Jumping puzzle loot table and the Superior Rune recipes.

[Blacklust.4638]

Hello all,

 

For a few months now I parked the characters that I completed to 100% in draconic moons at the final chest. Basically free loot by just pressing f instead of keeping them in random locations for nothing.

 

The main issue is that the loot table for that JP not sure if the same for others or not is completely bugged. 

It seems that whenever the loot table is rolling for a Exotic item it almost always lands on the rune of radiance recipe. You realize that this is a major issue by the fact that the item has absolutely no worth. 

You can not even sell it on the TP that's how many there are.

 

Please remove the Recipe for superior rune of Radiance from the loot table or fix the loot table randomizer. If this was done as intended then its a complete mockery of the players that get to that hard JP.

(and yes I know many TP to it but that's not the point)

 

Later edit: I never said i want the item removed I said fix the odds. Lets say odds are every 100 chests you get an exotic pull. Well make it so its not the same rune recipe 98 times of those exotic pulls. I mean the game is chosing from a list of exotic items how it always ends up on a stupid rune recipe almost every time out of hundreads of exotics bambozels me. That is what needs fixing.

Edited May 17, 2021 by Blacklust.4638

[Ayrilana.1396]

And once the value of the other recipes drop to that of radiance, would you then request for them to be removed as well?

[Danikat.8537]

Most rune recipes are worth almost nothing. The only superior rune recipes selling for more than 3 silver on the TP are Antitoxin and Mad King (which have very limited availability), and there's 5 selling at 2 copper each. The Superior Rune of Radiance isn't even the most common (that's Superior Rune of the Trapper with 99,999+ copies available, by comparison Radiance has "only" 48,082).

 

While the 2 copper recipes are widely available I think the bigger problem is that the runes themselves are relatively expensive to craft. If they're tradable then it's almost certainly cheaper to buy them than craft them and if not there's probably something cheaper which is just as good.

 

If there is a bug it's only affecting that jumping puzzle. I always do dailies on the same character and if there's a jumping puzzle or mini dungeon I do that one last so I can leave him at the chest and keep collecting it until the next time I do dailies (which is not every day even if I'm online). I also do other puzzles on other characters when I'm nearby or feel like it.

 

I get rune recipes sometimes but it's not always that one, and I have gotten other exotics. But exotic weapons and armour very rarely drop from JP chests and I'm not sure the recipes are considered equally rare even if they are exotics too, I think the loot tables are a bit more detailed than that.

 

One possibility is that the chest is affected by diminishing returns, which is a system (or combination of systems) Anet put in place to stop players farming the same things over and over. If a character only does one thing then sooner or later they will stop getting decent rewards for it and eventually stop getting anything at all. For example if you keep doing the same event chain over and over you'll see the karma and coin rewards drop and at some point you'll only get basic items or junk from the enemies.

 

The fix for that is to go to another map and do something else for a while and then come back. Of course that's not really practical when you've got multiple characters at the end of a difficult jumping puzzle, but you could move them to a different puzzle instead.

[Khisanth.2948]

4 hours ago, Blacklust.4638 said:

It seems that whenever the loot table is rolling for a Exotic item it almost always lands on the rune of radiance recipe.

That is just wishful thinking in assuming the chest was ever meant to give out much.

Check the rewards of  https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ancient_Chest_(Ember_Bay) on the bottom of the page for  Chalice of Tears/Skip up the volcano. It requires the checkpoints so simply parking a character or teleporting there is already eliminated and yet the drop table is still underwhelming.

 

4 hours ago, Blacklust.4638 said:

(and yes I know many TP to it but that's not the point)

or the devs are aware that there are people doing the exact same thing you are

 

there are a wide range of places to park characters with different rewards

[Lottie.5370]

I believe the jumping puzzle chests work similarly to champion bags - the rune recipes are an additional chance drop, not taking the place of one of the guaranteed rolls. Different champ bags and jumping puzzle chests  will have different recipes, so if you're camping one chest, you're likely to keep getting the same recipe - it's not pulling from a pool of all the recipes.

 

[Eloc Freidon.5692]

Account bound recipes really need to stop dropping from chests. There are so many that they forgot to remove or put a trash vendor value on it.