Drop Assignments Borked? or is it just my bad luck

I've been beginning to wonder whether or not the drop system is broken or something. I've gone 33 hall wins with not a single item drop from the chest(yes i kept track on a sheet of paper, i was curious to see how many wins it would go without me getting a drop), while ive watched my friends get 2 drops often even when there's only 4 item drops now. The other night i watched my friend get 6 item drops in THREE hall wins. That's 2 drops each win in a roll while i sat there wondering why i'm never getting any drops. It's not just happening in the HoH, it happens in The Elite missions also, after 2 hours of hard work, what happens? Someone get's 2 of the 3 green drops or someone might even get all 3. Sure if i was the person getting 2-3 drops each time, i'd be happy and probably not be complaining, but i'd probably think that the drop assignments were just unfair. This never used to happen in the past, no one would get more than 1 drop anywhere, it was just rare but now it happens almost everytime. Is this just my bad luck or are other people experiencing the same thing. Please anet, do something to make the drop assignments the way they used to be.

/endrant

Personal opinion is that drops are not completely random. I've played through several characters and they all have had luck so horrid it's a joke with friends. One such favorite is an evening where 7 others got greens, golds (some worth 75k or more); everyone got something great that night. I got 24 warden horns and a req 13 gold frost artifact with NO stats on it. lol

I made another character shortly after that and a week later the character already had wisdom seeker title and my bank amount topped out, just from normal play. If I log onto the other older characters, they still get junk. It's only this one character that gets the good drops for me.

So, the loot might be semi random, but it seems to be more tied to a characters "luck" - maybe a seed created at the character creation.

yea face it. its just terrible luck. at least theres another person who knows how i feel now.

You're not alone. I had my first green drop in my life, but I timed out. My character froze when I wanted to pick it up. 007 struck me right in the face.

I remember the day when i went to tomb with a good pug and gotten both victo battle axe and victo blade at the same time. I think the drop-rate is random but it hard to tell why some people would get all the drops while other who worked just as hard get nothing in return.

Until today I too was starting to wonder if I had annoyed the god of drops, in over 1000 hours of play I had a grand total of 1 black dye and 1 perfect weapon (which salvaged into 8 iron ingots ) then this morning I got a req 8 Crystaline sword, which kind of makes up for it , so maybe everyone who is experiencing bad drops through the game is just building up to something really nice. Eventually.

I'm glad I have average luck on all my toons... while I do get gold drops though, most of them are the crappy kind. But that's a different kind of luck, one that we all have the bad kind of.

Those who get average to good drops say: Drops are random.
Those who get average to none drops say: Drops are NOT random.

I think they are kind of random, but that's not just it.
There's something else determining the drop, apart from farm's flag...
Henches get more then their share of drops.

I think they are semi random, my necro gets tons of golds and more than half of my black dyes came from him, my ranger comes second with 1/4 of the black dyes and a bit less golds. Then my warrior,monk, and ritualist get junk when it comes to drops.But a lot of times i will do a mission and get all the putrid cysts and pulsating growths from afflicted, and not get a different item the entire mission. It may not be broken, but it is whack.

I'm not sure. Drops do seem to be character based.

For example:

I do a Ruins of the Tomb of the Primeval Kings run on my Necro - I get a green sometimes

I do the same run on my ranger - I get 1-3 greens (I've gotten 3 greens twice)

However, my ranger has yet to get a GOOD drop (all the greens were the bad ones). Whereas my necro has gotten 3 Victo's Battle Axes, 4 Victo's Blades, and about 2 of my black dye drops.

It would seem there are different "luck factors"
1. Many drops - mostly bad
2. Many drops - some good
3. Many drops - all good
4. Few drops - mostly bad
5. Few drops - some good
6. Few drops - all good

I can't confirm this however, as it would take really months to figure out if I'm right. The most common of the six are of course 1 and 6.

i think it's all random i have done 7 Succesfull run's and just few min ago i Got Kanaixe Axe And Sword both for me and another guy he's litterly been there 100+times never a singel drop until few day's ago..

He would fall under the category of #6 on my list.

i think some are just lucky. i have 2 accounts. my main account just doesnt seem to have the luck as my 2nd account. i have 5 characters on each one. its gotten to the point if im after something i really want ive started using my 2nd account more. i have a monk on both accounts. my main account monk has over 1mil xp. use to do alot of 55 runs through the UW til factions came out and has completed the missions in tyria and cantha(skipped most of the quests. only did the ones that take you from one mission to the next). my 2nd monk is up to the ring in tyria and 1/2 way through factions and just started doing 55 UW runs with it. im getting 2-3 ecto a run between me and the necro with my 2nd monk and in missions im getting 1-2 gold weapon drops with it. my 1st monk hadnt done a UW run since factions came out until he completed factions. when i use that monk in the UW, me or the necro might see 1 ecto drop total on the run if we are lucky and almost never gets a gold weapon drop. lots of blues and some purples mostly. most of the characters on my 2nd account have the same type of luck with the gold drops in missions, 1-2 each mission where the characters on my main account have seen very few gold drops. who really knows why or how this happens because i use to think the same thing, as i wasnt lucky with any character til i got a 2nd account and started getting the stuff i always wondered if i would ever see in a drop without having to buy it

As for luck - I have a person in my guild that gets all the good items anytime any of us farm with him.

When Totem Axes were new, 3 of us (including him) went to farm them once because we didnt know if it was soloable. 2 Axes drop that run, both for him. and Recently I SS'ed for his 55 and we did 2 successful smite runs, first time 2 ectos dropped - both for him. Second time 1 Ecto dropped and 1 Sapp. dropped - again both for him.

Anet has rigged some accounts to be better then others... (this is not my opinion but the opinion of a few ppl i know)

tho this is highly unlikely it could be true..why they would want to do that if its true is open to debate

my drop rate is average to good..my war seems to get most the decent drops tho

well the point i'm trying to make is, why are people getting 2 drops now? getting 2 out of 4 items out of a chest in a 8 man party hardly seems fair, yet it happens everywhere, best example would be in the deep. 3 items drop for a 12 man party, you think to yourself, oh yay, a 25% chance of getting a green, when suddenly someone get's 2 of the 3 drops. That is utter bs. This sort of thing never used to happen a few months ago, you would NEVER see 2 drops for 1 person unless it was very very lucky, which was rare. Now it happens all the time. BS i say

/endrantagain

Drops are "randomly" assigned by a drunk monkey with a nicotine addiction and glaucoma. Whoever gives him the most cigs gets the most loot.

Okay, I've always thougth "luck" in terms of drops was a randomly set parameter in the game code on your character. Some characters will have more "luck", some will have less. This is just something I've based on how my own luck goes with things like green items vs some other players I know with similar xp and on-line times.

My ranger finds all the dyes very often. (Based of tombs and random mob killing)

My necro has at least 1-3 ecto every 5 tomb runs. (No joke.)

My war and ele see to get alot of purple golds with 1 good mod on it, (Say like +1 sword 20%) but it always ends up to salvaging into wood planks and iron ingots.

And i just started an assin for factions, and i seem to be getting lots of collector items. (Putrid crystals, jade bracelets, etc.)

My necro got victos sword/axe in the same tombs run before also.

Whenever i wanna make money basically, i just necro it up.

Random except for anti-farming nerf. Have had some extreme luck (Victo's axe and bulwark on same run, 3x IDS on one run) and some bad luck (8 tombs runs with no green, IDS runs with heretic spawns so dense that it took 20 mins to get a spawn I could run past, no Chkkr flatbow after 45 solo kills).

I haven't noticed any difference whatsoever in terms of different characters luck/droprate.