Curse

Slabby · Aug 15, 2006, 02:13 PM // 14:13

"More rares from chests"

Yeah right, Anet screwed me and gave me 10 purps in a row.

Clone · Aug 15, 2006, 02:28 PM // 14:28

There was quite a bit of discussion about this in this thread. While I did notice more gold drops, they weren't necessairly any good. I got gold weapons with no inherent damage bonus, shields who's only mod was +armor against some obscure enemy type, and lots of other random junk.

Loviatar · Aug 15, 2006, 02:46 PM // 14:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Demesis

Rare = Crappy mods?
Rare = Gold with stats worse than purple items?

possibly someone should explain something you have obviously missed seeing or noticing................

there are a whole bunch of WHITE drops............with me so far?
there are fewer BLUE items than WHITE items........still with me?
there are WAY fewer PURPLE items than BLUE items.......still with me?
there are WAY fewer GOLD items than PURPLE items......still with me?

golds drop RARELY compared to everything else and the perceived gold value has no effect on how many golds drop.

rare is how often a color drops not how much someone will pay for it

Gli · Aug 15, 2006, 03:00 PM // 15:00

All I got was junk. 150 keys worth of junk. I recovered less then 30k and the only reason I got that much was a couple of Superior monk runes. I got 3 interesting mods on crap weapons, all of which turned into crafting materials.

My 50 Forbidden keys were worst. Only 22 rares, and no interesting skins at all, not even with crappy stats. In Kurzickstan, I got 42 rares out of 50 and in Luxonland it was 36 out of 50.

The only good thing to come of it was advancing my Treasure Hunter title to (3). It's pretty ironic that I usually break even on chest runs and make a huge 60k loss during double-your-fun weekend.

eternal pho · Aug 15, 2006, 03:11 PM // 15:11

Sometimes people misunderstand the word "rare". I mean this guy was arguing with me yesterday that I used the word "rare" when selling a gold item. "Rare" just means the item's gold.

MSecorsky · Aug 15, 2006, 03:35 PM // 15:35

All that was promised was that more chests would be gold.

This was definitely true.

Mordakai · Aug 15, 2006, 03:42 PM // 15:42

Question: I was trying to farm Ghail, so I killed a bunch of stuff around him.

Never got a key drop. How many hours did you guys have to farm to get a key?

Saider maul · Aug 15, 2006, 09:45 PM // 21:45

Yes I am saying gold drops probably doubled but quality was way down.
I went because i was bored and to be honest. I farmed pre AOE nerf. so I have not needed to farm at all for factions and most likely wont have to for nightfall either and i run 2 full set of accounts.

I went out because i was bored. lol, And I know one day i'll have to go farm for gold again so i will need to find different areas as the game expands.

You will never hear me complain about how to earn cash. LMAO ah......

any hooo, to my next question.

Does anyone feel prophecies earns more for farmers then Factions?

From what i have experienced I earn 3:1 in prophecies vs Factions?

mind you i spent about 20 hours farming the event in factions with only 1hr in prophecies and it fit my typical run.

Y.T. · Aug 16, 2006, 04:47 AM // 04:47

i've noticed a HUGE amount of gold max weapons with perfect or near-perfect mods but no inherent damage bonus - f/ex, max GPB req 10 barbed and of dragonslaying, but w/o any 15^50, 20 when hexed or anything... also i've noticed alot of staves with weird stats, for 3-prof builds, like req 10 fastcast with HSR 20% divine favor and HCT 18% air magic....

but strength-based shield with +1 to divine favor 20% was just awesome

2ndName · Aug 16, 2006, 04:54 AM // 04:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Y.T.

i've noticed a HUGE amount of gold max weapons with perfect or near-perfect mods but no inherent damage bonus - f/ex, max GPB req 10 barbed and of dragonslaying, but w/o any 15^50, 20 when hexed or anything... also i've noticed alot of staves with weird stats, for 3-prof builds, like req 10 fastcast with HSR 20% divine favor and HCT 18% air magic....

but strength-based shield with +1 to divine favor 20% was just awesome

I feel your pain. I picked up a Diamond Aegis Req 9 Str with 16 armor AND +1 19% Illusion!!

Saider maul · Aug 16, 2006, 09:10 PM // 21:10

I got a Sheild with 16al +1 water magic 20%. lmao

and if golds are rare why do i get about 4 a run now in nahpui and 2+ in droks? thats 1 every 15-30 minutes?

Also I bring your attention to gold drops some are plain gold other state RARE in the name. also if opening gold chest gives you the title why do i not have it yet when i opened about 200 over the weekend.

The Golds were not classified as rare by the game dispite their color association.

NEXT!

Sir Skullcrasher · Aug 16, 2006, 09:24 PM // 21:24

I got some decent gold drops. But still got some weird stuff like a Gold Staff with smiting, blood, and divine magic all in one!