I know I am in the minority here; but I have no problem with the purple drop rate. I don't assume I deserve them at all, much less at a rate faster than they drop now. I am thankful for the ones I get (about 1 every 4-5 weeks) and I am also thankful for the other players willing to sell their unwanted ones. I do have several sets across a few toons. some from drops most from purchase.
Are the devs wondering why things sell on the market at a given price? I doubt they wonder about such things at all.
What should they do? make the more common and create new ultra rare IOs ? I don't follow the logic in this at all.
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I have to be honest, I don't know that the drop rate on the most rare highest powered IO's should be increased based on the market prices.
If they datamined and felt they were not dropping enough then I could see it.
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Well its supply an demand, the demand for purple recipes is pretty high and the supply is very low this drives the market price on these up because people want to get them while they can some recipes such as Armageddon dam/end didnt have any for sale not io's or recipes so if someone puts one up for sale for 185 when the average was going for 150 someone will pay it to get it.
I don't think they should increase the drop rate dramatically but maybe just slightly and maybe they should add them to merit vendor for a pretty high price or to the ticket vendor in a roll.
Purples are supposed to be the best-of-the-best. Why should they be easy or cheap to get? They are only so expensive because people are willing to pay that much. Purples dont drop from AE, so if more people are playing AE, prices are going to go up. If you want the price of purples to come down, convince more people to play regular content.
Is it just me or is there more and more people wanting the best stuff with less and less effort these days?
When it cost u 3-5bill to purple out 1 toon that's getting a little ridiculous.
Cost me about 200 million for the Absolute Amazement set redside, at mostly buy-it-now prices. If you're worried about prices, put in a low (yet reasonable) bid and wait a few weeks. It'll probably fill eventually.
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Eh im fine with the prices, 800ish mill for apoc and hecatomb sets over 2 months, just bid low and wait a while. >.> <.<
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When it cost u 3-5bill to purple out 1 toon that's getting a little ridiculous.
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Why? Why should it be easy and or cheap to get some of the best possible loot in the game?
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Cost me about 200 million for the Absolute Amazement set redside, at mostly buy-it-now prices. If you're worried about prices, put in a low (yet reasonable) bid and wait a few weeks. It'll probably fill eventually.
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I bought that yesterday on blueside for my fire/kin for ~200m. All of it was buy it in the next 5 minutes prices (meaning I bid fairly low and increased bid about 3m each time)
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Eh im fine with the prices, 800ish mill for apoc and hecatomb sets over 2 months, just bid low and wait a while. >.> <.<
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This too.
The point of purples is to have something in the game that's hard to acquire and takes time. You can get plenty of power without the purples and do so in short order. The purples are not filling some need for MORE POWERRRR!!!!!, they are rare items to give you something to work toward over the long term.
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lol u guys must be pve'rs srry but I dont wanna spend a year on one toon. Basically what u guys are saying is that when purps were 50-60 mill a piece it was way to easy get a toon purped out but now there 150-200mill thats the reasonable price for one, lol and what happens when there 250-300 mill? I have multiple toons that are completely purp'd out and I can play the market to make my money for w/e the price of purples may be but there is a point when it becomes ridiculous.
I'm also not saying they need to change drop rates dramatically only slightly as I said earlier.
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lol u guys must be pve'rs srry but I dont wanna spend a year on one toon. Basically what u guys are saying is that when purps were 50-60 mill a piece it was way to easy get a toon purped out but now there 150-200mill thats the reasonable price for one, lol and what happens when there 250-300 mill? I have multiple toons that are completely purp'd out and I can play the market to make my money for w/e the price of purples may be but there is a point when it becomes ridiculous.
I'm also not saying they need to change drop rates dramatically only slightly as I said earlier.
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ok make it a 1.00000001 in whatever chance it is to drop instead of 1.0 in that chance. happy now?
You are?
You wouldn't notice the difference in drop rates so just pretend they did it.
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ok make it a 1.00000001 in whatever chance it is to drop instead of 1.0 in that chance. happy now?
You are?
You wouldn't notice the difference in drop rates so just pretend they did it.
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A slight increase with a large player base would make a bigger difference then u think.
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Obviously it would be a bigger increase than that.
Once again: Drop rates havent and shouldnt be changed. If you want more readily available purples, get more players to do regular content rather than AE.
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Once again: Drop rates havent and shouldnt be changed. If you want more readily available purples, get more players to do regular content rather than AE.
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Once again: drop rates should be increased. The only people who this wouldn't bother is people who play the market for fun and pve'rs who want to put a year into a toon
When you say, "put a year into a toon" do you mean spend a year getting them purpled out?
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When it cost u 3-5bill to purple out 1 toon that's getting a little ridiculous.
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Well, keep in mind that you don't need to purple out any toon. If you don't want to spend that kind of money on purples, then don't.
But if you want the best of the best of the best (sir!), then you gotta pay the price.
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Um....... that's kinda the point of purples. They're very rare and are meant to be a LONG-TERM goal. What's the point of having uber loot if just anybody can log on, click a few buttons, and have it all instantly?
If everybody could purple out just because they want to, then everybody would be the same and purples would be the new baseline. Then we'd be crying for even better loot.
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Listen I totally agree with purples being hard to acquire I just dont think it needs to be as hard as it is to acquire them and yes if more people pve'd in pi again then the prices would go down but the devs introduced the AE and the prices have gone up so they should compensate for this. Lets say the price of purples went up to 500mill per purple recipe is that a reasonable price too?
Yes I am a pvp'r and having purples in my toons is very helpful. I could not slot them but would far less effective in pvp.
You can finish a toon in much less time without purples. And some of your "lol" commentary is borderline insulting.
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set to 6 running with just my 2 accounts = 1 purp unbreakable constraint chance for smashing damage and the devs wonder why it cost 100-200 mill per purple.
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When did this happen? I've never seen a dev asking why purples cost 100-200 million.
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I just ran the same amount of runs u did, spawned for 6 vicious, 7 Freaks and 2 Bms, 1 Apoc proc, 1 fortunata and an armageddon A/D/R. Sorry bud, you just have horrid luck
Part of the problem again is the MA. People who were previously spending their time running missions, even if they were farms, were out there getting drops, that they needed, and drops they didn't need. That made it to where the supply was alot higher.
With MA everyone is tied up in a non dropping farm hoping for tickets to roll the rare recipies they can roll, and not earning the purples that they can't roll.
In my opinion perhaps, until they can figure out what they want to do with MA, they should up the drop rate for those of us who want to do more than just run the same farms over and over.
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set to 6 running with just my 2 accounts = 1 purp unbreakable constraint chance for smashing damage and the devs wonder why it cost 100-200 mill per purple. Hell for an Apocalypse set it would run u close to 1bill FOR ONE SET probably more like 800 mill. they need to do something about the purple recipes.
gg devs