i17: Temp Powers drop rate?

So yeah, been playing off and on with i17 changes and bugs (a bit irked at having no market, how the heck am I suppose to sell rather rare and valuable recipes if there's no market?!? Wish I could just store them like I can with salvage...) when I noticed something interesting, for some odd reason temp power recipes have been dropping like crazy!

At one point my recipe "box" was 50% temp power recipes! Every mission it's almost a norm now that a temp power recipe will drop. So much in fact that I've had at least three or so drop in a mission once! Strangely enough this only occurs with contact missions. When it comes to paper missions I don't get temp powers up the wazoo as I do with contact missions, but I don't know if this holds true to SFs because I haven't had a chance to run one yet.

So my question is this: is it normal for temp powers recipes to be dropping every mission? Or is this some sort of bug?

I ran 4 radio missions (level 35) last night blue-side. I got 4 temp power recipes (Jet Pack, Gabriel's Hammer, the Taser, and a Revolver). I suppose I *might* have had the Hammer pre i17 but I don't think so.

I like that they are dropping a lot more often but then I've always been a temp-power addict. I went ahead and crafted the taser just to play around with it but sold off the others.

Yep, I've definately seen a big increase in temp power drops. Question is, are the temp powers now on a different/extra drop table or is the higher drop rate affecting the drops of other recepies?

I am hoping this is a temporary drop rate just to seed the market as it were. Otherwise, these things will be A. Vendor trash, and B. a problematic new source of inflation because of being vendored.

On the other hand, my lowbie controller is loving it since he has more options than the Revolver, Bat, and Hammer to round out his attacks =)

I personally like this. A lot. It makes temporary powers rather meaningful.

Before, every time I got a temporary power, be it a drop or through some mission, I would never use it just because I thought "I should save it for a special circumstance when I NEED it!"...but that time never came!!!

Now I can freely use them, knowing I can easily re-fill it. My Dual Pistols character is going to love the Hand Grenade; it goes so well with her theme!

Can someone list what the new Temp Power Recipes are? I checked the wiki, and found no information on the new powers, and they dont seem to be in the patch notes.

Ahh, that's the page I was looking for.
There are issues with wiki searching, I think (or they didnt name the new powers using the same naming conventions, as when I tried my search, all that came up were links to the old individual powers).
Thanks for the links, Agg

I've run Positron TF Parts 1&2 once each (10 Missions total)
I've run "Benjamin Decker" in Ouroboros 9 times (27 Doors, 9 Talk To, 36 Total)
I've run the Kelly Nemers "Eternal Battle" in Ouroboros 10 times (2 doors, 3 hunts, 50 missions total)
I've run 4 radios in P.I.

All of this since the servers came up on Wednesday with Issue 17. In total, 100 missions. Not a single Temp Power. No old ones, no new ones. With the markets down, I can even buy one and pretend it dropped.

So... Next week I'll spin the RNG and see if it hates me then too.

Ran some RWZ mission teams last night. I started with an empty recipe bin. I ended with 5 temps and the rest mixed. I'm wondering if this is WAI.

I like the temp powers, but IMO the drop rate is a bit too generous. It could be curbed by 33% or so, just to keep the temps from becoming junk. But if that doesn't happen I won't be heartbroken, after all my lowbies love Recovery Serum. Best temp ever, especially pre-Stamina.

WARNING: I bold names.

Mail the temp recipes to the gold farmers that spam your email box.

Mmm...

I was asking last night about these temp powers and if drops were broken...

I am getting way too many temp powers and it seems at the expense of getting "real" recipes.

Like others, I hope this is only temporary, kinda of an introduction thing. Also would be nice if the temps had a description of what they really did.

Stormy

Too bad purples can't drop like this...at least for a short period. I don't mind the drop rate because like others, I actually use the temp powers now instead of saving them for those 'special' cases which hardly ever seem to come up or when they do, you still forget to use them.

Hmm, makes me wonder how well a free weekend would go if it was increased recipe drop rate instead of double xp.

I played for about an hour and a half earlier, and got 0 recipe drops. I thought maybe there was an issue.

Then I decided to just run around the wall in Cim for about an hour and received a costume temp, 2 Envenomed Daggers temps, a Hand Grenade temp, and a Recovery Serum temp (as well as a few assorted other recipes)

Thank you, Champion.

I have these temps coming out of my ears just from running Posi parts 1/2, LGTF, and ITF.

Yay! So I haven't broken the system! Everyone else is getting tons of temp power recipe drops

Gotta say though, they be really nice for a Brute...I've one shot a group of 8 minions and a left two lieutenants with a sliver of health with the hand grenade temp power. Also the envenomed dagger temp power kills a Boss with two applications. And the bat temp power makes me giggle like mad...

But what worries me is that are these drops suppose to be like this? I've had to sell a good number of them what with the market being closed because they drop a tad too often and take up a good number of my recipes. If this is indeed WAI, is it then time for a way to store recipes? I would have thought that by now there would be a method in which storing recipes is possible...unless there is and I just don't know how to?

Let's see, looking at the 3 characters I've played to any extent since Wednesday I find:

6 Revolvers
3 Hand Grenades
1 Hammer
1 Ethereal Shift
and a couple of others I forget that I tossed to a teammate.

That's more temp recipes than I've had drop in the last 6 months, all in the last 3 days. Yep, it seems like they're dropping much more frequently than they should be.

Of course on the good side I had a Ragnarok Proc drop on my BS/SD from the very first mob I killed; and I've also had a couple of the rarer Numina & Miracle recipes drop as well... not the uniques unfortunately. I have one character who's almost been forced to the sidelines for now since with no market I can't make or sell recipes and he's several quite valuable ones now filling his inventory.