Curse

Narutoscryed · Mar 01, 2006, 05:54 AM // 05:54

I have offically played this game to much. im getting paranoid. one of my latest theories about drops came when my buddy that i play with almost all the time took 4 days off to go back to our home town. during his absence i farmed. i always farm. and for that 4 full days i had ZERO drop luck. but in the end i did not care. because merchanting crap whites and gold coin drops make about 2-4k a run anyway... and of course i always rotate my crops... so drop decay or anti farming code is not the issue..
when my pal got back we decided to do a strongbox run. i had not done one in forever (like 3 weeks).. and he had done one just before he left 4 days prior. now we get to the strongbox and i open it. low and behold he gets a purple crystaline sword. and of course i get squat... so my theory is actually now a proven fact that the game guild wars REWARDS people that do not play as much as avid players... so my drops suck cause i play this game at least 2 hours a day. but in the end.. i really feel kind of betrayed that a-net would reward halfassedness.
I mean if you got a great job and you work all the time then fine. in my opinion you should not have any better luck than the dude that has no life and plays all the time.. Its not fair for a-net to come out and say "IF YOU PLAY...YOU PAY." because i mean last time i checked.. anet said this game was skill based ..
and last time i check.. practice makes perfect...so. technicly the more i play the more i should get.. but that seems to not be the case with this game. i think im gonna take a week or two off just so i can get my drops back to par.
so that is my final word on any type of drop related anything.. i really dont need an opinion or rebuttle.. i just wanted to let some people know that .. maybe you play to much

VGJustice · Mar 01, 2006, 05:59 AM // 05:59

Got your aluminium hat on?

twicky_kid · Mar 01, 2006, 06:02 AM // 06:02

The game is not all about farming. You can get the absolute best equipment from easier sources. I haven't done any pve in a very long time but I play everyday. It hasn't affected my drops.

I can see how not playing at all could possibly increase your drops but its all speculation.

Narutoscryed · Mar 01, 2006, 06:13 AM // 06:13

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The game is not all about farming

lol when you beat the game 4 times .... and have a guild FULL of good pals but sadly no one pvp's then ya its all about the farmin.. just to burn away the seconds till ch2..besides.. i love farmin

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I haven't done any pve in a very long time but I play everyday. It hasn't affected my drops.

I can see how not playing at all could possibly increase your drops but its all speculation.

Did you just contradict yourself?.. if you havent pve'd in a long time.. how can you get enough info to offer an opinion

.. not trying to offend.. it just sounded kinda funny.

XeNoGeArZ · Mar 01, 2006, 06:17 AM // 06:17

The discussion of drop rates always intrigues me.

First rule I know is that you fight some random monsters before attacking the real prize cattle. I think zoning in a certain city many times over doesn't really matter; it's how many enemies of the same type that you've killed that keeps count.

In the end, after 2-3 runs, you have to take a break from them, because time is the other factor. I believe you'll have to "cool" off on them, and then do it again later on.

Dahman · Mar 01, 2006, 06:25 AM // 06:25

I like your conspiracy theory. Until now, I blamed my bad luck for my pathetic drops. But seriously, never found anything perfect and nobody would buy the greens I'd gotten

Vilaptca · Mar 01, 2006, 07:21 AM // 07:21

If this was true...then every 3 weeks when I feel like playing my GF or Bro's account since they don't play anymore, then I'd be raking in the golds and greens...

And I'm not...

Everyone just needs to realize its random...I never seen a rare until I hit the southern shiverpeaks when I first played through...I never seen a black dye drop until owning the game for 5 months...its random...

Maxiemonster · Mar 01, 2006, 10:51 AM // 10:51

I've never farmed for the gold, and yet I'm one of the richer people in Guild Wars now. It's not about farming at all, just play the parts of the game you feel like playing, if you earn gold with it or not, just don't think about it. If gold is the only thing you care about, deliver the newspaper a week, and buy a couple of million on ebay. Farm when you feel like farming, don't farm for the gold. After 1300 hours of playing, I'm still not very bored with this game, just because I never did anything that I didn't want to do. People just ruin the game for themself too much.

neoteo · Mar 01, 2006, 11:10 AM // 11:10

im glad i play 1500 hours with my ele , now i have made a necro for minium mastering ( still need 1 15 atrib quest for him ) and im making a monk , level 13 with droks armor , heh ... this means only now im learning a huge set of skills ...

<--- noob

heheh

about drop rates , i believe there is a formula that time played counts .. but that doesnt make me sad or anything ... this game is totaly not about farming , or drops ... its pure fun !!!

Lowly Peasant · Mar 01, 2006, 02:20 PM // 14:20

I dunno, last night I was in my first trapping group in a month. It was a 3 man team, at the group of atxxes at the stairs 2 ectos droped from them, both for me. We continued on to the smites, where another ecto dropped for a team mate. Later on, to finish the first quest 2 more ectos dropped, both for me as well as a key, to make 4 ectos for me. To say the least I was very suprised as I consider myself lucky to get 1 decent drop, and they also hated me.

AxeMe · Mar 01, 2006, 03:02 PM // 15:02

I have two accounts (that alone should qualify me for psychological counselling). I use one almost constantly and the other occasionally. I farm at times with both. I don't see any difference in either drop rate or types of drops between the account that is used every day and the account that is seldom used.

Although I have to add that this game has turned me into a superstitious person and I'm ready to believe that there are some tricks to drop rates. In fact each time I read a new theory - including this one - I become an instant believer, grin.

It's just that my own experience often differs.

But my paranoia about drop rates is alive and unhealthy.

fiery · Mar 01, 2006, 03:02 PM // 15:02

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Got your aluminium hat on?

striderkaaru · Mar 01, 2006, 03:09 PM // 15:09

don't forget to burn an offering for the drop gods.

Bmont3779 · Mar 01, 2006, 03:20 PM // 15:20

ok, heres what i have to say about drops. me and a group of guildies were on a IDS run a few weeks ago, and he got to the imps and nothing droped no IDS

, so we decided to go back and just kill everything (note there is 3 of us). While we were killing we all noticed that drops seemed to come in rounds, first i got all the drops then one friend then the other ( i dont mean one drop for each, im saying several drops (like 10 each) before they change players). think about that. Ps: we all play all the time.

thunderpower · Mar 01, 2006, 03:32 PM // 15:32

Umm... maybe taking some time off might get you better drops when you come back. I took a 3 month break (from june to september). When i came back, i went to farm some hill giants, just for the fun of it. I got 2 sup vigors in the same day. Not a sup rune since than. Althou i got like 20 or more golden armors (ettin, hill giant, zealot, titan)

Amras · Mar 01, 2006, 03:37 PM // 15:37

Well, I used to farm griffons, but I stopped because it was rather boring. So I went to farm Trolls instead. Then, one I felt like farming griffons again, and guess what, a 15>50 req 8 FDS just popped out

. My theory is that if u farm on te same spot for a long while, the drops will get worse.

FrogDevourer · Mar 01, 2006, 06:18 PM // 18:18

The universal truth about drops: I don't get enough drops, and other players get too many good drops. Farming and chest running is like a slot machine addiction. The more you play, the less happy you are. Evil hobby I'm telling you...

Falcon213 · Mar 01, 2006, 07:17 PM // 19:17

Farming is like cocaine.. the more you do it, the harder it is to reach the same high as before.

It's not that your drops are getting worse, it's just that you don't realize that they're staying the same.

EternalTempest · Mar 01, 2006, 07:48 PM // 19:48

Here is my observations.

I share my account with my wife she doesn't farm, I do with my 55hp monk.
I get usually 1-3 golds a day and well as purple and blue. I'm not farming 24/7 and help friends do missions as well as going back to try and do bonus missions / quests I've messed.

When drops start going down, I go to other areas (out of climate region, aka Crystal -> Krytia). I think it's the effect of using other characters or doing missions, quests.

I strongly feel if you farm 24/7 with the same charcter and do nothing else, it's going to effect you.

And Anet has nothing against farming - http://www.guildwars.com/press/inter...e-friday61.php

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There are three ways that certain players earn more gold than the average. The first and most obvious way is that, because everyone plays the game differently, some players are able to find unusually profitable areas to hunt in, or tricky strategies for killing a lot of monsters quickly. The search for the most effective way to play can be a fun part of the game for everyone -- we all like to see how well our characters can do, and whether we can tweak our characters to be better than they were previously -- and so we at ArenaNet don’t consider this a problem unless it’s extreme.

When it's extreme they will change things as they have in the past.

Narutoscryed · Mar 01, 2006, 07:53 PM // 19:53

lol i just got a great idea from this.. im gonna take this thread in a different direction.. Im gonna talk about our i guess you could call it.. farmin superstitions.. for example here is mine..

Whenever i got ettin farmin i always leave from L.A and i always kill 2 fire imps.. and 1 lynx on the way.. then after about 3 ettins i kill one more lynx and take out the rest.. i belive by doin this the game will be like "oh he isnt farming. he is killin everything".. dumb i know but i do it all the time

.. now lets hear yours