Drop Rates For Rares

korcan

korcan

noobalicious

Join Date: Jun 2006

GW is the only mmo I play, so I'm not sure if other games do, but why doesn't ANET publish statistics for rare weapon drop rates?

There's information about rare minipets and the exact amounts that are circulating thoughout the game, so why not for rare weapons? Sure, as time passes more and more rares enter the game, but why not publish or release information about their drop rates?

I would be very curious to know roughly how many "rare" weapons are currently in circulation. [ie. eternals, obsidians, crystallines, frog sceptors, bone dragon staves, etc.]

So why does ANET keep this information in-house?

mr_stealth

mr_stealth

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

I Gots A Crayon[Blue]

Mo/Me

I don't know if they even keep that information at all. The reason the exact numbers of some pets are known is that they were given out only to certain accounts as rewards for various tournaments/events/drawings.

ALF71BE

ALF71BE

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2008

In your fridge, stealing your pickles. for mah subway

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If they would do that, prices will skyrocket for some and hit the floor for some others. And we don't want to know that there are 20k copies of our voltaic spear, do we?

FengShuiDove

FengShuiDove

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA]

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Vaguely speaking, statistically less often than non-rares.

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Proff

Proff

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by ALF71BE
If they would do that, prices will skyrocket for some and hit the floor for some others. And we don't want to know that there are 20k copies of our voltaic spear, do we?
20k? lol.... try 200k if not 500k...

There was a plan, or a thought of ANet putting up statistics on their site but I don't know what happened.

tonini

tonini

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2007

Retired from guildwars for good:D

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you think anet would wanna put statistics up that they would hav to change every day if not every hour lol

and they only count the rare mini pets which u cannot obtain anymore unless through trade
thier isnt any number on the numbers of Mini ghostly ingame because they still drop as well as birthday pets and few other exeptions..

Mr. Undisclosed

Mr. Undisclosed

I phail

Join Date: Mar 2007

Phailville

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Quote:
Originally Posted by tonini
you think anet would wanna put statistics up that they would hav to change every day if not every hour lol

and they only count the rare mini pets which u cannot obtain anymore unless through trade
thier isnt any number on the numbers of Mini ghostly ingame because they still drop as well as birthday pets and few other exeptions..
Please stop posting, your terrible grammar and usage of the letter "u" instead of "you" is quite annoying to read through.

Nightow

Nightow

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

Kindred Order of Souls [KOS]

I'd say, be glad with the info we have as it is now.

A lot of the other MMO's really don't have all the info on thier wikis (If they even have one) as our two do.

As an example, I just decided to check out Arch Lord which just had a huge update but no update notes like GW does. Only way to find out where new stuff comes from is by word of mouth. :S

nidy

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Long Island, NY

R/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightow
I'd say, be glad with the info we have as it is now.

A lot of the other MMO's really don't have all the info on thier wikis (If they even have one) as our two do.

As an example, I just decided to check out Arch Lord which just had a huge update but no update notes like GW does. Only way to find out where new stuff comes from is by word of mouth. :S
http://www.archlordgame.com/patchnot...ype=patchnotes
This one?

Nightow

Nightow

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

Kindred Order of Souls [KOS]

Quote:
Originally Posted by nidy
LOL, learn something new everyday. Anyways, it seems like Anet likes to keep certain numbers under wraps and I believe drop rates fall under this category.

Commander Ryker

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jun 2005

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Quote:
Originally Posted by korcan
GW is the only mmo I play, so I'm not sure if other games do, but why doesn't ANET publish statistics for rare weapon drop rates?
I don't know, why don't you ask them?