volatile magic drop rate low extremely in new chapter?

I have been doing things there almost constantly for most of the week. Unless I am using one of the special gathering tools the total volatile magic that I got is close to 0. Before it was dropping from every creature I killed. Is that happening to anyone else?

I'm fairly sure that the low drop rate is intended. So far no enemy gave me VM when killed & there are many that drop nothing (not even experience - example : Joko loyalists). Actually, only spare parts for turrets drop often.

It seems the crystals on the dunes give you a couple but that is low for the zone overall. In previous zones when you killed mobs during an event or meta you got a lot of magic.

Yep. I ended up farming difluorite in Sandswept Isles and converting it to volatile magic. Seemed much more efficient.

Those weird crystals that are everywhere have volatile magic in them. You have to run over them very fast to break them and get it. Tons of VM on the map actually. I figured it out by accident when a friend broke open a wall just as I was trying to as well and was a full speed. There were two crystals inside and I hit them and got it. After that I tried speeding through them when I saw the crystals and got lots of the VM.

Can't drop magic from something that doesn't give any loot or xp. Welcome to the new map.

@Zephyr.5382 said:Yep. I ended up farming difluorite in Sandswept Isles and converting it to volatile magic. Seemed much more efficient.

Same here, I had 500 ore saved up that I was going to process into ingots but, oh well.

@Cynn.1659 said:Can't drop magic from something that doesn't give any loot or xp. Welcome to the new map.

So far the new mount seems to be the only good thing about the new map and getting that is buggy sometimes.

Rewards are probably bugged on the whole map. Will wait for a fix.

@Aerinndis.2730 said:Those weird crystals that are everywhere have volatile magic in them. You have to run over them very fast to break them and get it. Tons of VM on the map actually. I figured it out by accident when a friend broke open a wall just as I was trying to as well and was a full speed. There were two crystals inside and I hit them and got it. After that I tried speeding through them when I saw the crystals and got lots of the VM.

Whoever thought they were good as the only way to get VM really needs to have someone playtest their stuff. If you are not mounted up (and I think only on the beetle) you do not even see them. Then when you do if you are at high speed and at the right angle and if you can hit it you get a pitiful amount of VM for your troubles. It is not like in previous maps where in an event VM and karma (assuming a couple levels of the enrichment) would be in a constant stream into your inventory.

@lokh.2695 said:Rewards are probably bugged on the whole map. Will wait for a fix.

The annoying thing is anet can just ignore our complaints now and pretend this was the design.

@Menadena.7482 said:

@lokh.2695 said:Rewards are probably bugged on the whole map. Will wait for a fix.

I trust Anet enough to think that they're not ignoring it, for now. But action needs to be taken or the map will be dead in a month.

you can see the crystals. but when you mount up you have to wait until yur endurance has filled up.Not worth the time.

@lokh.2695 said:

@Menadena.7482 said:

@lokh.2695 said:Rewards are probably bugged on the whole map. Will wait for a fix.

You give it that long? I give it 2-3 weeks. As to trusting them?

Looks like I will be playing with my beetle in prior POF zones.

@Menadena.7482 said:

@lokh.2695 said:

@Menadena.7482 said:

@lokh.2695 said:Rewards are probably bugged on the whole map. Will wait for a fix.

Well, one week is already over so if we add your 3 weeks we are at a month, right ;)

Also, I'm a fanboy, but my enthusiasm has taken a big hit with this release.