The ultimate BS drops in GW:en

I have gotten an elemental sword so far, and sold it to finish off my ritualist's Elite Kurzick armour set. The only really high-end gold so far for me.

I am glad to hear that PvP rewards are finally dropping in PvP, considering they are not PvP items and their access should not be limited to PvP players.

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Excluding chests I've had roughly 5-8 golds drop for me. Most were trash, worst was the req 10 brute sword with no inscription.

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I really can't complain about the Gold drops in GWEN.

I cant complain either!

yeah, dungeon reward chests are really where the money is. Screw the locked chests that are about.

Tagging alone with ne wplayers as they do the heart of the shiverpeaks quest is where I made most of my money. I got a q10 ele sword, q9 runic blade, onyx gemstones, diamons... etc etc etc from that end chest. It's really the best dungeon yet.

Speculation:

When GW started out there were a number of items that were exceedingly hard to get ahold of, and a lot of exploitable farming areas. A lot of people made a lot of money, and a lot of those people still have that money.

Two releases later you have more areas now that drop those rare items that were worth a lot, so the people with the money who already had overpowered characters could mow through the new chapters and farm the heck out of the new high-level areas as well.

Ultimately they drove the prices down on a lot of items and left only a few uber-rare items at the tippy top. Of course, only they could afford those items.

The problem, then, is that newer players cannot make money anymore. If you play the game as its meant to be played and not like a cheetohs-slurping dweeb, you'll make around 65k-100k just from playing, depending on your luck. But, look at the higher end sales items now. Green drops from Tyria are worth next to nothing when at one time they frequently went for 100k or more. Ectos are a third of what they were a year ago, and black dye is worth nothing.

When it comes right down to it, there are only a few ways newer players can get hold of the uber-rare items:

1. Farm like a lifeless dullard for hours at a time
2. Buy money in violation of the TOS
3. Hope ANET changes their drop rates.

#3 appears to have been the solution.

Ive got loads of golds ( i know this sounds stupid snowman dungeon ) fair enough they may not be brill but most were q9s and max dmg a few purples but overall from locked chests there i got teir 1 of id title

yesterday i wanted to cry, i had about 40 chests, and 38 broke 1st time (50% retain rate.)

and 1 gold req 13 :'(

I've only beaten two dungeons so far. (One each.) My rewards have been a golden water wand, req. 13, and a golden staff with imperfect stats, req. 12. So the reward chests haven't been where the money is for me so far.

I have two days off. (Finally!) Maybe instead of title grinding I'll do a little dungeon clearing. I'll post here again if I actually end up getting something good.

A guildmate and I were on our way to a dungeon last night. We had just left the outpost and we tackled a random mob that was in our way, and what should drop but an Elemental Sword...a req 7, Elemental Sword...that had like 12-19 damage. It wasn't for me, but to see such a rare skinned weapon, with less then max damage was rather funny. I suppose it'd be good for casters that don't care much about damage or req, but still funny to see it non-max.

More goodies, easier to get, what seems to be the problem?

I think it differs for different people some have better luck then others. If you got purple drops from some of these locked chests I would say, “don’t use another lockpick again, it’s a waste in EotN.”