% chance for Ultimate Enchanting Stone to drop?

dragonsbane3

Well, I just finished my 32nd ToNG since the mod went live. I have not and no one that was in my groups have gotten an Ultimate to drop. So that is 5 people x 32 runs x 2 chests at the end = 320 chances for it to drop and nothing so far..... kinda lame or I have the worst RNG ever.

mathayis

At the current drop chances they really are forcing people to buy them from the AH. At the current AH prices of 1-1.1 mil AD each you are looking at 81-89.1 mil AD for your 27 reg enchants + Pres/Coal wards+ Ultimate Potency..... It really makes alternate ways of getting AD look more appealing every day so sad they really turned it all into a money grab.

tom

i feel with u ... got my first drop after 47 runs

dragonsbane3

update.... just finished run 48 and still not a single HAMSTER Ultimate drop.

ltgamesttv

The drop rates/requirements for ultimate enchanting stones and rank 14s is essentially robbery locked behind zen keys and horrendous RNG. This MUST be fixed if Cryptic listens to it's player base at all. This is apology worthy and has to be addressed for the good of the game if the management here cares at all.

isaintify1

The drop rate of the ultimate is said to be "5%".

marv700

isaintify1 said:

The drop rate of the ultimate is said to be "5%".

I don't believe that. I think it's closer to 1%. Did over 47 runs opening both chests and 0 drops.

adinosii

Well, here is something I posted in a different thread yesterday:

adinosii said:

I have been running ToNG primarily for the Seals of the Brave to buy gear for my main and alts. Looking at my purchases, I see I have gotten around 4600 seals in total from my runs. Now, some of my runs are incomplete (a bad group that gives up, or maybe I joined a group that was having problems at last boss), so it's hard to say exactly how many runs that involves, but I have opened around 90 chests, which is what really matters.

Assuming that other group members open either one or two chests in a similar ratio, that's around 450 chests opened.....and only 2 people ever reported getting a stone. Of course, someone may have gotten a stone without mentioning it, so let's assume 4-5 stones might actually have dropped.

THAT'S A DROP RATE OF AROUND 1%

Now, I would need around 100 stones just for my main to get to BIS (I currently have a mix of R12s and R13s).

I can make 8 keys per week, and let's say I do 20 ToNG runs per week - that's 28 chests per week - and with a 1% drop rate per chest, it would mean I need almost 7 years to get the stones I need, just for my main .... and I have alts of every single class.

To me that's not a "long-term" goal - that's an insultingly long, and utterly demotivating scenario.

And yea....three more ToNG runs last night ... and no stone for me or anyone else in the group.

Why am I bothering? I took a year-long break from the game after the Mod 6 fiasco ... is another break coming up?