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Recipe and Shard Drop oddness.

Brawlnstein

By Brawlnstein,
Posted on: 2011-09-24 06:56 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

Posted

Started noticing some possible oddness running solo missions last night and it got me thinking of the old map related drops bug or something along those lines.

After a few runs on the old "Demon Farm" map in Peregrine Island I noticed I was getting 5 Incarnate Shards, 3 costume pieces, 3 temporary powers and a small set of repeating recipes from the Thunderstrike, Crushing Impact, Obliteration and Undermined Defenses sets. Apologies for the vagueness as I didn't start tracking any data till about the 5th or 6th runs.

Running hero stats I saw an average of 400 mobs per run. I ran the map about 10 times and got 50 incarnate shards and saw the above recipes nearly every single run barring one where I got almost no recipes.

I have /auctionhouse so I started noticing that the set recipes I was popping on to WW out front of the mission between runs were the same. Common recipes seemed normally random tho.

I fiddled with the settings a bit from +0/x8 no Bosses to +3/x8 bosses for a few more runs, about 16 total. I've gotten 6 Obliteration: Acc/Rech in those last 6 runs. Also, all 16 runs and not a single purple! Hero stats says that is around 5400 mobs (3438 to be exact plus or minus about 2000 from the first 5 runs) with no purple, boo!

Feh maybe it was just RNG but... any other folks seeing weird stuff?
(I've got some logs and Screenshots if it'll help.)

 

Posted

Ha, too true!

I just ran one again to see if it was still happening, 3 temp powers, undermined defenses, etc etc. I'm going to flood the market on these select few recipes!

Edit: Ahh yes, forgot to mention it is also giving a rather fixed set of Salvage too, including 3 Essence of the Furies per run. Flood away man!

Edit2: Boo, after 20 runs got a purple. If that part was just bad luck, then maybe the rest has been extreme luck? Really though, 19 Undermined Defenses in a row... lol! (FYI: Ragnarok: Chance for Knockdown) If it's just some general chance in purple drops I guess we'll see that on market, false alarm?