Curse

pug_ster · Jul 23, 2009, 05:31 PM // 17:31

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Treasure

I recently just started playing again after months of heinous. I recall last time when I brought my toons to go treasure hunting, I got about 1/4 of the gold advertised and got grapes as drops for treasures. I just did one yesterday for one of my toons and I got the same crap. I recall it was at least more than 6 months ago when my char went treasure hunting. Anybody know why. Maybe this page is outdated.

kedde · Jul 23, 2009, 05:40 PM // 17:40

They've never dropped gold items for me except the first time ever I used them.
Not even waiting for more than 8 months made them drop gold items again.

Gill Halendt · Jul 23, 2009, 05:48 PM // 17:48

Happens to me all the time. I often forget to return to my character's treasures, so there's usually a 2-3 months time span between attempts, but my loot is often pretty scarce.

I believe the quality degeneration of loot found in buried treasures is actually progressive and has little to nothing to do with the time passed.

So far, I've observed this:

- First time: you get the highest amount of money and every item is a rare crafting material or a gold weapon
- Second time: you still get the money, but there's a chance you'll get a purple item among those golds
- Third time: you still get full money, but pretty much every item you'll get now will be purple
- Fourth time: the amount of money is halved, every item received is purple

You can't get any worse than this. That's probably your case, you've now exploited that character's treasures to the max.

Grim Aragorn · Jul 23, 2009, 06:26 PM // 18:26

its free, whats the problem?

pug_ster · Jul 23, 2009, 06:35 PM // 18:35

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Originally Posted by Grim Aragorn

its free, whats the problem?

The problem with it is that the wiki page didn't say that. Except that you have to wait a month or 2 until you can loot the treasure again. Last night when I went treasure hunting, I got about 125 gold from Istan and 750 gold from realm of torment.

Agar · Jul 23, 2009, 08:05 PM // 20:05

omg wiki lied to you? this is horrible! (-_-) Anyway i think they should make it like every 2 months but get full loot every time.

riceangel · Jul 23, 2009, 08:09 PM // 20:09

I don't think it matters how long you wait. Every time you use it the loot's chances are more and more likely to be bad.

End · Jul 23, 2009, 08:10 PM // 20:10

Wiki's have at alk page for a reason...if you think somethings wrong with the page write something there if enough people think its an issue someone might get around to making note of it.

That and you find nifty things like :
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Talk:...ishing_returns

Sookie · Jul 23, 2009, 09:52 PM // 21:52

Crying "hungry" with a loaf of bread under each arm....Anything you get free, be glad to get it.

After you have done these a few times with a character, the gold is lessened and the drops go from purple to gold. This is a per character occurence...not an account occurence. Soooo, if you want gold, go treasure hunting with a character that has NEVER done the treasure hunts.

...very simple.

Bob Slydell · Jul 23, 2009, 10:13 PM // 22:13

I don't think there is a way to fix it. My main warrior and my dervish have abused the hell out of those chests every single month from near the release of NF. Last time I went to go treasure hunt them it has been over 6 months to a year since I last opened them. And low and behold... purple items and less than 1 k for loot.

I think once you hit a certain use point, it becomes crappy. Permanently.

Sookie · Jul 23, 2009, 11:55 PM // 23:55

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Originally Posted by Chrisworld

I think once you hit a certain use point, it becomes crappy. Permanently.

Absolutely...but even with the purple weapons and reduced gold...It's FREE.

I just don't see why people complain.

exploiter · Jul 24, 2009, 05:09 AM // 05:09

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Originally Posted by Enolena Sedai

Absolutely...but even with the purple weapons and reduced gold...It's FREE.

I just don't see why people complain.

No it isnt, takes some time to get there
time = money

khezial tahr · Jul 24, 2009, 12:50 PM // 12:50

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Originally Posted by Taco Fiend Taco

Most of the treasures you have to fight to get to, so its not exactly FREE..particularly if someone isn't a pro and been playing the game for 4 years. And yes, you obviously missed the point imo. Its probably better in those situations to say nothing than show everyone what a tool looks like.

Back under your bridge and calm down there. The treasure chests have always dropped golds for me. If you don't like the free gold or the drops, then stop going for them. There are tons of other ways to get gold/drops.

MagmaRed · Jul 24, 2009, 02:35 PM // 14:35

My observation has been that with 12 locations you get somewhere between 20 and 24 gold weapons/rare materials. At about the point the purples start showing up, the amount of gold you get cuts to 50%, but when you get ALL golds, it drops to about 33%. Amount of time is only required to reset the treasure (put something in it), not increase the value of what is in it.

byteme! · Jul 25, 2009, 10:02 PM // 22:02

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Originally Posted by Taco Fiend Taco

Most of the treasures you have to fight to get to, so its not exactly FREE..particularly if someone isn't a pro and been playing the game for 4 years. And yes, you obviously missed the point imo. Its probably better in those situations to say nothing than show everyone what a tool looks like.

Every chest is runnable on all characters. I've done it. Why you would waste your time fighting is what I want to know.

And yes they are FREE.

**cosyfiep** · Jul 29, 2009, 06:24 PM // 18:24

my observations:
I have a bunch of characters that have finished nf (who doesnt at this point?) one of them had not done dasha vestibule...so upon retrieving margrid I did the mission and went to get the treasure---now remember this was the absolute first time she went there----grape and less than 1k...

now I also have a bunch of characters that are plodding along in nf (just cant be arsed to finish it again without incentive--which I now have thru the zaishen stuff).....now one has just completed gate of desolation....she goes back every month or 3 to the treasures she can get to....and 90% of the time gets a gold weapon! (and decent plat).....

I noticed that once you get to about the gate of pain the treasures get bad (yeah even the last treasure dropped me a grape on my first time with some characters)....

so I keep a few characters just out of torment for the chests in vabbi etc...since they usually get a gold and good money.

It may just be me and my characters but once I get to torment the treasures turn sour (grape even)....

Shasgaliel · Jul 30, 2009, 03:08 PM // 15:08

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Originally Posted by cosyfiep

my observations:
I have a bunch of characters that have finished nf (who doesnt at this point?) one of them had not done dasha vestibule...so upon retrieving margrid I did the mission and went to get the treasure---now remember this was the absolute first time she went there----grape and less than 1k...

now I also have a bunch of characters that are plodding along in nf (just cant be arsed to finish it again without incentive--which I now have thru the zaishen stuff).....now one has just completed gate of desolation....she goes back every month or 3 to the treasures she can get to....and 90% of the time gets a gold weapon! (and decent plat).....

I noticed that once you get to about the gate of pain the treasures get bad (yeah even the last treasure dropped me a grape on my first time with some characters)....

so I keep a few characters just out of torment for the chests in vabbi etc...since they usually get a gold and good money.

It may just be me and my characters but once I get to torment the treasures turn sour (grape even)....

I also noticed that there is difference between characters. But it is not the the fact that someone was in the real of torment for me. For example I still get almost all golds on para who finished NF but grapes on dervish who did not. I cannot figure out the rule for me. Now I only bother running to treasures with a characters who seem to have better drop rate.

In 6 runs over 18 months warrior got only grapes and paragon almost only golds. I cannot explain that at all. I was running both of them the same day with exactly the same time difference between runs.

Regarding the rule that I get gold when I first time open a treasure for me it has always worked. Only the second third etc attempts were showing differences between characters.

Shrimz · Jul 31, 2009, 06:29 PM // 18:29

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Originally Posted by byteme!

Every chest is runnable on all characters. I've done it. Why you would waste your time fighting is what I want to know.

And yes they are FREE.

I just did treasures on my war for the 1st time and I couldnt run them all because of gay eles and mes crippling me and snaring me.

BTW, I got all golds and made from 700-4k. Seems really successful to me because everything was above average than on the wiki. Hopefully next time I do it, it won't be worse.