Drops in "Commandeering a Mortal Vessel"

Yeah, it seems like the chests drop grapes most times. If you get a gold or two, consider yourself lucky.

@Shy Guy: Yeah, glitched. Inherent sale mod plus a handle.

Some items i see in this thread droped only in gwen... so i have question, can happen?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Dwarven_Axe olds...?

Anyone tried to farm this area? I did a few runs and it seems The Mausoleum can't be soloable. Too many enchantments removals, like Strip Enchantment or even Signet of Disenchanment, which kills perma and obsi tankers. I'm thinking about some sort of physical tank and monk who will pump holy dmg, using RoJ, on balled foes. What do you guys think?

i guess this location has items with skins approximately like in the Shards of Orr dungeon due to undead mobs - so no something special, no dwarven axes or darkwing defenders.
imo.

What about locked chest?

amm, maybe ^^ Sorry

well, u cannot get Dwarven axe from locked chests in SoO, right? =)

Maybe they're doing this on purpose? A lot of 'glitched' stuff is coming up because of this quest.

Besides, they cant reroll, I have done so much over the past few days! And made some great deals with buying/selling!

Dont worry. There are far too many different items for a "fix" it would be impossible. Also a rollback is impossible as well. They wont rollback a whole event 90% on GW players will tell them to ^%$# off. If they were going to do something it would be done by now.

Ok, so Frozen Ele and I were doing some runs earlier to see what kind of interesting stuff we got. Here's our theory.

Summary

The area is using weapon/skin/name possibilities from somewhere in EotN, but it's dropping inherent items instead of inscribable items.

Foci, shields and wands are glitching in that they have the potential to include dual mods (like such items always do in inherent source areas,) BUT they also have the potential to drop with an attached focus core, shield handle or wand wrapping. These glitched suffix mods can be removed with an Expert (or higher) Salvage kit, but they cannot be reapplied.

That's how folks are getting triple-modded drops. It's a possibility on any gear which is normally not moddable at all in inherent versions: wands, foci, and shields.

It makes no difference if you go out in HM because upon entering The Mausoleum you will always be in Normal Mode. (no HM version of this map.)

Details

We did not find any triple-modded drops on our runs, but we did find multiple examples of "inherent" foci, wands and shields with attached suffix mods. In each case, the name of the item had the suffix listed, and the suffix (non-inscription) mod could be salvaged. The suffix could not be reapplied. If we tried to salvage dual-mod drops which did not have a name ending in a suffix, we could salvage only crafting materials.

Gear/items which are always prefix/suffix moddable even in inherent source areas aren't affected by the glitch, in that they're still dropping with prefix/suffix mods and a single inherent modifier.

Here are some pictures with examples.



The first item is a dual-mod gold Water Wand that I got from a Locked Chest. I then gave it to Frozen (because who better deserves a dual mod water wand,) and he discovered the attached wrapping when messing with it. Notice that, as dropped, it's named like an inscribable Water Wand with a wrapping, "Water Wand of Quickening," but the inherent HCT 20% does not start with "Inscription." When he showed me what happened to it in the trade window, you can see that the wand still has the inherent 20 HCT, and the name is now, simply, "Water Wand." He could not re-apply the salvaged wand wrapping.

Next, we have two core-skin "Idols," a purple and a blue. Note they each include a Focus Core because of their names. In addition to the cores, each one also has a single inherent mod. The same situation is going on with the gold Bone Idol to the right.

Near the bottom left, there is a purple "Jeweled Chalice" with two inherent mods. There is no salvageable focus core of valor, and the offhand's name does not end with, "of Valor."

There are two shields shown, a Crude Shield and an Ornate Buckler. Note that by the names, each has an attached shield handle. Also note that each has an inherent mod available only on inherent gear (no inscription counterpart,) the Armor vs. undead.

Two more wands are shown in the lower right, a gold text "Golden Pillar" and a blue text "Blighted Rod." Each has a suffix added to the end of the name due to an attached wand wrapping of memory.

None of these items has an inscription slot.

And yes, notice how incredibly smooth Frozen is when he selflessly offers to let me write all this up for both of us. What a guy!


I put together the following picture showing the list of non-core skins we got, in case anyone wants to try to figure out exactly what area of EotN this Mausoleum map is using for it's list of potential skin drops.



Crenellated Scythe
Watercrest Wand
Raven Scythe
Barrel Hammer
Bladed Recurve Bow
Caged Shortbow
Broadhead Spear
Stonehead Hammer
Forked Spear
Clouded Spear
Tribal Spear
Aureate Longbow
Crescent Staff
Hooked Scythe

Nice luny! =D

Pretty sure the chests are gone. I haven't seen one in 3 runs c.c

Really the chest are all gone?

got one about 20 minutes ago - no they arent..

Then is it possible for chests to not even appear?
Cuz 9/10 times they haven't for me :/

calm down. just did a run and got a chest. lately though its been 1 per :/

Yeah started as two chest now its only one for meh.

I've seen runs with anywhere from one to three Locked Chests. jimbo was telling me he got one run with five chests. He also told me that it's better to click all the Elegant Sarcophagii even though it will mean you have to abandon and retake the quest because sometimes a Locked Chest spawns with the skeleton dude inside them.

Don't be a nub like me and get so distracted by the funky drops that you fail to notice you forgot to retake the quest until Frozen runs you all the way back out to Rotscale and asks, "Where's the Enter switch? Did you not retake the quest?"

I haven't seen any runs with zero chests. Perhaps there's some evil ANet dev lurking your game, Shy Guy ... and laughing.

Oh, and it's worth noting that the vast majority of chest drops are purple. At least you get NM Lockpick retention rates.

Huh D: Well....I suck at PvE so I keep dying every single time, like 50 times.

Any advice on builds? :c

Anybuilds with holy dmg...cough cough ray of judgement...and btw dont have to kill rotscale for those that havent noticed

Running this for over 7 hours nonstop and got nothing worth posting (drops are very odd and cool, simiar to what's already posted, but nothing imba, nothing functionally impossible before haven't dropped for me yet). Kept 6 golds but all are merchable/borderline merchable trash, may post screenshots later.

tried a solo chestrunning build - zero chests spawned inside.
so the way to go is normal killing - usually 2, sometimes 1 or 3 chests spawn.

Superb summery Luny

The builds we were using were:
People: SoS (Luny), Water snare/damage (Me), plus we loaded up two alternate accounts that sat afk and opened chests
Heroes: Panic mesmer, HB monk, N/Rt healer, JB MM (plus a SS necro and SF ele when not using alts)

A final note is that the drop generator is making it so that the inscriptable items from EotN are dropping as if they were drops in an uninscriptable area (like Proph or Cantha); the drop generator isn't saying, "hey, make that inscription on that staff the inherent" (which explains why staves with condition inherents are dropping and staves with the equivalent to the "Hale & Hearty" inscription are not), adding an inherent from the list of possible inherents to the “new” skins.

Furthermore, the drop generator is not affecting any pre/suffix mods (Icy sword hilt, bow grip of enchanting, etc.); you can still get a swift staff of warding (plus the inherent), not just a staff with an inherent. Because the generator is leaving pre/suffix mods alone and because shields, wands, and foci from uninscriptable drop areas naturally have two inherents (and thus no pre/suffix mods), it's possible to get a wand, focus, or shield with three mods. Two of the mods are inherent mods plus one mod that's the pre/suffix mod (shield handle, wand wrapping, focus core).

Knowing what the drop generator is doing, if Anet doesn't care that we have these skins (skins which weren't previously available as uninscriptable) and just wanted to fix the stats problem, then Anet could create a script to find all wands, foci, and shields with both an inherent mod (or two) and a pre/suffix mod and then remove the pre/suffix mods (which would make the items like any normal wand, focus, or shield that dropped in an uninscriptable area). Not knowing much on programming or Anet's resources, I don't know if this is feasible, but it's an idea.

OK lets take this thread to the "oldschool" topic



well it's not inscribable so it must be oldschool right?

/sarc



entertaining drops in there but no 3 mod offhands yet.

There's a triple-modded focus on the first page from system.fan. I haven't seen any triple-modded shields yet, but based off the work Luny and I did, I would guess that a triple-modded shield is possible.

yes could imagine that also..

yeye im back at home now. maybe can try few runs, just read all the posts and im so excited!

Dying to get in on the hunt, but finished all the halloween quests on all chars already

*smacks himself on the head*

Aww tried to run it but didnt manage with war aww, Guess ill have to take real builds and fight *Sigh*

run with a friend who still got the quest.
only 1 person in the group needs the quest open =)

there you go with shields ect

Ok, so animal fighter, some nub named Scorched and I went on a few more runs. I'm not going to bother cropping shots of all the non-core skins again, but I'll list them ...

Windblade Spear
crescent skin Sickle
Embossed Scythe
Iron Hammer
Dual Winged Axe
Spiraling Spear
Duskblade Scythe
Elegant Scythe
Raven Staff (a white one, req. SR dropped.)

A Lockpick did drop from one of the foes in there, even though it's normal mode.


There are my two new snazzy scythes along with two offhands. The triple mod is animal fighter's. That's the first Jeweled Chalice I've seen drop from "inherent" source areas and dye with the style where yellow dye makes it look default instead of greenish, too.

you guys do this in HM or NM?:P

read the page before: no use going there in HM cause when entering the dungeon it will load in NM

Meh did around 10 runs today, only one crap gold scythe and one crap purple 3mod wand..

Oh but i did get this! Its completely useless but u cant get like this elsewhere! ;D

too lazy to do screenshots but here's what i got in another few runs:

all gold:
Cyclopian Wand (of Memory) Req9death 5^ench HRT20%death
Caged Shortbow Req13 14^50
Spiraling Spear Req11 15vs hexed
Embossed Scythe Req13 14^50
Dual Winged Axe Req9 14vs hexed

purple:
Briarwood Scythe Req12 14^50

cheers

well did few runs as well, can prove what luny figured out.
Just got a unhloy staff q9/+10/20/10 oldschool, which can usually just drop inscr.
got few shields with one inh mod and shield handle, same for foci and wands.
also got uninscr. holy vial and iron hammer.

a guildmate just got an awsome shield...

reinforced buckler (gold)
req9tac +28hp/-2stance/-20%disease

heres the screen

PS. its not my shield either

Haha that's awesome
This is the best I've gotten

I think you can be pretty sure these items wont continue to exist.

well they would probs need server reset for that for last few days. then eveyrthing anyone done in last 3days would be gone...


Mostlikely

what guys think a late 1 april joke?? Must be... (( It Would be Unfair for People who PvP weapons with 3 or more mods dont you guys agree on this????))) then the final of automatic tournament would be reset to??? Wooow this getting way to interesting

I think the gold value of this pretty much sums up how they let this slip through!



I'm interested to see what if anything they do about this, not fair at all to PvP to leave stuff like this, and thats coming from the guy who just got this!!!
{before you ask, NO I won't merch it}

then again they broke PvP 4.5 years ago soooo