Drops are making me sad!

Resident is spreading a lot of misinformation.

If you want purple drops, your best way to do it is to farm -1/x8 maps at level 50 by yourself!

When an enemy is defeated, the drop goes to random players on the team. This has been confirmed by play testing, since pure support characters (using no enemy affecting powers) have gotten drops, even purples. Even doorsitters have received purple drops. The only way to increase your chances of getting the drops rather than your teammates is to remove the teammates.

Random is random, but your best odds are on your own.

Eu damz, how are you liking Freedom so far?

I'll just add this... in recent memory I was pulled away from the keyboard during an ITF run to bandage a wounded child in the household, left my character standing at the start of the final mission. Came back 15min later to find the team merrily beating upon Rommie, my character dead at the door... and a shiny new purple recipe drop as I'm sitting down in my chair.

If the claim is you must be near the team and must make the killing blow, my experience disproves that. And it only takes a single counter-example to kill an Absolute.

This player is putting forth so much inaccurate information I suspect we have a forum performance artist on our hands.

To OP: Purples are rare. Very rare. Some people have more luck than others.

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The Wiki is right with regard to drops. The information it has about drops is the culmination of rigorous player testing and in many cases, Dev confirmation.

Just because the Wiki has been wrong doesn't mean it's unreliable. Devs have been wrong about game mechanics. Encyclopedias and dictionaries have been wrong. That doesn't mean you can't use them as a source ever again.

Or put it this way: Hey, ResidentX10, have you ever been wrong? If so, then, by your own logic, you should never say anything again about anything since you've been known to be wrong.

So, not only was the original info provide wrong. But the argument about what is a more reliable source was fallacious.

I love watching Rx10 dig all these holes all over the place for himself. Then sometimes he even climbs out of one hole and goes back into another hole and starts digging away again. It's like he thinks if he digs hard enough, he'll prove everyone he's right - except he's digging in an infinite-manure pile.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

Is this guy trolling us?

Just throwing another log on the fire here to get Nyx informed correctly, but unfortunately you are just having a run of what we call "bad luck". When an enemy which has the ability to drop level 50 recipes is defeated, the game makes a random roll to see if a purple recipe is produced. As Dechs above showed, the percentage of that roll being successful is extremely low on average. However, if one is produced, it is randomly given to a team member in your group. That's pretty much all there is to it.

Your damage output, proximity to team members, build, powersets, distance to your local Starbucks, alignment of the planets and even whether Dancing with the Stars is on TV tonight do not affect your chances at all of getting a purple recipe drop. What does affect? The number of critters you defeat and the speed at which you defeat them. If you are on an 8 person team and can defeat 1,000 critters a minute, but solo you can only defeat 100 critters a minute, you have slightly better odds on that team. But, if you can defeat 200 critters a minute, then you are much better off solo.

To emphasize as well, as long as the critter being defeated can drop a level 50 recipe, it does not matter what the actual level of the critter is. It can be a level 48 minion or a level 54 minion, it still has the same percent chance to drop that purple recipe. It terms of critters, what does affect the percentage is class; a boss has a slightly higher chance to drop a purple recipe than a lieutenant does, which has a slightly higher chance than a minion does.

As further anecdotal evidence to the fact that sticks out in my memory very clearly, for a small stint of time late last year I played a level 50 brute for several weeks doing nothing but level 50 content and squashing large groups of critters. In all that time, never had a purple recipe drop. At the end of that, I respec'd a bit and took a new power I never used before. I went to Grandville to try it out on some small groups, and the first group of 3 critters I took out dropped a purple recipe, Ragnarok set if I remember correctly.

What does that prove? As others stated, random is random. Also, I saw this in another thread and, while I don't recall the exact words, I will paraphrase a bit: "Computer algorithms don't hate you. Machine hardware doesn't hate you. Perhaps the deity you believe in hates you. Have you considered prayer?"
(And with a little bit more searching, found the original poster and post here. I was sorta close on the paraphrasing.)