3x Green Drop Weekend

hum yes, since kanaxai drop is 100% that cant be incremented I suppose

I have never received a green drop in factions, and I have been playing since the release. I am hoping for some this weekend, but I am not holding my breath

As I posted in the other thread, I've soloed (without henchmen) over 20 bosses while Elite capping on my Rit/E in Factions, and have gotten one green over that time - Lian's Lantern. I've killed countless other bosses while just playing the game, as well.

That changed this past weekend, while I was soloing the Arborstone mission - I actually got the Milefaun (sp?) domination staff from one of the bosses.

So, now I'm probably around 2 for 50, so this WOULD improve my chances to about 1 in 10.

P.S. For those of you who are farming greens, I'm 99% sure that, due to the anti-farming code, that if you've tried to get SSkai's Sword by killing him over 300 times...that code kicked in about 290 times ago, so you're basically wasting your time.

LMAO!! HAHA, how hard would it be to change the code for drops inside Sorrows Furnace? A line or two?

I work for a company that changed only one line of code and that cost us over 10 million dollars in 10 minutes because of that one line of code. Granted ANet isn't in high-rolling business, but change code isn't necessarily "that easy".

For proper code change, rigorous testing must be done in order to avoid any long term negative effects. A production requirement change typically requires at least 1 week worth of testing and documentation.

What you're stating is exactly in line with our calculations during hundreds of Sorrow's Furnace runs about a year ago.

Basically, we determined that there was a 2% chance per boss per person for a green drop. This is for real peoople, not hench.

I did SF runs with the same group for many weeks, both FA and Oro, and we found this rate to be relatively constant. Going with 5 was the best for cash accumulation, but going with 8 didn't diminish our individual chances for a green.

This calculation may not work for Factions in that the boss is only set to drop a single green, whereas in SF bosses could drop multiple greens per kill.

I don't have a lot of experience with Factions greens, as I find farming bosses in Factions boring, but I'd say that this weekend your chances should be somewhere in the 6-10% range for a green drop per boss.

Nice deflation of Canthan greens to come I'd say...

Therre are enough Tyrian Greens around
Nice to get some new Cantha ones circulating.
And this makes it accessable to all players.

\ponders a minipet drop weekend

So far, while playing Factions normally with a full hench team I've gotten
Lian's Lattern
Deathkeeper (shing jing green)
Wing's Axe
Merki's Gaze

Some of you guys who have never had anything drop either have really bad luck or just don't play as much as I do.

Can finaly get some of those greens that i've wanted like everthorns.

I wouldn't mind getting the Kaolin Blade from Sunjiang explorable. Did someone say this is farmable solo by E/A?! I find that hard to believe... this is the toughest district I've found in Cantha so far...

They aren't supporting Tyria because they want you cheap asses to go out and buy their most recent expansion pack, which until the 27th rolls around...is still Factions.

They'll have weekends like this for Nightfall customers only.

3 times more likely is better then normal, so it looks like a farming weekend. A “Big Trouble in Little China” farming weekend. Mr. Razorstone you and all your friends will have to wait till you gain favor with A-net.

Exactly.

No matter what number you multiply 0 by it's still 0. This has all the earmarks of the weekend when the scroll drops were supposed to increased by 3 I believe. Never saw any difference before or after. This will be more of the same. Pretty much a waste IMHO.

I'll be farming this weekend

3 (0) = 0. Yay.

Lol, I just hope I'll get Ironclaw today... hehehe

I again have to say I'm not complaining, but I do feel let down a bit. When Anerf announced they'd be postponing this by a week in order to make it 'new and improved', I was hoping they'd retool anti-farm or re-assign hench drops, or some new mechanic.......instead they just made 2x into 3x.....they needed a week to do that?

if you hold out you can get it for 20 k now i almost bought one for 22k but i didnt want to part with my cash..lol .. GL

hmmmm sunjiang dist, ghial, and maybe koosun will suffer from a horrid sliver armor death...

I've had 2 greens drop for me since i bought Factions on the day of release...2per 6 months = 1 per month=1.33333333per week = yay 1 green for me this weekend................maybe..................prol ly not.................nvm going to farm fow.

Not really. If you only kill Sskai you dont even trigger the farming code. You only trigger it if (like me) you always combine Sskai with Geoffer and kill his outcast buddies as well.

I dont farm Sskai for a 'living' so to speak, whenever a guildmate or a friend wants a Sskai I got get it and except for once I've never triggered the farming code. How many I've gotten? Rough guess would be about 15 Sskai's and 6 Geoffers and its not taken me 300 runs either.
Now I do a maximum of 5 runs at both and then go somewhere else.