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Kushiels_Scion · Oct 01, 2007, 12:37 AM // 00:37

Okay this is SERIOUSLY ridiculous. GW:EN has VERY little gold drops, and only chance i've ever gotten any was solo and that was even rare. More ridiculous is that in hard mode in an area i like to mess around and clear out with a friend drops absolutely no golds, the entire area in this sulfurous waste area, drops NOTHING... Whites and blues.. wow soooo love it. I mean what happened to all the gods that were dropping when hard mode was introduced/even after the revamping of drop rates... Its ridiculous and ruins the fun for the farmers because seriously their is NO other way to make money other than farming or exploiting other peoples own cash which they barely have any by charging them for something (which is what I have to do so i canhave some money, charge others for services) instead of making my own money by being able to farm. Screw all the gold sellers, let people who buy gold be punished not the people trying to make some money or get what they want in the game and can't earn otherwise without being able to farm. GW:EN is useless to me because the damn usage of new graphics engines that make me driver error and therefore need to find some extra cash which i don't have to upgrade.....

Where have all the golds gone?

Curse You · Oct 01, 2007, 02:18 AM // 02:18

Crappy drops are not a bug.

kazjun · Oct 01, 2007, 03:07 AM // 03:07

GWEN has crap for drops, and the sulfurous wastes are probably nerfed cause everyone and his wolf uses the place for LB/SS farming. Other areas of NF and factions still seem to drop fine. Got a couple of golds just finishing some quests leftover from factions the other day. All GWEN has a greens and gems, you be expecting good golds.

HawkofStorms · Oct 01, 2007, 03:20 AM // 03:20

rant threads about crap drops are not a bug (as Curse_You said)

Request /close please

Kushiels_Scion · Oct 01, 2007, 08:53 PM // 20:53

It is a bug or unecessary nerf if a place that I have been to on occasion farm around and IN HARD MODE which hard mode alone is suppose to give MORE gold drops, yet when it drops NONE something is up. So what if this is a rant, its a legitimate one. A place where i used to find some difficult fun and get some fairly good drops no longer offers anything but a measly mummy wrapping..Ohh and it's Poisoned Outcrops by the way.

Crappy drops in HARD MODE, meaning NO GOLDS, are in fact a bug especially if very few people are farming the particular area at all.

gremlin · Oct 01, 2007, 10:28 PM // 22:28

It may be now that Greens are considered secondary to Golds, they are now harder to find.

With the exception of a few greens that still fetch high prices perfect gold items are more sought after.

So there may have been a rebalancing in the rarity of gold vs green.

Golds still to be obtained from the chests in nightfall and are replanished monthly but has there ever been a double or triple gold drop weekend like the green ones.

HawkofStorms · Oct 01, 2007, 10:34 PM // 22:34

Its a rant. I've gotten like 7 golds droping (not chests) by playing ~4 hours of HM in the past couple of days. You have no backing for your theory (its just based on personal observation). Also, you complain about no gold drops in GW:EN and then talk about no golds in HM (keep in mind, none of GW:EN is in HM yet, even though it does require lockpicks).

The Bug Section is for serious and actual, confirmable bugs. Put this thread in riverside where it belongs until/unless you have some viable evidence to support your claims.

KlutzySpy · Oct 01, 2007, 10:35 PM // 22:35

i will say that 2/3's are purp, but hey, making golds more rare is a way if increasing their value..

L|S >+>+G+<+< · Oct 02, 2007, 12:02 AM // 00:02

All the golds are in my 6,000,000 slots of space storage chest.

And yes Elvis does live in a tent on the moon.

Kushiels_Scion · Oct 02, 2007, 08:48 PM // 20:48

7 golds in 4 hours? Yeah thats fantastic.... not
I did not say GW:EN has no golds, its just rare to find any and thats not my complaint, its an observation.

As for hard mode its suppose to have more gold drops THAN in normal mode which just isn't ocuring in this one place or even others, and i have done more than just one run through the place maybe 1 our of 5 runs they'll be one gold. Only chance for golds now seems to be chests which are increasingly expensive for those without money. The only way to make money is to farm and if things aren't dropping at the rate its suppose to for the mode that the farming is done in, is certainly a bug of some sort.

HawkofStorms · Oct 03, 2007, 01:28 AM // 01:28

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Originally Posted by Kushiels_Scion

7 golds in 4 hours? Yeah thats fantastic.... not
I did not say GW:EN has no golds, its just rare to find any and thats not my complaint, its an observation.

As for hard mode its suppose to have more gold drops THAN in normal mode which just isn't ocuring in this one place or even others, and i have done more than just one run through the place maybe 1 our of 5 runs they'll be one gold. Only chance for golds now seems to be chests which are increasingly expensive for those without money. The only way to make money is to farm and if things aren't dropping at the rate its suppose to for the mode that the farming is done in, is certainly a bug of some sort.

It is when you consider it once took me ~300 hours of play time in Phrophecies before I found my first gold drop.

Gold drops have been BOOSTED significantly over time, especially with NF. If they lowered there occurance over time, its not a bug, its a.net implement a new drop system.

A.net couldn't "accidentally" lower drop rates. Even if your complaints are legitamate, its not a bug, it would be the implementation of a new system.

khaderach19 · Oct 03, 2007, 04:55 AM // 04:55

I was doing the gates of kryta mission yesterday with my assassin and I got 2 gold drops during one run alone. I was also fighting my way through the northern shiverpeaks area towards yaks bend and I got 4 gold drops from that run (plus several blues and purples). I heard that people aren't getting enough gold drops, but I personally have never experienced it.

Faer · Oct 04, 2007, 06:38 AM // 06:38

Getting crappy drops is not a bug. It is just bad luck.

As such, your thread has been moved to The Riverside Inn, where you can continue to discuss your lack of luck, until such a time as a Riverside moderator deems your conversation an endless cycle of ranting and complaining, at which point they will probably close it.

Carry on.

mr_groovy · Oct 04, 2007, 07:37 AM // 07:37

It's not a bug, it's a feature

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Only solo farming yields some golds these days. Though last time i did a hm vanquish i got 3 golds from a locked chest, and 1 gold drop

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strcpy · Oct 04, 2007, 07:50 AM // 07:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kushiels_Scion

7 golds in 4 hours? Yeah thats fantastic.... not
I did not say GW:EN has no golds, its just rare to find any and thats not my complaint, its an observation.

What rate are you wanting *rares* to drop?

They are either rare and worth something or drop like crazy and worth nothing - you can't have both. 7 in four hours is WAY too much for them to be worth squat. As is they are really only good for grinding a title, they drop so often it doesn't even take long to equip all your heroes across multiple characters with golds and max mods without needing to go to the player market.

Winterclaw · Oct 04, 2007, 07:55 AM // 07:55

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7 in four hours is WAY too much for them to be worth squat.

I disagree. Most golds go straight to the merchent anyways. My experence is they don't drop enough and when they do they tend to be worthless.

Traveller · Oct 04, 2007, 08:48 AM // 08:48

Yeah, I've had a total of ONE gold drop in the whole time I've played GW:EN. The dungeon drops have been mostly crap too.

One thing I'm constantly wondering is how an expansion which is meant for level 20 players, which also contains only level 20 enemies and higher, can drop so much non-max loot.

Government Flu · Oct 04, 2007, 09:01 AM // 09:01

I get plenty of gold drops. It's just that they generally suck. Either the mods are just close to perfect or the weapon has a high requirement, or it's something that very few people would bother buying, like a mesmer focus.

If you're looking to get some high end golds, I'm afraid that it has always been a game of chance. I cleared two of the elite Slaver's Dungeon. What did I get after killing Justicar Thommis? A R13 sai! The mods were bad, the skin was a common collector/crafter variety, and the requirement was at its highest.

And this was in an elite dungeon. So, it's a game of chance. And like all games of chance, you're probably going to get ripped off. But hey, you can't have everything, you know?

arcanemacabre · Oct 04, 2007, 09:03 AM // 09:03

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Originally Posted by Kushiels_Scion

Okay this is SERIOUSLY ridiculous. GW:EN has VERY little gold drops, and only chance i've ever gotten any was solo and that was even rare.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kushiels_Scion

7 golds in 4 hours? Yeah thats fantastic.... not
I did not say GW:EN has no golds, its just rare to find any and thats not my complaint, its an observation.

In the words of the Mythbusters: "Well there's yer problem!"

Yeah, they're called rares. You are acting as if 7 golds in 4 hours is bad, I'd hate to see what you would call good, and yet still rare. Consequently, I have much less luck than that, and I think the droprate's fine.

Spazzer · Oct 04, 2007, 09:04 AM // 09:04

Your EOTN drops suck because you're playing Guild Wars in Normal Mode.