Originally Posted by
Lazuli
You got extremely lucky, I've played off and on since beta and have only seen a few exotics drop. Completely diminishes my will to play anymore. I spent 2 months in the game without exotic gear only to find out you can only get what you want on the TP. What a horrible design :/ didn't take long to realize even in beta, every piece of gear you get 90% of the time is for another profession and can't be used.
I spent 3 hours in WoW and got a shoulder that sold for 6k gold which paid for my alts pandaria flying and much extra. Not very uncommon for that to happen. Found a mini pet in stranglethorn vale last week sold for I think 10k? I haven't seen ONE mini pet drop in GW2 other than the one from karma boxes which can't even be traded. And oh god all that fucking clicking.. ANet truly needs to learn how to design better.
It shouldn't be that hard to make gold especially considering there aren't many gold sinks in the game. I already have my T3 cultural, my commander tag, it's just boring as FUCK seeing nothing drop all the time.
In GW1, you always see rares drop that are useable by any profession which can be sold, traded, or salvaged and also counts towards a title of unidentifying them. Purples as well and greens from bosses were not uncommon at all. You didn't spend half your play time at a merchant, either.