What did yesterday's (2/13) update change?

forever

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Last night when I logged on GW, I noticed a small update, but found nothing on the official update page. Does anyone else know anything about this update?

DABhand

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

W/R

Yeah more crap drops for DABBY curtesy of Anet

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by DABhand
Yeah more crap drops for DABBY curtesy of Anet
could you be a little more specific?

purebad

purebad

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Kentucky

Du Vrangr Gatas [MAGE]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Loviatar
could you be a little more specific?

more anti farming code I would assume from the initial respone...?

DABhand

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

W/R

Was doing a series of grenths runs, usually say if I found 20 chests, possibly i would get 10 or more having gold items, lately 4 runs, 1 gold out of 20.

They have a personal vendetta against me :\


One day they musta decided to rub it in, by giving me a SOTW with +45hp and +6 armor (charr) - but 12 tactics...

So unfair it was, so very unfair lol


Personally I think the drop rate % has been dropped again

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by DABhand

Personally I think the drop rate % has been dropped again
who besides me thinks it might improve relations a bit if they had a separate update catagory for those tiny updates that you might miss if you sneezed a few times?

rather than be left guessing what just happened

Align

Align

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Protectors of Awesome[AWE]

W/

On the flip side, me and my guildies have been getting more good drops recently. I usually get one rune on average per mission now. Not that they're useful, but its better than no runes...

DSey

DSey

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

W/Mo

I think chests in the southern shiverpeaks and the fire isle area(and FoW/Underworld) should drop golds only and no more purple crap. Spending 600+ gold on a key to only get crappy purple items worth no more than the merchant value is just rrrriiiiidiculous.

thelessa

thelessa

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Texas

Purple Puzycats

R/Mo

My friend and I have not had any good drops in weeks! Even if we avoid the area for several days :/

boxterduke

boxterduke

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

Walking the ruins of Ascalon

DVDF

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by DSey
I think chests in the southern shiverpeaks and the fire isle area(and FoW/Underworld) should drop golds only and no more purple crap. Spending 600+ gold on a key to only get crappy purple items worth no more than the merchant value is just rrrriiiiidiculous.
Hear hear.
Whats worst are UW and FoW chests dropping purple

thelessa

thelessa

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Texas

Purple Puzycats

R/Mo

I agree! If you spend that much for a key, you should get something better then a purple. At least starting from the Shouthern Shiverpeaks on.

Jiao Yang

Jiao Yang

Lunar Rabbit

Join Date: Dec 2005

my solo farming has been totally ruined too.. no more good drops after hours of farming solo today.
Btw is that your cat in the avatar? ^^^ he looks like a little tiger!

Chadatog

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2005

If anyone wants to know what the actual reason is, Gaile said that it was stuff to prepare for the GWWC, and it has nothing to do with anything in game related. If you want to see for yourselves it's in the latest Gaile talk, the first part.

Simdarth

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

Knoxville, TN

GotL

W/

I actually had some good luck farming last night and this morning. Got about four purples and a gold as well as two XP scrolls.

Big_Iron

Big_Iron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

The Edge

Tormented Weapons [emo]

Funny. I was just thinking this morning how much better the drops have been for me lately. I was beginning to think ANet had been listening to people complain about them. I guess maybe it's just been my turn for some good ones. I had been going through a drought before.

Stealthy Trapper

Stealthy Trapper

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Cincinnati, Ohio

Knights Assassins [Kill]

R/

I guess this is the farming pizz and moan post now.....thought that was already covered about a thousand times on this forum? :-/ Thanks for actually answering the question Chadatog.

kitten

kitten

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2005

The White House

[FRAG]

Me/N

after the update, Lions Arch and Random Arenas were getting messages in yellow text asking everyone to please port in to District 1 at the same time.

I believe they were attempting to fix the bug that kicks you out of GW when you TRY to port in to a full district... the error messages says you have been kicked because someone has just logged in on your account.

EternalTempest

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

E/

Was is everyone reaction to unlisted update farming nerf

If kitten didn't post the above response, I would say it's more C2 code / prep work for the upcoming weekend. A lot of code was pushed before the 1st pvp preview way before it went live.

Most people don't realize that over farming an area lowers your drop rate until you rotate your crops and farm in other zones.

forever

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chadatog
If anyone wants to know what the actual reason is, Gaile said that it was stuff to prepare for the GWWC, and it has nothing to do with anything in game related. If you want to see for yourselves it's in the latest Gaile talk, the first part.
Thanks, Chadatog, your post is the only useful one in this thread. I've already found the answer in Gaile Talk.

To everyone else: please stop ranting, this update has nothing to do with loot dropping.

aB-

aB-

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by DSey
I think chests in the southern shiverpeaks and the fire isle area(and FoW/Underworld) should drop golds only and no more purple crap. Spending 600+ gold on a key to only get crappy purple items worth no more than the merchant value is just rrrriiiiidiculous.
If the chests always dropped good items, people would only farm chests and never anything else. You are supposed to lose money on average farming chests, but you could find that expensive weapon that is worth it. It is a gamble.

Everytime there is an update, there is almost always a post saying how spot X got nerfed because they haven't received good drops. Almost always, it's false.

Kamatsu

Kamatsu

Moderator

Join Date: May 2005

Australia

Question has been answered, and before this degenerates any further into a whine/rant/etc about farming/drops..

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