Wheres the green?

I duno about everyone else but i have been getting NAUGHT from any of the bosses in the sorrows furnace. I usually take a full party of eight when im doing all the bosses outside the furnace, and that may be a big reason why im not getting any drops, but i also have been doing it for hours at a time with only a party of 4. Me and 3 henchmen. The best thing i have gotten from these bosses is a superior ranger rune....after hours of going into the furnace and back out to fight the two bosses that spawn 100% infront of the gates.

im pretty sure they are dropping them, but only for the henchies which is why i cant see it. Do any of you go through this much trouble to get greens from this place?!

Its truly random. So bad luck

Killed a robin recently?

Yeah they nerfed the loot scale about 2 months ago...

Ever since... getting green and gold drops are at least -75% chance of what
it used to be before the Loot Scaling.


I used to get a green about once a week on avg before the Nerf... now I get one *** maybe *** one per 30 days...

Some say the way to increase your drop rates is to stop farming, do about 3 main missions (any campaign)... and then try your green drop area again in SF...

Yeah it really sucks... There are SO many greens out there... I will never get to see even a tenth of them now

Yeah its pretty frustrating

i have never gotten a single green drop the whole time i have been playing GW, and ive been playing for almost 2 years (although i have never bought any of the expansions which i hear are alot easier than prophecys).

And there are just SOOOOOO many greens in and around sorrows furnace, this is truly upsetting. I guess ill just have to keep trying lol.

One thing that I've noticed about greens is that in my own experience, they drop most often when I'm making an elite cap from that boss and in a party with a friend or two. Of course, the greens drop for them instead of for me.

Only greens I've seen are the low level ones - they dropped for me a lot months ago. Not a single regular green except for Drago's Bow (spl?) that is one my very first character.
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In the two years I have been playing GW, I have only had 3 greens dropped for me.

2 years of proph only ?!?! I must ask, how come you never got any of the other games ?

Here's the scoop you get greens 1 vs 1 , and then only 1 in 10 or more (depends on over farmed or not). That means killing the group with your hero's and henchies. Then flag your hero's out of agro till they are grayed out, then 1 vs 1 on boss to get the drop.

This happend for me a time ago but it covers my point



It even sports my uber secret build

I had taken a very long break at one point lol. (i think a little bit after factions came out).

@Groovy
thanks for the tip, ill try that.

iirc, both greens and golds are exempt from loot scaling...

maybe anet is trying to make greens more expensive, I got no problems with that Many times though I get a green is when I let the boss kill me for some dps then kill him.

So far got about 6 greens in GW:EN but come this weekend I would wager I get none lol, and it will totally dry up. Just pure luck so far. Only had 1 green in proph, countless (20+) in Factions and about 7-8 in Nightfall. But who cares I want the rare golds that I can mod up and dye then look at my char outside the outpost with a group of henchies and say I deserve that, wow I look L33T, LOL. I`m too sad!

Hmm, I guess I've had a run of good luck recently.

Got a nice (forget the name atm) 12/+15/-1/+30 rit off-hand last night, Pense's Voice on Mon, and Scourgewind's Branch on Sun, Shredder's Talons last week and a couple more in the last few weeks, all things that I hadn't already gotten previously (and all pretty useless to me, except the rit off-hand, maybe).

I always farm with a full 8 H&H party and I never do the "flag them/kill boss myself" thing as I'm too much of a wuss

I just wanted to add that I really feel bad those people who've never gotten a green, especially those who've been playing a long time. It's too bad that Anet can't add some sort of 'bonus' tracking thingie to the random drop thingie, so that you'd get a green drop for every x number of bosses you kill.

All I could offer by way of advice is to keep plugging away at it. Keep killing that same boss over and over again - eventually you'll get his drop; might take 25 times, maybe 50, maybe 100, just be patient (and dogged).

A long while back, I farmed Mungri to get his rod for my monk, took several days until it finally dropped. Then, a couple of months ago, I decided I wanted Wag Spiritspeak's wand for my rit; it was 3 days before it dropped. Funny thing is, you have to go through Mungri to get to Wag (the quickest route) and 2nd trip out - boom - Mungri dropped for me.

So, look for the drop when you least expect it.

Was reading this thread and was listening to guildy on ventrilo totem axe farming with no avail and I said " I'll go with you Got a totem axe then a forgotton fan on an accedental agro .On my bad. lol ( didnt think they dropped down there). I myself can not complain about greens i've all ways gotten them . Many a 5 man guildy trips in sorrows was sucessfull.

True actually what better is then 1 vs 1 is real team of 8 vs 1 boss. 8 times more chance of the green to drop then 1 vs 1. Then ask your guildies, or pug if you can get the green.

The only green i have is the ReefClaws Refuge shield i bought ages ago.

Im on the last mission, so i think after i beat the campaign ill just go to hard mode with my W/M and use it for farming. heard the drops on hard mode are extremely better.

extremly? no. better? a bit.

Yup, Loot Scaling has nothing to do with Greens

Here's some advice: Take a full party of 8 henches/heroes. Use that party to kill everything up to and around the boss, but not the boss itself. When everything else is dead, flag everyone off the radar, and kill the boss solo. Makes getting greens a lot easier.

hmm now that u mention it i dont recall having had a single green drop in eotn yet, despite having spent a decent amount of time playing it.