Loot

Summary

Loot items that drop can be divided into regular loot, special loot and rare loot. Various bonuses can affect these categories separately such as:

Regular Loot	Special Loot	Rare Loot
Gold	Research Materials	Mastercrafting Diagram
Doubloons	Skill Mastery Scroll	Skill Mastery Orb
Treasure Map	Aspect Core	Collectable Card
Resource Map	Plant Seed	Dungeon Lantern
Magical Items	Aspect Phylactery/Distillation	Rare Cloth
Gems	Arcane Rune	Rare Footwear
Reagents Spell Scrolls	Arcane Scroll	Dyeable Carpet Tile
Arrows & Bolts Bandages Potions	Plant Chemical	Carpet Dye
		Spell Hue Deed
		Backpack Dye Accessory Dye Hair Dye Facial Hair Dye Furniture Dye Headwear Dye Runebook Dye

Loot	Bonuses	Criteria
Creatures	Mastery Chain Links Fortune Aspect Region Bonuses Guild Favors	Affected by all players who attacked the creature
NPC Ship Holds	Mastery Chain Links Fortune Aspect Region Bonuses Guild Favors	Affected by the player who is the Captain of the player ship attacking the NPC ship (Multiple player ship captains can increase loot similarly to how multiple players can increase Creature Loot)
Salvage Crates	Mastery Chain Links Fortune Aspect Region Bonuses Guild Favors	Affected by the player who fished up the creature that dropped the Salvage Crate
Treasure Chests Dungeon Chests	Mastery Chain Links Fortune Aspect Harvest Aspect Region Bonuses Guild Favors	Affected by the player who completes the lockpicking of the chest

Creatures On the Test Shard are NOT affected by Progressive Loot Bonuses

Dungeon and Wilderness creatures now gain a Progressive Loot bonus of +5% per hour for each hour they are alive up to a maximum of +250%
Progressive Loot Bonuses increase gold drops as well as adjust the % chance to encounter Special and Rare Loot (and will stack with all other available loot bonus)
Ocean Creatures and New Player Dungeon creatures are exempt from Progressive Loot bonuses
For example, a Creature that is normally worth 100 gold and has been alive for 10 hours will now be worth 150 gold