drops by profession

I am sick of getting bows anytime i get a green or gold it's one. I have a number of really good ones and many I have given away. So I was wondering if drops are profession specific or is it just me?

My ele/mes seems to get:
bows - 90% of drops
axes/hammers - 8% drops
monk staff - 2% drops

So what do you 'always' get.

"oh look another bow."

JM

Stop killing rangers.

but it is so easy.

I always get random stuff because I kill a variety of things.

Oh and I second Covah's advice. Stop killing Rangers if you don't want anymore bows. Ya?

I get a little bit of everything because, well, I kill everything that gets in my way.

Now you learned that killing a lot of rangers will get you a lot of bows. Seriously, is there a point to this thread besides pointing out the obvious?

lol.

I killed a bit of everything to, so I don't really get more of one thing than another that I noticed anyway.

I don't think killing ranger foes really get you more bow drops. I always thought that mobs drop random loot regardless of their profession.

I thought it was supposed to be random too. And I do kill loads of other professions. But when I kill an ele or mes boss I don't get a weapon or if I do it isn't great.

Open a chest and yep you guessed it a bow.

In missions when we are all working on the same targets nothing drops at the spellcasters but when I do get a drop lo and behold a bow for me.

The point of the thread was to work out if one profession gets more weapon types than another and if so create a character of that type to see if I get staves or wands. Just a thought.

From locked chests, req13 purple offhands usually

From monsters, req13 generic weapons with pvp skins

i'm comfortable with the fact i'll never see a decent drop, because i can pretty much buy anything i want. oh well.

Pretty much get one of everything... never had a good drop in 3 yrs bar 1 bow of the hierophant.

Drops that are in relation to the enemy seem to only apply to bosses and green weapons. Ive gotten lots of hammers from casters and wands from melee.

I too seem to get more bows than any other weapon, but it makes sense when you think about it due to the different kinds of bows. When it comes to random weapon drops you get the following types of weapons:

Sword
Axe
Hammer
Shield
Staff
Wand
Offhand
Daggers
Scythe
Spear
Longbow
Shortbow
Hornbow
Flatbow
Recurve bow


If you take 'bow' as a general term for all variations of bow then yes, you most likely will end up with more bows than other weapons. No other weapon comes in these variations.

As others have mentioned, if you kill more rangers than other professions then it's more likely to drop a weapon of that profession. If you think of the monsters inventory like your own; you'll be carrying mostly weapons of your own profession, but still have some random junk from being in the zone for a while.

It makes 0 difference what profession you are.


Cargan

Thanks Cargan that makes sense. I decided to test the notion of killing other professions instead, did a mission and didn't kill any rangers.

And guess what I didn't get a bow - got an axe from a caster. So I have started a ranger to use the bows.

BTW - love the name of your guild.

jm

Mobs just drop something random. Nobody knows how the drop system is set up but freaky trends do happen with it that are probably some kind of additional gimmick.

It's random with a bias towards the enemy you killed. Chests that spawn give a bias towards the mob they spawn with. Running vaettir bombing I get a ton of mesmer weapons, they're the only caster weapons I get. Never get ele weapons, only sometimes do I get a monk weapon. about 33% mesmer caster weapons. The rest are swords, hammers, shields, and daggers. Not even many bows...some though. Talking golds here. I've outfitted all my melee and mesmer heroes from budger bombing alone. I've built up a collection of r9 daggers for my assassin too...savage, crude, salient, golden talons, split chakrams, sai, stillettos....etc. Couple fiery blade axes. Killing dying nightmares in Underworld always get me a necro weapon, sometimes a white sword or some crap. Usually a grim/deadly cesta or a bone staff though.

Farming destroyers in the first level of glint's challenge...tons of ceremonial cauldrons. Because it's 1/3 ritualists. Good way to farm rit tomes, btw. It goes on and on. If you focus on a specific profession of enemy, you're going to get a ton of that profession's items. it has very little to do with your profession.

There's a bias, that's undenyable. If you kill a lot of rangers, you're going to get bows. But it's not going to be 100% bows, and you're not likely to get a necro caster weapon from a monk enemy.

not quite accurate on your example. If yo uare going to take into account the different types of bows, you will have to take in to account the different types of staves.
ele
fire
water
e storage
earth
air
mez
fast cast
inspiration
domination
illusion
necro
soul reaping
death
curse
blood
rit
spawning
restoration
channeling
communing
monk
divine
healing
smiting
protection
ranger
long
short
horn
flat
recurve

then the different varieties of wands

then the different varieties of offhands

Bows are all marksman attribute so the fact that there are 5 different styles of bows just means that its one more than any other caster profession

Uh no what are you talking about? Each different staff attribute doesn't make it a totally different weapon. Bow's are all bow's just with different range. It has nothing to do with attribute.

I had read some time ago that you're more likely to get drops for professions other than your own in order to encourage trading. I have no idea how accurate that statement is, or if there is any truth behind it...

My experience exactly. And it has nothing to do with your own profession. The attributes of the drops also seem to be biased towards the builds of the enemies you kill. The vaettirs tend to drop lots of illusion staves.

For those that remember... when Guild Wars was first coming out they made a statement that basically said: Monsters will drop what they are supposed to, so no swords from killing a bull, or a moa or so on; a ranger would drop a bow a warriror a sword or what ever they were using and so on... Now of course they changed that idea, but I bet their is still some of that principle in their.

^old school

Go see a Historian NPC, and get yourself an uber Tengu / Mursaat weapon set of whatever attributes you require.

Drops are now Useless.

Unless you really don't want those BMP weapons because you feel it's a cheated gold. As I do. Some look alright, but I like to have something that required at least a bit of luck, or a bit of money to obtain.