ecto frustration

SirShadowrunner

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

at the beach

Gamerzunlimited (GU)

R/

Ok, a little griefing and ????, are ecto drops getting hard to come by for
anyone else, my last 3 runs with 3-person trap team, has yielded 1 ecto
for all us on 3 runs, very poor return on time, and it was not for me of course. Is there a way to get ecto's to drop more, we cleared out the place,
all smites, coldfires, ataxxes, darkness, all for 1 ecto, and the chests here
are the worst in the game, spend 2 hours clearing the place to get 2k
profit, spider runs blow this away, I have only had one spider I did not get
a shard in, but a gold shadow blade dropped, for UW being the hardest PvE
part of the game the drops sure do not reflect this.

Anet if you are there. plz no more demonic remains...
/drops to knees and prays......



p.s. no, I do not over-farm UW, lol..... maybe 2-3 trips a week.....I farm the
entire map, currently having a blast farming Titans, a fun to fight
and very challenging.

Anarion Silverhand

Anarion Silverhand

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2005

Denmark

None

In my last 2-man UW smite run 5 ecto's dropped. So I guess it's just bad luck. Also, the smites are being farmed by many, many people. Places like the chaos planes aren't being farmed at all, so the drops might be better there.

Sagura Kagurake

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Oblivions Fury

W/Mo

lol you have bad luck I did dual 55monk and ss/sv nec, and we both got 3 ecto and 1 run and the next run we both got 1. I also got good drops out of chests too.

lambda the great

lambda the great

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

here

Almost a Guild

W/N

Spawning pools, Bone pits, Chaos planes. drops are way better over there. And I know 3 man trapper can clear Twin sepant and even Chaos planes. Wayyy better drops over there and it's more exciting.

Solberg the Exiled

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Xen of Onslaught

N/

Drops are indeed all luck, also I believe tis true that the smite crawlers are being over farmed and as such their drops are not very good. I do usually get better drops in the chaos plane than in the ice waste, but I still think it's all luck.

Sagura Kagurake

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Oblivions Fury

W/Mo

chaos plane? I have done the smite rought and the spider pet rought where is the chaose plane?

Avarre

Avarre

Bubblegum Patrol

Join Date: Dec 2005

Singapore Armed Forces

Ecto luck is odd... 10 smite + vale runs with no ectos, then lots on the 11th.

What others have said, mindblades have quite nice loot... however they aren't a picnic to kill unlike the mobs on a smite run (and the chaos planes ones are significantly harder than the escort of souls ones, there are more and more spread out).

Caged Fury

Caged Fury

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

Hearts Of Fury [HoF]

A couple of nights ago, I was doing the spider run and got 3 ectos from the cows. No ecto from the smite runs. Did a couple of runs last night and I got nothing while my UW partner got just the one ecto. However, I did get myself a black widow spider pet.

Sagura Kagurake

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Oblivions Fury

W/Mo

ty Kosh for info, ya I may someday try to clear all of uw maybe...

Mad Punisher

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

ive cleared all of uw a couple of times , drops are random and i dont know why the suck at Chaos planes . I thought that the drops would be good there but they are not. My team opened 2chests there both were purple...lol