I did a search and have not seen threads on these yet.
First - I understand that expert salvage kits now drop in pre - haven't got one yet but I have heard it from enough people to believe it is true - Thank you ANet. I hated to let those runes of attunement and vitae go to waste. I really appreciate this.
Second - and please check this out for me. Over the last two days I was soloing in some beginner areas - Shing Jea Island and Pre-searing, to be exact. And the loot drops seem to have been rolled back to what they were before loot scaling. After the first 5-8 kills in an area, drops have been almost 100% (only 1 kill did not drop and I may have miscounted on that one). Discounting the first few in each area, I have had drops in over 250 consecutive kills now. That is much different than these same areas after loot scaling was introduced. As far as I can tell this is only low level/tutorial areas - but then I haven't tried soloing in higher levels or hard mode. Even so, if they rolled back loot scaling for low level areas, I want to say thank you. I don't mind loot scaling in later areas or hard mode. In fact, I hope they do keep loot scaling in hard mode. I just felt it was unfair for new players to have such a hard time affording that first max stat armor or a good weapon or two once they got to the main portion of the game. No - I don't think everything should be handed to people. But I do think by the time you get to KC, you should be able to afford 1k armor and one or two good - but not really rare - weapons of your choice. So, more testing needs done. But, ANet, if you did indeed roll back loot scaling in the lower levels of the game, thank you - for the last 2 days, this game has been the guild wars I enjoyed when I first started playing it. Keep it up.
Thank you and maybe thank you to ANet
Alas Poor Yorick
Neo Nugget
heh im on my 16 or 17th run and still havent gotten one >.< but i hope to get one eventually -.- lol