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Old May 24, 2006, 11:54 PM // 23:54   #1
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Default Fissure of WTF?!?!

So I've been to FoW for about 5 or so hours today in two separate trips.

First trip we killed everything in the valley outside the forge tower and got the Seeds and Khobay quests from the Forgemaster before all had to leave.

Second time we cleared about half of that.

Each time no Obsidian Shards dropped.

Every other time I've been there in the past couple weeks would have seen 6 or so shards drop in a 2-3 hour period (yes, sometimes more than one going to a single person...after a year and a half of playing GW I still don't get how loot is awarded by the system).

I dunno if anyone else has been noticing this since the last game update or if my groups today just had a couple really unlucky runs but spending all that time down there for xp I dont need is umm..funless.

Not only that...but the drops were all crappy in general...some golds dropped but they all had horrible mods on them...stuff most peeps wouldnt even use if they got them for free let alone buy from you.

Anyways, was wondering if the same is true for Ecto's in UW and if others had experienced the same funless loot drops in FoW recently?

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Old May 25, 2006, 12:25 AM // 00:25   #2
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Fissure run (solo) last night yielded 2 shards (average), a few dyes, 3 golds, 1 chest, and plenty of loot + salvage.

Seems normal to me, but YMMV.
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Old May 25, 2006, 01:26 AM // 01:26   #3
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LOL went down last week and Shards were dropping like Candy Canes on X-mas!!! People were like OMG WTF??? I wasn't complaining. lol IDK Its the timing and the group you go with I guess... If your with a bunch that do nothing but farm FoW and UW for stuff all the time drops are poor. If you go with a FULL group that rarely goes down there, drops are really good...

I have no evidence to provide you except what I have seen in the past. I grab a few new guys from my guild that have not been, And I go, and we fill out the team with some elite farmers from allied guilds, go down and bingo we see a shard drop ALMOST every 2nd or 3rd MOB. I know each of us had at least 6 after clearing it. Do 2 maybe 3 runs like that, then we walk away from it for a few weeks and do it again... Seems to work for us... so IDK... Course I have no intention of wasting resources on Tired old FoW armor anyway. so I doubt I will be down there much except for helping guildies or allies get the stuff...
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Old May 25, 2006, 01:28 AM // 01:28   #4
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Chest runs FTW
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Old May 25, 2006, 01:37 AM // 01:37   #5
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A couple days ago just did forgemaster and his quests, and got 3 shards myself, with 6 total dropping. Guess anet just likes me...
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Old May 25, 2006, 02:01 AM // 02:01   #6
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Last time I went....no one got shards....last time in UW no ecto for anyone (including a noob we brought with us).....but thats normal for me not to get anything (and why I dont bother to go there much).
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Old May 25, 2006, 02:14 AM // 02:14   #7
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Today i heard someone telling that farmed the beach for a while and no shards.

Maybe last night update nerf them a little.

Havent tested yet, so, not sure
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Old May 25, 2006, 02:42 AM // 02:42   #8
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Well theres a reason for that..from my experience from this game, I've seen that whenever a specific area is being farmed at the same time with many groups, good items never seem to drop, and thats why i usually farm at night where there are less people. (I'm not really sure about the drop system but this is just from my past experience.)
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Old May 25, 2006, 02:54 AM // 02:54   #9
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I did a FoW run last night with a very good full PuG and we did the Forgemaster quest, Defend the Forge, cleared the spider cave and not a single shard dropped for anyone.

So, my guess is something is up.
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Old May 25, 2006, 04:33 AM // 04:33   #10
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Bad luck, or try with a smaller party.
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Old May 25, 2006, 05:16 AM // 05:16   #11
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Aww.. shucks. That's too bad.
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Old May 25, 2006, 05:35 AM // 05:35   #12
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well I know they cut the drop rate on greens in factions.. maybe they did some other tweaking
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Old May 25, 2006, 07:08 AM // 07:08   #13
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I had a FoW solo run with no shards whatsoever last time. It's only happened once before (out of about 50 runs).
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Old May 25, 2006, 07:45 AM // 07:45   #14
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I've had FoW runs with 3~ or so, and runs with 15+.

So... yeah, unless literally none drop for anyone at all, in any group in the game (ie: deletion of the make_shard_drop code ) you can't really complain about the random drops. Well you can, but people don't have to listen

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Old May 25, 2006, 11:47 PM // 23:47   #15
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I'd just like to lend to this and say I did two runs past weekend. Friday run wielded two drops, and saturday wielded none and crappy golds I got from chests.
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Old May 25, 2006, 11:51 PM // 23:51   #16
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Did one run ysterday, 2 shards dropped, it must have been bad luck for you, sorry...
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Old May 26, 2006, 08:24 AM // 08:24   #17
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Hmmm... Something doesn't feel right.

Before the update on 23 May, I spend two nights in FoW, clearing the Shadow Army and Skeleton Army. In a 55 and SS duo, we got a good number of shards, averaging 3-4 a run.

After the update, we've not seen a shard. In the two nights that followed the update, the Shadow Army and Skeleton Army yielded no shards. We then switched to warrior builds to clear the beach and do spider runs. And still not a single shard in sight.

Unlucky runs I've experienced, but usually a run or two after the unlucky one, things return to 'normal'. However, after two nights in a row, where most of the population is slaughtered and to not see a single shard, it is kinda strange to say the least...
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Old May 26, 2006, 06:21 PM // 18:21   #18
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Same feeleing as Yakumo - farmed my fow armour in few last months - on beginning usually had 2-4 ectos on a run, then it went lower, but usually in day's average i've been getting at least 1 ecto per run. After the last up: none, null, zero. Two days, made 8 runs, 6 on atxes/smites, 2 (one each day) with clearing start area, first quest, ice wastes, western area (west of first statue), and than chaos planes (few charging's on way there), killed some messes before got killed, and still, not a single ecto dropped.
Everything other was dropping in regular amounts, gold, gold/purple/blue/white items, chests. Just not the ectos. Will be doing spider cap tonight for a guildie,so I'll post the results, but either ecto/shard drops have beed heavily lowered, or some anti-farm code started working. We'll see, guildie for the spider wasn't wisiting uw too much, so maybe something will drop for him at least.
And if it's lowered droprates? Well, they've just taken out any point of reason for visiting uw/fow for players like me, who can spend 2-3 hrs a day only ingame. At least with befeore update rates i was able to get fow armor - took me 4 months to do it, but it was obtainable. If the rate keeps down, it's no logner obtainable foe me
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Old May 26, 2006, 09:37 PM // 21:37   #19
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Ok so far 5 spider runs 0 shards FOW spider run, and 2 Forrest Runs a nice gold shadowbow =P 0 shards something is up
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Old May 27, 2006, 12:51 AM // 00:51   #20
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I, too, cleard the Spider cave twice today with no Shards.

Are they trying to get prices back up, or what?

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