cantha gold drop weekend???

Saider maul

Saider maul

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Baltimore, Maryland

I have ran a 55 monk and several other farmers sense shortly after prophecies release.
I figured i'd take advantage of this weekend and farm a few areas.
farming nahpui, Arborstone, Marketplace, between vasburg and unmaking waters and outside breaker hallow thru the jade sea.

I will admit keys fell from the sky and golds were plentiful but only 1-2 were actually " RARE " . Most were just merchant bait. Nahpui By far was the best for # of gold drops, yeilding 4-7 per run every 30 min or so.

I then went to droks and did a run. In 43 minutes I farmed droks ,avicara wise, guile, braves and fierce, trolls, giant as 55 and several pack of grawl as a 105/135. after ID, salvage and sale I yeilded 14k 176g. This is about average yet in Cantha I yeild about 6k???

Did anyone else notice alot of cantha chests drops being gold but not to good as a whole as well as cantha just doesn't yeild the same cash per hour as prophecies does?


If this should be in farming section sorry and please move it.

sinican

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

SAW

D/

i noticed that mroe golds did drop but i noticed that they were worse than the golds i was getting in the same area before the event and after for that matter

i like oni farming and i usualy hit all the chests in that area... 3-5 chests per run and it was a nice area to get golds in the first place... 50% were golds at least... yea during the event i got 90% but again the drops were not MAX i gatherd prob 100 golds during the event and only came out keeping maybe two... whereas before the event most of the golds i got were max with profitable mods... vamps zealous and forts like mad...

event sucked imo... id rather see double chests than double rare personally ill take my chances with the working drop rate...

ps i did get more streaks of purples durring the event than before as well and perhaps the change in gold drops during the event was misconstrued due to the fact i was speed farming vs casual... i was trying to take advantage of the weekend and wasnt impressed... felt like i was wasting my time only doing farming but was afraid to stop and forfiet chances i thought i had because of the event

Demesis

Demesis

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

I farmed once in the event. Keys rarely dropped and my purple drops even had better stats than my gold drops. Then I never took part in the key/chest farming craze.

This whole event's a big scam. I'm just glad I never got fooled. If I did, I would have wasted over 50k buying keys.

majoho

majoho

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Denmark

I noticed nothing different that the drops were increased.

And there was no freaking scam, grow a brain...

keys dropped more so and the content of the chests would more often give a gold item - that was was promised

Noone said to use 50k on keys.

Demesis

Demesis

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by majoho
I noticed nothing different that the drops were increased.

And there was no freaking scam, grow a brain...

keys dropped more so and the content of the chests would more often give a gold item - that was was promised

Noone said to use 50k on keys.
The event promised us rare drops. I never saw a 15^50 drop of any weapon. I never saw anything close to that. Out of all the chests I opened 80% of them were useless staffs and th other 20% were melee weapons against hexed foes.

No sh!t nobody told me to buy 50k worth of keys. But if the event is going to be so misleading, then I may get 50k worth of keys, get it? Now you grow a brain, because I was smart enough not to get pulled into a potential money sink.

majoho

majoho

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Denmark

I guess you're new to the game or something.

rare means a gold item , nothing more or less - it's not an indication of the actual usefullness of the item.

EDIT: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Rare

Opeth11

Opeth11

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Richmond, British Columbia, Kanada

Demon of the Fall [Opet]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Demesis
The event promised us rare drops. I never saw a 15^50 drop of any weapon.
Not too clever, are we?

Rare = Items with yellow names.
Rare = Better chance to get better and more mods.
Rare = Harder to find than other items. i.e. Purple items.

Demesis

Demesis

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Opeth11
Not too clever, are we?

Rare = Items with yellow names.
Rare = Better chance to get better and more mods.
Rare = Harder to find than other items. i.e. Purple items.
Rare = Crappy mods?
Rare = Gold with stats worse than purple items?

Vilaptca

Vilaptca

Pre-Searing Vanquisher

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

The game doesn't choose what is or it not rare by the players own made up economy.

So yes, rare does mean any drop with the yellow name, whether you have a purple better than it or not.

So yes, the event gave us exactly what it promised. Whether you got lucky and received something actually worth saving or got all garbage does not mean it was a scam. Thanks to this event I finally got my first drop worth more than 100k.

Opeth11

Opeth11

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Richmond, British Columbia, Kanada

Demon of the Fall [Opet]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vilaptca
Thanks to this event I finally got my first drop worth more than 100k.
Well aren't you lucky? The most valuable item that has ever dropped for me is Victo's Battle Axe. Good thing I got two at the time they were worth around 50k =_=

Hidden in the Mist

Hidden in the Mist

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

Luck has nothing to do with it, it's called skills.

Vilaptca

Vilaptca

Pre-Searing Vanquisher

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Opeth11
Well aren't you lucky? The most valuable item that has ever dropped for me is Victo's Battle Axe. Good thing I got two at the time they were worth around 50k =_=
According to my account, its taken me 14 months to get that. 14 months of opening random chests, occasional farming, questing, FoW/UW, etc...um...if anything I'm incredibly unlucky, and thats the first thing to indicate that maybe its changing.

But thanks for completely missing the point of my post. Everyone thinks a rare is an item worth a lot based on the player driven economy. When infact, its not. Until people realize this, we will continue to see threads like this pop up and people complaining that the complete randomness of this game wasn't kind enough to bless them today...or in my case...the last 14 months.

majoho

majoho

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Denmark

Quote:
Originally Posted by Demesis
Rare = Crappy mods?
Rare = Gold with stats worse than purple items?
Sorry if this is considered a flame, but are you über dense?

Rare is a GOLD item it merely indicates that it's a RARE drop not a GOOD drop.

If you don't get that it's your problem, and if your definition of rare is something different than what rare means in the game then that's your problem as well.

Again it's the official name of gold items, they aren't called gold items in the game they are called rare items.

Did you get it yet?

explodemyheart

explodemyheart

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Indiana

Gui1d War스 P01ic트 [Pr으]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by majoho
I guess you're new to the game or something.

rare means a gold item , nothing more or less - it's not an indication of the actual usefullness of the item.

EDIT: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Rare
This has been bothering me quite a bit too, as since this weekend happened, I've been seeing people complaining that they've been getting gold drops, but not rare drops. Gold is rare. Rare does not mean "perfect", it simply means "gold"... as it has from day 1 of having gold items in the game.

Like the link says, items go like this in order of rarity:
1. White
2. Blue
3. Purple
4. Gold

Just because a gold is less likely to drop than a purple does not necessarily mean that it will always be better than a purple. It simply means that there is more likelihood for it to be better than a purple. It's random and the luck of the draw. Are people honestly getting this miffed over items in a video game?

Shadowfox1125

Shadowfox1125

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2005

PST

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hidden in the Mist
Luck has nothing to do with it, it's called skills.
Or Koabd, in Guinevere's case.

Tookis Elite

Tookis Elite

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2006

Chuck Norris Is The Only True [God]

W/

[QUOTE=Demesis]The event promised us rare drops. I never saw a 15^50 drop of any weapon. I never saw anything close to that. Out of all the chests I opened 80% of them were useless staffs and th other 20% were melee weapons against hexed foes.
QUOTE]

then you didnt open enough chests. just because its double golds dosnt mean 100% perfects. I have friends who r going to get rich from this weekend because of all the awesome stuff we found. 15^50 gothic dual axes +5 gothic blades and oni blades. and a load more good things.

Blackhawk

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by explodemyheart
This has been bothering me quite a bit too, as since this weekend happened, I've been seeing people complaining that they've been getting gold drops, but not rare drops. Gold is rare. Rare does not mean "perfect", it simply means "gold"... as it has from day 1 of having gold items in the game.

Like the link says, items go like this in order of rarity:
1. White
2. Blue
3. Purple
4. Gold

Just because a gold is less likely to drop than a purple does not necessarily mean that it will always be better than a purple. It simply means that there is more likelihood for it to be better than a purple. It's random and the luck of the draw. Are people honestly getting this miffed over items in a video game?
Of course they are, thats all some people play the game for is to get a rare drop so they can increase the size of their tiny e-penis, brag when in a team by spamming it, thinking some of us are really bothered.

explodemyheart

explodemyheart

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Indiana

Gui1d War스 P01ic트 [Pr으]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackhawk
Of course they are, thats all some people play the game for is to get a rare drop so they can increase the size of their tiny e-penis, brag when in a team by spamming it, thinking some of us are really bothered.
You sound a little too bitter for someone trying to claim they don't care.

Mournblade

Mournblade

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

Houston, Texas

Dawn Treaders [DAWN]

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hidden in the Mist
Luck has nothing to do with it, it's called skills.
Skills get you to the chest, or help you kill the monsters, but it's ALL LUCK after that. So i'd say luck has a lot to do with it.

Mustache Mayhem

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

BEN

R/N

did'nt get to play much at all over the weekend.. but the only runs I did was raisu- I ended up with 5 golden pheonix blades (one req. 10 +5 energy mod- one with +29 fort mod), a 15^50 plat longbow, 15^50 tetsubo hammer and alot of other golds I sold to title seekers for 600 gold to rebuy keys- I made money and got some really cool stuff- I dunno how you could say the drops were the same there was one run where the first chest the pug opened dropped 3 golden pheonix blades.. I got 2 blades in one run- if I had the chance to play more I would have probably got alot more

Slabby

Slabby

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

Belgium

[SCAR]

"More rares from chests"

Yeah right, Anet screwed me and gave me 10 purps in a row.

Clone

Clone

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

There was quite a bit of discussion about this in this thread. While I did notice more gold drops, they weren't necessairly any good. I got gold weapons with no inherent damage bonus, shields who's only mod was +armor against some obscure enemy type, and lots of other random junk.

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Demesis
Rare = Crappy mods?
Rare = Gold with stats worse than purple items?
possibly someone should explain something you have obviously missed seeing or noticing................

there are a whole bunch of WHITE drops............with me so far?
there are fewer BLUE items than WHITE items........still with me?
there are WAY fewer PURPLE items than BLUE items.......still with me?
there are WAY fewer GOLD items than PURPLE items......still with me?

golds drop RARELY compared to everything else and the perceived gold value has no effect on how many golds drop.

rare is how often a color drops not how much someone will pay for it

Gli

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

All I got was junk. 150 keys worth of junk. I recovered less then 30k and the only reason I got that much was a couple of Superior monk runes. I got 3 interesting mods on crap weapons, all of which turned into crafting materials.

My 50 Forbidden keys were worst. Only 22 rares, and no interesting skins at all, not even with crappy stats. In Kurzickstan, I got 42 rares out of 50 and in Luxonland it was 36 out of 50.

The only good thing to come of it was advancing my Treasure Hunter title to (3). It's pretty ironic that I usually break even on chest runs and make a huge 60k loss during double-your-fun weekend.

eternal pho

Banned

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Licious Fame Farmers {TLG}

W/E

Sometimes people misunderstand the word "rare". I mean this guy was arguing with me yesterday that I used the word "rare" when selling a gold item. "Rare" just means the item's gold.

MSecorsky

MSecorsky

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

So Cal

The Sinister Vanguard

Me/

All that was promised was that more chests would be gold.

This was definitely true.

Mordakai

Mordakai

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

W/

Question: I was trying to farm Ghail, so I killed a bunch of stuff around him.

Never got a key drop. How many hours did you guys have to farm to get a key?

Saider maul

Saider maul

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Baltimore, Maryland

Yes I am saying gold drops probably doubled but quality was way down.
I went because i was bored and to be honest. I farmed pre AOE nerf. so I have not needed to farm at all for factions and most likely wont have to for nightfall either and i run 2 full set of accounts.

I went out because i was bored. lol, And I know one day i'll have to go farm for gold again so i will need to find different areas as the game expands.

You will never hear me complain about how to earn cash. LMAO ah......

any hooo, to my next question.

Does anyone feel prophecies earns more for farmers then Factions?

From what i have experienced I earn 3:1 in prophecies vs Factions?

mind you i spent about 20 hours farming the event in factions with only 1hr in prophecies and it fit my typical run.

Y.T.

Y.T.

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

Mo/

i've noticed a HUGE amount of gold max weapons with perfect or near-perfect mods but no inherent damage bonus - f/ex, max GPB req 10 barbed and of dragonslaying, but w/o any 15^50, 20 when hexed or anything... also i've noticed alot of staves with weird stats, for 3-prof builds, like req 10 fastcast with HSR 20% divine favor and HCT 18% air magic....

but strength-based shield with +1 to divine favor 20% was just awesome

2ndName

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Y.T.
i've noticed a HUGE amount of gold max weapons with perfect or near-perfect mods but no inherent damage bonus - f/ex, max GPB req 10 barbed and of dragonslaying, but w/o any 15^50, 20 when hexed or anything... also i've noticed alot of staves with weird stats, for 3-prof builds, like req 10 fastcast with HSR 20% divine favor and HCT 18% air magic....

but strength-based shield with +1 to divine favor 20% was just awesome
I feel your pain. I picked up a Diamond Aegis Req 9 Str with 16 armor AND +1 19% Illusion!!

Saider maul

Saider maul

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Baltimore, Maryland

I got a Sheild with 16al +1 water magic 20%. lmao

and if golds are rare why do i get about 4 a run now in nahpui and 2+ in droks? thats 1 every 15-30 minutes?

Also I bring your attention to gold drops some are plain gold other state RARE in the name. also if opening gold chest gives you the title why do i not have it yet when i opened about 200 over the weekend.

The Golds were not classified as rare by the game dispite their color association.

NEXT!

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

I got some decent gold drops. But still got some weird stuff like a Gold Staff with smiting, blood, and divine magic all in one!