. so why don’t we pull our pants down, so you can see our a**?”"

Total to date:
~4000 regular coffers: ~30 risen knight minis, untold amounts of taffy, a bunch of fireworks to delete, and some “fun” potions to give away.

0 Jade weapon tickets.

Why does ANET hate us?
Why can’t we all have a semi-decent chance at getting a weapon skin? (Even if it’s through trade)
Yes, some things should be challenging and hard to obtain….but these are decorative skins, not a legendary (that shouldn’t be able to be sold, IMO).
Something is wrong and ANET doesn’t care.

khani.4786:

My stats:
I opened about 600 and got one ticket.

After I got my ticket I’ve been giving all of my regular coffers to my husband, and our guild has donated some too.

He’s at ~3100 regular coffers opened. nearly 30 holo dragon knights, enough taffy to kill Abbadon, potions and food. and Not.One.Single.Weapon.Ticket.

We will be continuing to battle the evil RNG Dragon tomorrow. Wish us luck.

And he opened another 500 this morning. No ticket. He’s disgusted with this and has downloaded RIFT.

Husband opened 3100 coffers by yesterday and another 500 this morning….nothing.

about 30 minipets and enough taffy to kill Abbadon.

He’s so disgusted with the drop rate that he’s not logging in for a while and downloaded RIFT. So yeah. Rare is one thing, next to impossible is another. Getting a ticket seems to be next to impossible. Disgusting.

My stats:
I opened about 600 and got one ticket.

After I got my ticket I’ve been giving all of my regular coffers to my husband, and our guild has donated some too.

He’s at ~3100 regular coffers opened. nearly 30 holo dragon knights, enough taffy to kill Abbadon, potions and food. and Not.One.Single.Weapon.Ticket.

We will be continuing to battle the evil RNG Dragon tomorrow. Wish us luck.

I will cut down the mightest tree in Tyria wiiiiiiith…. a herring!

>.>

slsharpshooter.5631:

Precisely, best you wait until nobody is interracting with it.

The problem I’ve found with that is culling. I’ve gone up to a pinata a couple times and while it looked like there was no one there, turns out they were culled out and I didn’t see them til I got to the pinata and then they broke it and I missed out.

Winespring Brother.2970:

It was disabled for now due to an exploit.

I’m curious as to what it was doing.

I won’t be buying a single rich coffer. I really wanted a Scelerite weapon ticket and spent probably around $100 trying.

Never ever again. As much as I love dragons and would love that staff, I’m done with RNG lottery boxes. 100% done.

And if this continues I’ll likely go back to Minecraft and my console games. My drop luck is so abysmally low already that I will never again play that lottery for my hard earned money.

I spent the entire evening in Southsun after I got home from work. From about 4pm EST to 11:30pm EST. I did events, farmed sharks, killed Karka, skelks and everything else that got in my way. Even with 440+% MF the entire night’s total I got 4 crates.

So for the event I’m well over 100 crates opened and never did get a ticket.

I wanted a scelerite weapon for my necro. I know it’s just a game and it’s not the end of the world that I didn’t get one, but it absolutely breaks my heart that I didn’t get one and my husband feels bad because he got one with his very first crate.

cries

I hate RNG SO much.

When I’ve been home, I’ve been in Southsun hoping for crates to drop. Yesterday after spending quite a long time doing every event, wandering the island killing random mobs, focusing in one area killing mobs doing the Karka Queen events twice. I got two Supply Crates.

I’ve opened so many crates I’ve lost count (somewhere over 100) no weapon ticket. I have a better chance at finding a Southsun Supply Crate inside the Supply crate than getting a weapon ticket….I’ve gotten two Supply crates inside supply crates.

I have no gold left to convert to gems and I can’t afford to buy any more gems either. I was hoping for the tickets to be a little more common than they are but it’s looking like I’ll never get the scelerite axe and dagger I wanted, or even just the warhorn.

cries bitter tears I am so extremely disappointed, upset and soured over this. I have done nothing but roam Southsun looking for crates only to be disappointed over and over again.

Lady luck is fickle and she has taken all my crates and filled them with junk.

Shezu Tsukai.8291:

The Legend of the Credit Card until Legendaries are account bound on creation.

Exactly. Legendaries should not be able to be sold or traded.

I’m hoping they do make them account bound at some point.

Shouldn’t a legendary be something your character(s) have worked hard towards. Many of the crafting items are account bound and are symbolic of your journey towards crafting this truly unique item and should be bound to your account upon crafting.

Being able to buy them on the TP makes them much less special.

Aveneo.2068:

I believe this would have been the perfect chance for ANet to implement the Tribal set.

Currently this set is only available in PvP and seems to fit perfectly for an island themed armor set.

Now I believe only a Light version exists, but considering the fact that those gloves from the Molten Facility all shared the same model regardless of armor type; I guess it wouldn’t matter that much if the Light-Medium-Heavy were all the same.

I don’t PvP so I didn’t even know this set existed. I WANT that armor set!! Nay, I NEED that armor set.

Niyo.5920:

no warrior who isn’t totally crazy would wear a quaggan-hat when he is fighting for his life.

My warrior would totally wear a quaggan hat into battle….but she is completely nuts.

I’m kind of curious to see a screenshot of what you found! (And to know where you found it and what it’s for)

I’d love to see a video of that!

Imaginos.3756:

You know what? I have a ticket I could give a rats kitten about. I wanted a mini Kasmeer but only got 6 crates to drop during this whole event with farming & events for 2-4 hours almost every day with 230-370ish mf (various characters).

• I can’t sell the ticket
• I can’t trade it in for a mini
• I can’t sell the weapon skin
• I can’t afford a mini kasmeer on the market unless I go run cof p1 35 times or so.

very irritating.

Down with cox boxes. Up with more options

And yet I have a mini Kasmeer that I really don’t care about and will likely sell once the price goes up and still no ticket. I got about 5-6 crates to drop yesterday and nothing but a leftover shoulder skin from the first Southsun event and the same old mats.

That’s some serious magic-coding to give people the thing they don’t want and withhold that one thing we really want.

Maybe not as a collectable, but I’d love to be able to move the Mad Memories skin to a different character that currently has it. But I can’t because it’s soulbound. I wish I could take a soulbound item and transmute it to another character in my account to soulbind it to another. But I can’t even take it out of the bank on a different character. :-/

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

The latest case of “farming nerfs” was actually a bug fix. I’m aware of this because I was asked to help identify the issue. The area in question contained a spawn that was defined to have more creatures than spots for those creatures to spawn. So for example, 25 skelks spawning on 10 points. This is not intended. Not only does it just look absurd, it’s also leads to some extremely bizarre play conditions. This is one of those bugs that’s so buggy, the fact that our toolset even allowed this to happen is a bug. Another bug caused this bug. Bugception.

If we didn’t want players to be able to farm, we wouldn’t have put in the huge (and free) magic and gold find buffs for Southsun Cove. We wouldn’t drop loot from the giant mobs of creatures that appear in upscaled events. We certainly wouldn’t have put in chests that appear after events which cycle every 8 to 10 minutes. How quickly all of that content goes completely forgotten in the angered responses to a simple change to an area that was clearly bugged. :/

On farming in general, there’s a sweet spot that combines good loot with fun, engaging content. I think Southsun had that going for it, especially before certain aspects of the content were isolated as optimal. As someone who’s actively working on upcoming Living World releases, I’m aiming to find that sweet spot and hit it in a big way.

Perfect reply. I saw the skelk area before the fix and it was broken. It’s still a nice area and there’s just the right amount of skelks.

You sir are awesome and I’ve found my own personal sweet spot and quite have a lot of fun there! (and it’s not the skelk area)

P.S. I miss the ’Gator train. But it was fun while it lasted and Thank you for providing us with it!

Tachenon.5270:

Visual documentation of damage reaching into the too high category.

There’s almost no one dead in your pictures and that’s not overwhelmed. Check how many dead from the first time the Karka swarmed!

I admit it, I bought crates for my husband and I on the first day they were available. He got a weapon ticket on the very first crate he opened. And not one after that.

Me….well I’ve opened probably near 100 crates (some bought, some drops) and not one bloody ticket. I just want one of the skins….Yeah I’d love to have the sword/torch combo but it’s looking like I won’t even be able to get one.

I’m going to finish the event achievements, but I give up. My drop rate sucks as is so I don’t think I’ll ever get a ticket now.

The first day of the event my drop rate was nice. The risk vs. reward was perfect. I wasn’t getting rares or exotics every time I opened a ‘gator chest, but it was just enough to keep me going. Since that first patch, I’m lucky to get rares. I wander all over the island and I kill everything. I think I’ve gotten maybe 5-8 of the southsun crates to drop….and they’re all the same fruit/shell/flowers.

I’m disappointed but not surprised.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerite

" In various branches of biology the term is applied to various structures, but not as a rule to vertebrate anatomical features such as bones and teeth. Instead it refers most commonly to the hardened parts of arthropod exoskeletons and the internal spicules of invertebrates such as certain Porifera and soft corals. Used as a universal term of convenience, the word is vague and takes different meanings according to various needs. For example, the trend not to refer to say, vertebrate teeth as sclerites, is arbitrary, and the so-called sclerites of sponges have very little to do with the sclerites of arthropods."

MattMesa.8401:

Probably a bug; but, maybe not. Maybe it was intended for people that have really low MF and no one noticed till now.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking with this question.

Would be nice to have anet comment on this…

AntiGw.9367:

Everything mentioned in this thread is about tooltip errors, nothing more.

There is no difference between 10% and +10%, it’s just an inconsistent tooltip.

Even if that is true I still want official word that this is an error or how they intend for the foods to work.

I want a downloadable version so I can keep it forever!!

Take my money!! -waves a handful of cash-

Since having my Magic Find set I do get less junk and more usable items, I still think my exotic drop rates are cursed but that’s just me. I’ve gotten maybe one exotic drop since beta & pre-launch….

The pitiful rare & exotic drop rate I get even with full MF gear is depressing, but I play because it’s fun…..though I play less often now because of how crappy my drops are most of the time.

Im Mudbone.1437:

Gratz, but, you are one of the rare few. I have had rares aplenty, 3 cheap exotics and 0 precursers since starting GW2 back since all betas, headstart.

I’ve gotten several rares, I think I may have gotten an exotic as a drop once (gotten a couple from chests too) and precursors are but a dream and I have been playing since headstart too.

Magic find does help, but the question still is how does food affect your stats when there is no +/- or wording that indicates a plus or minus.

My asura warrior is named Smaxxu. I tried to keep with the Asuran sounding name….but she really will smack you if you get in her way >.>

GW1: Dervish….god I miss my Dervish. But going back to play her I miss jumping!
GW2: No main really, but I switch between Warrior, Guardian, Mesmer, Elementalist and Necromancer. I have an engineer at 80 but don’t play him much….and haven’t been able to get my Thief past lvl 20 yet…..just so fragile to me.

I’d still like the food stats clarified by a developer for any stat that does not have a + or – next to the number. Theories are nice and it’s awesome for us to gather data, but they control the code and text on items so they should know how things are supposed to work and a bit more clarity would be nice.

One of the following is true:

• the text on the food is wrong and a +/- symbol is missing
• the text on the food is correct and it sets your stat at the number on the food overriding other factors for the time allotted.
• the text on the food is correct but will not lower your stat if your gear provides a greater boost, but if your gear has less than the food stat bonus it is increased to what the food will provide for the duration of the food.

So if things are as I theorize the following is true for consumables:

• Additive stat bonuses are denoted with a ‘+’ symbol.
  +50 Power = adds 50 points to your power
  +15% Condition duration = adds 15% more time to conditions you apply

• Items that decrease the duration of a status are denoted with a ‘-’ symbol.
  -28% Condition duration = conditions applied to you last 28% less time
  -8% Stun duration = stuns applied to you last 8% less time

• Consumables without a ‘+’ or ‘-’ symbol will set your stats at the given bonus.
  7% Magic Find = Your magic find is 7% (unless you receive a greater boost from your gear?)
  20% chance to steal life on critical = You have a 20% chance to steal life on critical (unless you receive a greater boost from your gear?)

Im Mudbone.1437:

I will be performing a test on this just to see the difference in drops over the next few days. Each day I will be farming 1(the same one each day) of my honey holes first farming naked then next day naked with Omnomberry bars(30%MF) next day with my MF gear(103MF no bars) then the next day with my MF gear(103MF and bars) next day with my Zerker set(no MF) then the next day with my Zerker set(+bars) to see what I get, this will be done for 1 hour each day documenting my drops for each day and I will post my results if interested. I’m doing it this way due to the DR on farming.

Yes, absolutely. I’m quite interested in seeing what your results are. I’m not good at farming myself so I appreciate you trying this out!

Torqueblue.1945:

This is interesting. Probably would be helpful to know if we had some sort of Stat added to our hero panel to see if this is working with the current Magic find you have with your armor or is just plain overwriting it. Could be nice to add that “+” to it too.

It would be nice to see our percentage MF added to our hero panel too so we can 1. quickly see what our percentage is at and 2. we could see if the foods are + magic find or a flat this is your MF percentage.

James Seth Lynch.2647:

Thus it makes sense to be displayed in % even if its an additive.

Yeah, I know why it’s a percentage, but other foods where it’s a % increase do show a +X% whereas all of the Magic Find foods just say X% without the +. The wiki shows them with the + but in game there is no plus sign. Look at the two screenshots I just took.

Spicy Pumpkin cookie says 30% Magic Find, +70 Condition Damage and +15% Experience from Kills.

And it’s not just because the MF is first on the list. The Orange Coconut Cake (screenshot) shows +10% Chill duration along with all of the other stat bonuses it gives.

So it still seems to me that the foods are not plus magic find because the + symbol is not there on ANY of the MF foods. I"ve just quit using the MF foods because my drops were better without them when wearing MF gear. They seem to me more useful to use on a character without MF to give them a slight boost without sacrificing gear stats.

I would love an answer from the devs on this.

I know how magic find works and on the runes, armor weapons and everything except food it says the magic find stat is *+*XX% magic find.

For example:
Strawberries and Biscuts
Double-click to consume.
Nourishment (30m): 10% Magic Find.
+10% Experience from kills.

Versus
Strawberry Cookie
Double-click to consume.
Nourishment (30m): +30 healing
+10 Experience from kills.

Notice that the stats on the strawberry cookie all say +X stats, but the strawberry and biscuit says 10% Magic find and +10% experience….but not +10% Magic Find.

I’ve noticed that if I’m running around in full Magic Find gear and consume a MF food too, that my drop quality goes way down. I don’t have actual stats on with and without MF food, but it was quite noticeable to me.

My theory is that because the MF food does NOT say it is plus magic find, that it over rides any other magic find that you have on your gear.

The question: Does magic find food actually give you PLUS the percentage MF or does it set your magic find to that percentage and/or override what you have on your gear?

ColinJohanson.2394:

Laurels are only earned through daily and monthly achievements (starting with the feb monthly) and will not reward for previous daily/monthly achievements completed since folks didn’t know this system was coming.

We will however introduce an expanded/new reward system in the future that will reward for other types of achievements, this system will reward previous achievement points earned. (But may require bringing back into line some infinitely repeatable achievements that would bloat/break this system)

Thank you, this is exactly what I was wanting to know. I would love the extra rewards for the infinite achievements (i.e. Agent of Entropy), but I can totally see that being exploited by others. I can’t wait to see what you come up with for that! At least with the new laurels we will all be on equal ground to start off. I’m completely excited for the updates!

I just hope the loot issue is being taken seriously too and hope that gets better with the future updates as well. I’m tired of my poor drops and it’s sad that I’m thrilled to see greens drop as rares are exceedingly rare for me and exotics are but a dream to me….but that’s a whole different thread.

How many pages and posts is it going to take to get a response to our “perceived” problem?

Magic Find does not work for me. I have tried the same areas on lvl 80 characters both with and without magic find. The drops still suck.

I have played since bwe2 and have seen a grand total of 1 exotic drop not including zone completion or chests. From all of the non-karka event chests I’ve opened (and I open every single one I find) I have gotten a grand total of 2 exotics.

I have 6 lvl 80 characters, some with Magic find and some without. I don’t care about having hoardes of gold stashed away….Really, I just want enough to cover the cost of armor repairs and to be able to outfit my characters with rare (eventually exotic) armor.

My husband also has 6 lvl 80s and his drop rates are better than mine…still not awesome, but better.

Can someone please tell me why when you salvage a lvl 80 exotic with a BLACK LION salvage kit you get exactly ZERO Ectos? shouldn’t you at least get 1? Fine, rares don’t always give you ectos, I can live with that…but an exotic, really?

There is something wrong, Anet needs to figure out what that something wrong is.

It’s bad when I get excited to see a green.

Oh, but my Porous Bone collection is progressing nicely. I got 75 of them just yesterday.

“The drop rarity of Rare and Exotic weapons from certain places in the world (champions, veterans, and players in WvW) has been increased. Rares and Exotics should be much more likely to drop and every champion should be guaranteed to drop loot. This was to ensure that world loot drops were not a significantly worse way of acquiring rare and exotic items than crafting and running dungeons.”

Champions rarely (if ever) drop anything for me. I helped kill 5-6 Champions today (12-30-12) and only got a drop one of those times. And that one drop was a blue trident & a salvage item.

I have had the last week off from work and have played at least 6-8 hours per day and in that time I’ve gotten less than one rare per day.

I have been playing since the pre-release days and have had maybe one exotic drop form an enemy kill. I have gotten exotics from two chests and of course zone completions…and of those two chests one was the Lost Shores event Karka chest.

Sometimes I think I have the absolute worst luck with drops. I can’t even count how many of the Wintersday gifts I’ve opened only to get endless streams of wool clothing, recipes & some toy weapon skins. My husband got an unbreakable bell after about 50 gifts.

I only buy magic find armor and outfit my runes to have as much magic find as possible, I use the Wayfarer Spineguard and all magic find jewelry. I’d love to be able to buy armor to make my characters more effective killers, but I’m afraid if I do that I’ll be stuck with bags full of brittle bones, hooves and broken lockpicks. :-/

That makes sense. He did show up to the area a bit after I did and no one else seemed to have seen it. But at least I got a cool screenshot of it for some nice wallpaper!

So I’ve completed Caledon Forest quite a few times, but this is the first time I’ve seen this in the Ogden Wilds area (where you turn yourself into a Mossheart). The even stranger part is my husband and I were doing the area at the same time and on his screen it was just murky fog and no “dragon”. Even more weird, I went back later on the same character and it was gone. o.O

At first, I thought that maybe since I was human and the husband was Asuran that maybe Anet was being sneaky and the different races saw different things in some areas…but as I didn’t see it when I went back, that theory went out the window.

What causes this “dragon” to appear? I’m SO confused!

~Khani