Drop question

Ok for sometime now, and I don't know where I heard it, I have had the following presumption about drops, and I just want to discount/verify it once and for all. Does what is in your current inventory impact what drops creatures spawn for you when you zone areas. For instance, does having an inventory full of gold items when you enter an area effect the chance of golds creatures are willing to drop, and likewise of course, no gold items mean more chance. Becuase it is getting evermore tiresome to "juggle" items to keep my inventory "crappy" in the hopes of helping drops, and when they have been as bad for me as of late, it really doesnt seem like it makes a difference. Also, I have even heard if this is true, that it also applies to what you are wielding, so that it would be better to zone with a gold item in your inventory, then put it into a weapon slot than to zone wielding it already. As I said, these are just some notions I have picked up along my guild wars career, and want to see what people who know more about it than I have to say.

I can see the responses now "all drops are completly random" and then I'll cry for wasting time :-p

Hate to tell you, but unless you can see the actual code put into the game, or get factual dialogue from the programmers/devs about drop rates, we can only assume that all drops are random. Sure, one could do 'controlled' experiments, farming a series of spots thousands of times (a 'series' so as to not 'trigger' any anti-farming/bot code), and giving out a realistic percentage, but c'mon, do you want to do that? I sure don't.

Regardless, doing superstitious things such as attacking certain mobs in a certain order, clearing a whole zone before moving on, or /not/ carrying an amount of rare items on you I highly doubt would affect anything. But hey, if it seems to work for you, why not? Luck seems to be a heavy deciding factor in item drops.

But yeah, all drops are completely random.

I really dont think there is ANY way to logically test this, just because of the chance element, and like you said, not seeing the code, as I remember from my stats class, not knowing the standard deviance and stuff like that seems to make it impossible to test.

So then to delve more into this, what is everyones personal ritual!?


and btw

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