GW:EN and Loot

Golds for preview buyers ONLY. Those of us who waited so Anet couldn't get their measly $5 a month early: hosed.

Welcome to the world of Guild Wars. Serious the drops are so fubarred its rather pathetic when you add in loot scalling to the mix.

I haven't completed EotN yet but Sacnoth has a ton of mobs. Don't really remember Drakkar having that many.

Once again I must wonder what my luck is like when I hope to get a gold drop when my kill counts in the low thousands while others are talking low hundreds. I'm talking about Hard Mode vanquishing in the campaigns and EotN. I've cleared all but 1 area in the EotN expansion I've been in, 4 monster dropped gold so far. Only asura lands and whatever the conclusion will bring.

I’ve had about 6 gold drops, all from chests, (none just drop from clearing areas).

I would say about 99% of chests for me have been purple.

AGREE....I've been salvaging loot for crafting materials....and it SUCKS also....getting like 2 wood etc outta a bow that would merch for 100g.

Whats up with that!

It's funny to read this because I thought it was just me. During Pre-view I ran Frostmaws and thought I had died and gone to heaven, 4 golds including a Q9 platinum blade in chest and 2 diamonds at the end. Since full release I've found a gold dolyak prod in a chest while clearing the lake area. Thats it, all the rest is crap. I ran Frostmaws again and did not get a single gold in all the chests. Lock picks cost 1500 gold, and drop much worse loot than a 750 gold margonite key. I really like the expansion, but something is seriously broken in the locked chest department. Someone will reply and call us all whiners, but if a pick cost twice as much as the keys in any other normal play area, the items inside better be good, if not then then we are being screwed. I found good stuff every run I went on with margonite keys, at least 1 gold every 3rd chest. With lockpicks in EOTN, 1 fricken dolyak prod. Something is wrong.

I have noticed most of my drops are garbage, white non max items. but I've never made so much money playing through a campaign as I have so far in GW:EN so I'm not complaining. it's probably due to the fact that I'm clearing area's more thoroughly than other campaigns. since that kind of play is encouraged now I don't just run for the green star anymore.

for excitement though, some higher quality items would be nice.

i got an elemental sword from frostmaw chest, and 2 crappy golds and 3 diamonds, and not a single gold/purple on they way there... 3 times

I've gotten one green (Shon's Reaver), and a few crappy golds as drops. I too noticed the large amount of junk non-max stat drops. Seems odd, seeing as how those things are completely useless to anyone who is even able to access the GW:EN areas. I know not every drop can or should be purple or higher, but couldn't more of the whites and blues be max? Not a complaint, just wondering.

i get one damn grim cesta whit 13 req, and i dont remember what other sht from the chest of frostmaw....dude if you gonna go trough that huge pain dungeun about 40-75min..give us some good thing!!!

im will keep saying; anet is WTF POWNING US!!!

lvl 20 contain my COJONES!!

i have had a lot of issues with getting good drops i have got a few greens (3-4) about 5-10 gold (one good one rest shit not max or req 11+)and about 50-60 purples but this is with 40 lock picks and lot a of dungeons, well and about 500+ whites.
when i am in a dungeon i have to bring a extra salvage kit just to grab everything, break down all none max whites

I think that the drops are of Ascalon, but some are Northern Shiverpeak rarity. And I got only ONE destroyer core. With such drop rates, it should be 10 destroyer cores or 5 glacial stones for a gloves.

I do believe there is some method to this madness of drops....

I played all the way through all of the chapters and GW:EN and in each case I recieved one very good gold drop, just ONE.

In prophicies it was a R9 Falcion 15^50
In Factions it was R9 Zodiac Daggers 15^50
In Nightfall it was a R9 Elegant Scythe perfect mods
In GW:EN R10 Sephis sword

I could be wrong but it looks to me like they give every player one really good rare drop, but since most of us place warrior drops above the rest we don't count that one rare staff or offhand that drops for us.

This does make some sence given the number of people playing the game, it limits the number of rare skins keeping them rare.

If every player could expect a Runic sword or Gloom shield to drop for them the value of these items would be next to nothing.

That being said, ENOUGH OF THE NON MAX DROPS FROM LVL 28+ MONSTERS!!!

My luck has been so-so. I have used about 30+ lockpicks and retained probably 1/5 of them. All of those chests have been purple despite the one r9 Long Sword. I have found 1 black dye and 3 white dyes in my Primary Quest escapades. Aside from all of that most of my drops in the dungeons have been very shanty and nothing but white non-max drop. Mabey there really is a bug for loot quality O_O

For a high-end, level 20 char only, expansion -- the loot certainly is EXTREMELY, utterly, without a doubt frustratingly disappointing. I am very underwhelmed in this aspect.

since eotn i have spent about 150-200k on lockpicks - absolutly pants drops.

once i run out of this batch i wont take any keys with me as its so financially not worth it.

My kind of luck atm:



i do ocosianaly get rares, but almost 1 each day from drops (not counting chests)

Golds i got from cleaning dungeons (5 times frostmaw, 2 times cathedral) chests and completing primary: r12 dolyak staff (from locked chest), r9 sephis (droped during primary), r9 non max platinum staff (droped during farming rep). around 30 locked chest with 0 golds, dungeons droped shajt greens (offhand and hammer) and gems (2 onyx, rest diamonds)


But for what i saw, best weapons are craftable ^^ (asura sword, norn axe, dwarven axe, req str shield of the wing!!!, not to mention destroyer weapons)

Don't bitch about bad drops, crafters FINALY offer kickass weapons

crafters offer Nice looking weps for 5k - true.

But where's the thrill of a gold drop? Currently i've gone back to NF a few times and gotten better loot.....

With my time spent last night playing -- 39 hours since the release -- 5 golds total.... 3 non max.... I stopped doing chests -- 99% were purple -- got the non max golds from those though.

I dunno -- mainly it's not the gold drops that are bothering me -- but the overwhelming non max white drops.... You know it's sad when you get happy when something drops....just cuz its max. lol

Meanwhile -- i'm killing groups of lvl 28 Jotun... and TRex's....

Sidenote -- but could the overwhelming dropping of nonmax whites be because everyone and their grandma is grinding out titles? While NF had the grind for the sunspear points which wasn't too bad-- seems to me that GW:EN is a lot more farm happy -- just because we all are not just grinding out 1 type -- but ... 4? (asuran, vanguard, norn, dwarf)? Just a thought -- but if everyone is out killing mass amounts of baddies.... constantly..... in all the main areas..... would drops be crap because of it?

Ok here are my thoughts..If someone spent 100k-300k on lockpicks well that is your prob, I would think one might learn a lesson after seeing the crap that they are getting.I used no more then 10 lockpicks and stopped because they were useless,I have gotten absolute s--t for my efforts in my time spent playing this game. Folks wake up call- Locked chests, lvl 24-28 monsters in every group (with the exception of the viettirs), elites on every foe? Those are three features from HM in all the campaigns..and you all are expecting a HM?! wtf is going on you want HM, you will walk out and die basically cuz then they will be 30+lvl monsters if GW:EN gets a Hard mode. If they do impliment HM (which I HIGHLY doubt) good luck to everyone. and some of these creatures are VERY over powered alerady, how can they do that much dmg with Non-perfect weapons (mainly refering to melee foes)?! There are a lot of people playing, but imo Anet should have expected that. So either too many people are playing, they are giving us all the items we have sold to the merch for these past years OR they are trying to prevent people from flooding the market with new items and trying to scam the individuals that cannot obtain them (such as they have done with mini pets[Panda, Isle Gaurdian,Oni,Naga]).

Summary-This is HM,Drops suck,Majority of the people are upset.