Heros getting rich?

Fishbait

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2012

E/Me

05 Mar 2012 at 01:20 - 1
Hi folks

I`m still learning the Guild Wars stuff. (Levelled but clueless Elementalist/Mesmer hehe)

Played this few months back & just started again.

Out trying to make gold today to buy new spells & I noticed, when I loot eg: 105 gold from some npc, it says in chat "shared with group".

I am grouped with hero characters, but didn`t notice it doing this last time I played.

Checked pre/post looting & they do get gold too.

Question is, is this meant to be so? Tad curious that they`re getting rich off of my corpses

GODh

GODh

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Netherlands

BFTW and DLRR

05 Mar 2012 at 01:28 - 2
Heroes, hench and other allies (even minipets) get their share of the drops too... because they say that those are not just your corpses, but the whole team's corpses (they worked for you too)

Darcy

Darcy

Never Too Old

Join Date: Jul 2006

Rhode Island where there are no GW contests

Order of First

W/R

05 Mar 2012 at 01:32 - 3
Yes, the heroes and henchmen are all multi-millionaires. They not only share in the gold drops, but get a share of all loot drops. And we still have to buy our heroes equipment and runes. They have a very strong union.

Fishbait

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2012

E/Me

05 Mar 2012 at 01:55 - 4
Dagnabbit, I must try getting into their union haha

Okay thanks, guess I just never noticed before.


Hmm, wonder if can get them to treat me to a pint or three...

KZaske

KZaske

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2006

Boise Idaho

Druids Of Old (DOO)

R/Mo

05 Mar 2012 at 04:13 - 5
Hmmm... mini-pets taking a share of the loot? I have seen drops for them (it happened to me a long time ago) but I thought I read someplace that minis getting drops was an bug that was fixed.

Fishbait

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2012

E/Me

05 Mar 2012 at 04:36 - 6
Might attempt some in game firings later. Kill everything I can see in one zone, then kick all the party npcs *cough* scroungers *cough* & then go on a loot search >

Calista Blackblood

Calista Blackblood

Permanently Banned

Join Date: Oct 2007

Northern Ireland

Nowhere To Run Nowhere To [Hide]

N/

05 Mar 2012 at 04:55 - 7
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fishbait View Post
Might attempt some in game firings later. Kill everything I can see in one zone, then kick all the party npcs *cough* scroungers *cough* & then go on a loot search >
Anything thats there will be for you anyway. You can't kick heros/henchmen in an explorable area.

GODh

GODh

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Netherlands

BFTW and DLRR

05 Mar 2012 at 17:54 - 8
Quote:
Originally Posted by KZaske View Post
I thought I read someplace that minis getting drops was an bug that was fixed.
That is very well possible (i only saw it once and that was a long time ago)

Bristlebane

Bristlebane

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2008

Mo/

05 Mar 2012 at 19:53 - 9
Reason is simple, they balance things out. Why would anyone solo if you could just get as much loot with a full team anyway? If you run a store and employ people to work for you, they might make you more profit, but surely you would pay them salary right?

Azarkar

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2010

05 Mar 2012 at 19:59 - 10
Not only do "YOU" have to share... but what tickles my fashion is that they do not reciprocate in return! What money they find they seem to keep! They are probably drinking some dwarven ale among themselves.. and talking about you too!

BladeDVD

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

Hawaii

Clan Of Elders

N/

05 Mar 2012 at 22:50 - 11
The idea was that the other party slots would be taken by other human players who would get their share of drops.

If you got all the loot that would go to humans when you took hero/hench/mercs then you would easily make more money than the game was balance for. Even soloing with out hero/hench had to be nerfed through loot scaling a long time ago.

Lithril Ashwalker

Lithril Ashwalker

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2008

Alabama

A/

06 Mar 2012 at 05:55 - 12
in my honest opinion only henchman should get loot and gold when u loot something/kill it
as turn for their pay - heroes shouldnt loot scale things as they are there as your friends and fellow heroes to learn from you.

enter_the_zone

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2007

R/

06 Mar 2012 at 11:12 - 13
Heroes are customizable henchmen, not your friends and they're certainly not learning from you. If anything, they make your experience as a player better than it is with henchmen and should thus get more than henchmen.


Loot gets split between every filled slot in your party, regardless of how they're filled. Now stop being ridiculous.