Notes on new team difficulty settings
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Abigail Frost,
Posted on: 2009-08-26 15:02 in The Market and Inventions
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I have a suspicion that the weighting for some set IO drops in Pool C may be very very off. I have received a preponderance of Mako and Devastation set recipes and about what is expected of most other sets......|
Originally Posted by NordBlast
Anyone got feeling that drop rates are borked again?
I've been running a lot of missions here and there set for 0/x6/y/n, and according to dropstats, been getting Pool A drops below estimated low threshold fairly consistently. |
However, I have not received a single stealth IO since I16 went live and the dates on the last 5 in both the run and jump categories on blue side when I last checked were going stale (last 5 with dates in weeks rather than days). None for sale at any level with multiple outstanding bids.
I know that Posi doesn't "really" like people stealthing missions. I wonder just how low the weighting on stealth IO drops may have been made.
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I got one today red-side from a random roll, FWIW.
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Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight
I have not received a single stealth IO since I16 went live and the dates on the last 5 in both the run and jump categories on blue side when I last checked were going stale (last 5 with dates in weeks rather than days). None for sale at any level with multiple outstanding bids.
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Same here.
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Originally Posted by Supernumiphone
I got one today red-side from a random roll, FWIW.
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Several people predicted that stealth IOs would become rare with weighting. How many ranged damage or melee damage powers are there? Lots. How many "travel" powers are there? Far fewer.
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Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight
I have a suspicion that the weighting for some set IO drops in Pool C may be very very off. I have received a preponderance of Mako and Devastation set recipes and about what is expected of most other sets......
However, I have not received a single stealth IO since I16 went live and the dates on the last 5 in both the run and jump categories on blue side when I last checked were going stale (last 5 with dates in weeks rather than days). None for sale at any level with multiple outstanding bids. I know that Posi doesn't "really" like people stealthing missions. I wonder just how low the weighting on stealth IO drops may have been made. |
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there are enough low level steaths moving through the system to net me a tidy flipper's profit, when I was in that niche.
Blue side, anyway, and it does take patience.
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True but EVERYONE has access to travel powers and many players take more than one. (Several of my toons have both Super Speed and Super Jump, Teleport and Hover are also common pairings. Some ATs have little or no access to Melee/Ranged attacks.|
Originally Posted by Bionic_Flea
Several people predicted that stealth IOs would become rare with weighting. How many ranged damage or melee damage powers are there? Lots. How many "travel" powers are there? Far fewer.
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I would think that powers that everyone (barring PBs and WSs) has access to and virtually everyone takes would be weighted a bit higher than what the market and my random rolls seem to be showing.
-Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein.
-I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
-When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. - Thomas Jefferson
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=198111
Well it would certainly contribute to the above.
Just as one more anecdotal data point I have noticed my battle maiden takings to be a bit off.