[MERGED] Farming with Henchmen

they always drop one green item when they are killed, you are just really unlucky or maybe they dont drop with henchies. just go with other people. Now that is not true. I've been killing a few with a friend of mine and no green weapon dropped. We did not have any other person on our team, just us two... so no they don't allways drop.

I'm getting piles of about 100 gold, normal white shields, and other junk both in and outside of Sorrow's Furnace. I'm only using 4 henchmen and myself in hopes that their drops odds will increase because I want to see the green sword. Heya Rac long time no play.

I agree, I've taken only 4 henchies and myself included to get better items.

question do the supieor IDs are better than the regular ones? Like the higher chance to unlock better mods on a unid item?

question do the supieor IDs are better than the regular ones? Like the higher chance to unlock better mods on a unid item? No, its just bigger one, not any better.

I kept count and set a goal of 50 boss kills trying to get one of the new green items never got a one. Drops from bosses were so bad I got one plain icon drop in the last 20 boss kills 3 drops total in 50 boss kills. 2 plain items and one scroll of insight, just disgusting.

I sure hope others are having better luck than myself. the thing you need to keep track of when using henchies is, that how many kills before you see your drop. You could try and count and then kill the boss when you think it's your drop time. (but again something crappy or money may just come out)

its pretty much random and luck anyways.

First time going through GrenthsPath, I met Yakslapper and Thornbeard w/ full (7)hench. I got nothing from YakSlap. and a green bow from Thornb.

I think when ppl try their hardest in trying to get something ingame, it's most likely it wont drop, but when you dont think about it, it's usually that time it can actually drop. (happens to me alot, since I farm)

*next time dont think how many bosses and just keep doing it. It's just really luck of the farming system.

-GL.

FWIW...

Unless I was just extremely unlucky, they've increased the share of drops for henchmen. Very nasty if they have, as it makes some classes (especially mesmers) nearly impossible to solo.
It is entirely possible that is exactly what they did in yet another attempt to deter solo farming even with henches.

When I did my 50 boss kill run I mention in the first post, I cleared a majority of the area outside War camp and the 5 bosses each time. I picked up what little drops even the plain stuff I got but they were so few that I never had to stop and sell stuff because my inventory never got full.

I think it's pretty much random, guys.

I've gone out with 7 henches, killed about 20 bosses, and come back with 2 greens.

Luck?

Or did they nerf the areas I was farming in one of the mini after-updates that they did? There were like five of those, they were likely tweaking those drops in response to a huge surge of farmers.

Whaddaya bet that Anet got a little shock when about a third of the population of GW suddenly came puring out of Deldrimor War Camp and started farming bosses?
Well if Anet were surprised by what happened then they certainly should not have been, what did they think was going to happen ? Especially given the cost of the keys compared to what you actually get from the chests. I've just been killing everything i can see just to get a key drop. In about an hours exploring i got that green water staff and a guildie (rest were henchies) picked up the stinger - I thought that was not too bad a return.