Ettin farming nerfed?
I pwnd U
If you farm them too often your drops decrease in value. I usually farm them once a week. Keeps my drops good and i dont waste my life farming.
quickmonty
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Originally Posted by Hunter Sharparrow
Don't mistake fixed with less people farming at that moment. Everyone was in a hurry to get to cantha and now alot of the farmers that kept the drop rates down have moved on to cantha. This means less people farming that spot which means slightly better drop rates. Yes MORE vigor and absorbtion which mean those that don't farm won't have to to get one.
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Originally Posted by Oberon Shadowking
Do y'all get this clearly? GYPSIE ETTINS seem to have been NERFED! Or "Fixed" if you will. No more easy sup rune farming in Nebo Terrace.
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http://www.guildwars.com/support/gameupdates/
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Macktar Wang
Odd. The ettins still drop the golds for me. Hmmm.
Lady Erighan
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Originally Posted by I pwnd U
If you farm them too often your drops decrease in value. I usually farm them once a week. Keeps my drops good and i dont waste my life farming.
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And to everyone else, yes, the Ettins were nerfed yesterday during and in between updates. However, with the "official" Factions release update it appears they still drop gold armors, though it seems at a reduced rate from what they used to.
There was a specific chronological order of events, and if you don't read the entire thread it will not make any sense. Hence the reason some of you are saying, "ZOMG they aren't nerfed, stop crying...".
Str0b0
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Originally Posted by Oberon Shadowking
No offense, but I'm kind of surprised you guys don't know...
I always check GuildWiki after every update, and here's what it said about Ettins after the Tuesday update: "Gypsie Ettins have retrained themselves using lighter armor, thus not dropping as many rune-infused items anymore." Do y'all get this clearly? GYPSIE ETTINS seem to have been NERFED! Or "Fixed" if you will. No more easy sup rune farming in Nebo Terrace. |
I'm still seeing between 1-3 rare armors every two runs which is about all I ever saw anyway. Law of averages people. you do 2 runs and get nothing well that happens. You do fifteen and get nothing then it's officially a nerf.
quickmonty
Sto0b0 is correct. Check the official GW website for accurate updates.
http://www.guildwars.com/support/gameupdates/
http://www.guildwars.com/support/gameupdates/
ShadowFyre
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Originally Posted by Lady Erighan
Yeah, the Wilds do randomly spawn once in a while, but they pose no threat (depending on your build of course).
The Ettins can be pesky little *$%&s but they will eventually surrender the "famous/infamous" rare Ettin Pauldron. |
Hunter Sharparrow
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And to everyone else, yes, the Ettins were nerfed yesterday during and in between updates. However, with the "official" Factions release update it appears they still drop gold armors, though it seems at a reduced rate from what they used to. There was a specific chronological order of events, and if you don't read the entire thread it will not make any sense. Hence the reason some of you are saying, "ZOMG they aren't nerfed, stop crying...". |
Combine this throughout game increase with the increased chance of finding vigors and absorbtion and you now have the average player doing the quest and mission finding in on their own through the course of the game. Farmers won't be able to get the prifit they used to. Soon the prices of the items that made farmers rich will drop. Then what? Find something quickly so anet can nerf that too and make it more easily obtainable.
Eviance
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Originally Posted by Str0b0
I'm still seeing between 1-3 rare armors every two runs which is about all I ever saw anyway. Law of averages people. you do 2 runs and get nothing well that happens. You do fifteen and get nothing then it's officially a nerf.
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See the problem with this hun was that we weren't seeing ANY runes past maybe 3runs and ONE minor rune TOTAL... This was the reason for the panic - ettins were dropping crap weapons and nothing more- I farm for hours before going in and nothing - that was why people were freaked
But it's done and over with now! YAY for ETTINS!
quickmonty
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Originally Posted by Hunter Sharparrow
Well said. They may have increased the drop rate to the game as a whole but for those areas that dropped rare stuff every run out (in some cases multiple rares) they had their drops nerfed. What Anet has done is made the drop rate through out the game more level. So yes the drop rate of rares has increased some but for the ettins they have decreased dramatically.Combine this throughout game increase with the increased chance of finding vigors and absorbtion and you now have the average player doing the quest and mission finding in on their own through the course of the game. Farmers won't be able to get the prifit they used to. Soon the prices of the items that made farmers rich will drop. Then what? Find something quickly so anet can nerf that too and make it more easily obtainable.
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mys master
sweetness now i can get me som runes 
Ricebox
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Originally Posted by ShadowFyre
Only problem I have with this is the fact when you got rare pauldron they most of the time came out to be a major rune. as from my experience farming ettins. I heard you coul dget superior vigors/absorptive runes off them but in all my many weeks farming them and the countless rares I have yet to see a single one. Maybe my luck is crappy or something I dunno but it doespiss me off at times.
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twicky_kid
The drops are about the same as they always have been.
Before the rune quality change you had a chance to get a major out of a gold armor. Now its a 100% chance to get a sup rune.
If you count the number of gold armors that were acually sup runes it would be equal to the current drop rate of gold armors.
They are dropping less because of the 100% chance of it being a sup rune.
Btw my secret spot first kill dropped a sup vigor today. Its about equal to what ettins give but I can also get rare materials. That's the only reason I prefer it over ettins.
Before the rune quality change you had a chance to get a major out of a gold armor. Now its a 100% chance to get a sup rune.
If you count the number of gold armors that were acually sup runes it would be equal to the current drop rate of gold armors.
They are dropping less because of the 100% chance of it being a sup rune.
Btw my secret spot first kill dropped a sup vigor today. Its about equal to what ettins give but I can also get rare materials. That's the only reason I prefer it over ettins.
Aint She Fancy
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Originally Posted by Hunter Sharparrow
Soon the prices of the items that made farmers rich will drop.
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Tiela
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Originally Posted by Aint She Fancy
I was surprised tonight though, when I got a Sup Absorption and sold it for the going rate (30k), came back an hour to do a random price check, and it had jumped up to 75k. My general idea was that the increased drops of Vigors and Absorptions would make the price go down. But, in less than an hour, the price jumped about 40k.
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thinking it would going down again but...For your information, yesterday on 3 runs : 2sup divin favor, 1sup absorb, 1 sup dead magic...
Francis Crawford
I did a run w/ multiple back and forth zonings between Nebo Terrace and North Kryta.
Got a Sup Healing, three blech Sups, three Major Absorbtions, 6-7 utterly blechy majors, and a single minor.
Got a Sup Healing, three blech Sups, three Major Absorbtions, 6-7 utterly blechy majors, and a single minor.
Big_Iron
I did runs yesterday and got the same old crap I always get. I guess I just have no fricking luck at all.
Muse of Shadows
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Originally Posted by Aint She Fancy
I was surprised tonight though, when I got a Sup Absorption and sold it for the going rate (30k), came back an hour to do a random price check, and it had jumped up to 75k. My general idea was that the increased drops of Vigors and Absorptions would make the price go down. But, in less than an hour, the price jumped about 40k.
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Give it time, and they will drop to that, possably even lower.
And ettins where not nerfed for anyone still thinking that, it was a temperary glitch that now has been fixed.
On a side note - the old glitch where armors didnt provide any runes, even though they where purple and gold, seems to have come back in cantha. If anyone notices this in Tyria as well, post please, I would like to know.