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5 bracers...0 orbs

frodnikkfrodnikk Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 20 Arc User
edited July 2014 in PvE Discussion
The new contribution system is ****ing random at epic encounters both in icewind dale and dwarven valley and unfair for people with not super gear score as they are excluded from good rewards cause of their lack to do more dmg , than the good geared ones..
Does anyone knows if main hand drops from major too encounters not only from the 4 big ones?
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  • degraafinationdegraafination Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I've heard (but cannot confirm) that the Beholder has a better chance to drop the Main Hand.

    Anyone else?
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  • silverquicksilverquick Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Well I got my Orb of Black Ice at the Rescue the Prospectors in Icewind Pass today, (That's the Wraith one).

    So they do seem to drop in the Medium Encounters as well.
  • devaneiodevaneio Member Posts: 142 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Better than getting a BOP from another class.
  • frishterfrishter Member Posts: 3,522 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    degraafination wrote: »
    I've heard (but cannot confirm) that the Beholder has a better chance to drop the Main Hand.

    Anyone else?

    Likely a rumour from a limited amount of results.

    On preview I got my orb from a major in dwarven valley.
  • orangefireeorangefiree Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,148 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    So the mainhand drops in Icewind Pass too? I got mine from the Beholder in Dwarven Valley. Does anyone know if the bracers can drop in Dwarven Valley or just Icewind Pass?
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  • kurisantonkurisanton Member Posts: 64
    edited May 2014
    Ive fought a lot of the epic encounters and the only main hand Ive gotten (the cleric one when Im a GF go figure) dropped from the beholder in dwarven valley. When my guild group and I fought it one of our gwfs died and had to run back. He did not get as good of rewards at the rest of us. So I dont think its a damage % done that effects your rewards (since I do very low damage as a prot GF) its how long youre there and how well you do
  • silverquicksilverquick Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I'm pretty sure it does,

    I know during preview people were getting the Bracers from the Black Ice Beholder there. I've gotten my Bracers from the Remorhaz and then of course the Orb at Rescue the Prospectors.

    I know someone else who got the Orb of the Elk Tribe from one of the Icewind Pass medium encounters as well.
  • komodoonekomodoone Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 64
    edited May 2014
    When you see one of the bigger HEs, You just jump in and fight right?

    All I ever get is Enchantments or Crafting Components. Is there anything else i should do?
  • mehguy138mehguy138 Member Posts: 1,803 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I've got bracers from Remorhaz after 7-10 tries, my friend has got an offhand (yes, offhand) from Beholder 1st try.
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  • zomdzomd Member Posts: 166 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Yeah, I'm not sure I'm a fan of the contribution system. Coming in late often means it's not worth coming in at all and people already well geared could potentially dominate the contribution rewards. I've been in some Remo fights where it seems like there was hardly any time for me to get real dps in. It overly rewards classes with spikey dps.

    The longer the fight lasts, the more likely it is that I get the higher tier rewards. I always hope for a trickle of players coming into an event. So far I've got two bracers (no main hand) and elk tribe stuff for the wrong classes,

    Anyone know if the elk tribes drops being cross class is working as intended?

    Edit: Oh and one other comment as an HR. Since I'm specc'd range, I do the most damage at max range (which would allow me my most contribution), but I can't because of the phasing system. The more people in the fight, the closer I have to be to even see and target the boss. This just compounds the above problem of fights not lasting long enough to get good dps in.
  • brush4toiletbrush4toilet Member Posts: 94 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    so you're saying that as a DC, i won't be able to have bracers? beh so sad to hear it, this game need something else than dps!
  • frishterfrishter Member Posts: 3,522 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    brush4toilet wrote: »
    so you're saying that as a DC, i won't be able to have bracers? beh so sad to hear it, this game need something else than dps!

    I got it on my dc on my first epic. Btw it also takes into account the healing done.
  • ndasahndasah Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I got only the Orb, but 4 times. It dropped 2 times from Prospector and 2 Times from Beholder. I've heard as well, that the main Hand only Drops in those two Encounter.
  • jintortlejintortle Member Posts: 655 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I have 2 toons the zone. Both have the Bracers.

    My TR also got a BOP Cleric Weapon.

    My HR got a Bow which is not used in Black Ice crafting. It is a bit better damage then my current weapon but would break a set and take my GS down 300.
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  • wixxgs1chtwixxgs1cht Member Posts: 430 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    First: I got my MH from the Beholder twice in one day. Not a single time from any other HE. Same applies for most of my guildies so the Beholder really might be your best bet!

    Anyways, I doubt that the reward is determined by your healing/damage done. Two scenarios why: A friend and me were doing the raider HE with only 2 further players around. I had ACT running so I had track of DPS/Total Damage and Highest Spike damage. Both of us were ahead of the other participants in all aspects yet got an uncommon reward. Unfortunately I don't know about the reward of the other two guys. Also we were there first and during the entire battle. Second scenario: I was doing the Beholder one with some 10-15 guys fighting it alongside. I came in somewhat late (80-ish percent HP left) and had the nice invis Beholder bug. I died for good at around 20% and called it, watching the fight from my corpse. I had no ACT running but I'm sure in the total time the Beholder was up I got out-damaged by at least 80% of the players. Still, I received my second BI Mainhand.
  • zomdzomd Member Posts: 166 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    wixxgs1cht wrote: »
    First: I got my MH from the Beholder twice in one day. Not a single time from any other HE. Same applies for most of my guildies so the Beholder really might be your best bet!

    Anyways, I doubt that the reward is determined by your healing/damage done. Two scenarios why: A friend and me were doing the raider HE with only 2 further players around. I had ACT running so I had track of DPS/Total Damage and Highest Spike damage. Both of us were ahead of the other participants in all aspects yet got an uncommon reward. Unfortunately I don't know about the reward of the other two guys. Also we were there first and during the entire battle. Second scenario: I was doing the Beholder one with some 10-15 guys fighting it alongside. I came in somewhat late (80-ish percent HP left) and had the nice invis Beholder bug. I died for good at around 20% and called it, watching the fight from my corpse. I had no ACT running but I'm sure in the total time the Beholder was up I got out-damaged by at least 80% of the players. Still, I received my second BI Mainhand.

    That's interesting. My personal experience has seemed consistent with what I described above. When I'd get 25 raw black ice for instance it's when I'm late to the encounter or I recieved epics when the fights were slower and I had more time for dps.

    I have heard (like said above) it keeps track of healing and damage taken as well to determine level of participation, but since I'm dps I'm supposed to avoid damage. Maybe I'll purposely take some more during fights.

    How does ACT grab combat info from other players btw? Back when I used to raid in WoW--which supported plugins--damage reports could be unreliable unless we were syncing. Plus with the way players/enemies disappear it may not grab everyone.
  • wixxgs1chtwixxgs1cht Member Posts: 430 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I have no idea on how reliable it is and how exactly the data is streamed, sorry :-/ But it seems to work OK, I'd say. There were no instances that caught my attention.
  • iambecks1iambecks1 Member Posts: 4,044 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    silverquick wrote: »
    Well I got my Orb of Black Ice at the Rescue the Prospectors in Icewind Pass today

    Yeah I got the orb at Rescue the Prospectors in IWP , I got the gloves from Wild bear roundup in IWP , not had much luck at the mid level HE's so far ,just uncommon and rare rewards , the 6-10 man HE's seem to give the better chance at black ice gear , still having a blast doing the HE's though .
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  • kiralynkiralyn Member Posts: 1,440 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    jintortle wrote: »
    My HR got a Bow which is not used in Black Ice crafting. It is a bit better damage then my current weapon

    Whereas my GWF got a BoE (yay!) non-Ice TR offhand mace.... which is weaker than my TR's lair-quality Dread Ring weapons. Hmm.
  • kiralynkiralyn Member Posts: 1,440 Arc User
    edited May 2014
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  • silverquicksilverquick Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    zomd wrote: »
    Anyone know if the elk tribes drops being cross class is working as intended?

    Well being that they're Bind on Pickup... anything that's dropping the wrong class items on the wrong characters is pretty pointless. So MUST be a bug.

    If they were Bind on Equip then you could sell them,

    So this one definitely needs to be fixed on one side of the ball or the other.
  • devocutdevocut Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    degraafination wrote: »
    I've heard (but cannot confirm) that the Beholder has a better chance to drop the Main Hand.

    Anyone else?

    I feel bad for getting the Orb since I never intended to work on the Black Ice Armor. Basically, I showed up at the Beholder spawn, spammed Ray of Enfeeblement and Magic Missile on it, got one shotted after it disappeared, someone rezzed me, then spammed a few more ROE when it reappeared.

    Funny thing is the beholder disappeared again about half dead and people were just standing around, then the “Epic encounter complete” message popped up….and then I received a Black Ice Orb. If I could sell it to one of you I would. I think I’ll just keep it in the bank and maybe work on it later.
  • pipe2054pipe2054 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I find it sometimes very, but very difficult to get it what you are or what you need is just as luck :(
  • pointsmanpointsman Member Posts: 2,327 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I think there are a lot of people under the mistaken impression that gloves/bracers and mainhands only drop from epic encounters. That is not true. They also drop from the major (3-5 person) encounters.
  • imaginaerum1imaginaerum1 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 378 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    pointsman wrote: »
    I think there are a lot of people under the mistaken impression that gloves/bracers and mainhands only drop from epic encounters. That is not true. They also drop from the major (3-5 person) encounters.

    Absolutely correct.

    I got my gloves from the corrupt wolf pack, after soloing the first half of it because nobody else bothered to show up. Died twice in the process, and well worth it.
    I've found the main hand three times so far, twice in the Pass and once in the Dwarven Valley. None of them were from Epic HEs. The one in the Pass where you have to keep the prospectors alive dropped it twice a couple of weeks apart, and a random rescue the caged prospectors from the undead one in the Valley gave me the other one.
  • galaxy1045galaxy1045 Member Posts: 95 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Well I got my Orb of Black Ice at the "Rescue the Prospectors" in Icewind Pass.

    "Great Success" contributions only, meaning: do lots of stuff during the encounter.
  • galaxy1045galaxy1045 Member Posts: 95 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    silverquick wrote: »
    Well being that they're Bind on Pickup... anything that's dropping the wrong class items on the wrong characters is pretty pointless. So MUST be a bug.

    If they were Bind on Equip then you could sell them,

    So this one definitely needs to be fixed on one side of the ball or the other.
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  • rashylewizzrashylewizz Member Posts: 4,265 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2014
    Beholder is a good one for the mainhand
  • sugarliessugarlies Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 99
    edited July 2014
    I'd trade you a MH for bracers if I could :(
  • zshikarazshikara Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 796 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I did the black ice beholder for the first time the other day. It was epic. I look forward to grinding my face into him so I can get phat lewtz.
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