Understanding drop tables for Well of Dragon dragons

jasjoh

Is it possible?

I've had 'Great Success' encounters yield Uncommon (green) drop sets and barely touched a dragon and received Epic (purple) drop sets. All of the epics I have had drop are Tier 1 and the only artifact I received a CON belt from a Rare (blue) drop set.

Do we know, definitively, what the drop mechanics are? Note, I'm not looking for theories or speculation - I'm looking for cold hard facts

cactusjackter

Great Success gives you a better chance of getting the better loot, but it's still based on RNG.

All successes have the same loot tables, they're just differently weighted as to what's more likely to drop.

vdeekv

Only facts I can provide are my own experiences:

• I can go full try hard with my warlock and get a 'great success' for all dragon encounters, which usually gets me at least one epic reward, I've only ever got t1 purples from those.
• I've received four artifact belts so far (char, con, black ice and today a dex belt) all from rare reward.
• Did a run today with my cleric for the first time, got encounter complete for all dragons and got four epic rewards (containing t1 purples).

rockstargfu

Fact: no one in my guild has gotten artifacts from dragons, each drop out of the like 15 were from normal encounter farming

arlequin13

Only artifact drop so far was from one of the mini boss encounters at :05 and 0:25

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atlas77777

Cloaks drop from the 5 and 25 events, while belts drop from dragons. If it's a green artifact it came from WoD, and if it's a blue artifact is came from a lockbox.

It's baffling that there will be 40 people fighting dragons every hour and less than 5 doing the events, since the events have much higher AD yield. If I'm taking a break or doing quests, it's during the dragons because the belts are worth 1/10th the cloaks.

trystanwolf

falkenblackhand wrote: »

I have noted that i have NEVER seen an artifact belt in my rewards page but i have to date received 7 of them. They just appear in my inventory it seems.?

I've gotten 2 belts and both times they were the fourth or fifth item in the reward list. I think you can only see 3 items unless you scroll the loot window. In any case, both times they weren't in the items shown so it's possible to miss them unless you scroll the loot window. I realized I gotten them because the first time you get an artifact, an info window pops up desscribing what an artifact is.

tellistorterra

atlas77777 wrote: »

Cloaks drop from the 5 and 25 events, while belts drop from dragons. If it's a green artifact it came from WoD, and if it's a blue artifact is came from a lockbox.

It's baffling that there will be 40 people fighting dragons every hour and less than 5 doing the events, since the events have much higher AD yield. If I'm taking a break or doing quests, it's during the dragons because the belts are worth 1/10th the cloaks.

well you have a chance to get other things like more coffers and some epic gear to salvage lol. but i see your point and will start doing those

kreatyve

atlas77777 wrote: »

Cloaks drop from the 5 and 25 events, while belts drop from dragons. If it's a green artifact it came from WoD, and if it's a blue artifact is came from a lockbox.

It's baffling that there will be 40 people fighting dragons every hour and less than 5 doing the events, since the events have much higher AD yield. If I'm taking a break or doing quests, it's during the dragons because the belts are worth 1/10th the cloaks.

Yes, this is correct. The major HE's that aren't heralds drop a lot more goodies than the dragons.

soonergm

Can someone please specify which HE'HE'S are the 5 and 25 events? And are they hard to beat solo? I ask about solo because after dragons everyone vanishes lol

kreatyve

soonergm wrote: »

Can someone please specify which HE'HE'S are the 5 and 25 events? And are they hard to beat solo? I ask about solo because after dragons everyone vanishes lol

Bone Rituals, Cover of Night, Cult Assembly, Enemies and Allies, and Raising Hell are the ones you want to look out for. If you are really well geared, you can probably solo or duo most of those except for Cover of Night. With Cover of Night's mechanics, only the best geared players can solo that due to the mechanics of it. There's this big giant to kill, but you can't kill him until you kill 12 of the wizards around him and put the things that they drop (motes of midnight, I think is what they are called) in the brazier in the middle of it. You generally need someone to kite the giant guy (he won't take any damage at all until all the motes are in the brazier) while someone DPS's down the wizards and their adds.

atlas77777

As a guild we pick a low population server and stay on that all day. Every 5, 25, and 45 past the hour everyone available meets at green and we do the events. It's been good for us and fun to play with a large group of guildies at once.