GlenRoss.8570 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 I've played a number of characters over the course of several years and until yesterday, completion of zones always yielded ore, cloth, wood or leather as part of the reward. My newest character completed five zones, this weekend. Four of the map rewards included berries of some type, but no crafting materials. I realize that cooking ingredients are legitimate prizes, as described in the wiki, but they are far less desirable than the aforementioned crafting materials. but what suddenly changed to cause them to be foist upon us at nearly every opportunity? I'm now not so anxious to continue exploring, knowing that it's not going to be worth my while. I'll probably turn to doing other activities that yield items which will make my character better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Which maps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nottsgman.8206 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 there's always been a chance at getting ingredients for map completing, it just doesn't happen as often as getting wood/ore/cloth/leather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khisanth.2948 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Eh... that change as the game changes. Getting lemongrass for completing Straits of Devastation was pretty nice as one point. Not so much anymore. Same goes for getting a piece of gear with superior rune of divinity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlenRoss.8570 Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 > @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said: > Which maps? If I recall correctly, it was raspberries from Fireheart Rise, blackberries from Iron Marches, blueberries from Plains of Ashford and Wayfarer Foothills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Ahh...well, the Wiki states you might get Crafting Materials or _Ingredients_ as far back as 2012. Thus, it's probably not new. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=Map_completion&oldid=444068 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astralporing.1957 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Some of the harvest materials available from plant nodes on the map have always been an option when receiving map rewards. Depending on specific map, it can be more or less common, but it does happen, and it's nothing new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlenRoss.8570 Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 Agreed. I get that. But having completed a few dozen maps without ever seeing it happen, then having it emerge as the rule, rather than the exception, is disturbing. It feels like a lot of wasted effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokh.2695 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Did you enjoy completing the maps? Do the few silvers worth of cloth/wood/ore/gear account to anything at all? Did it ever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasimir.6239 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 > @"GlenRoss.8570" said: > Agreed. I get that. But having completed a few dozen maps without ever seeing it happen, then having it emerge as the rule, rather than the exception, is disturbing. It feels like a lot of wasted effort. That's how random rewards work. In the scope of all map completion rewards awarded across the game during that time frame, it's likely totally in line. It's simply (un-)lucky that you hit a few of them back to back. The human mind is "programmed" to find patterns in anything it sees, even if there are no patterns there at all, that's why we quickly notice the outliers in random results and try to see a trend in them, but with a sample size of just 5 or 6 maps you don't have any basis on which to suspect changes in map completion rewards. Your outcome is definitely unlikely, but even the unlikely happens at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambent.6375 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 I guess some people have just regularly been lucky with map completion rewards, as it use to regularly be referred to as a way to make gold. Personally, I always get crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 > @"Lambent.6375" said: > I guess some people have just regularly been lucky with map completion rewards, as it use to regularly be referred to as a way to make gold. > > Personally, I always get kitten. I've never had a kitten for a map reward. Pretty cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlenRoss.8570 Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 > @"lokh.2695" said: > Did you enjoy completing the maps? Do the few silvers worth of cloth/wood/ore/gear account to anything at all? Did it ever? The reward at the end has never been life-changing, but to get something useful was like finding a dollar on the street; a nice perk. Blueberries are like finding an empty candy bar wrapper. I didn't bring it up to say my life is now over. I just thought it was odd and unpleasant. Rasimir.6239: Yeah, I guess it was sort of a question, in that regard. If others regularly get food as a reward, then my history is the exception. If their experience is similar to mine, then perhaps the drop parameters have been tweaked. I was curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante.1763 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 > @"GlenRoss.8570" said: > > @"lokh.2695" said: > > Did you enjoy completing the maps? Do the few silvers worth of cloth/wood/ore/gear account to anything at all? Did it ever? > > The reward at the end has never been life-changing, but to get something useful was like finding a dollar on the street; a nice perk. Blueberries are like finding an empty candy bar wrapper. I didn't bring it up to say my life is now over. I just thought it was odd and unpleasant. > > Rasimir.6239: Yeah, I guess it was sort of a question, in that regard. If others regularly get food as a reward, then my history is the exception. If their experience is similar to mine, then perhaps the drop parameters have been tweaked. I was curious. I get food about 1/4 of the time when completing maps im not sure if thats normal or not but thats my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kratan.4619 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 > @"Khisanth.2948" said: > Eh... that change as the game changes. Getting lemongrass for completing Straits of Devastation was pretty nice as one point. Not so much anymore. Same goes for getting a piece of gear with superior rune of divinity. Always great to get 40 asparagus for completing Straits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khisanth.2948 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 > @"GlenRoss.8570" said: > > @"lokh.2695" said: > > Did you enjoy completing the maps? Do the few silvers worth of cloth/wood/ore/gear account to anything at all? Did it ever? > > The reward at the end has never been life-changing, but to get something useful was like finding a dollar on the street; a nice perk. Blueberries are like finding an empty candy bar wrapper. I didn't bring it up to say my life is now over. I just thought it was odd and unpleasant. > > Rasimir.6239: Yeah, I guess it was sort of a question, in that regard. If others regularly get food as a reward, then my history is the exception. If their experience is similar to mine, then perhaps the drop parameters have been tweaked. I was curious. Anything besides carefully tracked results are just useless anecdotes because memory is not reliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannelore.8153 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Its not like metal, wood, cloth and leather are worth much more than food anymore. Sure, Elder Wood Logs are still worth a penny, but everything else has become almost completely worthless when you can sell an entire stack for ~1g. Even Potatoes have more value than Orichalcum Ore these days (70c versus 64c right now), so.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuks.8241 Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 I don't even look at map rewards unless it is a key. Like the poster above me said, it is not like one type is more valuable than the other. Besides you can gather the nodes you find during completion and that will yield much more mats if you need a profitable incentive to do completions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadaver Material.3162 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Thank your wondrous RNG for those superb results. As they said above > @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said: > Ahh...well, the Wiki states you might get Crafting Materials or _Ingredients_ as far back as 2012. Thus, it's probably not new. > > https://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=Map_completion&oldid=444068 it's been in the system, you just haven't been "lucky" enough to encounter it before this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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