Were purple recipe drops "adjusted"?

In the last month and a half I've noticed that I get mostly temp power drops, and in fact haven't had a purple recipe drop in at least 90 days. Before that, I was getting them every week or two. I complained about this today in a PUG and was told that the drop rates had been adjusted downward. Is that true? Even using Windfall, I'm not getting any decent drops.

Drops are controlled by the RNG gods.

Purple drops have always been finicky like that. Since their introduction, there have been people who get them like clockwork every week (or day), or who get several at a time, or who get none for a month, or who get none ever. So, one person not getting any purple drops is not nearly enough to conclude that the drop rate has changed. In fact, unless you collect a huge amount of data (as in, far more than a single player can generate), it would be very difficult to conclude that, and the only people I am aware of with access to such data are the devs, and they probably don't need to guess at whether the drop rate was changed.

I thought perhaps this had been announced somewhere, and I missed it.

Ah. I apologize for the slightly rant-ish nature of my previous post; people fundamentally misunderstanding probability is a pet peeve of mine, frequently triggered by people asserting that drops have changed, with far-from-sufficient evidence to make such a claim. Asking, non-rhetorically, if drop rates have been changed is entirely different.

And no, drops have not been changed, to the best of my knowledge.

I've actually gotten more purple drops in the last two months or so than ever before. Two in a span of about three missions not too long ago. Random is random and all that.

And I wouldn't worry too much about not getting them just because you used a Windfall. All that does is raise the chance for one from "squat" to "squat and a quarter."

I've gotten 3!

I got a rock

I had one drop during a trial. I can't remember if it was BAF or Lambda but I'm leaning toward the latter.

It was my only drop outside threads, too.

Another data point: Made 975 million inf (minus market fee) on the hecatomb and ragnarok purples that dropped for me today. Sold em for 1 inf each.

I've only gotten one purple recipe in all the time I've played.

No, I thought converters would allow you to turn one ATO into another.

If I'm remembering the details right, Catalysts only work on ATOs, Converters will work on ATOs and IOs.

Also, I got another purple last night, so... okay, it doesn't really prove anything. But they're still coming, and for me, significantly more frequently than they used to (which is still pretty infrequently).

I've gotten 3 in the last week or so, after a drought in which I got 0 for almost a year.

Randomness and all.

Yep, Purple drops, they are streaky. I dropped 9 in one week about 6 months ago. Then maybe 4 since, and none since December. Then 3 on one farm run last night, followed immediately by the same toon running on a different farm and getting total zilch.

My perceived reality:

1) Try to have more than 1 farmer and more than one farm per farmer. When I go back to a toon that has been idle a long time (at least a week off,) I seem to be luckier the first few runs. The three Purples last night were on a toon idle about 10 days on a farm idle much longer. The drech run that followed was on the farm he ran from those same 10 days ago.

2) Don't run the same farm over and over. I really seem to see a decline in ALL drop goodness when I do this (runs get to be all generic and yellow recipies and no rare salvage), and another NCSoft product has a stated anti-farming policy of giving declining returns for repeating the same missions, or sweeping the same zones too often, on any given Alt., anywhere. CoX has never, to the best of my knowledge, done that openly on anything but TF's and trials, but that does not mean it is not happening.

3) Play your 50's a lot. I mean a whole lot. All my personal friends whose reports I can trust, that have few if any Purple drops, have alt-itis bad, and don't play their 50's nearly as much as they think they do. Try playing your level 50's and only your level 50's for one week, every day, 4-8 hours a day, like I do sometimes, and your Purple droughts Will be shortened.

The above stratigies may or may not be actually doing me any good but it feels like it works .

Personally I think there ought to be a streak breaker that forces a purple drop of some sort for any toon with 10-15,000 qualified defeats, and resets on any purple drop.

Jak

Hand to the sky, this is the truth. I got 3 yesterday. 2 Grav Anchors and a Coercive. Since I am working on 2 Doms for my roster this is very good timing indeed! I ran a lot of content yesterday, Lam, Keyes, UG, ITF, Synapse, Sis Psyche, another LAM and a BAF. May have left something out, trying to remember. I think the first dropped on the UG and two on the ITF. All dropped for the same character, that I ran all yesterday.

edit, TPN was what I left out! Missed getting a MoM, but ah well.