Where happened to the nice Gold drops?

A couple of months ago, I started vanquishing and mapping Tyria, Cantha, and Elona (for a Rainbow Phoenix).

I finished it on 12/30/2007.

Of all the gold drops (not from chests):

None of the weapons had 15^50 mod.
None of the weapons had 20/20 Sundering mod.
One weapon had +30 hp Fortification mod.
One weapon had Req 9 (with no damage mod, non inscriptable)

In my case, hard mode clearing of all the areas gave me squat!!!

I have made my money and have all the weapons that I really want. I have a decent collection of Req 8 15^50 swords. I remember chest running and farming (Sorrows Furnace, UW, FOW, Imperial Palace, Naphui Quarters, and The Deep) which gave me plenty of nice weapons.

It sucks that new players do not have a chance to get these nice items anymore.

Screw the Guild Wars economy (it's hosed already) !!! Change the code and bring back the days of nice gold drops.

Yeah, I haven't gotten anything decent in a long time. But I won't really complain about that to much because I don't want an overload of nice weapons.

The only complaint I have is the lack of an auction house. GW really needs to have one because selling by 'Trade Chat' does nothing but piss me off. I got quite a few Greens/Golds/Upgrades that I want to sell, but I don't feel like spending 3 hours in town spamming my items.

After 2.5 years, you are still bringing this up?

I raptor farmed last week. Got three 15^50s, a +30 hp mod, and a bunch of crap I'm trying to sell. I only did an hour's worth of farming.

Luck.

Chance.

Probability.

I just did a bit more of wurm LB/SS farming and got one 15^50 and one +30 out of about 10 weapons (also two +5 energies which I used). I didn't pay attention to the req on them as none of the skins were rare and I had no use for them otherwise.

For me the mods drop max MUCH more often in HM than they ever did before - I used 14^50, +29hp, and other one or two off max mods for ages. In fact, all but my most used two or three characters normally didn't even have that until HM was released now I have to have an inventory cleaning sale from time to time and unless it is max I even have issues giving the stuff away.

Considering how the price dropped to the floor on the old mods at the same time HM was released I rather suspect I'm not the only one who experienced that. I doubt that both supply *and* price dropped (and stayed down) with little to no change in demand.

You have made your money and have a good collection of valuable items? So then why are you complaining?

Yes it does, i started farming after the loot scaling nerf.

I've had loads of golds recently, but all have either been 14^50, or +29, no perfects at all.

Who said I've been playing for 2.5 years?

You forgot UNLOCKS on the account.

i'm not really sure what happened...must've shipped a broken game

[QUOTE=Sir Seifus Halbred]You have made your money and have a good collection of valuable items? So then why are you complaining?

This game is on the DECLINE. I went through every zone in the game. There were very few PUG groups throughout all three continents. The atmosphere of the game has changed to where it's easier to run missions and quests with heros/henchies.

If ANET rewarded extra drops to full groups formed with real characters, the atmosphere of meeting other users would be rekindled. IMHO, whether your questing or farming, the game is better when your interacting with real people (even though many suck at playing the game).

same thing happened here nothing good

the only problem with that is pugs are now all ursaway.....


yeah the economy is screwedup....we all know that (and no I dont have uber items and a +29 is just as good for me as a +30, one point different is not enough for me to worry about).....

I have been getting tons of gold drops this week, all merch food, but I just sell them to the merch or give them to a hero (who doesnt complain that his mod is only +28, geesh).

(on the other hand my id-ing title is getting much closer to the next level so I dont mind crummy gold drops).

The problem with this is even if something is broken, unless you have sufficient proof, all anet has to do is say something about luck and then bury their head in the sand. Even if you had sufficient proof, all they have to do is say you gathered it at the wrong time and that was luck as well. :\

Well, I spent a good amount of time over the past couple of months vanquishing (most with Hero/Henchies). I've seen what dropped in the past, what I got vanquishing 3 continents is comparable to what I usually got from doing a deep run and opening 5 chests. Gold Straw Effigey FTW!!!

This is end game playing for me, I've done mostly everything. The only reason I vanquished and mapped was to get the Rainbow Phoenix.

The game seems to be dying. Or at least the play style has radically changed from PUG to Hero/Hench. For me it was just more enjoyable playing in PUG groups. Now it's rare to find pug groups for quests and missions.

If people still are buying the game's, it would be nice for the new users to experience the thrill of getting a Req 8 15^50 uninscribable weapon. I've had my share (mostly from January 2006 thru July 2006, Tyria and Cantha farming).

[QUOTE=strat_53711]Actually the loot quality does go up for real people groups... I remember when HM came out and you could get a group, it would rain nice drops on us doing missions. I don't know about vanquishing. It's impossible to get people who want to go for that. I think they should undo this system since it was a huge failure (as you said nobody is around PUGing anywhere) and in many people's opinion screwed up the drops for h/h players.

[QUOTE=IlikeGW]It might be that you can actually see what drops for 8 humans, but you can't see what drops for your 7 h&h. Mhenlo's stealing all my loot.

4 vanquish zones in the last 2 days, 0 gold, 0 tomes, 4 purples, lotsa whites and blues.

I've got a guild that I can get together for vanquishing and the like. Even then, drops are moderate to bad golds. The best vanquish run I've been on is when we did Arbor Bay, and early on two people got Elemental Swords. Our main problem is that most people have "been there done that" with HM, and getting a full human party together is near impossible. So we're screwed out of good drops by having to carry along 3-4 Heroes just to fill out the party order.

So ANet, make it so that if there is more than 1 human in the party, the drops get much better. I'm tired of seeing the equivalent of cow-crap in "Hard Mode" with its "3x gold drop rate."

I meant the game has been without an auction house for 2.5 years, i didn't say you have been playing for 2.5years.

I wanted to point out you quoted the wrong person. I think because strat_53711 did not reply to my quote properly, and there were no quote tags it messed up your reply as well. It shows that i made that quote when i did not.