May 24, 2006, 11:54 PM // 23:54
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: May 2005
Guild: Apocalypse Creed Mercenaries(ACME)
Profession: Mo/E
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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?
Miyamoto Tzu
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May 25, 2006, 12:25 AM // 00:25
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#2
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA (#guildwarsguru FTW!)
Guild: Biscuit Of Dewm [MEEP]
Profession: R/Mo
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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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May 25, 2006, 01:26 AM // 01:26
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#3
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Anchorage Alaska
Guild: Haz Team [HT]
Profession: R/W
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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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May 25, 2006, 01:28 AM // 01:28
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#4
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Dec 2005
Guild: Relax Its Just A [GAME]
Profession: R/E
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Chest runs FTW
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May 25, 2006, 01:37 AM // 01:37
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#5
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Canada
Guild: Aequitas Deis [AD]
Profession: Mo/Me
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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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May 25, 2006, 02:01 AM // 02:01
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#6
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are we there yet?
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: in a land far far away
Guild: guild? I am supposed to have a guild?
Profession: Rt/
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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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May 25, 2006, 02:14 AM // 02:14
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#7
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Academy Page
Join Date: Oct 2005
Profession: W/Mo
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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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May 25, 2006, 02:42 AM // 02:42
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#8
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2005
Guild: The Licious Fame Farmers {TLG}
Profession: W/E
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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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May 25, 2006, 02:54 AM // 02:54
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#9
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: In the Elfen Forests of Washington State
Guild: Damage Radius
Profession: N/
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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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May 25, 2006, 04:33 AM // 04:33
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#10
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: here
Guild: Almost a Guild
Profession: W/N
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Bad luck, or try with a smaller party.
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May 25, 2006, 05:16 AM // 05:16
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Oklahoma, USA
Guild: None
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Aww.. shucks. That's too bad.
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May 25, 2006, 05:35 AM // 05:35
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#12
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Aug 2005
Guild: BEN
Profession: R/N
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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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May 25, 2006, 07:08 AM // 07:08
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#13
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Urmston, Manchester, UK
Guild: Greener Pastures [DVDF]
Profession: W/Rt
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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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May 25, 2006, 07:45 AM // 07:45
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#14
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Bubblegum Patrol
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Singapore Armed Forces
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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
Last edited by Avarre; May 25, 2006 at 07:48 AM // 07:48..
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May 25, 2006, 11:47 PM // 23:47
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#15
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Frost Gate Guardian
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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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May 25, 2006, 11:51 PM // 23:51
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#16
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Academy Page
Join Date: May 2006
Guild: Maestus Nex
Profession: Mo/
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Did one run ysterday, 2 shards dropped, it must have been bad luck for you, sorry...
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May 26, 2006, 08:24 AM // 08:24
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#17
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: UK
Guild: Hearts Of Fury [HoF]
Profession: R/
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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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May 26, 2006, 06:21 PM // 18:21
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#18
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Pre-Searing Cadet
Join Date: Mar 2006
Guild: In Nomine Mortis
Profession: N/Mo
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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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May 26, 2006, 09:37 PM // 21:37
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#19
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Academy Page
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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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May 27, 2006, 12:51 AM // 00:51
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#20
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Academy Page
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Ireland
Guild: GFU
Profession: W/
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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?
Last edited by Daft Frik; May 27, 2006 at 12:55 AM // 00:55..
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