Drop failed.

semanphora

It's been a long time since I played Neverwinter, I always see my friends dropping things, but with me it's rare, and when I dropped the item it was worth 200k.

I read in a note from the developers who got the problem of a Boss that did not give correct drop in case of high lag, it makes me wonder if my case is not just bad luck, but bad connection.

I use Wi-Fi, my latency is high and I suffer in DGs, but I can play, but what if this problem is slowing me down a lot in evolution?

I tried to refine a stone R10 to R11, had a 5% chance of success, I used an incredible 135 Ward ... Buying coalescent would be cheaper. With 10% already used 70 Ward ...


There's something wrong...

miasmat

The issue with the boss that didn't drop loot had to do with the SERVER running at a low frame rate, NOT from a show CONNECTION between client and server. Do you can still play the game from your tent on Mount Everest with pigeons carrying each network packet to/from the server without missing any loot drops, but if the server machine is getting overworked right around when THAT boss died, it wouldn't go through all the right state changes to generate the loot rewards and you'd get nothing.
The item upgrade chance is computed entirely on the server atomicly, so it's not subject to low server frame rate or network connection speed variations. Sometimes you're just not praying hard enough to RNGesus.

omegarealities

The chances are not cumulative. Each and every time it is a 5% chance. I've personally used 20 preservation wards for a 25% chance, then turned around and got a hit on a 5% chance with 3 wards.

ecrana

I've used 140 on a 5% and 3 on a 5%. Its random. Sometimes you're lucky. Sometimes the gods hate you. Oddly enough, the game lets you know up front what you're in for with it's title alone. NEVERWIN-ter

lowjohn

semanphora#2467 said:

I tried to refine a stone R10 to R11, had a 5% chance of success, I used an incredible 135 Ward ... Buying coalescent would be cheaper. With 10% already used 70 Ward ...

That one time, a Coal would have been cheaper, yes.

Failing a 5% task 135 times in a row is a 0.098% chance - about one in ten thousand. That's rare, but also means that for every 10,000 attempts at a R10->R11 upgrade, we would expect SOMEONE to take 135 tries. That someone just happened to be you, that day.