What's with the drop rates?
By
Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2009-11-12 15:52 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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Don't take this the wrong way, but if your goal is to get drops, running on a team of 8 is not the way to do it. Every time an enemy drops something, it goes randomly to one of the team members. So essentially, by trying to farm on a team of 8, you've cut your drop rate to 1/8th what it should be. On top of that, the level of the enemies has nothing to do with the % chance of drops. You would be much better off running solo, set for +0/x8, or even -1/x8, provided you have a build capable of handling that.
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Originally Posted by Spider Titan
i have found this very true, i had run about 20 mishes on the same map farming with 54s on a team of 8 and no sign of even a pool A recipe drop better off a Purple drop. this frustrated me and i look forward to a fix with this bug
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And I ran dropstats on my log files. During the Halloween event I was getting drops either below or at low bracket for expected drop rates on more than 3000+ minion equivalent. It is very possible, that I was victim of RNG, but given history of reintroduction of old bugs into new patches, I wouldn't be surprised if drop rate bug made it into patch for halloween event.
On brighter note: I've been running dropstats post halloween event, and been getting drops in the middle of expected rates.[/QUOTE]
Yep, has gone back to normal for me too, actually since the Friday morning maintenence. 
First 2 paragraphs of that last reply were quoted - I don't know how to do the nifty quote thing you guys do - just hit the quote button.
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Thanks
However, to be fair the recently fixed drop bug wasn't a bug in the drop rate. It was a bug that caused mobs to intermittently appear to be gray and therefore drop nothing. It's a subtle but important difference.
It may be that the OP has found another case where this condition arises. The only way to be sure is for him to collect data and check the stats. I find that even doing one radio mission on x8/+0 is enough to get close to the expected rates.
On brighter note: I've been running dropstats post halloween event, and been getting drops in the middle of expected rates.