Purple recipes are a Myth

... I realize there not, but they sure seem like it.

/vent on

In that last few days I have done... 3 Lady Grey Taskforces, 1 Apex (I hate you), and gone on a killing spree at the "Wall" and Rikit war Zone (to farm Vanguard).

# of Purple Recipes gotten by me..... ZERO!

On one lady Grey Taskforce, a memeber of the group got 3!!... 3!! in a single TF *blarg*


Ok /vent off

Anyone else find that the RNG on Purples just hates them?

PS - I have multiple 50s and have NEVER seen a single Purple drop to any of my toons.

Had a purple Pet Damage drop on my Dom yesterday night.

Random drops are random.

Still waiting for his Official BackAlleyBrawler No-Prize

Patience and persistence.


If you want purples -

Run hero tips.
Run tfs

Use reward merits, convert to hero merits.
Use Hero merits to buy the recipes for enhancers that are selling for 150million, like lotg global recharges.

When you have sold 2 or 3 of these (after you crafted them), place a low bid for the recipe (not the enhancement) that you want.

Wait a week. Play for fun. Forget about purples. Check the market. Hey, look you got a purple recipe.

Repeat.


Any purple drops you get are just "lagniappe".

I get them on paper mishes in gville all the time on my Bane.Some of my other toons have never seen them.

On one run of the Battle Maiden farm with my fire/kin I got 3 and the missus got one.But havent seen one since...it's just random...

I've had 3 in the past 24 hours - including 2 on the same mission

Its all good, I dont "need" purples to enjoy the game. Just frustrating know that in theroy by now I should have gotten a few vs what I see everyone else get. *shrug*

PS I hate you Golden Girl and Gratz

Time to adjust your expectations.

I think the way the numbers work, on an average ITF one person on the team might get a purple.

When you're on an 8 person team, compared to soloing, you're cutting your chances by 7/8.

I think when we decided we were gunning for purples, 4 person team playing once a week, it took us maybe three months for each member of the team to get a purple. And we had a really high kill-per-minute rate.

To Clarify my current main Im working on is Ele/SS/Mu and can easyly Tank +4/x8 and kill them thanks to plenty of AoEs and ST attacks.

Killing things in mass is not a issue. Getting a Purple to drop appears to be RNG hates me.

My Goal isn't to get purples, my rant is just frustation in not getting any after all these toons and time.

Two points:
1) the player who "got three" in a single TF may have been ... improving the story.
2) Some people have just never gotten a frikkin purple. I have a friend who counted something like 14,000 kills with no purple. I can't tell "bug" from "miserably low percentage" at that point.

I didn't get one for nigh on two years. Then for two in one mission.
On a Level 10 sk'd to a level 50.
Oh, and got a Hecatomb drop some time later on, although I cannot for the life of me remember how long or where.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

I doubt someone got 3 on one TF. Unless you know the person, personally and can trust that. They prolly had them on the toon already.

1) I've never gotten a purple on a TF. The odds are just to high on a team of 8.
2) To increase your purple luck, either get a farm toon, or run missions solo set to as high of a team as you can handle.

I don't believe the hype of the suggestion of running more TF's for more purples over the suggestion of farming/solo missions. The ratios just dont back that theory up.

Theres no need in upping the difficulty. 54s dont drop more than 47-50s. I get a couple per weekend by soloing a farm set to 0x8. If you don't like to farm alot, then just get a toon that is good at it, run 1 or 2 quick farms a day then play on the teams that you like. It'll increase your odds. It sucks having to solo alot to get the "goodies", but that's todays game.

Good luck on your search.

I have gotten only one as a drop. It was a Fortunata Hypnosis.

Thank you, Champion.

My main has gotten 7 purple drops in two years. Two of those were in the last fifteen minutes; go figure.

My level 39 blaster has received one purple drop in all her leveling time... so yes they sure are rare!

I'm not sure were all the "get a farm toon" and "go Farm stuff at blah blah" are coming from. I thought I made it pretty clear I have and do both *shrug*. But I do apphriate the helpful suggestions. I don't need them, but others reading this thread may find the information useful.

As to the 3 Purples in one TF, I have grouped with this person before and they always seemed on the level. So without reason to doubt him, I have to believe he really did get 3 purples on that TF. RNG is just that I suppose... Random.

Anyways since posting this yesterday someone must have felt sorry for me.

I go into my first tip mission of the day, hit KO blow on the nearest Minion and POW.

Ragnorok: Chance of Knockback

The Purple Dead zone has been broken LOL. Someone must have turn on my "Can recive purples" Code.

Granted it wasn't the best of Purples, compared to what you can get but I was VERY very excited to finaly see one drop never the less.

To make things double exciting, I my glee of joy I hit my AoEs and see the following pop up.

Incarnate Shard Bonded

Sweet!!

So not only did I get my purple recipe, I also got the last shard I needed to upgrade to my T2 Incarnate Enchamcent

clearly one of The Conspiracy read this thread and arranged for these drops to prevent you from revealing The Truth to everyone else.

=P

If you want purples, you need to understand how to get purples.

Purple recipes can drop from any mob that can drop a level 50 common IO recipe. Which is so say, a level 47 minion, a level 46 LT, a level 45 boss, a level 44 EB, and a level 43 AV. Anything above those level ranges has a chance to drop purples, and its the same chance no matter what level your fighting (basically a level 54 Boss, and a level 45 boss both have equal chances of dropping a purple)

So now that you understand how they drop, you have to run at -1/8, OR plan ahead, and once you ding level 47 grab a radio missions. Don't run said radio missions, just keep it in your mission list. Then ding 50. And run that missions at 0/8, all day long. Every single mob in that mission will have a chance to drop a purple, and at level 50, they are all -3 (atlest) to you, so you'll trash them up pretty easily.

That is how to effectively farm for purples. Granted, all your other drops will be in the level 46 - 48 range, and those don't sell very well, but you will get purples too, and it will be super easy, and super fast.

I understand this vent.
I have had exactly 2 purples. That's it. In all these years. 2. The randometer just doesn't like some of us I guess.

Now, I play my 50's without worrying about the illusive purple and have a fun time! If I ever get another one, I think I may S***! heh.

Random is random...uhhuh...

Since Purples were first introduced to the game I've had about 20 of them drop across all of my various characters. Based on how much I play and on the reports of everyone else I would tend to rate my number of drops to be more or less average. *shrugs*

I'll preface this by saying that I do not any any way care about purples, their dropping or not, and/or farming for purples. I post this solely so that you all can laugh at my misfortune and the extreme hate the RNG has for me.

That said: I had one purple drop 3 days after they were introduced into the game.

And.
Not.
One.
Since.


Just be glad your luck is not the same as mine.