Curse

HayesA · Sep 18, 2007, 03:18 PM // 15:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xitoahc

Gah. I'll just quote what I said on another forum on a related topic:

Heart of the Shiverpeak chest ALWAYS spawned some goodie for me; it hasn't spawn a crap yet.

Roo Ella · Sep 18, 2007, 03:26 PM // 15:26

lol I suck at the chests but when I play with a mate in a dungeon
HE ALWAYS gets at lest 2 gold drops min per run and almost never breaks the lockpicks
I get crappy drops and break my picks we both have similar Treasure Hunter and Lucky ranks so that can't be it lol
since GW:EN came out I have only had 1 gold drop in the entire time.
Think I'm just cursed.

EDIT doh just read the edit it's end chests your talking about soz
move along nothing to read in this post.

tyche7 · Sep 18, 2007, 03:48 PM // 15:48

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Originally Posted by ChoKILLate[FDG]

The poster was talking about dungeon chests...not locked chests.

and Xitoahc answered it perfectly! You will always get max damage if a gold drops, but the drop is random. One dungeon will not drop a higher percentage of swords/axes...etc.

I beg to differ here.. you don't even want to KNOW how many NON-max golds I've gotten out of GWEN. This happens all across the board was my point - dungeon chests AND locked chests - doesn't seem to matter for me. But just b/c it's gold DOES NOT mean it's max...if it does for you than thank your lucky stars you aren't like the rest of us.

Brewmaster · Sep 18, 2007, 04:47 PM // 16:47

If the Dungeon chests dropped only high end req 7-10 crap, would it truly be high-end? I mean, why would ANet want everyone to get the best weapon. I've gotten more useless crap out of chests than I ever have in other campaigns, but that doesn't bother me. I'd be worried if all we got was max and low req. The prices would drop, but I've always enjoyed playing to get better equipment than otehr people. You could say that you want an equal game, but do you really? Do you really want to be lke everyone else, have the same things as everyone else, and know that the best skins can be bought for less than 50k? I'm hapy when I see an entire party, including myself, get all purples from a locked chest, or all req 13 butterfly mirrors from a dungeon chest. To me, that means that when I do get a req 9 runic blade or pyroclastic or anythings else, it's still worth unholy amounts of gold or it sets me apart from the rest of the Guild Wars players. Flaunting and showing off is the reason we get FOW or even 15k Armor, because there is always someone who doesn't have it, can't get it for a long time, and will be impressed until they do.

~Brew

WarKaster · Sep 18, 2007, 06:30 PM // 18:30

all i have gotten out of dungeon chest so far are mostly crap gold off hands and the required gemstone or diamond drop.....

nothing beats seeing a gold req13 skull brush drop.

Aranox · Sep 18, 2007, 08:10 PM // 20:10

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Originally Posted by WarKaster

all i have gotten out of dungeon chest so far are mostly crap gold off hands and the required gemstone or diamond drop.....

nothing beats seeing a gold req13 skull brush drop.

Oh really? Well...

Lysander Freeman · Sep 18, 2007, 08:38 PM // 20:38

I get golds, and more golds. Personally I don't care about gold items because my heros are all stocked up with mostly greens and those that don't have greens have golds. Ah, I did get one green drop from Cathedral of Flames last night.

I would like to have gotten at least one gold polymock piece in... 21 dungeons. I started doing them again, starting with the ones the wiki says have a chance to drop polymock pieces.

A friend got two polymock pieces, one from Cathedral of Flames and one from Frostmaw, so it is possible...

At least the dungeons are fun and you get more reputation and some gold while doing them.

I think they should up the gold in the hidden chests. three hidden chests in Chatheral gave me about 150 gold each. that was it.

Darko_UK · Sep 18, 2007, 08:42 PM // 20:42

At first all my drops suck but yesterday I got this

and today I got an Onyx gemstone, 2 dungeons in 2 days xD
So yeah Im *sure* they are equal xD

WasAGuest · Sep 18, 2007, 09:21 PM // 21:21

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Originally Posted by Pompeyfan

I don't buy this some people are lucky/unlucky thing - from what I can see it appears as if some people are just earmarked for the good stuff whatever and others aren't - if it were down to 'luck' or totally random it should even out over time, but it dosen't.

So far in GW:EN I've done nearly every quest, filled the hero book, and done 19/20 in the dungeon book - yet I've not had a single green drop or a decent gold for that matter and I've given up on locked chests as I had 48 purples and 4 golds from 52 chests opened and of the golds they're nearly always for paragon, mesmer, ritualist, monk or assassin - all the 5 professions I don't play and invaribaly req 12 or 13, and none max so only merchant material.

In the 27 month's I've been playing GW in which I've completed all 4 campaigns - 3 of them with 5 different characters I've yet to see a white dye, only had 5 blacks drop and had zero hign-end max weapons drop. The best the new hidden chests in GW:EN dungeons have produced is 2 monster claws with the rest just a few gold coins. My last FoW trip saw 7 of the party members get gold drops and 5-6 shards each yet none for my character, and in all my UW trips, my ranger has never had an ecto drop ever.

Yet, I've been in parties where others get lets of good drops and it's usually the same players who get them. Npw I could understand if my drops were poor due to farming and constantly re-doing areas, but I don't farm at all (too boring) and just do missions and quests usually in a party.

Finally, someone with the exact kind of luck I have! I thought I was alone in this.

Metal Herc · Sep 18, 2007, 09:56 PM // 21:56

Gotta love going through 3 floors to get a Req 13 Mesmer off hand, with no max mods to even salvage oO

Though the dungeons are entertaining. To me it seems many just aren't worth the time. Xitoahc said it, there are a few that I find worth it and the rest are lumped in the "meh" category. I plan on doing them all once, but only returning to those that I know I am going to get something good from.

But GW:EN has only been out for a little while, I am hoping that ANET will tweak the other dungeons up to par with the others. They may be fun, but they are not "2 years repeating" fun.

fireflyry · Sep 20, 2007, 08:29 AM // 08:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brewmaster

If the Dungeon chests dropped only high end req 7-10 crap, would it truly be high-end? I mean, why would ANet want everyone to get the best weapon. I've gotten more useless crap out of chests than I ever have in other campaigns, but that doesn't bother me. I'd be worried if all we got was max and low req. The prices would drop, but I've always enjoyed playing to get better equipment than otehr people. You could say that you want an equal game, but do you really? Do you really want to be lke everyone else, have the same things as everyone else, and know that the best skins can be bought for less than 50k? I'm hapy when I see an entire party, including myself, get all purples from a locked chest, or all req 13 butterfly mirrors from a dungeon chest. To me, that means that when I do get a req 9 runic blade or pyroclastic or anythings else, it's still worth unholy amounts of gold or it sets me apart from the rest of the Guild Wars players. Flaunting and showing off is the reason we get FOW or even 15k Armor, because there is always someone who doesn't have it, can't get it for a long time, and will be impressed until they do.

~Brew

QFT

The "high-end" in my eyes was always going to be the game play content and difficulty NOT the drops.

Expecting EotN to suddenly yield an abundance of easy and frequent gold max drops is totally illogical and unrealistic unless you would like the GW economy to go belly up overnight.

The desirability of any MMO "high-end" loot works in perfect symbiosis with the fact it's rare, hard to get and has crap drop rates.

I mean...seriously....

bungusmaximus · Sep 20, 2007, 08:37 AM // 08:37

I got a req11 tactics amethyst aegis from a chest yesterday, beatiful shield, but who runs 11 in tactics?

anyone knows if their worth a lot?

Nailstabber · Sep 20, 2007, 11:32 AM // 11:32

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Originally Posted by HayesA

Heart of the Shiverpeak chest ALWAYS spawned some goodie for me; it hasn't spawn a crap yet.

I have to agree on this one, since i found out it was farmable and 3/4th runnable, I've been helping people with this quest, getting in the end so far:
2 greens, 2 onyx gemstones, 1 diamond and 4 golds from that chest.

Yesterday i did a quest involving red and yellow frogs (and this one is also repeatable) getting in the end a max gold brute sword req11 from that chest.

When compared to locked chests or any other for that mather, i'm sticking with these quest chests from now on.