Curse

Kook~NBK~ · Feb 28, 2009, 03:50 PM // 15:50

I did a full FoW run in HM last night with several Guildies/allies and had 5 picks drop for me. I think almost everyone got one or two.

Regardless of the drop rate, it's still a question of luck.

IceEmperor · Feb 28, 2009, 03:59 PM // 15:59

I tried vanquished joko's domain which netted me 13 lockpicks so far!!! Nice event for unlucky to progress!!

Coney · Feb 28, 2009, 11:53 PM // 23:53

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Originally Posted by Wrath of m0o

lol, agreed.
In 8 1/2 hours i have gotten 3 lockpicks running snow cave.
One of my guildies has 34 picks from raptor farm, time to go into solo mode.

Hmm, spent an hour farming raptor HM - 46 runs, ~34 raptor/run, no boss. Not a single lockpick - but golds were dropping very well for me (and opened 6 chests)...

Ran another hour using perma sliver, had 1 run where 2 lockpicks dropped, an elite assn tome, an elemental sword, and there was a chest! No other lockpicks tho...

EDIT: Are lockpicks considered white items which get loot scaled? Do they have a higher chance dropping from bosses, or in HM?

daze · Mar 01, 2009, 09:07 AM // 09:07

Ya, Anet seriously fuxxed up this weekend in doing the math..

Today i cleared FoW with only Me and 6 heroes in HM.... No lockpick

Yesterday i did about 50 raptor runs.... No lockpick

Yesterday i did 4 CoF runs.... 1 lockpick.

Yesterday i did snowman cave 5 times just to see if any would drop... No lockpick

This is seriously stupid. On any other normal day, i would get at least one lockpick in every area.

When i get home im going to try some Wurm farming and see if i have any luck. I doubt it though.

I talked to my alliance mates and they all have the same problem. I think Anet put the decimal place in the wrong spot. YAAAAY 0.3% Times the drop rate

cthulhu reborn · Mar 01, 2009, 12:39 PM // 12:39

As far as I am concerned 3x0%=0% so it's working just fine from where I am sitting...still no lockpicks :P

Karia Mirniman · Mar 01, 2009, 02:09 PM // 14:09

Hours of play this weekend, not one key.

Drop rate is one of the features of GW that is a major fail. It's a great shame that due to farmers the casual player isn’t provided for.

It may in part explain why such a great game (by any standards) isn’t very busy.

AngelWJedi · Mar 01, 2009, 03:27 PM // 15:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by daze

Ya, Anet seriously fuxxed up this weekend in doing the math..

Today i cleared FoW with only Me and 6 heroes in HM.... No lockpick

Yesterday i did about 50 raptor runs.... No lockpick

Yesterday i did 4 CoF runs.... 1 lockpick.

Yesterday i did snowman cave 5 times just to see if any would drop... No lockpick

This is seriously stupid. On any other normal day, i would get at least one lockpick in every area.

When i get home im going to try some Wurm farming and see if i have any luck. I doubt it though.

I talked to my alliance mates and they all have the same problem. I think Anet put the decimal place in the wrong spot. YAAAAY 0.3% Times the drop rate

same for me. i run cof on my monk for money and i usually get 2 or more picks on a normal day run. i do cof and i get 0. but when i get a run on my derv a pick. i had more picks drop from zchest/hidden treasure then monsters. but a happy/sad note i now have r5 unlucky. -_- woo 100k something to next lucky

garethporlest18 · Mar 01, 2009, 03:46 PM // 15:46

Doing my farming runs I've had about 18 lockpick drops. I think it has to do with your luck to be honest (no not the title). Wurms, Keg dropping, Hulking Stones, Spiders outside of Sunspear Greathall. Snow Wurms outside of Boreal have been dropping the most. 4 per inventory filled runs.

**cosyfiep** · Mar 01, 2009, 05:54 PM // 17:54

yeah the drop rate for me is a bit less than my norm.
Played on friday---one lockpick
Played on saturday---one lockpick and one key (yeah yeah was cleaning out some old quests).
Played late last night....one more lockpick and one key (different character same--cleaning quest log).

Now normally I get about one lockpick everyday--so nothing new here.
Hubby played friday and saturday with no luck at all---which is the norm for him as well.
However, crap drops (bones, chittin, collector junk) did increase---one HM mission I did I netted almost 250 bones!

sigh

Gli · Mar 01, 2009, 09:45 PM // 21:45

I didn't find a single lockpick, but I guess I'd have to kill stuff to get them to drop.

I did however buy 250 and break them all for a whopping 50,000 bad luck. More of these weekends please!

Inferno Link · Mar 01, 2009, 09:50 PM // 21:50

Only 1 lockpick in 2-3 days for me.... And I played 3-5 hours during each of those days lol.

MrTickle · Mar 01, 2009, 10:57 PM // 22:57

Weeeeeeeeeeee I managed to get ONE (1) lockpick \o/ Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Lonesamurai · Mar 01, 2009, 11:19 PM // 23:19

2 lockpicks here

honestly didn't notice a difference in drop amount and all my online guildies said they didn't notice a difference either

Coney · Mar 02, 2009, 12:07 AM // 00:07

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Originally Posted by Lonesamurai

honestly didn't notice a difference in drop amount and all my online guildies said they didn't notice a difference either

I agree. GW drop system seems to have bugs. A few tests follow:
Run the necro/ele bosses solo in Altruim ruins, and notice how almost every run BOTH bosses drop nothing (and if a drop, odds are its from the 2nd kill on ele). Re-run same, take full h/h/ group. Kill the 5-10 wardens on the way - then send h/h back to entrance. Guaranteed 1-2+ drops for *each* boss. This seems to be a drop/bug issue where the first few kills in instance CANNOT drop loot (nerf? I say *YEA*)...

There's string issues. As I've seen in pretty much every MMO game so far - the rnd() generator gets stuck (threads?), and either the same nothing/crap drops, or a shitload string of mega-items. Saw the same thing in WoW. I'm not talking about how computer rnd()fcn is NOT random, but rather how it doesn't even appear to GET ROLLED IN THE FIRST PLACE (e.g. thread/timeout/spinlock issue).

Definitely there's not the 3x drop rate increase in lockpicks - lockpicks still come up as options very rarely - but when they do, it's 3x higher. So, say for example, that lockpicks are in a table that pops 1% of the time. Let's say in that table they drop 75% of the time. Triple that to 225% doesn't really mean much, nor does it really increase their drop rate - you still have to traverse the 1% chance to hit the drop table before odds increase...

SerenitySilverstar · Mar 02, 2009, 03:18 AM // 03:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coney

I agree. GW drop system seems to have bugs. A few tests follow:
Run the necro/ele bosses solo in Altruim ruins, and notice how almost every run BOTH bosses drop nothing (and if a drop, odds are its from the 2nd kill on ele). Re-run same, take full h/h/ group. Kill the 5-10 wardens on the way - then send h/h back to entrance. Guaranteed 1-2+ drops for *each* boss. This seems to be a drop/bug issue where the first few kills in instance CANNOT drop loot (nerf? I say *YEA*)...

This is no bug issue. It was the farming rate that was instituted to cut down on goldsellers. Farm solo and you'll get less "exempt" drops.

*edit* How Loot Scaling Works:
http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Loot...g#Loot_scaling

cataphract · Mar 02, 2009, 07:53 AM // 07:53

I haven't even bothered with farming lockpicks because I remember the last event. It's like cthulhu said - three times zero is still a zero. That said, I've bought myself some lockpicks and went on a chest running frenzy. Farmed 120k Lucky points. Still need 80k to max.

garethporlest18 · Mar 02, 2009, 08:00 AM // 08:00

http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=12chests.jpg

Yeeep that's right. 12 chests for 1 lockpick. Ridiculous. Anyways, I farmed Friday and Saturday and farmed all day today. Should have probably started yesterday though (even though I was gone most of the day) Cause I only used up a little bit more than half of my lockpicks. 14k from r5 Unlucky and about 40k from r4 Lucky.

Fril Estelin · Mar 02, 2009, 09:21 AM // 09:21

3h of HM raptor farming, and about 30minutes of vaettirs (strange, I added a PvE skill to make the ele build more efficient and it seems to reduce the quality of drops?): 7 picks, 2 white dyes, a few tomes and goldies. I did feel the x3 drops!

Carinae · Mar 02, 2009, 09:29 AM // 09:29

11 vanquishes of Morostav this weekend. ~3300 kills.

0 lockpicks.

Does Not Compute.

Raven Wing · Mar 02, 2009, 09:31 AM // 09:31

I soloed around 200 hydras outside Augury and 150stone eles in old Ascalon, only 3 lockpicks
Did Thirsty River HM with full team of live people and got 2 lockpicks in that mission.