Quote Originally Posted by flashio View Post
Well if those maps include new chests with several decent goodies, new eggs, different type gears (same weapon but will/assault/potency/etc) craftables needed for new stuff it would be a pretty enjoyable hunt I guess
Gold drops are 100% drop rate. Everyone will focus on those maps and not farm the items.

That has been the case in the 2 previous expansions. Compare the amount of people who farm Infested Swamp and Hydra to those who farm Deep Marsh. Keep in mind that Hydra and Orrick drop Arcane helms and armors, Deep Marsh only drops Rings (and gold). Or compare those who farm EVG and the other 2 maps, especially Greensap's farm.

Remember when Orrick dropped gold and not arcane items, everyone was farming there.

So yeah, if there's 1 single map in the new expansion that drops large sums of Gold, then that will be the only active map, and another boring gold grindfest.