PVP IOs


Another_Fan

 

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My search-Fu must really suck!

I just wanted to confirm: PvP IOs only drop in PVP zones right? Are they uncommon, rare or ultra rare (like a purple IO)?

I can find opinions but nothing really certain about this.

Thanks in advance!


Malakim

-Playing since COH beta and still love the game!

 

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Zones or arena

Must be withing 3 levels of each other to get a drop


 

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My search-Fu must really suck!

I just wanted to confirm: PvP IOs only drop in PVP zones right? Are they uncommon, rare or ultra rare (like a purple IO)?

I can find opinions but nothing really certain about this.

Thanks in advance!

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Zones and the Arena, your oponent has to be within three levels of you for you to get a drop and the rate is supposedly one in 250 kills.


 

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Ah, 1:250. I think that's pretty reasonable. Might be time to do some missions in PVP zones. I'll likely hunt in the off-hours as I'm not an adept PVPer at all, although perhaps I'll get my NW into it.


Malakim

-Playing since COH beta and still love the game!

 

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Doing missions in PVP zones won't get you any drops, as you'll only be killing NPC.

PVP IOs drop from defeating other PLAYERS, in zone or arena PVP.


@Roderick

 

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Anyone know if I15 made any changes to PVP IO drops?


 

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FYI, I was getting drops about 1:75-90 in the arena last weekend.


 

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It is strongly rumored that the arena no longer gives PVP drops due to people farming themselves.

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No rewards are happening in zones either, according to posts in the PVP forums. This "it's happening to curb player behavior" is jumping to conclusions. Remember when you couldn't invite people in another zone to join your team? Plenty of people on the forums loudly proclaimed that it was obviously a nerf to farmers so they couldn't invite fillers, until the devs clarified that it was simply a bug.


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99.9% sure its a bug.


 

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Just so everyone knows the idea that you have to be 3 lvls apart in a PvP zone to get a recipe is nonsense. I wanted my SG PvP badge so I Dual boxed for it and got lots of drops. One was a lvl 32 and the other was a 43. Kept getting lvl 48 recipes though for some reason.


Oh yeah, the above is actually a hypothetical situation and did not actually happen. But if it did that is how it would work.

Ha, covered my bum that time.


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Zones essentially ignore the "3 levels" rule because everyone in the zone is set to the same effective level. It's in the arena that things get a bit more complicated.


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And FYI, Castle posted its a bug. No PvP IOs are dropping anywhere right now.


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It is strongly rumored that the arena no longer gives PVP drops due to people farming themselves.

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Just remember that farm is a bad word. Instead you should say this.

It is strongly rumored that the arena no longer gives PVP drops due to people f***ing themselves.