Purple Drop Rate

I honestly don't care how often purples drop for me, the only set I actually USE is Fortunata Hypnosis. I just play the game, and if one drops my reaction is "Oh, cool! Free money!"

If you obsess over how often purples drop you're just going to get frustrated with it. I've heard so many people say things like "I've been running this same mission for DAYS and haven't gotten a purple drop, the devs need to fix this or I'm quitting!"

Really? You're going to quit the game because recipes that are SUPPOSED to be super rare won't drop for you? Okaaaaaay then.

Just play the game and don't worry about it. In my experience, when I play my 50s specifically to get purple drops, it never happens. I get them when I'm not even thinking about the possibility of purple drops.

I really don't think the purple drop rates have been changed. I've gotten 7 purple drops since GR went live, but the catch is those purples were either from the sleep or confuse sets. So, otherwise I haven't gotten anything good.

My intuition tells me that a greater number of people are playing, thus increasing demand for those purple recipes and driving their prices up. I've had three purples and a respec recipe drop for me in the last 13 days, and the only level 50 content I've done was a Maria Jenkins arc, a Recluse SF and tip missions. All of the purples were on tip missions with solo characters, and on each of those four level 50 characters that run tips nightly, I'm lucky if I defeat 50 mobs during the 5 missions on average.

13x4x50/3=~867 mobs/purple. Now, I can't give a good estimate of how many mobs were defeated on the Maria Jenkins arc or the LRSF, but I'd bet that it doesn't push that number up over the estimated 1/1500 defeated mobs that gets tossed around.

Also, I'd like to add that if anything needs to be looked at, it's the HO drops. It appears that about 75% of the time when I go for the random HO, it turns out to be a Centriole. It's gotten to the point where I just delete them if I get one since I already have so many stored in my base and yet I've never gotten a Ribosome or Microfilament.

I always thought they only dropped from minions.





Also, all drop calculations are done on the servers.
That means that you won't see a drop every 3000 kills or whatever, but someone will.

The extremely unlikely odds are so unlikely that they guarantee a LOT of people will never see a purple recipe and a few farmers will get most of them.

The people who kill the most have the best odds and take those chances from other people.



It's like the lottery where the more people that play the worse your chances are of getting any money, especially if somebody else wins and resets the jackpot.



If you really want purple recipes you need to farm a LOT or work on alignment merits. I prefer the latter since I'm entirely sick enough of the RNG grind for 5 lifetimes.

Random is random? Cool. Why do my drops often look like:

plasmatic taser
jetpack
plasmatic taser
Gabriel's Hammer
revolver
plasmatic taser
the baseball bat
plasmatic taser
jetpack
revolver
baseball bat
plasmatic taser mark 3 or whatever...

.....AGH! Stop with these freaking useless temp powers! Now no one sane expects purples to drop like this, but I question "random is random" to the last fibre of my being. Is it really random when I have had had ONE Ragnarok EVER drop on my account? ONE RAGNAROK, EVER.

Or how is it that when I do get a purple, its one of the same three Fortunata Hypnosis's, or one of the same three Unbreakable Constraints? That does not seem very "random" to me, sorry. It seems awfully strange, as a matter of fact. Little too much pattern there for true random.

Friends in game say the same thing happens to them: every now and then they score a Hecatomb or something very sought-after, but usually its a Fortunata Hypnosis. For a while there I was getting a lot of Soulbound Allegiances, then I started keeping and crafting them for my MM, so those dried up too. Random! No offense, but roffle.