AoTsuki.8675 Posted December 4, 2018 Author Share Posted December 4, 2018 > @"Warobaz.9543" said: > Wat... Are... Prosciuttors ? > Never had one in any way or form, been playing since early access (3 days pre launch :lol: ) A kind of macaroni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AoTsuki.8675 Posted December 4, 2018 Author Share Posted December 4, 2018 > @"MokahTGS.7850" said: > To be honest, I think the game would benefit from a loot find mercy rule based on time played. Just some internal counter that your account accrues over time that buffs your chances of getting better drops. Better drops then "spend" these accruals and as time goes on you build up more. Random is all well and good, but going thousands of hours in a game without a better drop than an exotic worth 1-2 gold is kinda sad. I had the same thought today, probably will never happen. We will probably get a flock of people saying "But you have to work for them!". I'm done working, have mercy and drop me one, not even good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayakaru.6583 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 I think your friend pulled a prank on you. Precursors dont drop. You have to grind gold and buy on. If they dropped i would’ve seen one in six years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AoTsuki.8675 Posted December 4, 2018 Author Share Posted December 4, 2018 > @"Ayakaru.6583" said: > I think your friend pulled a prank on you. > Precursors dont drop. You have to grind gold and buy on. > If they dropped i would’ve seen one in six years What is gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biff.5312 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 I think I got the harpoon gun one twice at different times. Getting one is certainly not something you can count on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blocki.4931 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Back when PoF launched I bought it for my girlfriend and played through the story with her. We were in the Desolation, doing the heart at the Shadow's camp and I went to vendor some stuff when she asked me "Why is this item worth 450 gold?" and my jaw dropped. I have yet to drop one myself, but knowing my luck I will probably drop one I will have already crafted at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithranArkanere.8957 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 I've got about 11 BL key drops. No precursors so far. I've got such a bad luck with gear drops that the chest during the Southsun release that gave people 2 exotics and 2 legendary weapons and handed up many precursors gave to me 1 level 76 exotic and 1 level 78 rare instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante.1763 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 After six years and over 6k hours i finally got one two months ago. Zap, from the mystic toilet, while throwing *shields* into the forge trying to get the Shield Pre... Ive pruchased the rest of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen.2907 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 None at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jediwolf.8724 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 My first drop of one in six years was this past Halloween in the labyrinth. I got The Storm. I have gotten The Legend, Energizer, Spark, The Colossus, Rage and Tooth of Frostfang form the forge. I forge a lot. The rest I have made or bought of the trading post. Got Storm and Colossus within 24 hrs. I think I used up the last of my horseshoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illconceived Was Na.9781 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 > @"AoTsuki.8675" said: > Since my friend who is relatively new to the game dropped a precursor, I would like to ask you guys, did you ever get one dropped? > I play since launch and never had one drop, had to buy them all off tp or craft. > I won't say that I am not salty because I am. People obsess with this question all the time. There are good reasons (these are extraordinary in price and rarity), but it's pretty much like winning a lottery when the tickets are obtained by killing foes and/or opening bags. I've seen people say "I've been playing for 6 years" or "I have 25000 hours in the game" and complaining that they haven't seen a drop. But time isn't a factor, except indirectly. It's how you spent the time. If you do mostly dungeons and world bosses, and adventures, well, you have almost no opportunities to get a precursor drop. If you spend all your time in Orrian temple events (and other chains with target-rich environments), you are much, much, much more likely to get a precursor. Another factor is the amount of magic find you run around with: higher is better. If you want to ensure that you get a precursor before you stop playing, there are two nearly guaranteed methods: * Forge L74+ rares or exotics. * Open unidentified gear bags (rares if you can afford, blues if you can't) (and with as much magic find as you can manage). It will take a lot of mouse clicks, but _eventually_ you'll get one. For blue unID bags with 600-700% MF, the chance is roughly 1:43000, although you might go 300k+ bags without seeing one. For forging, it's about 1 precursor for every 143 _exotic_ forges (572 weapons forged), with very high variance. For rares, it's closer to 860 tries (about 6 times less frequent). Again, those are _averages_; your mileage is going to vary, a lot. (Currently, it's easy to get elonian rares at about 10-15s, so it's cheaper to try exotics if you can get them in bulk at under 60s.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elothar.4382 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Been playing since launch. Had one (Leaf of Kudzu) drop in EOTM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsenic Touch.7960 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Started playing at the headstart and then quit about halfway through season 1 and never saw one drop during that time. Probably won't see one any time soon now that I'm playing again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauried.5608 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Got 3 from the big chests under tarir after the AB meta, took a long time though, and at least 200 AB runs . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathias.9657 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Never got a pre drop from anywhere, played since launch. I will never create a legendary outside of the pvp backpiece. I mostly pvp and had all the mats in my bank, all of my progress towards it was completely passive so no boring grind needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnus Godrik.5841 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 In 6 years i have got 3. 1 from a dungeon chest 1 from the toilet and 1 from raiding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cragga the Eighty Third.60 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Never got one in over a year of playing and mystic-forging all the exotic weapons that drop. Only one I heard of dropping in-game was from a guild newbie asking "What exactly is this about?" when they got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutjob.9021 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 I didn't get one for the first 3 years I played. Then in a period of just a few months, I got five or six of them. I haven't gotten any since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos.4263 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Tons from the forge, bought a couple, none from drops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hevoskuuri.3891 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Over 2k hours and no drops. A friend with much more hours than me was in a similar situation, but recently looted two precursors from a *single* WvW zergfight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feather.8107 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 12,194 hrs in the game and 3 drops so far. The first was Howl, from a trash mob skele in Mad King's Lab, 3 years ago. The second, Tooth of Frostfang, was in my inventory after helping a friend with the 'Victory or Death' chapter of their personal story... that was a real surprise. And a couple of weeks back I got The Bard from a trash mob in Bitterfrost Frontier. I made The Howler and Frostfang, but sold The Bard and bought Dusk and made Twilight. They're out there, keep trying! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blude.6812 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 drops are bad and RNG is broken, Anet couldn't care less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumpin Lumpix.6108 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 > @"AoTsuki.8675" said: > Since my friend who is relatively new to the game dropped a precursor, I would like to ask you guys, did you ever get one dropped? > I play since launch and never had one drop, had to buy them all off tp or craft. > I won't say that I am not salty because I am. I had Dusk drop when I was doing WvW in a zerg and I had Kudzu drop when I was doing trick or treat bag farming in Mad kings labyrinth one year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindcircus.1506 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 > @"AoTsuki.8675" said: > Since my friend who is relatively new to the game dropped a precursor, I would like to ask you guys, did you ever get one dropped? > I play since launch and never had one drop, had to buy them all off tp or craft. > I won't say that I am not salty because I am. I've had two. I had Rodgort's Flame drop for me from a bag I looted in a night of Silverwasting. I crafted it as my first legendary and then sold it. I had Zap drop for me within my first 15 minutes of Lab farming this past Halloween, but I had just crafted Verdarach, was down to my last 24 gold and the idea of grinding more materials made me want to cry ...so I just sold the precursor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazreal Blackknight.1564 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Never had one drop 15 legendary weapons later, played since launch, 12k hours... I gave up hope long ago I would get one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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