Look at what I didn't get today/QQ Bad luck thread

[Essence Snow]

Here we go....

1)1k+ lunar fotunes 1 mini tiger
2)Nick gifts since day 1....1el bunny
3)2,127 open of z chest 1 q10 prot cc....0 el tonics =(
4)250+royals...1 livia...1 evennia
5) 37 coffers.....1 mallyx...0 braces
6) B-day...think I got a char shaman once..rest were all whites....lol
7) My only real luck.....Dungeons...5 dryads, 5 vs's, 3 bds, 3 storm daggers, 2 demon fangs, 3 bow of heirphant, 2 eaglecrests....countless middy staffs (embercrest,chrysocola,cobalt,etc..)

[Jk Arrow]

4500 hours in so far...

I have to say I've had a decent amount of good drops. The real good ones are still rare for sure but I've had one BDS, 4-5 Frog Scepters, 2 Voltaic Spears, maybe 6-7 Sup Vigors and a few other nice items drop for me. I was a dungeon junkie for a while though so looking back, my drop rate on dungeon rares was probably 1 every 100 runs. Eeek.

Gifts and such are a different story...

Nicholas - Have done almost every week - 0 minis, best items have been one of each dragon sword and the bo staff.

Birthday - 0 green minis, 1 gold mini - Shiro That's pretty sad.

Fortunes - 2 Ox last year, 0 tigers after 450 fortunes this past year

Because of this gift luck, I've opened the Zchest a total of 7 times and am sitting on 100 royal gifts. Just can't get myself to open them!

[Hobbs]

Started playing again after a very long break and got 3 Superior Absorptions in 30 minutes. I was like "Sweet, that's 300k right there!". Then I went to the trader -_-.

Never had anything good from Nick/ZChest/Birthday Gifts. Got a Mini Livia from around 20 Royal Gifts, that's the only thing i've ever got by luck, except when I completely guessed XTH correct and got a bunch of Wintergreen Weapons which i've been able to sell at prices well above what they were when I quit.

[Johny bravo]

I used to think I was unlucky but then it changed in one week. Back when the Obi edge just came out I was doing a lot of Fow runs. In that first week I got an R9 edge, R11 Edge, Demonic Aegis, and the only Everlasting Yuletide I have heard of dropping from the FoW Chest.
That week was the luckiest week in GW I have ever had. Since then I haven't had any drops worth much but who cares as that was enough to finance the rest of my wants in GW with plenty to spare.

The point of this was not to gloat but to say it only takes a few lucky drops to change your perspective. I have been playing for almost 5 years and I have only had 1 lucky week but since then I don't complain about being unlucky. Yours will come eventually

[Gli]

Oh jolly! A drop QQ thread!

10-25 Nick gifts/week. Skipped a few weeks though. Doing it on 2 accounts, lately 3 and often turn excess gold into gifts, for the hell of it. More fun than stockpiling ecto. All in all probably well over 1,000 gifts opened. Net result: 2 bo sticks, 1 brown rabbit mini. No other weapons, no other minis, no spider egg, no everlasting anything.

In the Year of the Ox I didn't get a mini for over 700 fortunes.

Still, Nick's stuff is decent: selling all the rock candy, kegs and mysterious potions netted me almost a stack of ecto, which got me all the minis with lots of ecto to spare. Which brings me to the royal gifts: I only opened 60 of them so far, no more than the ones I got for the quests. Utterly worthless junk all of them. Why people would want to buy them is beyond me. Now that I just bought the minis cheaply, I'm glad I saved all my war supplies so far. Never opening another royal gift again.

Z-chest: I used lots and lots and lots of keys on it before there was a title. After the title was introduced I only used 200 more keys, so I could put up a HoM monument. The price increase on the keys when the title was introduced was too steep to justify the crap the chest kept feeding me. The best drop it gave me were some req 9 dragon kamas.

And lastly, what the hell is up with the WiK greens? I'm yet to see one, after faithfully doing many bounties on 4 characters, all other quests on the same 4, lots of Falken runs and vanquishing most of Kryta in WiK mode.

[Ka Tet]

Originally Posted by Marty Silverblade

I've been playing 5 years and still haven't had a Superior Vigor rune drop. It's not a lot of money anymore but it would be nice, especially since I farmed Ettins extensively for them in 2005.

Dropped 5 sup vigor in 3 days while VQ'ing Cantha with a guildie last week. I gave him the fifth one after accidentally zoning us about 15 kills b4 VQ completion, bc I was auto-running while typing to tell him that I just got my fifth sup vig. Never had a stretch like that before.

[majoho]

I never got an ecto.

[Fire Hiro]

Could never got up there and the minions didn't fetch, reminds me i forgot to vq then :/

[Axeman002]

3740 zkeys...2 EL tonics...100's SoOSC's =0 BDS

[PuppyEater]

Originally Posted by Gli

And lastly, what the hell is up with the WiK greens? I'm yet to see one, after faithfully doing many bounties on 4 characters, all other quests on the same 4, lots of Falken runs and vanquishing most of Kryta in WiK mode.

Don't feel bad, I got the Peacekeeper green axe and tried selling it. The only response I got was one guy who then promptly bitched me out because he thought I was selling the peacekeeper mini....

[cosyfiep]

Originally Posted by Fire Hiro

Could never got up there and the minions didn't fetch, reminds me i forgot to vq then :/

ouch...that one really hurt.

yeah I think there is some rhyme and reason about HOW and WHEN things drop---certain times of day (which makes me think I should play instead of sleep----)....etc.
I see conspiracies ....why not

[vader]

Originally Posted by Gli

And lastly, what the hell is up with the WiK greens? I'm yet to see one, after faithfully doing many bounties on 4 characters, all other quests on the same 4, lots of Falken runs and vanquishing most of Kryta in WiK mode.

I got The Adjudicator a few weeks ago and it sucks. Sometimes (ok, most of the time) Anet really irritates me. They add these new greens with some pretty cool skins and then put mods on them that nobody uses. +1 Marksmanship on a bow? A staff with not even +30 health on it? A spear with +5 armor on it? Really?

[Darcy]

I spent years getting absolutely no rare anything; just scraping along and being always almost broke. Then in June 2008, I got an EL Automatonic from the Zaishen Chest. I sold it and split the gold with my son. Since then my luck has become average I would say. I get occasional green drops, nice runes, and black dyes. But, I get nothing exciting from Royal Gifts, Nicholas Gifts, Zaishen Chest, End Chests or Birthday Gifts.

[Gift3d]

i've sold every zkey/gift/item of crappy chance kids love to overpay for i've ever gotten, and i am now rich as all living balls and have bought literally every single item i have ever desired in guild wars!

how's it feel you probably coulda done the same!

[Eragon Zarroc]

my money doesn't increase in my storage since i've stopped playing. where is all the interest i'm suppose to be collecting?!

gf gets a mini livia from royal gifts and i get nothing! she won't even dedicate it lol

[Darcy]

@Eragon - maybe she's saving it for your birthday.

[NerfHerder]

Thank you for this post. At least now I know im not the only one with bad luck.

Does anyone here know someone that always gets good drops and you dont? Like you actually see them get the drops? Whats up with that?

[Xiaquin]

Originally Posted by Eragon Zarroc

gf gets a mini livia from royal gifts and i get nothing! she won't even dedicate it lol

Unless you are decking your hall out, why would you? I only dedicate ones that aren't worth much.

My luck balanced out today. After rare drops in a mission, I decided to use my first z-key ever. I watched it turn into a Firewater. Never again.

[Evilreintje]

It seems to be at a certain time indeed.
Last week I did 2 SoO Runs, both dropped a BDS.
Same as when i got mine, run after was another for someone else.
Plus back in the day when I was farming ettins for runes (which was very rewarding back then) I seemed to get a lot of golds in a certain day and less another, ofcourse farming different times.
Same with black and white dyes, almsot every time I get black, I also get a white.
So it seems it's a certain hour? <: |

Anyways, Royal Gifts = Crap
Zchest = some compasses, draconic aegis q9 which I sold for 100k +30e and mostly crap (think I'm still in the minus..)
UW got me 2 VS Q9 which is pretty nice
Nic got me 2 IDS, his walking stick, lotsa kegs but no minis yet.. I did get 15 red rock, 5tonics and an IDS from 1 week, 5 gifts.

[Perkunas]

Originally Posted by NerfHerder

Does anyone here know someone that always gets good drops and you don't? Like you actually see them get the drops? Whats up with that?

Yes, I do know someone that always gets the good drops, my guild mate. We have been playing this game for 54 months. He has 7400 hours vs my 8000. His time is on one account, mine is scattered across four accounts.

We learned the 600/smite build together and would switch off on each position. We would vanquish Nebo Terrace and North Kryta Province 3 or 4 times a day. When we finished, his inventory would be over flowing with runes & insignias, gold & purple weapons, tomes, dyes, and salvage materials. Rarely, did I fill my inventory. I would wind up carrying some of his stuff too. When we "cashed out", he would put and average of 25k per run in storage. I would bank maybe 7k. At the end of the day, we would split the profits.

It was nothing for him to show me 2 minors, a major, or even a super vigor during our runs. Survivor insignias are a common drop for him. I would go through all of his gold weapons and salvage the "perfect" upgrades, the +30hp, 20% enchants, +5 energy, etc ....... His HoM has Gwen, Koss, Joko, Shiro, and a black Moa Chick, dedicated in it. Shiro, Joko, Kirin, Grawl Shaman, and a black Moa Chick are dedicated in mine. We trade any duplicates that the other doesn't have.

Even in presear, when we make Charr runs, he would collect more runes, Charr bags, or Charr salvage kits. I might get a drop every 10 or 15 runs, where he was getting good drops on every run. He was sending 100k in gold and runes to post every 3 or 4 days, where it would take me almost 2 weeks to send 100k to post.

Farming Nick's items, most of the time, he can collect them faster. We can farm them together or alone and he generally has enough in half the time it takes me to find them.

Am I jealous? I was for awhile, but since we split it all, not anymore.