PvP IO Drop Rates???

OK so far on 4 toons solo I have received a PvP IO roughly at the 400 reputation mark. If I were to evenly split the reputation denominations of 1s and 5s that works out to 240 kills. I'll low ball it to 200 kills per recipe for the sake of conversation, but even so... 200!

What have your experiences been?

Do you feel the issue/bug with low PvE drop rates are also affecting PvP drop rates?

Any ideas for the Devs to make some improvements in this area?

I personally feel the entire PvE and PvP reward systems could use a look over and revamp, but what are your thoughts on having a reputation cash-in system similar to the merit reward system?

I've been getting them once every 200-250 kills.

I got one last night when i was farming musey on his fort. =-0 Who says Forts arent good for anything in pvp.

Drops are ****** up.

can you receive pvp io drops in the arena? if so, does the arena match need to be rated? i try to make the match rated everytime and no matter what it wont work unless i put not rated???

I believe that, from my experience at least, your reputation has something to do with your drop formula. I have been sitting on a two month dry spell on my scrap at 400 rep and never a pvp drop. I get on my MM for one day howerever and 2 drops after 2 hours about of pvp'ing. Can anyone corroborate this?

I get about a pvp IO every 1-2 hours at least in RV. Its roughly 25-40 kills an hour at least. There are freak dry spells and freak drop spells where i don't get any for 3 days and then get 2 within the hour. As it stands with declining purple prices, PvP ios are going to be the "Big Items" Which makes me a happy panda.

cant say i have goten any PvP drops at all, i have however goten alot of purples that i was able to sell "when they worth the same as a PvP IO" and bought them on WW. So im not sure if that counts... but No, i havnt goten any PvP IO drops only purps

I have been arena farming a single target for days STRAIGHT. It took me about 4 days to accumulate 11 IO drops. Few down times here and there, but mostly farming. That comes out to about 10 shots at a drop an hour (rep timers, resets, etc etc), for 24 hours, 4 days. Ludicrous. And I am farming lol, I can't imagine the luck people are having in actual PvP. I will do more refined and precise testing in the coming weeks and share the data.

Edit: Also, the fact that PvPIOs are rare is one thing, but the fact that certain ones are more rare than other is absolutely foolish. A 3% def should not be so rare that it costs 1b. And it should not be so hard to accumulate one whole set considering the slight benefits they give.

ok i dont get this at all lol. I have a lvl 37 blaster in Sirens and i kill so many pvpers everyday but i never have gotten a pvp IO yet. I have 400 rep and i still cant get why i havent gotten one single IO after 2 months yet. DO i have to be lvl 50 or something?

in 4 days of pvping i have recieved 1 pvp IO... reached 400 rep at the beginning of the 3rd day. i would agree that the drop rates are a bit low.

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I've had 4 pvp ios drop for me since they went live (from actual pvp not farming). PvP IO drop rates definately need to be looked at.

The drop rates are not based on reputation. Do not buy into that belief. The drop rates for PvP enhancements are incrediblely high, more so then superior enhancements. Which in my eyes is 2 steps backward considering they were ment to entice more people to come to PvP.

With enough petitioning I'm sure the developers would increase the drop rate but the problem is that these threads are so sporadic there isn't one concentrated effort to push for this change. I'm pretty sure that there at least 200 people who want this changed and if they drop rates were decreased from 200 per kill to 100 per kill you'd see a significant increase in PvP traffic but that is just an assumption.

So my challenge to you is, if you want it changed, make an "Official" thread, use logical arguements, have a lot of people behind it, and stay positive.