How did Guild Wars treat you today?

Too bad its Q10

Too bad the mods suck... already merched

went a little favor farming today (20min in Nolani HM) and got the first two items - think it´s the best shield I got in last 5 years... - quite profitable 20 min (10 unids, 6 of them were shields, 4 of them were dualmod, 2 of them were Tower shields - sadly nonmaxdualmod)

And my favourite latest Tower Shield purchase - I love it! Thanks so much!

Valentine's Day Present from Pongmei....

hey Fireball isn't that the tower shield that i trade you m8 ? glad that you liked it.

it is - it goes perfectly with my recently purchased q9 -2wE +10vs Troll Defender and my q10 -3wH +10vsTrolls Tower :>

I finally maxed the Wisdom title as part of my 4 title goal! The other three are lucky, unlucky, and treasure hunter. I'm 120k away from unlucky, about 1.7 million away from max lucky, and I need about 3500 more chests. I've done all of my chests in pongmei, but I have no good echovald shield to show for it..

Several lucky-ish, some more ish some more lucky, drops this week! Some awesome trades too

Two 20/20 Illu staves today, hypnotic and twin serpent, and a few water items. A very fancy Ivory Bow for Chevy

Woops, cane in there twice, oh well it's awesome enough to be seen twice xD

The three shields were drops? That cane as well? Damn. GZ.

Or did you buy that magmas vs skeleton (since I had seen it on german forums, but couldn't track it to its current owner...)

GZ in that case as well :O

The shields I bought from some friends Cane was a drop

Wow, the cane alone derseves a post in this thread. I´ve never gotten something that beautiful

finally. Needles to say the tenthousandth chest yielded me a purple q13 bow from HM - Thanks GW!

Now Ivory - there´s just one thing to do... gimme that Skele Magmas as a reward for my title :>

Hit a milestone today towards my GW lifetime Q9 OS Post Nerf 15^50,+5e, and Naked Collections.

Thank you for the last 2 missing 15^50 bows I have been missing, thank you to Ivory (ironically for the Ivory Bow) and Pleikki (for Naga Shortbow)

The new status for each of my Q9 OS Post Nerf 15^50,+5e, and Naked Collections are:
Axe 15^50- 1 Axe Remaining
Axe +5e- 1 Axe Remaining
Axe Naked - 6 Axes Remaining
Bow 15^50 - Completed
Bow +5e - 4 Bows Remaining
Bow Naked - 8 Bows Remaining
Dagger 15^50 - Completed
Dagger +5e - 1 Dagger Remaining
Dagger Naked - 3 Daggers Remaining
Hammer 15^50 - 5 Hammers Remaining
Hammer +5e - 5 Hammers Remaining
Hammer Naked - 6 Hammers Remaining
Sword 15^50 - Completed
Sword +5e - Completed
Sword Naked - 4 Swords Remaining

Got my 2nd gold q8 shield drop ever (from total 40000+ idk how many nm chests), and 1st gold q8 in few months so definetly made me really happy even with the crap single mod it was ;P

and around 5 chests after that1got this

ive got total 2 gold and this was 7th Purple q8 shield drops on those idk, 40-50k chests

-Pleikki

Please tell me that you got at least much more foki and swords?

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Please tell me that you got at least much more foki and swords?

1 Purple q8 sword, 0 gold q8 swords

Offhands ive had plenty tho, probably 50-60+ gold q8 offhands and purples prolly 200+, but i rly havent kept exact data on them since they drop often compared others, but from what ive ran id say generally 1 gold q8 every 900chests and purple every 300 orso but yeah, i havent kept all exact numbers so its just how i feel about statistics xD

pongmei gets you roughly 13% foci but just 3.9% shields - that´s part of the problem there

statistically you´ll get a max q8 foc every 186 chests, a gold one every 1060 chests, whereas for any shields you´ll have to wait 2300 chests on average for max q8, for a gold one even 13k chests. For swords (just for matter of comparison) 80k chests on average for any q8 max one, for a gold one 460k chests, for a caster around 13Mill chests or so - gl on that!

Ikki - your 40k chests sound a little pathetic compared to that

but it´s gambling - even the first chest could be q8 caster Shinobi anytime - so I have fingers crossed ;D

Red Im curious on ur statistics as it matters quite alot where u run (which direction) so is that avg between all or some particular u use for those numbers?

Because i allways run from tanglewood towards boreas seabed, so most chests spawn luxon side, fewer shields drop from them (Embossed, embla) and way more swords (alot core+shinobi,jitte,dadao,dusk, jade etc) when if id run from boreas and most chests would spawn kurzick side there would be alot more shields on drop table (echo, GoTH, gothic, amber, ornate) and fewer swords (Gothic, wicked)

I do that cus the gold q8 sword is the goal and more swords do drop from luxon side, but if i were after shields would be way better run otherway around, Imo

my statistics for the weapon type are starting from maatu keep and running all chests. Indeed the start does influence the run quite a bit as well, and ofc the area. That explains why you had fewer shields than my statistics would predict and more swords So in summary you might wanna do statistics for yourself as to how many swords you get in percent. (A set of 25 times 40 chests or 15 times 64chests is a good start to have a somewhat reliable value. - roughly 1000chests) The statistics for the items´stats however is independent from starting point or whatever.

So a more generally appliable number would be: 1 out of 4500 swords from lvl 20 source is statistically gonna be q8 max. Meaning if you run a route that yields 2.5% swords you calculate 4500/0.025=180000 to calculate the amount of items=chests you have to do to get one.

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Hey Red?

Have I told you recently that you need to get out more?

I'm sorry, mom!

Uh I mean darling!!

Uhm - Max I mean, Max!!!

I did a thing! Saving up my energy (and money) for the double points week coming up to knock out the last 1.4m lucky points. Maybe within a year, lol.

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I did a thing! Saving up my energy (and money) for the double points week coming up to knock out the last 1.4m lucky points. Maybe within a year, lol.

Wow, i think i remember noone who finished unlucky title before the luck one. You must have been very unlucky with chests

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Wow, i think i remember noone who finished unlucky title before the luck one. You must have been very unlucky with chests

Hey, noone here - glad you remembered

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Wow, i think i remember noone who finished unlucky title before the luck one. You must have been very unlucky with chests

If you don't play the rings of fortune / 9 rings unlucky maxes first usually. Just like if you don't buy unids you *probably* will max treasure (if you chestrun a lot) before wisdom because 10k in gold drops + gold chest drops never happens before 10k chests. This is kinda assuming hm but we all know Red...

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If you don't play the rings of fortune / 9 rings unlucky maxes first usually. Just like if you don't buy unids you *probably* will max treasure (if you chestrun a lot) before wisdom because 10k in gold drops + gold chest drops never happens before 10k chests. This is kinda assuming hm but we all know Red...

*innocent*

But I maxed unids first (currently 18k unid, 10k chests) - running low lvl chests and farming gargoyles waaaay too much contributed their part... next project: 200k luck via ascalonian chests - wohoo! Just 800 runs - let's see if I get anything for my max q0 14^50 collect...

Magmas was the only thing getting me to HM chestrunning - and sss/sws - but who'd run high lvl chests anyways...? No q8s... nuff said

okay that q9 +1/20 Prot +30 Magmas is cool...

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Wow, i think i remember noone who finished unlucky title before the luck one. You must have been very unlucky with chests

Like mentioned above, I've probably only messed with 9 rings for maybe a max of 5 hours total. I was r3 unlucky and r1 lucky a few months ago so I didn't start until then. I've strictly done Pongmei Valley (HM) because I've found it gives much more chests per hour than the Boreal runs. I need about 1k more chests to max Treasure, and then I'm swapping to NM. I'm hoping (but not expecting) to get Treasure maxed before the double points week gets here.

I thought this may give others chuckles like it did me. I realize that sometimes foes are mislabeled with wild pet names, but I have to say, this is the biggest Black Bear I have ever seen!!!!

Finally succeeded at Dasha Vestibule, which has been a roadblock on my adventure for some 7 months now!

Been chest running for a perfect Summit Warlord Shield since Burns will never sell me his

Got this gem a few mins ago. Not perfect, but getting closer to having one I can keep and be proud of

Alas no such luck when it comes to Kappa shields (These are the 2 skins I need to complete my +30 -3 collection) but I believe!

Grand Court of Sebelkah is killing me today, any tips on how to push through this one?

Thanks, I'll give it a few goes, don't have Lightbringer yet so that's a handicap.

Can help you tomorrow if you still have trouble.

Cap mid fist, then clear and finish each area after another. Caping area once is enough, if they have 1/3 or 2/3 after the first cap left it doestn matter
Kill mobs at first side, go back to mid and clear enemies there. Cap first side now and go back mid. Than continue with other sides.
You dont have to run to mid back after enemies arive immediately, just watch how far they capped the shrine

Opened some Z-Chests today... Q9 Voltaic Spear

Got this one while some WoC-Farming yesterday.

Finally a real good drop there for me.

Past two weeks ive been running chests in pongmei valley nm starting tanglewood to boreas seabed direction keeping some data aswell while this.

My q8 luck was extraordinary while these 1000 chests dont think ever got so many, and especially amazing was get 2nd gold q8 shield in so short time within last1.

Here all the drops i got, besides q8s only items that didnt go to merch were plagueborn sword and long sword.

For data i calculated 4.3% of all drops were swords 3.2% of drops were shields 15.0% were offhands.

this data is important since those 3 types are the items that still drop q8 so it helps calculating changes for q8 drops

-Pleikki