Curse

Esoteric Mesmer · Mar 25, 2008, 07:29 PM // 19:29

First off, I wasn’t sure where to put this, so I put it here since I saw other threads about drops. Also, this is not about farming, but about drops.

My curiosity comes from the fact that over this past weekend, I did a three man FoW clear with heroes, and the number of obsidian shard drops was two. I mean the three of us did all eleven quests, spawned the FoW chest, and the number of obsidian shards dropped outside of the final chest was two. Granted, we did NOT do this for the obsidian shards (please understand that before you reply stating I should go farm somewhere else), but rather just to do it for the sake of doing it. I just assumed going in that more then two obsidian shards should drop, I was just surprised it was only two; I mean that’s what the FoW is known for.

Since I never tried to farm the FOW for shards personally, I was wondering if those that do are seeing fewer drops of shards. Feel free to post your thoughts, and let me know if this has happened to you. Again, I don’t care that much there were only two, just more curious on why there was only two.

Arkantos · Mar 25, 2008, 07:31 PM // 19:31

Out of the 6 8-man HM FoW clears I've done in the past few days, there were at least 30 shards that dropped all together, probably more. I'm guessing it has something to do with loot scaling.

Angelic Upstart · Mar 25, 2008, 07:38 PM // 19:38

I used to get plenty when i used to solo the beach regularly.. havent been down there for ages so i dont know what its like now.

zerulus · Mar 25, 2008, 07:38 PM // 19:38

Considering heroes made up majority of your party it isnt surprising that you're drops were low.

enxa · Mar 25, 2008, 07:39 PM // 19:39

I recently went with a full party of 8 alliancemates, in normal mode, and everyone got at least two shards, and at least 4 of us had 3 shards at the end.
No farming just doing quests.

Esoteric Mesmer · Mar 25, 2008, 07:44 PM // 19:44

All good points, I guess I just had this false illusion that obsidian shards just rained down in the FoW lol. I also wonder though if the chocolate bunnies and golden eggs that dropped threw off the loot? We each got about 20 of each one.

Kyomi Tachibana · Mar 25, 2008, 07:54 PM // 19:54

I did FoW NM clear with a guildie+heroes, and we each got one shard, from the end chest. *pushes Hayda, Morgahn, Dunkoro, MoW, Livia, and Olias off a cliff discreetly* I was not happy.

Dronte · Mar 25, 2008, 07:55 PM // 19:55

I got 5 shards in one FoW HM run (only quests) yesterday.
Ofc, happened before that I got only 2 shards.

Arkantos · Mar 25, 2008, 08:00 PM // 20:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arkantos

Out of the 6 8-man HM FoW clears I've done in the past few days, there were at least 30 shards that dropped all together, probably more. I'm guessing it has something to do with loot scaling.

Didn't read the with heroes part. Yeah, the heroes take your drops, which is what happened.

Johny bravo · Mar 25, 2008, 08:03 PM // 20:03

bunnies and eggs are additional drops attached to the foe. So a foe will still drop what he normally would and in addition to that may drop and egg or bunny. So this doesn't effect drop rates

Malice Black · Mar 25, 2008, 08:13 PM // 20:13

I always get 3-5 in a 8 man questing group.

Sir Pandra Pierva · Mar 25, 2008, 08:17 PM // 20:17

i still solo the beach and cave. i get about 4-5 drops per run and on 2 man heroway fow with my friend we get a total of about 10 drops between us.

Covah · Mar 25, 2008, 08:56 PM // 20:56

each henchman halves your drop rate. Heroes I'm guessing do the same. if you open the quest reward chests with heroes present most of the time you won't get anything. If you flag them away and then open it you should get something.

Arkantos · Mar 25, 2008, 09:13 PM // 21:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Covah

each henchman halves your drop rate. Heroes I'm guessing do the same. if you open the quest reward chests with heroes present most of the time you won't get anything. If you flag them away and then open it you should get something.

Pretty sure henchies/heroes take as much drops as a regular person, which would be 1/8th. Half would be quite ridiculous.

Tarkin · Mar 25, 2008, 09:16 PM // 21:16

From my exp in Fow...

0 <> 6 shards for someone is normal in a fow run

You only have bad luck in this run... i forget how many times i get 5 6 7 shards and the others in the team get 1 2 0... and how many times i get 0 and the others 2 3 4 5 shards...

Witchblade · Mar 25, 2008, 09:20 PM // 21:20

Did one last week, 2 ppl + 6 heroes nm

16 shards drop

VitisVinifera · Mar 25, 2008, 09:27 PM // 21:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Covah

each henchman halves your drop rate. Heroes I'm guessing do the same. if you open the quest reward chests with heroes present most of the time you won't get anything. If you flag them away and then open it you should get something.

either you chose your words poorly, or you are spreading incorrect info

each hench/hero decreases the drop rate only as much as 1 person does, so a combination of 4 heroes & hench would decrease the drop rate by half if the other 4 were ppl

upier · Mar 25, 2008, 09:48 PM // 21:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tarkin

From my exp in Fow...

0 <> 6 shards for someone is normal in a fow run

You only have bad luck in this run... i forget how many times i get 5 6 7 shards and the others in the team get 1 2 0... and how many times i get 0 and the others 2 3 4 5 shards...

Welcome to my world of pretty much constant 0.
Seriously - the times me and my guildies did FoW and UW questing or just farming - it pretty much always ended up with the guildies giving me a share of their gems so I wouldn't sit in a corner and cry ....

Must be a cursed account of something ...

Some people are lucky - and some of us aren't.
Good thing I have my stunning looks to fall back on!

Jetdoc · Mar 25, 2008, 09:54 PM // 21:54

I did an FoW clear last night, and three of us received a grand total of 2 shard drops. The remaining five got probably 14-15 shard drops.

Sounds like the roll of the dice went in favor of your heroes, and not the real players this go round.

jinkas · Mar 25, 2008, 09:55 PM // 21:55

I've always wished that I could see the drops that were assigned to my H/H. I wonder how many 100k+ecto drops Devona has grabbed and quietly kept for herself across my many hours of playing.