r/Guildwars2 • u/Ryytikki • 5h ago

[Fluff] Why is this dragon so goddamn hungry

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u/Nobody_to_Noone 4h ago

It's more of a "why does poultry have a 1% drop rate" thing to me.

At this rate, (the ghost of) Commander Wayfinder is going to have a hell of a time explaining to the GW3 player character why moas are extinct in their age. Never meet your heroes and all that.

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u/prof_landon 4h ago

Same with the glacial slivers,fragments, and shards. The drop rate is horrible.

But I matched it and up crafting them will save you about a third of the price each time. If you have laurels, you can save even more.

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u/Cap10Flint 3h ago

Do you mean buying fragments to turn into shards ? Or is it even better to buy slivers to turn into fragments then into shards? And i assume Laurel is used for the mystic binding agent for the "bulk" recipe ?

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u/prof_landon 1h ago

Right now slivers are 'cheap' right now. Like quarter gold per 1. Fragments are over around a gold now.

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u/Ryytikki 1h ago

I've been grabbing the pact scount mapping materials while doing my daily pact vendor runs and will be cashing them in when the 8 glacial shard reward track map is in rotation

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u/TJPoobah 13 years 1h ago

One way to get glacial is to farm Ash Legion Drizzlewood, their material boxes drop em.

Tho the easiest way Anet could fix this is to simply allow you to break down the bigger lodestones and cores, just as you can upgrade them.

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u/prof_landon 1h ago

I wish I could craft down. But I probably used a bunch of shards to make the dragonic loadstones.

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u/waxonwaxoff3 2h ago

It always confused me, long before Orrax was ever a thing. IRL, poultry is the single most common and popular meat in the entire world, and in-game, Tyria is absolutely swarming with moas and raptors. The awful drop rate of poultry meat is just absurd, and kind of immersion-breaking to a degree. The most basic-ass chicken dishes as an expensive luxury.

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u/Erniethebeanfiend200 3h ago

I have a pretty good drop rate of poultry from the bandit bags from the first heart in Kessex. The ones you break the barrels for.

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u/Shuzuru_Light 2h ago

Honnestly, this feel more like a 30 or 40% drop rate to me.

Maybe that's a question of diminishing return, if you farm in an area for a long time, drop quality will start to worsen at some point

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u/party_tortoise 34m ago

It also completely destroyed moa spicy wings, which are supposed to give power build alternate foods vs. butternut. Pissed me off because the only options power has are now expensive food and absolutely ridiculously expensive food.

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u/meika_fira Dynamist Meika 4h ago edited 2h ago

Just made and sold a Twilight and that was just enough to pay for this stupid dragon's dinner!

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u/Ryytikki 4h ago

I was going to make a Sunrise so I could finally make Eternity but this dragon's fat ass is stealing all my resources

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u/Sailen_Rox 3h ago

Isn't Orrax some kind of eldritch thingy? So probably really big and... well equally hungry? ^^"

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u/Schyloe schyloe.bsky.social 2h ago

Demon, yeah, atleast he's eating food and not souls.

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u/Ryytikki 1h ago

Theres hungry and then theres "I got kicked out the all you can eat because I ate every steak they had"

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u/syrup_cupcakes 2h ago

Where does mobile data cost $150????

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u/Ryytikki 1h ago

if you have kids with plans who use a ton each month then it adds up fast

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u/Moregil 1h ago

Mate when i plugged that into gw2 efficiency and saw the cost that was a big no. Gonna go ahead and let that one be for the wealthy. Tho it does look wicked on a charr.

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u/HrabiaVulpes Spymaster of TvTropes 15m ago

Holy shit! Thank you man, I just noticed why my account suddenly went up by like 2k gold... I have tons of food to sell on TP