Drop Rate & How It's Calculated...

Has Anet ever discussed or alluded to the way the green weapon drops are calculated. Since it's green wkd approaching there must be some database that controls the drop rate that they tweak?

Green weekend was postponed...

There has to be some kind of system but Anet will never discuss it with the general population.

If Anet is not going to discuss it we can just assume it is random. My theory is Anet probably looks at a heavily farmed area and will decrease the drop rates to discourage people who use bots.

I don't want to digress to much here, but I hear of bots alot on these forums, what are they?

There is a system. Noobs get all the green drops . The more you have to yell out 'GRAB THE DAM GEAR' the more greens they get . That's why Anet is so smart though . If you don't know how it works you can't farm it, but if you do know it then you can't farm it because you are no longer a noob .


Bots are things people download to farm for them. Bots basically make a character (usually Mo/W or W/Mo, depends on what they are for though), go to a particular place, and do a certain thing repeadedly. One obvious example are 'troll' bots. If you go to Droknar's Forge you can watch them go by. They come in, go out, kill trolls, pick up stuff, come back to Droknar's Forge, sell to Merchant, go out, kill trolls...

Bots are BANNED things and being cought with one means you're account will be banned. Also, some bots contain 'key-loggers', which means when you install it, the program will not only give you a bot, but will send you're Email, Account Name, Password, and other personal details to whoever made the bot.

That's all I know. If I had a bot I would know more but I don't.

I have seen this type of behaviour within Droks, people running to and fro like you mentioned. I never even ussupected them to be non human controlled.

Well they're either bots or people being paid to farm.