One odd thing.

Now I have actually really enjoyed the past couple of updates to the game it's really added alot to where I was starting to get alittle bored of the same of rehashes. Charr are actually scary and so fourth not to mention all the extra content addition aswell as helpful rebalances We know it the Anet staff don't get the praise they deserve ^_^

There is a question that I want to ask about the previous update (May24th) and it's this.

Miscellaneous Item Changes
* The Icy Dragon Sword is now considered a rare item. This change also means that it is now exempt from loot scaling.

Why do that? I'm confused they make all these moves against the legions and legions of bots that swarm all over the granite citadel. Then apparently compliment them and feed them with the next move.
I am very confused...

I think it's so that people no longer go "lol, blue!" and laugh at people attempting to trade it.

I think they should just move the 'Tasca's Demise' Signpost.

ooooh so its CONSIDERED rare so it doesn't drop less now just in different color
I read it as the drop rate was now lower which would favor the 24/7 bots


Love the moving idea so people have to BUY (lol idiots) a new bot for next placment (or remove it all together as people can 'M' map to find name) but that would end bots which would be bad (see my conspiricy theory in "An Idea" in Sarlac)

The Icy dragon sword is considered a rare weapon. Though its only blue its still a rare-ish weapon.

IDS will start droping more meaning they will be worth less and less eventully they will be sold for 5k or something. gg

1. AFAIK, bots never farmed the IDS. At least I've never heard of bots farming it, especially since you need to kill ice imps in order to get it, and I can't imagine a 55 doing well against a pack of ice imps packing maelstrom.

2. This makes it so the people who do the solo IDS runs now have a shot of actually dropping the thing.

Does anyone have a screenshot of the IDS; have they changed its color or just what it's classified as game-wise?

wait what, you have to be joking right that they are worth more then 5k especially after all this time since they where added in December 20th, 2005.

@Skyy High
They changed the color from light blue to gold now.

See now, this is cool. Although I still think it would have been better to slap a +30 health on it and make it a green. It's such an odd out-of-place item, being the only one to consistently drop as r9 15^50, and not be green. But oh well, this works just as well, I guess.

IDS are now EXEMPT from loot scalling, that means they will be easyer to farm, also with them being gold now more people will start farming them IMO so ofcorse price goes down

psh 55 do good at farming ids its easy just pull to top of the hill and they wont cast maelstrom just throw shit at ya

Well it’s been a bit over a month since loot scaling has been in affect so form Dec 25 2005 to April 19, 2007 it’s been dropping normally all that time. I doubt that a months time because of loot scaling really didn’t put that big if dent in the already flooded IDS market. Secondly everyone who has the IDS has no reason to go get another one just because its status changed, because what once blue is now gold. Tbh it’s not worth the time and effort to farm.

i don't get it... going from blue to gold means it will drop more for solo farmers and less for people playing how the game was originally designed (party of 6-8)... are they trying to completely kill off cooperative play? each update seems to head towards that more and more... they started off good with hardmode and big reduction in solo loot, but then turned it into a solo farmer haven...

and then theres the whole other story of heroes/henchmen stealing loot... oy

playing in a party, solo, or with henchmen should net you the same chances at loot for all three scenarios... it should be a matter of personal preference for play-style, not a matter of what gives the most loot.

i'm an ids farmer .. farm for fun mostly
after the updates, i went for the run for few times ,
seem the conversion of ids to gold make it less drops in normal mode
i dont think the price will drop , cause how many people can actually farm ids in hard mode ( well, normal mode is not easy too)