What is with all the drops and chest items!!???

Lately, everytime i open the gold chest or got gold item drops most of their mods are perfect!..I'm not saying i don't want perfect mods or anything. Especailly Amber Bows... all pefect mods.. when I first got em i was so happy, thinking I'm gonna make lots of gold..well..nobody wanna buy them even with 10k for 15% always w/ -10 armor or -5 energy, also axes, swords, shields.. and also because of that Victo's axes, swords and others' prices go down really bad..i was keeping em for later and now they all useless....I wonder how pepole selling with 100k plus ectos thing..What is wrong with gw now a day?

Chests were not put into the game so that people could make money off of the drops. The intent was so that even the average player would have a better shot at a nice weapon. Plus it must just be good luck for you or bad luck for me as i havent gotten a perfect mod on any chest drop in a while.

Nothing is wrong as such, Anet increased the quality of (chest) drops in high level areas which is good for casual players, well, actually for all players imho.

As for 100K + ecto items, only sought after skins and very rare ones fetch prices like that but thats always been the case. In the past it was Storm Bows, Eternal Shields etc, now its zodiac stuff and elite greens that fetch high end prices.
If you get perfect items with less desirable skins then salvage the upgrades, those are likely to retain value better anyway.

As for keeping Victo's 'stuff' for later, that wasnt even a smart move when Tombs was new, everyone could see that the rate these items would hit the market was increasing by the day.

I guess I sorta get the opposite feeling when I get a good drop or chest item, instead of "Jackpot! I'm rich!", I think, "Wow, awesome, my other character would like this." or try to get the mod off it to put on something else.

Rare drops were "improved" in an update around the time factions came out (although I'm largely still getting 14%vs hexed crap ) With a lot more perfect items flooding into the market, naturally the prices will drop.

Nothing is wrong. It's simply the market correcting itself. Prices are settling down to more realistic levels based on the item's worth.

If you want to make money, farm whatever green is currently in high demand (or one of the easily sold, but not so high demand greens). Chest drops are mainly just good for unlocks/useable weapons. There's also that chance of getting a shield, perfect weapon of popular skin, or upgrade to sell for outrageous amounts.

man where do you even open chests like these? 7/10 chests are purple for me and most of the time they're around 11-13 req.

Best drop out of a chest I've gotten was a skull crusher hammer, req 8, 14>50, +29 grip.

I haven't gotten a Gold from 20 chests in a row (Luxon/Kurzick).
So yeah.

Same here, while these people are complaining about their gold drops, we don't get gold drops, but we quietly wait out our chances.

Still waiting to get my first gold drop in Factions... Haven't even seen one dropped for me yet, from a monster or a chest.

Thankgod im not alone... It seems in Anets usual style they boosted the chances of perfects mods. And in turn boosted the chance of getting mods that are completely worthless 10 fold. My last lot of weapons from FoW chests have had:

19% below 50 req 11
19% while hexed req 9
15^50 req 13
14% vs hexed foes req 8
15% vs hexed foes req 12
15% vs hexed foes req 10
15% in stance req 13

The chances of getting a perfect mod are definatly up... the chances of that mod been worthless is up even more.

Edit: While im on the subject of FoW drops... has anyone noticed a HUGE increase in the number of 19% deathbane mods dropping for weapons and staffs?

I have been amazed at how good the chests are in Factions,
I want to thank anet for for making the chests better, this
has helped reduce the need for farming.

I've got nothing but crap out of chests thus far.

Hopefullly it'll average itself out as I purchase more keys and open more chests -- or maybe I'll just end up spending all the gold away on junk =[

If I get another weapon with a species slaying mod or any more *brilliant* condition mods (Barbed Axe ftl) -- I'll go barmy.

Fortunately the NPC merchant pays a resonable sum for my ample supply of "Gold Marble Hammers of Dragonslaying" -- more than I'd pay at least

I wish the chests would do that for me. I have been farmed 10 chests in the palace and didn't get one drop worth a thing. All drops had when hexed or below 50% health.

Sometimes it has taken about 100 keys to get a decent weapon & sometimes I get 4 good ones in a row.

- Pure luck

wierd... my golden drop rate is increased but they are still crap...
9/10 chests were gold...
btw... are golden talons rare dagger skin?

I have gotten one gold item with my necro and about 15 golds on my ele since Factions release. I have to concur about the drop rate. The weapons are usually either very good or utter crap. I usually get the latter.

examples of useless items:
Max _______slaying
10% halves skill recharge gold weapon with no other mods
10% halves skill cast time " "

my last 5 gold swrods where 15^50, 15% always, 15% in stance. and i couldnt sell.

last 15 bows have been similar.

and hammers? i dont want to talk about hammers. they are always perfect but some butt ugly skin no one will buy.

I think another thread states 36% of chest drops are gold, so people can make money of them with one good drop in 100