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Fay Vert · Aug 04, 2010, 06:58 PM // 18:58

SoS spirit farm build popularity says you bs

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Originally Posted by Fate Crusher

Loot scaling was played down and confirmed it doesn't affect anything but white drops and cash drops, dependent on your party size. All other drops such as gold weapons/tomes/rare materials are unaffected. This was over 3 years ago...

You people love rumours, don't you? DO some research.

Proof from the dev update April 20th 2007

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Devel...dates/20070420

That isn't proof, that was just the original ANet line. It contains several proven inaccuracies, loot scaling does not work how ANet claims it does, it works by rate of kill and affects full parties as much as individuals.

jazilla · Aug 04, 2010, 08:09 PM // 20:09

bad drops happen. pick yourself up by the bootstraps young man and try, try again.

Hells Fury · Aug 04, 2010, 09:02 PM // 21:02

"Thus, with today's build, all of the following types of items will now be exempt from loot scaling: Rare materials."

This is absolute bs. Back when ursan was popular and when mindblades didn't receive significant health buff (to slow down solo farming) my guild and i used to farm AT LEAST 3 ectos per run, solo with E/me (whole chaos planes and few dryders at beginning of pools, around 30 min,less with cons). Most ectos i got was 17 in one run. Even after the health buff drop rate was still decent (it took 1h, 40-50 min with cons). Don't know what happened later, or in what state sf was, or if there was overfarm of that area, but drop rate went down extremely (but i think that happened just before mass uwsc, ppl were running e/a+few ursans to sc). I can't remember exact timeline, but ecto drop rate has never been the same since then.

If someone could refresh my memory and tell me exactly in what timeline things happened :
-E/me and e/mo solo uw possible (i think with introduction of GoS)
-uwsc 6 ursans and 2 monks (well not sc but it was popular)
-uwsc with 2 ursans , 1 monk and rest were eles (i think)
-sf buff , sf nerf (50% dmg penalty), sf buff (33% dmg penalty),
-mindblade hp buff,
-mindblades got signet of disenchantment (and when and why did they remove sig later??),
-nerf of sf for other proffesions (xcept sins)
-modern uwsc with 7 sins and 1 necro.

MisterB · Aug 05, 2010, 10:19 AM // 10:19

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Originally Posted by Morphy

I don't think this was intentional, EW got nuked because of sway (which wasn't even fixed by it, lol). Solo trapping is still viable if you use ether signet.

You don't even need Ether Signet to solo trap UW, not even in hard mode. EW nerf only killed player perception of solo trapping. Power creep means faster builds than traps are available, of course.

I have never experienced what the OP claims happened (no drops in UW).