Lately I have gotten far too many rare items, i.e. mursaat garments, etc... which should, in my opinion yield superior runes, or gold items from tedious chests in high-end areas that aren't even max damage. In my opinion, if rare items can sometimes (most times in my case) yield only major runes, then contrarily, purple items should sometimes yield superiors.
It is very disheartening to spend an uber amount of time carefully taking out mursaat or what have you to finally get a rare drop and it be some crap like major fast casting, etc...
Rant About Rare Items
Loralai
twicky_kid
Yes it sux that you can possibly hit a major from gold armor but the bottom line is its quicker with faction and rune trader.
Esprit
If you had every gold dropped, be a max item or a superior rune, you'd see people just farming chests. By putting the chance that the item is not max or superior, it stops many people from farming chests excessively.
The Son Of Morgoth
if we gtet more good rare item drops those items wont become good anymore since so many people will have em.
Fantus
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Originally Posted by Esprit
If you had every gold dropped, be a max item or a superior rune, you'd see people just farming chests. By putting the chance that the item is not max or superior, it stops many people from farming chests excessively.
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kvndoom
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Originally Posted by Fantus
That's true, but beside the point. It really sucks to get a rare armor just to get a major rune out of them. This is NOT about the drop rates of the runes themselves, just about the "color" of the armor. If the drop is determined to be a major rune, just make the armor purple, not gold.
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generik
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Originally Posted by kvndoom
It wouldn't change anything. Then you'd just get disproportionately more purples than golds. At least the gold armor is worth more to the merchant if you get a crappy rune. Most major runes sell to the trader for what, 25 gold? The armor itself can be worth upwards of 300. And you can't just not ID purples either, because of the Major Vigor and Major Absorb, which actually are worth something.
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Kaguya
Seeing how darn many 'rare gold' drops I get when farming ettins, I'd say the current system is great as is, the rares really aren't rare, maybe the rare prefix should just be removed so people don't think too highly of it.
lg5000
Would be nice to have 'rare' items such as weapons which were actually rare though... although.. my air offhand is rare in ever sense, +12 energy, req. 13 air.. halves recharge time 17%... on divine favour skills. One of these days, I'll figure out how to have 13 in air magic on my monk 
Anyway, sorry for getting off-topic.
Anyway, sorry for getting off-topic.
xxreaper008
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Originally Posted by Esprit
If you had every gold dropped, be a max item or a superior rune, you'd see people just farming chests. By putting the chance that the item is not max or superior, it stops many people from farming chests excessively.
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Numa Pompilius
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Originally Posted by Loralai
Lately I have gotten far too many rare items, i.e. mursaat garments, etc... which should, in my opinion yield superior runes, or gold items from tedious chests in high-end areas that aren't even max damage.
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Kaguya
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Originally Posted by xxreaper008
Not True, Yesterday I was Mursat Farming (Not Telling Build) and a mursat dropeds gold garments. I identified it and is was a mjor divin Favor.
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fiery
i dont know.. it seems the longer you get a gold gear drop and to salavage it the crappier it gets.. may seems far off. but when a chest dropped a gold gear i salavaged it immedetaly and was a sup vigor...another dropped off a monster was a crap..i dont know in the game code that when any gold gear drops when it drops the code finds a random rune and it doesnt matter how many seconds you wait its that rune... or i can just be wayyyyy offf.. but hey when i salvaged my HOH gold gear drop from the chest..not HOH PVE HOH PVP.. minor blood rune.
MSecorsky
My last few gold armor drops have yielded majors... crappy ones at that... I just never thought to complain about it.
Esprit
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Originally Posted by Fantus
That's true, but beside the point. It really sucks to get a rare armor just to get a major rune out of them. This is NOT about the drop rates of the runes themselves, just about the "color" of the armor. If the drop is determined to be a major rune, just make the armor purple, not gold.
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Anet could either guarantee max/superior, major, or minor colors and in return the chance of unlocking a Gold Chest would drop significantly. Or Anet could leave it the way it is, and let the colors guarantee a specific range of items. And let chance give you that desperately sought after Superior Absorption or Superior Vigor.
Either way, players would always complain.
And a note: Over the weekend I got a gold armor to drop from a dwarf in THK, which ended up being a Superior Divine Favor rune. My team was congratulating me on the nice find, when in reality, I couldn't remember the last gold armor that dropped for me before that THK mission.
snapp
before they added the whole chest/key update. It used to be..
blue = minor
purple = major
gold = Superior
almost 90% of the time.
you would get a gold armor drop and be almost certain it was superior. Then the update came and now almost all gold armors I get are major. I used to sell unid gold armor for 5K a pop no problem. Who in their right mind now would spend 5k just to id a major air rune bleh.
blue = minor
purple = major
gold = Superior
almost 90% of the time.
you would get a gold armor drop and be almost certain it was superior. Then the update came and now almost all gold armors I get are major. I used to sell unid gold armor for 5K a pop no problem. Who in their right mind now would spend 5k just to id a major air rune bleh.
Esprit
And remember, even before that, Expert Salvage Kits weren't guaranteed to get the rune from the armor.
I'll take what we have now, over what what we had before. It's one thing to get a Major rune from a gold armor. It's another thing to see an ID'd Superior Vigor turn into a pile of salvage material. And to me, the latter is far far worse.
I'll take what we have now, over what what we had before. It's one thing to get a Major rune from a gold armor. It's another thing to see an ID'd Superior Vigor turn into a pile of salvage material. And to me, the latter is far far worse.
Monkness
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Originally Posted by lg5000
Would be nice to have 'rare' items such as weapons which were actually rare though... although.. my air offhand is rare in ever sense, +12 energy, req. 13 air.. halves recharge time 17%... on divine favour skills. One of these days, I'll figure out how to have 13 in air magic on my monk
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Retribution X
this is also like the golds w/o a damage mod, and not near max mods. it sucks! i mean, since when has these things been rare?
Monkness
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Originally Posted by Retribution X
this is also like the golds w/o a damage mod, and not near max mods. it sucks! i mean, since when has these things been rare?
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