ArenaNet: Linsey Murdock unveils High End Ascended Gear (2012-11-13)

[Zorac]

Indeed drop rates were messed up in their attempt to increase rewards for vets and champs. It used to be I would almost never get a white, most items were blue or green and occasionally (2-3 times a night) I would get a yellow, now I get mostly white, blues I get occasionally and I think yellows are about the same, but I haven't been getting greens at all.

At least they fixed jump after they broke it. 12/3 patch took me over 40 mins to do the jumping puzzle in wvw borderlands when normally takes me less than 5. Thankfully they fixed it and took me all of 30 mins to do all 3 borderland puzzles on 12/4.

[Toc]

Indeed drop rates were messed up in their attempt to increase rewards for vets and champs. It used to be I would almost never get a white, most items were blue or green and occasionally (2-3 times a night) I would get a yellow, now I get mostly white, blues I get occasionally and I think yellows are about the same, but I haven't been getting greens at all.

At least they fixed jump after they broke it. 12/3 patch took me over 40 mins to do the jumping puzzle in wvw borderlands when normally takes me less than 5. Thankfully they fixed it and took me all of 30 mins to do all 3 borderland puzzles on 12/4.

I used to get a lot of whites, mostly blue, some green and a yellow here and there never OJ (without any MF).

Since the "patch" I hardly ever get whites, mostly blues, decent amount of greens and a few yellows per dungeon, still no MF or OJs :/

[Vayne]

I used to get a lot of whites, mostly blue, some green and a yellow here and there never OJ (without any MF).

Since the "patch" I hardly ever get whites, mostly blues, decent amount of greens and a few yellows per dungeon, still no MF or OJs :/

I think the loot drops in all the dungeons are fine. People are mostly complaining about the open world, like Orr, where they used to farm.

[Toc]

I think the loot drops in all the dungeons are fine. People are mostly complaining about the open world, like Orr, where they used to farm.

OH! Well then, scratch my comment! lol

[Fey]

I think the loot drops in all the dungeons are fine. People are mostly complaining about the open world, like Orr, where they used to farm.

I dunno why they're complaining, I mean that's pretty standard. Bosses with objectives have always dropped better drops than killing mobs randomly in the world. Usually when you solo farm, it's for gold not items.

And I don't necessarily mean stat wise or anything, just in general. They have a better % to drop rarer items.

[Vayne]

I dunno why they're complaining, I mean that's pretty standard. Bosses with objectives have always dropped better drops than killing mobs randomly in the world. Usually when you solo farm, it's for gold not items.

And I don't necessarily mean stat wise or anything, just in general. They have a better % to drop rarer items.

But stuff is supposed to drop from vets and champs and it's not working as intended. I mean if I down a champion, I expect something. At least a blue, if nothing else. I've downed champs in world and gotten nothing. Without some reason to stay in the world or do Orr, why would you?

And remember, half of Orr isn't opened until people do certain events, which sometimes there aren't enough people to do. If you happen to want to buy temple armor with karma, or get some obby shards for your legendary weapon, you can't, because you and three buddies can't take back the temple.

[Fey]

But stuff is supposed to drop from vets and champs and it's not working as intended. I mean if I down a champion, I expect something. At least a blue, if nothing else. I've downed champs in world and gotten nothing. Without some reason to stay in the world or do Orr, why would you?

Yeah but the big events with actual bosses drop the same loot chests that dungeons do, minus tokens. Trash mobs are always trash.

[Vayne]

Yeah but the big events with actual bosses drop the same loot chests that dungeons do, minus tokens. Trash mobs are always trash.

So are you saying if you kill a champion that's not a big event boss, but you spend the time on him, you should get nothing for it at all? Because it's happened to me.

[Fey]

So are you saying if you kill a champion that's not a big event boss, but you spend the time on him, you should get nothing for it at all? Because it's happened to me.

Champions in the open world get zerged lol. It'd throw the balance way outa whack if they all dropped amazing loot all the time. You could literally grab a group and zerg from one to the next. Over and over endlessly. They counter acted that by making the big final events give good drops.

Plus not every champion in dungeons gives loot. For some reason some of the boss encounters aren't actually boss encounters and give nothing. It's actually really awkward when you think about it. ANet has really weird concepts of what gives rewards lol.

It's like ... a trash-boss?

[Vayne]

Champions in the open world get zerged lol. It'd throw the balance way outa whack if they all dropped amazing loot all the time. You could literally grab a group and zerg from one to the next. Over and over endlessly. They counter acted that by making the big final events give good drops.

Plus not every champion in dungeons gives loot. For some reason some of the boss encounters aren't actually boss encounters and give nothing. It's actually really awkward when you think about it. ANet has really weird concepts of what gives rewards lol.

It's like ... a trash-boss?

Yep, you get that bonus Troll in AC and it's like great...a bonus troll. Okay, sometimes now it drops a Bag of Wondrous goods, but everyone should get something for it....or it's not much of a bonus.

And you know, I do solo some vets and my wife and I soloed a champion in a 55th level area...with no drops. Sure it could have been a zerg...but it wasn't. It was a grueling twenty minutes of kiting while my wife did most of the damage. Definitely not worth the time it took.