EotN loot drop question

Coney

Coney

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2008

OK, so I'm farming these annoying cave-dwelling raptors so I can finally get that awesome green dagger (!!!), and I notice the following annoyance.

I get white and blue scythe/spear drops, but never purple or gold ones. If I open the chest there, I sometimes get purple and gold scythes/spears. I notice that the conch shield (as well as axes/bows/swords) drop in white/blue/purple/gold, so this is a bit odd that scythe/spear only drop as vendor trash (still looking for that req8 max blue inscribable!!!)...

This doesn't seem logical to me. Is there a known reason for this discrepancy, or is it akin to that chest loot bug they just fixed a patch or so back (e.g. chests in EotN not dropping tomes)?

EDIT: this seems more to me like a question about general EotN drops, rather than a farming question - at least that was my intent...

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

it's the same in Vaettir farming, no gold or purple spears or scythes.

Helix Dreadlock

Helix Dreadlock

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2009

Imperial Sanctum

Legendary Drunken Masters [DUI]

E/Me

Yes, I do find it strange that there are only blue/purple/white of those items. I haven't gotten one gold Nightfall-proffesion item yet.

KZaske

KZaske

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2006

Boise Idaho

Druids Of Old (DOO)

R/Mo

I can't believe you are expecting good drops in GWEN. I have had a few, but I get as good of drops farming hydras. The drops we saw in the preview have never been part of the actual game.

Luminarus

Luminarus

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2007

Sydney, Australia

Haze of Light [pure]

R/

Ive had purple and gold lesser/normal/greater guardian spears drop, so they do drop. You might just be unlucky.

Bobulation

Bobulation

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2008

USA

W/Mo

1) I've gotten many, many gold spears from there.
2) I've gotten many gold Saurian Scythes from the chests there.

Although I don't think I have ever gotten a scythe from the drops, I just figured that it wasn't one of their drops.

Marty Silverblade

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

iirc I got a gold elegant scythe once

Spiritz

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

DMFC

In general Eotn i feel has the worse drop rate for anything out of all 4 parts of gw ( 3 campaigns and addon ).
Dunno why that is - i recall following storyline and say getting from gunnars to sifhalla ( non taxi ) i had very little drops and yet spending same time on diff campaign somehow gave more drops - even money in Eotn seems to drop less.
That is something which stopped me for almost a yr doing any eotn - why do eotn when i can do other campaigns and make better money.Running isnt included as within gw any run makes money ( consulate docks run etc ).

SimplyAmazing

SimplyAmazing

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2007

Cho's Estate

Agents Of Indecision

Rt/

btw; just a bit of advice, i wouldnt merch them great conches, i would slap highly salvageable inscripts on them, and salvage, they give nice big piles of dust, which stacks of dust are selling pretty high now, and you can sell a stack very very quickly in kama. same with any hammers, most of the hammers that drop there salvage to granite, which is also a lil high atm, 4.5-5kish

MuC

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2008

Mo/

Am... About not dropping tomes from chests in EotN. Yes they drop tomes. Once i was running Rragar's and in whole dungeon one guy got 3 elite tomes from chests. Last time i also got one. But as every locked chest they also drop normal tomes (got assassin tome /()&#)("!#)($/!"). Don't know about NM. I think that locked chest on NM shouldn't drop tomes.

sorreg

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

Montrous Fangs

W/R

I've had quite a few gold Saurian scythes drop and from the chest aswell

Coney

Coney

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by MuC View Post
Am... About not dropping tomes from chests in EotN. Yes they drop tomes.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10359405
Quote: Bug Fixes
* Fixed a bug that caused Eye of the North treasure chests in Hard Mode to not drop Skill Tomes. Quote: Originally Posted by SimplyAmazing View Post
btw; just a bit of advice, i wouldnt merch them great conches, i would slap highly salvageable inscripts on them, and salvage, they give nice big piles of dust, which stacks of dust are selling pretty high now, and you can sell a stack very very quickly in kama. A bit tangential, but yeah, I've mentioned this elsewhere here (same for starfish focus). In fact, I'd recommend salvaging only those that are valued at 330-400g (without "show me the money"), as they will give you 110-130 dust, whereas those valued at 200-260 will give you 60-80 dust (more bang for the M4M!). Very strong correlation, prolly 0.7 correlation coefficient...