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Inger

Lion's Arch Merchant

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19 Mar 2008 at 06:31 - 1

I'm just wondering if this is accurate:

Quote:

* Spawned for each player from a Chest of Woe in the Temple of War after completing all quests
* The chest always contains:
o Onyx Gemstone
o Obsidian Shard
o Obsidian Key
* The chest also contains one random item:
o Gold item
o Gem (Ruby, Sapphire or Diamond)
o Passage Scroll to the Fissure of Woe
* Hard Mode will drop eight items, and can drop lockpicks.

taken from http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/FoW

This statement is with regards to the end chest in FoW, I'm particularly questioning the bit regarding HM at the end. If I'm interpreting it correctly, is it saying that including onyx gemstone, obsidian shard and obsidian key, 8 items will drop in total for each player? This seems like way too much, even for HM.

I haven't ever completed FoW in HM so I have no idea what the drops are like from the end chest, however I have completed it a couple of times in NM and I don't really recall an Onyx gemstone, obsidian shard and obsidian key dropping for each player as well as one random item. I could be wrong about this tho as its been a while since I cleared NM FoW.

So basically am I interpreting whats said there about the 8 drops in HM incorrectly, or is this a mistake?

FXCW

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2008

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19 Mar 2008 at 07:26 - 2

I'm afraid you are wrong and the wiki is quite correct.

[Morkai]

Jungle Guide

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19 Mar 2008 at 07:28 - 3

Well you get 4 items from it in NM.

All end chest rewards are doubled for Elite Areas in HM.

4+4 = 8

lordheinous

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2007

19 Mar 2008 at 07:40 - 4

Ummm....I have to disagree with you all. I've been doing hard mode fow runs for the past couple of weeks as my main activity in gw, and I can tell you that it drops seven items, not eight or four. Those items are:
1 Obsidian Key
1 Lockpick
1 Passage Scroll to the Fissure of Woe
1 Onyx Gemstone
1 Obsidian Shard
And 2 variable spots, which can be gold items, gemstones, obsidian shards, or passage scrolls to the fissure of woe. In the future, to those who posted the "of course its double in hm" comments, I'd actually go there and see what drops myself instead of pulling out of nowhere that just because it's hard mode and dungeons drop exactly double in hm, so does the fow.

Julia-Louis Dreyfus

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2007

19 Mar 2008 at 08:18 - 5

it is 8 drops, i was arguing with someone as we were running to the chest. except he said it was only 6. sure enough, everyone got 8 drops.

lordheinous

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2007

19 Mar 2008 at 08:25 - 6

Quote:

Originally Posted by Julia-Louis Dreyfus

it is 8 drops, i was arguing with someone as we were running to the chest. except he said it was only 6. sure enough, everyone got 8 drops.

Would you mind telling exactly what your eight drops were then? I can tell you the seven I got from my run earlier this evening:
1 q11 Talon Daggers
2 Passage Scrolls to the Fissure of Woe
1 Obsidian Shard
1 Lockpick
1 Onyx Gemstone
1 Obsidian Key

My guess is that your mind just likes nice, even numbers, and if you actually count your items up, you'll find that you actually had seven drops, not eight.

Julia-Louis Dreyfus

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2007

19 Mar 2008 at 08:30 - 7

your guess is wrong, and dont tell me how my mind works
my drops were similar to yours, shit gold, 2 scrolls, 2 shards, onyx, key, and pick.

S_Serpent

Wilds Pathfinder

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19 Mar 2008 at 09:34 - 8

Had 7 drops last time I did a HM fow run 2 or 3 days ago

MagmaRed

Furnace Stoker

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19 Mar 2008 at 13:22 - 9

7 drops for me as well. Done it several times, on several characters. All get 7 items.

Fried Tech

Krytan Explorer

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[Yeti]

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19 Mar 2008 at 14:42 - 10

Your going to make me do a run tonight just to find out who is right.. and to make some money

Quaker

Hell's Protector

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Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

19 Mar 2008 at 14:47 - 11

Maybe you're both right.

Sometimes it's 7, sometimes it's 8.

stale

Academy Page

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canada

Bong Wielding Maniacs

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19 Mar 2008 at 15:32 - 12

hmm - having run the experiment 10 times now, (i know, not a representative sample) i'd say it's always 8. i'm curious if maybe you're overlooking some complete crap or some stacking materials in your inv??

or, possibly, it's both 7 and 8, which is an odd inconsitency, all things considered....

MagmaRed

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19 Mar 2008 at 21:12 - 13

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/The_Fissure_of_Woe

Try reading the wiki that has better info.

"Hard Mode will drop seven items, and can drop lockpicks."

Snograt

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19 Mar 2008 at 23:05 - 14

Time for a "Post your FoW chest drops!" thread, methinks

RPGmaniac

Desert Nomad

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19 Mar 2008 at 23:18 - 15

Quote:

Originally Posted by MagmaRed

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/The_Fissure_of_Woe

Try reading the wiki that has better info.

"Hard Mode will drop seven items, and can drop lockpicks."

It said 8 when the OP first posted. Check the edit history.

MagmaRed

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20 Mar 2008 at 00:58 - 16

Quote:

Originally Posted by RPGmaniac

It said 8 when the OP first posted. Check the edit history.

First time I checked it was about 2 weeks ago. It said 7 then. The reason I checked it, was because I had done NM first, and received 4. When I did HM, I only got 7. I thought that was wrong, as most chests double the reward for HM. I thought about posting a BUG topic in the Bugs Forum, but wiki told me 7 was what you get.

I don't edit wiki, and I don't know how. I don't pay attention to edit histories, or even know how to check them. I do know it said 7 items about 2 weeks ago.

RPGmaniac

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

20 Mar 2008 at 01:08 - 17

Quote:

Originally Posted by MagmaRed

First time I checked it was about 2 weeks ago. It said 7 then. The reason I checked it, was because I had done NM first, and received 4. When I did HM, I only got 7. I thought that was wrong, as most chests double the reward for HM. I thought about posting a BUG topic in the Bugs Forum, but wiki told me 7 was what you get.

I don't edit wiki, and I don't know how. I don't pay attention to edit histories, or even know how to check them. I do know it said 7 items about 2 weeks ago.

All I'm saying is don't tell him to look at wiki because he did and he quoted what it said. I guess they're having an edit war over there.

Antheus

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

20 Mar 2008 at 04:01 - 18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inger

This seems like way too much, even for HM.

Well, not really. It takes a decent while, and those drops are quire low in value. In most cases, unless you get a decent end-chest item, FoW end-chest isn't worth it money-wise.

Julia-Louis Dreyfus

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2007

20 Mar 2008 at 09:18 - 19

just cleared again, got 7 this time, some others got 8, i think the 2nd shard or 2nd pick is the factor

MagmaRed

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20 Mar 2008 at 16:25 - 20

So maybe there is a bug with it. Each person should be given the same reward. Although some items have a random drop rate (gold item or gem), everyone should get the same number of items. If people really are getting 8, and others only 7, this is a bug to me. I never paid attention to what the other people in my groups got, but I have always gotten 7 items.

xiaotsu

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20 Mar 2008 at 19:03 - 21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Julia-Louis Dreyfus

just cleared again, got 7 this time, some others got 8, i think the 2nd shard or 2nd pick is the factor

This is what I'm thinking is correct, it would seem from the pattern in drops that it has to be one of those 2 factors.

Omega Precept

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21 Mar 2008 at 20:44 - 22

Never received 8 ~ Completed HM >25 times