Who HASN'T gotten a sup vigor from items yet?

notLurker

notLurker

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

Terra Nova, Mars

R/Me

got 1 drop and sold it when the price was around 38K. Nothing since

ValaOfTheFens

ValaOfTheFens

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2006

Warrior Nation[WN]

Never in 13 months. I do get quite a few Major Vigor runes though. At least 2-3 a month. My salvage money comes from the tons of Survivor and Radiant Insignia I get each week. I just outfitted my new Mesmer with full Radiant armor and didn't have to buy any Insignia from the trader.

thor thunder

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2007

Mass

Cellestial Guard

W/E

1 year of playing.. about 3,532 hours on ONE char (go warrior! only have 2 20s warrior and derv but i will have a rit soon also but mainly im on my warrior alot) i might have got ONE once cant rember i know i got a good gold mod with health so i went to get it off and the item salvaged leaveing me with 5 iron ingots... So sad.

I have a question is it posible that each toon has a different luck rate for each area (chest,Identification,green drops,item drops)..?
it seems after 1 year of playing on my warrior and 2 mounths on my derv that the derv has collected almost more money/items then my warrior...
my warrior has never goten a green.. EVER after farming elite dungeons elite missions and more still NEVER got one to drop for me... also after 1 year and almost 3 campagins the best item hes ever goten by drop i think is a req 12 ingenous Maul XD (witch is like the awsomest hammer skin) And his chest drops are to sad for me to talk about.
But My warrior does have Excellent Id skills (sept vigour rune) Alot of the items he id's have great mods =D i swear he could id like 5 swords and get at least one good mod like a +30 or 20/20.

On the other hand my derv ID's TRASH not even a max Crap mod its terrible. But he gets greens alot with a full hench/hero group i get them sometimes and i didnt know i was fighting a boss... and his chest drops arnt half bad i got a diamond ageis yesterday XD.

with this said i find it hard to beleive that its a balanced % per toon.. I swear my warrior is cursed lol im actualy makeing another (femal title warrior XD) to see if shes any better..
thanks and great thread

Fitz Rinley

Fitz Rinley

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

The Rusty Rose

W/Mo

Thor Thunder,

I am almost positive, , that each toon has a different drop rate. Whatever class your toon has That set of items Will Not Drop!

MelechRic

MelechRic

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

RA

[ODIN]

N/Mo

I've had exactly two and have been playing since launch. The first was a boon to my budding farming career as it happened during Prophecies early days. I was in Iron Mines of Moladune and the PUG killed some boss. Low and behold... a Sup Vigor assigned to me.

Talk about a lottery win! Sold that for around 90k. That enabled me to buy some better mods for weapons and outfit my necro for farming ettins which lead to a lot of income.

Later in Cantha I had one of the giant monsters around Chubaba Rootripper or whatever his name is drop a sup vigor.

Since then... nada.

ShadowbaneX

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Heroes of the Horn

A/Me

I've never gotten one, although I have gotten quite a few minor and major vigors. Been playing since the release of factions and I have logged some 2400 hours.

pablo24

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2007

I never got any and am wisdom rank 2 I think...

Hott Bill

Hott Bill

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

Shards of a Broken Crown

R/

I was farming jade brotherhood for my necro's survivor title and got 4 in 2 days. I thought that was pretty good luck

Big V

Big V

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2007

England

[여보세요]

Mo/Me

lol i got one yesterday

My first one

SotiCoto

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

I've had one once.... Don't remember how or where I found it, but it might have been Echovald.... I recall talking about Superior Vigor runes in Echovald...

But aside from that I've bought quite a few... and that is about it.
Major Vigor and Minor Vigor I get occasionally. More often than not though my gold armour tends to give me useless superiors like Absorption or Illusion Magic.

Jongo River

Jongo River

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

I've had 2 superior vigors across 10 characters (OK, more like 25 including re-rolls) and playing since the game went live.

The first I got was on my Sin, from a Jade Brotherhood Knight, on an early visit to the Wajjun Bazaar. Probably my most exciting drop ever, because it was worth 30-40K and I'd never had much cash before that. The other was on my ranger last december-ish and, IIRC, came from Perdition Rock. I had more cash by then, so gave it to my Sin.

I've haven't really farmed for them, other than occasionally going and clearly an area where people have reported drops, but I've never been very lucky.

Bouldershoulder

Bouldershoulder

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by jon0592
I've been playing since Dec 05 and I have 1300+ ID's on my main. You'd think some of it are salvage items. Everytime I get one I always pray for a superior vigor but I never get them

How bout you guys?
Superior Vigors are well known around my alliance to ID from Margonite Armor as well as many Armor from Factions. The most I have gotten are 5 I think, and all but one came from Locked Chests.

Luck, maybe?

Bouldershoulder

Bouldershoulder

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fitz Rinley
Thor Thunder,

I am almost positive, , that each toon has a different drop rate. Whatever class your toon has That set of items Will Not Drop!
Come now, do you truly beleive this is true? Heh, I sincerely think it might, but based on my experiences with loot, the drop rates are all pretty solid if not random. I think loot is randomized based on some sort of invisible die...or something. I thought I saw percentages given by Gaile, but those were from a test, not the actual percentage of the items.

I'm just jabbering, so if you excuse me, I'll stop now.

October Jade

October Jade

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

drifting between Indiana and NorCal

My first one ever came after 29 months and 2,864 hours of gameplay.

Nearly all that time was spent in pve, and I don't AFK for anything. Guess I won't be getting another anytime soon.

EinherjarMx

EinherjarMx

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

Mexico

La Legion del Dragon [LD]

E/

the ~150 runes of jade brotherhood i've identified yielded nothing,

sometimes i get radiant insignias, but not even a minor vigor

truemyths

truemyths

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2007

2 years playing, nothing

Mathias Deathwater

Mathias Deathwater

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2005

In a maze of twisty passages, all alike

Fifteen Over Fifty

I've only ever "gotten" one. It was during the factions preview event. -_-

I MP I

I MP I

Hustler

Join Date: Nov 2006

in between GW2 servers

Mo/

I've gotten an amount around the 70s when it comes to superior vigors. That was a year and a half ago when they were actually worth something. 95% of which came from ettins. The rest came from chests that I opened while skill capping and questing. These days I hear they're hard to get. /shrug

=HT=Ingram

=HT=Ingram

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2005

Anchorage Alaska

Haz Team [HT]

R/W

I have gotten a few... Seems like each new character I have made got one (when they did) early... Like the last one I got was just a few weeks ago on my Paragon (just never made one before) I got it from a drop in Korna from the large mobs of Corsairs down in the Barbarous Shore... I wan to say it came from one of the leuntenents. But to be honest I'm not sure. there are lost of them down there... It would be hard to tell what dropped what...

The prior Sup Vigor rune I got was in Faction on my Ritualist. Again on a newly made character... I got it in the Takinaki temple explorable area... I don't remember from what.

Seems like you have a better chance at one on a new character then on an old one. (just my opinion, I could be wrong).

I do however remember the very first one I got. that was back in Prophecies, on my Mesmer... I was farming Charr in the northern wall mission. Instead of running just fighting it out till the time was out. A buddy and I were doing it cause there was a better then ave number of drops from Charr at the time and We lucked onto one there... It dropped for me, but I had bought one with borrowed gold from someone else so I gave it to him... (this was before the rune trader existed)

I know I got at least 1 more Pretty sure it was in FoW. but I can't remember on what or when...

But yea. thats over almost 3 years of playing on 11 characters...

I do have another threory on the rune drops too... This is based off new people playing and the quality of their drops...

If you do not have it unlocked on your account it seems like you get a better chance at getting it on your account... This seems to be a hard one to prove however. I noticed myself once I unlocked all my superior runes and perfect mods I saw significantly less of them drop for me... That could be the changes to the drop system, or it could just be bad luck. IDK. However When my friend opened a new account recently, I noticed that he has been getting significantly better drops and chests on that account... Especially in Hard mode when with me...

That seems to hold true with me as well as I do not farm anywhere near as much as some people and when we go for an elite mission or something in a large group I tend to get a green more often then I care to admit. That always gets peoples goat at times, but since I am not a profit monger I tend to just give what I get away to the people that participated in the mission that wants it... If no one wants it I customize it and put it on a hero...

The runes are tricky. I'm sure part of the reason the Rune trader was not implemented the way it was originally proposed was cause so many people were not seeing the quality drops. and instead of fixing that issue in the game they added a limit free trader to compensate. The original proposal for the rune trader was that once you unlocked the rune you would forever be able to buy it from the trader on that account. So you could unlock it in many ways. Finding it from a drop or chest, PvP Faction from the priest, or Buying a PvP edition... But allas it was open to everyone unlocked or not. Which was OK, but ultimately defeated the purpose of unlocking things IMHO.

All I can say is good luck. Sup vigors do drop but they are rare. and that is the way it really should be... Anet injects thousands of them into the trader so there is a supply of them to buy. Because of that the number of natural drops outside the trader is going to be lower. That only makes since...

dark_prince2023

dark_prince2023

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2007

W/Mo

I got one once when the game first came out I didn't know any thing about them so I sold it to an NPC Yes everyone LOL AT THIS GUY!!!!

Micromaster

Micromaster

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2006

...

W/Mo

I've ID'ed about 775 items on my main character and not one sup vigor. I've been playing for about 19 months.

Alleji

Alleji

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Got one from the HoH chest in all my time in GW.

Don't remember how many IDs I had (and a good chunk of them would be before titles were introduced) but I had over 5M exp on my main and another 5M across all other chars. You'd think that would be enough to get one in PvE? Nope.

Martin Firestorm

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

Louisiana

E/Me

I played about 1000 hours before I got my first one. I think I've gotten 1 or 2 others since then (so 2 or 3 in 2 years of pretty hard core play).

Exterminate all

Exterminate all

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2007

In a house

Not Behind My Back [Back]

W/

I've gotten a few I always hope for one. No clue how many id's but its enough I think.

Its all about randomness :P

Zeek Aran

Zeek Aran

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Earth, sadly

BORK

A/

I got three or four sups. One from Sskai farming, one from Ghial farming, and one from buying and IDing armors. I don't remember if there was a fourth or not. 3.5k hours logged.

fenix

fenix

Major-General Awesome

Join Date: Aug 2005

Aussie Trolling Crew HQ - Event Organiser and IRC Tiger

Ex Talionis [Law], Trinity of the Ascended [ToA] ????????????????&#

W/

I got one a LOOONG time ago (and only 1), and I salvaged it out unid'd. Because it was unid'd, I sold it to some guy for 52k to unlock the rune for PvP, when it was 47k at the trader. I was happy.

Operations

Operations

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2007

Saint Louis, MI (yes, it exists)

Pylons of Bastet [PofB]

E/

Not one yet.

Crom The Pale

Crom The Pale

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2006

Ageis Ascending

W/

I got my first about a month after Factions came out, which was about 14 months after I started playing....

Now I've had about 7 drop, but the first 2 were lost upon salvaging. Oh yes did you all miss that random results from an expert salvage time?

Well many many veteran players will tell you that having a rare rune drop then losing it was very comon back before factions and for a while after it too.

When runes of absorbtion were 100K I never ever saw one, once they hit 100g I get them all the time....


Its just how life goes, one day you win the lottery, the next you get the black spot and are walking the plank.

Melody Cross

Melody Cross

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

Alliance of Anguish [aOa]

Mo/

Haven't had one from a drop in about a year. But I don't powerfarm anymore. Used to be, you could get them by farming ettins in Kryta. I did that...a lot. So, tbh, I don't really remember how many of them I've had drop since I started playing.

The price of the runes suggests that they are either much more common, or less used than previously. Most times, when I need one, I buy one now.

GGs

Zahr Dalsk

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Canada

None for me. Ever. I don't even use them since it's not critical to survival and I have multiple armour sets.

baz777

baz777

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

South East England

Leader: Lady Hairy Armpits S[mell]

E/

I had to wait 18 months for mine and then got two in one week!

Wish that had happened in my first GW week when they were 100k each and not 15k when I got mine

Had about 5 in total now.

Necro Quink

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Belgium

Trinity Of The Ascended [ToA]

N/

I played for 17-18months now and i'm getting 2-3 superior vigors every month. Also alot of major and minor vigors are popular for me the last weeks. Last week i had a 7gold armors and got 2 sup vigors when identify them. I'm just lucky i gues. Most of the runes with sup vigor are dropping in elona for me. Only got 1or 2 sup vigors came out of a locked/any high end chest..

My total of identified golds are around 2500-3000. I just put them in all in storage and identify with only one character.

Rushin Roulette

Rushin Roulette

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Right here

Ende

Quote:
Originally Posted by thor thunder
I swear my warrior is cursed lol im actualy makeing another (femal title warrior XD) to see if shes any better..
thanks and great thread
Yea, a Guildie of mine has that curse aswell... but funnily enough every time we go farming together with him we get doubble the gold and green drops as usual (for example I got Dragos Flatbow and Melandrus scythe in one evening farming together with him). where as he gets the crappiest drops you can ever imagine (FoW run = 1 purple non max common skinned and non-max modded hammer chestdrop for his ranger + share of party gold + Diaper remains [Dark remains]).

We just share our loot with him if theres anything he wants from the stuff, so in the end he gets less drops but he gets exactly what he wants/needs from the group loot.

Back OT Nope, not a single Sup. Vigor Rune (even playing together with said guildie.

Rhedd

Rhedd

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

You ever have to clean up after a Moa bird?

True Solunastra [SLA] Profession: Moa Wrangler

I could never claim to be a farmer, but I can tell you that I've played the game the way it was intended to be played (casually, but constantly) since the first day of release, and I've never found a superior vigor rune, nor has my constant playing partner.

I've killed a lot of ettins during those two years, too. ^_^

Hyper.nl

Hyper.nl

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Defending Fort Aspenwood

E/

I got one in a year of playing. The others I bought from players on the trade channel.

Marty Silverblade

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

Over two years and probably 20+ hours (not much but meh) of ettin farming, not one has dropped for me.

Sammy Darvanian

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2007

Myth of the Jabberwock [Epic]

Me/

I've been playing since september '05, haven't gotten a sup vigor once... :P
Not even on my ettin farming runs when they still dropped about 2-3 golds each time for me

S_Serpent

S_Serpent

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

When not at Aziure's Wizard Tower you can find my in Belgium

Knigths of the Keyboard Order - KkO

Haven't seen superior vigors lately either.

Found 2 vigor on my main char (2100 hours played - in 28 months) prior to end of 2005 since then nada, ziltjs, niets, rein, nothing, ...

Luckily the prizes dropped now so you can better buy them then hope for a drop.

Harmless

Harmless

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Uber Elite Rit Force of Justice Headquarters

What's a Guild? [LoL]

Rt/

I've been playing since the first beta events, I've gotten two sup vigors. I mostly get sup soul reaping I've gotten at least 20 of those.

Kanyatta

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Guildless, pm me

R/Mo

i got 1 sup vigor after about 2 years of playing and probably 300+ gold rune-item-things id'd