Curse

thunderpower · Mar 09, 2006, 03:51 AM // 03:51

Did Anet nerf drops on FoW/UW chests again?
Over the past week drops seemed to get worth and worth from FoW chests.

I opened 20-25 chests in the past week, and all i got was a huge crap. Sometimes i got golden weapons (bow, axe, sword) with no damage mod at all, only a shitty +4 armor or somethin "uber" like that.

Are the chest runners sucking everything out of the chests or were the drops nerfed again?

Is it only me? I got to the point where i decided to sell the keys I find. Really, it's just not worth it, I better sell it at 1k aor 1.2k than "exchanging" it for a 230 gp woth piece of crap.

Just Another Dude · Mar 09, 2006, 03:55 AM // 03:55

seems much worse recently for me too

Curlyfry · Mar 09, 2006, 04:07 AM // 04:07

probably some people found out how to dupe or something, and they wanna keep them on the downlow...or they wanna boost ingame economy. It stinks either way!!!

Lex Talionis · Mar 09, 2006, 04:19 AM // 04:19

Yea i've had the same crap happen to me lately. I go to fow see the chests open them + get the worst crap ever. Totally useless purples + rares of all types with the worst mods ever. Many of the rares also had req 13 5 times in a row wtf!!!?!??! Luckily those nice obsidian shards more than made up for the garbage that came outve the chests so it balanced out

Ruvaen · Mar 09, 2006, 04:24 AM // 04:24

Whenever I solo FoW, I still get get 90% gold chests. =X

KANE OG · Mar 09, 2006, 04:51 AM // 04:51

Drops are always RANDOM people. We've got too many threads about this type of thing and the answer is always the same: Drops are RANDOM! Nobody starts a thread saying, "Notice how great the UW/FoW drops from chests are lately?" Just keep playing and things even out.

Manda Panda · Mar 09, 2006, 05:48 AM // 05:48

Agreed as far as randomness goes. I think the only way anet could adjust chest drops is by changing the gold/purple ratio. Beyond that, if a chest is gold, it's gold. Whether that gold is a req. 8 15>50 fellblade or a war hammer of pruning (actual gold drop I got from a chest once) is all randomly generated.

Soul Shaker · Mar 09, 2006, 06:34 AM // 06:34

Why did they add the pruning mod? No-one likes it...

Hockster · Mar 09, 2006, 06:38 AM // 06:38

There's at least three different plant types in FoW alone. And who knows what will be in Factions.

CyberNigma · Mar 09, 2006, 06:40 AM // 06:40

That's assuming ANet can get 'random' right. Which, according to the update logs hasn't necessarily been 100% as far as loot goes.. I doubt its a simple random algorithm, or else they may have problems with their seeds..

thunderpower · Mar 09, 2006, 07:04 AM // 07:04

My problem ain't with random.

Let's see, before the update i never for a golden drop from the chests that had no damage mod at all! Maybe i`m a retard (course i`m not) and golden means only the color not the stats. I read somewhere in the update archive that golden drops (weapons mainly) were updated some time ago so that they have a damage mod.
Let's see, blue chaos axe usually has damage mod of +10% in whatever condition and sometimes you can get it as max dmg.

Now if i get the same crap from aa chest as a golden drop, namely golden chaos with no damage mod, how is that better than the blue one?

I have screenshots with this kinda golden, aka RARE drops. Aren't golden supposed to be (at least in "theory") better than pirp and blue?

I can't hardly wait to get a shadow bow , req 13 energy storage or death magic

Of course it's very very unlikely, and would be worth tons of stone badges and charr hides

thunderpower · Mar 09, 2006, 07:09 AM // 07:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by KANE OG

Drops are always RANDOM people. We've got too many threads about this type of thing and the answer is always the same: Drops are RANDOM! Nobody starts a thread saying, "Notice how great the UW/FoW drops from chests are lately?" Just keep playing and things even out.

Notice how great drops are when 5am in the morning in fow? 7 shards, 2 keys, 2 golden drops (non chest). I`m talking about chests.
If this crap will last long enough Obsidian key manufacturers will "strike" because they`ll lose their job cause of the low demand.