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Stealth nerf on Cruel Enchant drops

b4gshrugsb4gshrugs Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 69
edited October 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
Congratulations on reducing the drop rate of Cruel Enchants in the new Skirmish event. I ran it for hours on end yesterday hoping to farm enough enchants to get at least one rank 10 enchant for my Guild's cleric, but with the stealth nerf to the drop rate that goal now seems to be impossible.

I don't usually gripe about stealth nerfs to PvE since I'm strictly PvP, but come on. I was averaging 10-15 rank 1's, 5-9 rank 2's, with a decent chance to get a rank 5 from the chest at the end (3-4 within a dozen runs). Now? 1-4 rank 1's, 1-3 rank 2's, and nothing but rank 3's in the chest.

What a joke.
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  • tinukedatinukeda Member Posts: 499 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    RNG is mean!

    /thread
  • b4gshrugsb4gshrugs Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 69
    edited October 2013
    As my own signature says, I'm crying because I find PvE incredibly boring. The reduction in Cruel Enchant drops by what seems to be 2/3 is a bit harsh. If my perception is clashing with reality, sucks for me. But unless we see the code, we won't know what's real.

    Until then, you can keep crying "RNG" and I can keep averaging out my drop numbers. : )

    Edit: Let's be honest. It wouldn't be a patch without someone crying "STEALTH NERF ZOMG" so I might as well make it. :P
  • aquillazxaquillazx Member Posts: 86
    edited October 2013
    Run it with your guild = 5 chances of a rank 5 + 5 players picking up anything that the rng gods are nice enough to drop.
  • diogene0diogene0 Member Posts: 2,894 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    No change for me so far.
  • melodywhrmelodywhr Member Posts: 4,220 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    in the last CTA, you could fight special monsters in the tower district that would drop the special gems so you could actually do that while you were waiting in queue for the skirmish. i ran through helms hold and didn't find any specials... anyone have better luck?
  • vorphiedvorphied Member Posts: 1,870 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    melodywhr wrote: »
    in the last CTA, you could fight special monsters in the tower district that would drop the special gems so you could actually do that while you were waiting in queue for the skirmish. i ran through helms hold and didn't find any specials... anyone have better luck?

    That was unintended, if I recall. They had accidentally added Savage Enchants to Tower District orcs' loot tables or something and later fixed it.
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  • sevdaisevdai Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    b4gshrugs wrote: »
    As my own signature says, I'm crying because I find PvE incredibly boring. The reduction in Cruel Enchant drops by what seems to be 2/3 is a bit harsh. If my perception is clashing with reality, sucks for me. But unless we see the code, we won't know what's real.

    Until then, you can keep crying "RNG" and I can keep averaging out my drop numbers. : )

    Edit: Let's be honest. It wouldn't be a patch without someone crying "STEALTH NERF ZOMG" so I might as well make it. :P


    Must really suck to be you, I seem to be getting more than I was last night. That's the fun thing about random drops, they are exactly that, random.
  • mrvincent1959mrvincent1959 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 740 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    TC is right. The drops have been much less relative to when the event started.
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  • pers3phonepers3phone Banned Users, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Hey Shrugs :)

    I think you're right. I have the same results. Those first runs we did the first day, I got quite a few enchants. This is not a "feeling" thing, I actually know exactly how many dropped, I mailed them to myself.
    I ran the event a few more times alone after that, and drops were much worse, like 30% or so from what it was in the beginning.

    I do admit though that overall I ran it too few times for this to be a proper statistic. It could still be just RNG.
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