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Isaiah Cartwright recently commented on the official forums that loot will change in regards to the mega boss events. Here's the full quote:

In the next release we will adjust the way that world mega bosses award their loot. The current chests will stay lootable once per day per character, but each boss’s guaranteed rare item drop will be moved to a separate chest (visually similar to daily achievement reward chests) that can only be acquired once per day across an account.

Our intention with this change is to keep providing rewarding loot for world mega bosses while avoiding overwhelming participation in boss fights (and overwhelming the economy with rares) from players cycling through each character slot for each boss every day. [Source]

What do you think of this change?
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#1 Symbiont

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 10:20 PM

good change, this will reduce the overflow of guest players

#2 RyuuAkari

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 10:22 PM

I don't really know about this change it seems like they want it to be harder to get ecto. Despite Ascended accesory cost 40 laurel + [b]50 etc[/b]. Upgrading fractal backpack cost [b]250 etc[/b]. but then again there are rare quality making it a perfect time to try mystic toilet for precursor as these rare drop pretty often... but main concerns are ecto... imho.

#3 FoxBat

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 10:22 PM

I'm not sure anyone cares about the daily items that aren't rares, so not clear why they had to split it up into a separate chest. Nice to see less zerg wars though.

#4 Khrushchev

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 10:24 PM

[quote name='FoxBat' timestamp='1363645359' post='2180835']
I'm not sure anyone cares about the daily items that aren't rares, so not clear why they had to split it up into a separate chest. Nice to see less zerg wars though.
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People ran them day in and day out before there were guarunteed rares, and not having a guarunteed rare doesn't mean you won't get one from the chests anyways.

#5 Lordkrall

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 10:24 PM

Ah nice, finally we will be able to do the event on our server without having to get lucky and avoid overflow.

#6 Azure Skye

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 10:46 PM

It seem that the ecto prices when up in 5 silver. XD  But i think its good, you will see less of these farmers push people in overflow. XD

#7 heatrr

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 10:54 PM

Leave to ANET to make an already grindy game even more grindy in their alleged efforts to curtail overflow, guesting, multiple toon uses....great. Not!

#8 FoxBat

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 10:54 PM

[quote name='Khrushchev' timestamp='1363645454' post='2180838']
People ran them day in and day out before there were guarunteed rares, and not having a guarunteed rare doesn't mean you won't get one from the chests anyways.
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Yes, I'm not that dense. The question is why the existing chest wasn't just changed to once per account, rather than pulling the only worthwhile thing in the chest out into a separate chest.

#9 Lordkrall

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 10:56 PM

[quote name='heatrr' timestamp='1363647244' post='2180848']
Leave to ANET to make an already grindy game even more grindy in their alleged efforts to curtail overflow, guesting, multiple toon uses....great. Not!
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Don't blame ArenaNet for peoples constant wish of bypassing systems put in place.

#10 heatrr

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 10:57 PM

[quote name='Lordkrall' timestamp='1363647376' post='2180850']
Don't blame ArenaNet for peoples constant wish of bypassing systems put in place.
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Yo dude, if I bust my arse and give the time and money to get 5 toons to level 80, I should have the RIGHT to use all 5 of them to run events, period.

#11 Arewn

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:07 PM

This drop system will still be better then what we had before the patch that buffed world boss chest drops. It's a guaranteed rare per boss ahead of the old system.
It will also do well to fix the problem, people doing the same boss multiple times a day using different toons causing way to many people to show up.

#12 Desild

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:15 PM

And there goes the Ectoplasm prices. Stock them while you can folks.

#13 Khrushchev

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:20 PM

[quote name='FoxBat' timestamp='1363647280' post='2180849']
Yes, I'm not that dense. The question is why the existing chest wasn't just changed to once per account, rather than pulling the only worthwhile thing in the chest out into a separate chest.
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It's not the only worthwhile thing though, it can still drop rares/exotics. Why not reward someone for doing a mega boss more than once a day, only less the second time?

#14 Lydeck

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:28 PM

[quote name='Lordkrall' timestamp='1363647376' post='2180850']
Don't blame ArenaNet for peoples constant wish of bypassing systems put in place.
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Instead we can blame them for this idiotic change rather than just making it so that you can't get a metaevent reward chest while guesting.

Oh, wait, that would make too much sense. And it wouldn't make the game more grindy. Therefore, ANet won't do that. Nevermind, carry on.

#15 Elder III

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:35 PM

Excellent!  This was much needed, since as it has been many people were bumped to overflow servers (even on their home server) and missed out on the Dragon events altogether.  For someone such as myself, who would only do them 1x per day, if that, it was incredibly frustrating and a waste of gaming time.  So this is a much anticipated change which I am looking forward to. :)

#16 Captain Bulldozer

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:36 PM

Typical... we want more exotic drops, so anet gives us a ton of rare drops.  Then when it's clear that we're willing to farm the shit out of rares in the hopes of getting an exotic (or an exotic's worth of ectos) they decrease the rare drops.  Oh well, In other words, shorten the string holding the carrot from the stick, see that it makes us run faster, then decide to slightly lengthen the string to less than it was originally in the hopes that we'll run a little slower.

#17 mdapol

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:39 PM

[quote name='heatrr' timestamp='1363647448' post='2180852']
Yo dude, if I bust my arse and give the time and money to get 5 toons to level 80, I should have the RIGHT to use all 5 of them to run events, period.
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You don't have a right to anything.  This is a game.  You agreed that Arenanet could do whatever they wanted to the game when you bought it.

If you want to get technical.

#18 WinterSnowblind

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:53 PM

[quote name='Lydeck' timestamp='1363649333' post='2180863']
Instead we can blame them for this idiotic change rather than just making it so that you can't get a metaevent reward chest while guesting.

Oh, wait, that would make too much sense. And it wouldn't make the game more grindy. Therefore, ANet won't do that. Nevermind, carry on.
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Because it would punish people guesting on a server for the sake of playing with their friends.  They're punishing farmers instead of the people who are just trying to enjoy the game, which is the right move.  It's only "grindy" if you're treating the game like it's a damn job.

#19 Inraged Twitch

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:55 PM

Glad to see this change coming.  Now how about them "improved" rewards for dungeons n such??  I got a stock pile of 4000 cof tokens that I have absolutely no need for.

#20 Elder III

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Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:59 PM

Also, you should still have a chance at something rare or exotic when you open the regular Dragonchest; it just isn't "guaranteed" anymore.
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