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I haven't played since Summer 2010, but I will say I have noticed a lot more temp powers than previously.
My purples seem to come at about the same rate (once in a blue moon), though.
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Originally Posted by Meowtch
Temp power drops make me very angry
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Temp Power drops should be moved to a vendor and taken out of the drop pool.
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THIS!!! Do it do it do it, Myrmy!!!! Make this suggestion and I'd bet a lot of peeps would support it!
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Originally Posted by Myrmydon
Temp Power drops should be moved to a vendor and taken out of the drop pool.
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I've gotten 11 purple IOs, 2 respec recipies and 5 catalysts since i22 went live.
The RNG giving me good drops right now is no different than the RNG giving you low drops. Soon enough I'll be back to getting crappy drops, and you will be back to thinking the drop rates are fine. It's just RNG.
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Temp powers still make me sad and angry, regardless...I like Myrmy's idea!
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Originally Posted by DreadShinobi
I've gotten 11 purple IOs, 2 respec recipies and 5 catalysts since i22 went live.
The RNG giving me good drops right now is no different than the RNG giving you low drops. Soon enough I'll be back to getting crappy drops, and you will be back to thinking the drop rates are fine. It's just RNG. |
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[QUOTE=DreadShinobi;4149343]I've gotten 11 purple IOs, 2 respec recipies and 5 catalysts since i22 went live.
the new issue went live less than a week ago, so what you are saying is, you are averaging 2 purple drops a day. Personally, I find that rather hard to believe.
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Well technically I got 3 of those purples the day before i22 went live, but that is still pretty much the same thing, I just said it the way I did for simplicity. And now consider the only thing I've been doing since i22 release is farming and running DA content, it really isn't that insane. |
Originally Posted by LordBoopea
the new issue went live less than a week ago, so what you are saying is, you are averaging 2 purple drops a day. Personally, I find that rather hard to believe. |
Whether you believe it or not is irrelevant, since even if I linked all the purples I got now, there is no way I could say I got them when I said I did.
It's actually quite typical of how I (and many other people) get purples. I will get a bunch within a few days then go months with getting barely any.
But the amount of stuff I got wasn't the point of my post, it just goes to show how the RNG can cause pretty much anything to happen.
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I would go for this as well
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Originally Posted by Myrmydon
Temp Power drops should be moved to a vendor and taken out of the drop pool.
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YMMV---IMO
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Tis true. I have noticed a marked drop in purps. Very frustrating. I wonder what the deal is
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Originally Posted by FuegoTrue
Tis true. I have noticed a marked drop in purps. Very frustrating. I wonder what the deal is
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The drop rates are not increasing since these items are Very Rare drops and aren't meant as anything more than an endgame goal for the powergamer or to keep your sub active while you grind. My only advice is run tons of level 50 content and they will drop eventually; I had a Grav Anchor drop while lackeyed in a paper mission and a Ragnarok drop in a Dilemma Diabolique. Good luck.
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I've had probably half a dozen purples drop from just doin' Incarnate Trials, which is actually an marked improvement to my normal drop rate.
It's the RNG. Pure and simple.
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Originally Posted by ReDorthy
Its seems to me that the drop rate on everything but temp powers has been lowered once again. I have looked at the math over and over. The numbers dont lie. It kinda has me confused. Why would they lower them yet again?
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At the very least you should post your full data on drops here for reference. What you've already posted isn't complete enough to be of any use at all in actual statistical analysis.
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I've been leveling lower level characters of late, and I can't say that I've seen a difference in drops for them.
While running iTrials, I've never had many drops.
I ran a 50 through the new DA content, and I had to clear my recipes several times throughout (deleting commons, temp powers and useless sets). By the end of it, I had a purple, and 20-odd rare/uncommon recipes. The last purple I had drop was sometime in 2010
Thank you, Champion.
Really, though, so far in this thread we do not have nearly enough evidence to conclude with any degree of confidence that anything has actually been changed.