Did the incarnate salvage reward change?

If it's just a streak of really bad luck, then fair enough.

I've taken close to 20 characters through the Incarnate gauntlet (fortunately, I really enjoy BAF and usually have no problem with Lambda), unlocking and populating each slot up to T3, sometimes to T4. In general, I never continue attending trials in hopes of getting enough VR bits to slot everything up to T4. If I do get a purple bit ... great, but most of the time I'm satisfied with everything slotted up to rare.

Prior to a week ago, none of my guys have ever had any serious trouble getting enough rare bits to do so. This includes practically every AT. I've incarnated at least one Controller, Blaster, Tank, Mastermind, Dominator, Stalker, etc. Usually, each of them has accumulated just enough rare pieces to slot Destiny and Lore when those slots unlock (I usually finish Judgement and Interface afterward). A very few were fortunate enough to get more rare bits than I needed, but most were usually awarded just enough.

In the last week or two, I've taken a Cold Defender and an Electrical Tank through the usual BAF/Lambda routine with the regular players. Drops for them have been miserable: an endless parade of Uncommons and Commons. The latest one, the tank, has all five slots unlocked and in that time has received exactly one rare bit from the Well. Ugh.

Hence my question: were the drop tables changed?

If nothing has changed, and I'm just having bad luck lately, that's fine. If it HAS changed, then City devs, please be advised that getting twenty common/uncommon bits in a row is like a physical blow. Having to upgrade bits for multiple rares takes so many more runs and resources that it saps a huge amount of the fun.

I read a rumor a few weeks ago that there was talk of making reward for BAF/Lambda mostly common/uncommon, and skewing the Rare curve toward Keyes. I hope that was only a rumor, because if it was true it would be a incredibly bad decision.

Just bad luck? I hope so.

Thanks,
FCM

If anything has changed, it hasn't be documented in any of the patch notes.

Changing the reward tables to skew them towards Keyes would be an *astonishingly* stupid move by the devs, if for no other reason than the fact that the new iTrial is launching with i21 in less than a week's time.

Rule one of CoH, don't listen to what random people tell you because 9 times out of 10 they're wrong. Rule two of CoH, don't click the glowies on the respec trial.

No, they haven't been. Streak of bad luck that's all.

This wouldn't bother me in the slightest since I'm bored to tears by Lambda at this point and seeing BAFs form literally* makes me sick. I only had the chance to run a Keyes once, on Beta. It was frustrating, mostly because people kept attacking Anti-Matter when the leader specifically said DO NOT ATTACK ANTI-MATTER multiple times, but it was still pretty fun. We even succeeded! Sure would love to do it on Live.

That said, anecdotal evidence is not evidence, I have a bridge to sell you in Atlas Park, etc.

*Not literally.

Random drops are random, and a week's worth of trials is not enough to be a statistically significant sample. That is all. Sorry for being blunt, but it just irritates me how every week there's a thread or three saying drop rates must have changed because they haven't got anything good that week.

I've gotten a stupefying number of rare and very rare drops in the last two weeks. So I don't think anything changed. I'm just stealing your drops!

Strangely enough, the bane on my spouse's account has gotten 6 Very Rares, but only 2 Rare's as drops. About the same number of Very Rare's as all of our other characters combined.

Seeing a character be Fortune's Favorite, is interesting. Wish I could bottle it.

My KM Stalker has had the following last 10 runs

Rare
Rare
Uncommon
Common
Rare
Rare
Very Rare
Common
Uncommon
Rare

Got 3 rares today, one very rare. Even downgraded one of the rares into threads since I'm not near getting enough from trials and commons drop once in a blue moon...