Mastermind drop bug???


Badaxe

 

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Not to be a conspiracy theorist, (I fully admit that it could just be extraordinarily bad luck) but I seem to remember reading some time ago that there was something bugged about the drop rate for Masterminds in the trials. Is this true? I only ask because I just completed a marathon trial session on my Bots/Traps MM, and after 12 hours, I ended up with a grand total of 2 rares, 1 Uncommon, and somewhere between 12 and 20 Commons. This is just the capper to a week of similar results. Before today, I had only been casually playing for an hour or two. However, in all of that time I have never gotten a Very Rare on this character.

On my other toons, I seem to average one or two Very Rares a night.

So, I'm just asking... is something bugged? Or is it just extraordinarily bad luck???


50 Claws/Regen Scrap, 50 Energy/Energy Blaster, 50 SS/Invuln Tanker, 50 Robot/Traps MasterMind, 50 Fire/Kin Controller, 50 Ninja/Ninja Stalker, 50 Elec/Shield Brute, 50 Elec/Time Controller

 

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Originally Posted by Mythmaker View Post
Not to be a conspiracy theorist, (I fully admit that it could just be extraordinarily bad luck) but I seem to remember reading some time ago that there was something bugged about the drop rate for Masterminds in the trials. Is this true? I only ask because I just completed a marathon trial session on my Bots/Traps MM, and after 12 hours, I ended up with a grand total of 2 rares, 1 Uncommon, and somewhere between 12 and 20 Commons. This is just the capper to a week of similar results. Before today, I had only been casually playing for an hour or two. However, in all of that time I have never gotten a Very Rare on this character.

On my other toons, I seem to average one or two Very Rares a night.

So, I'm just asking... is something bugged? Or is it just extraordinarily bad luck???
It's just bad luck. My Mastermind has gotten 5 Very Rares in half the amount of time that it took my Brute to get 1-- which means that she's earning them 10 times faster.

The thing is that my Brute has been incredibly unlucky while my MM is the exact opposite. There really isn't any AT disparity for a while now (in my experience).


 

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Okay, good. I just had to ask. This toon has had an unreal time trying to fill out his power trees.

Thank you for the response.


50 Claws/Regen Scrap, 50 Energy/Energy Blaster, 50 SS/Invuln Tanker, 50 Robot/Traps MasterMind, 50 Fire/Kin Controller, 50 Ninja/Ninja Stalker, 50 Elec/Shield Brute, 50 Elec/Time Controller

 

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Originally Posted by Mythmaker View Post
Okay, good. I just had to ask. This toon has had an unreal time trying to fill out his power trees.
That's the nature of random rewards: some people get them quickly, and some don't.


 

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The only issue specific to MM's that might have been considered a drop bug was that MM's 'ran afoul' of the participation system and sometimes got the 10 thread consolation prize, despite being an active participant.


Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project

 

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Originally Posted by Mythmaker View Post
On my other toons, I seem to average one or two Very Rares a night.
Maybe not so much bad luck on your MM, but extremely good luck on your other toons.

On all of my characters the best I’ve seen is a maximum of 1 VR every 50 or so runs. I’ll hate to think my luck is that bad compare to others