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prettycelt
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Anyone figured out if the black ice gloves only drop from the Epic Heroics (the big ones like Remorhaz or Black Ice Beholder), or can it be any heroic? Do they only drop in Icewind Pass or can it be Dwarven Valley?
I've seen precious little info on this and cannot piece together a pattern from those people I know who've already found them.
I've seen precious little info on this and cannot piece together a pattern from those people I know who've already found them.
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so if you get more then 10 ppl on a EPIC HE you will get crappy things or nothing or you must be very lucky
as I have experience you can do more then 20 or higher and dont get the bracers or the weapon
and I am still looking for those 2,now I have like 30 plus EPIC HE and still nothing only useless things
And if you cant get it from EPIC HE I doubt it that you can get them from non EPIC HE
from the first day till now no weapon or bracers, and doing everything the quest said
today-5/25/2014 still no weapon or bracers
today-5/27/2014 still no weapon or bracers
today-5/29/2014 still no weapon or bracers did I mention that I am GWF ,so I dont think is about dmg
today-5/31/2014 still no weapon or bracers
today-6/02/2014 still no weapon or bracers
today-6/04/2014 still no weapon or bracers this is getting ridiculous
today-6/08/2014 still no weapon or bracers
today-6/11/2014 finaly I got the bracers and from motherlode then remo spawn just after that in the same place while still fighting the enemies of motherlode ,but from remo nothing got troll loot
7/19/2014 in dwarvenvalley no weapon from beholder and it take more then 2 hours before you see beholder,if you are lucky
9/4/2014 the mainhand is a myth for me,I dont think it exist and beholder is on vacation
I've also gotten a Black Ice Main Hand Weapon from a mid-level HE in Dwarven Valley. So those can drop Epic gear, but it is rare.
After the last maintemance Drop rate has been nerfed, now u have 1%chance to get it and not guaranteed it''ll be for your class so make the maths 1/5 = 0,20% chance to get it for ur class since there'r 5 classes, same for artefacts drop but it is about 0,5%
Highly doubt any of that is actually true.
Where did you get the numbers from to reach this conclusion?
You are freaking out about numbers that dude pulled from thin air.In the 4 days since the last patch I somehow doubt he has run the thousands of epic HE's necessary to compile a meaningful % chance for epic drop rates.
with too many players at once, the rewards get screwed and spread out and less rewards. devs really need to change the rewards and put those in other form for quests and craftings, and add gauntlets on merchant.
i am concerning in next 1 or 2 years, when newer players to play Neverwinter and these zones will be almost a ghost-town with 2-3 players and they cant do epic encounters and feel incomplete.
In the end I think they intended for you to complete the set throughout playing for 35 or so days (the length of the campaign). I think when that time comes around most characters will not have a full black ice set.
From what I've observed the reward tiers for the major and epic encounters work on a timer (not a damage meter). When 20-40 people zerg an epic it cuts the amount of time that encounter takes considerably. Most people there will get lowest drops even if they were among the first there.
Just making maths and asking on zone to see how many ppl got it after maintenance.
there'r also a patch note for the drop rate nerf
Where do you see that? There is a note about quantity of items that drop from heroic Encounters but they are talking about the stuff on the ground to improve the lag.
That is what I am doing now and hope to get my TR dagger and Glove.
Ebony (Whisperknife)
Unfortunately, us rogues are almost never going to get it if CWs and GWFs keep zerg rushing the points. They have a lot more AoE damage than us. I got my main hand dagger before the patch and now after spamming countless encounters, I've never gotten any good drop unless I was there MUCH earlier than everyone else and actually dealt some damage alone.
They have a lot more single target damage too sadly (or possibly it is more apt to say they will do more damage to a single target than we can in the same time for those that want to be particular about it).
Yeah, I noticed that too. TR mainly is a single target DPS, which doesn't do well in HE compare to other classes and now a well geared GWF is able to due more damage on a single target than TR.
Ebony (Whisperknife)
Congrats on getting your main hand dagger.
Ebony (Whisperknife)
Thank you! But yet again, I was extremely lucky. I got it in a Prospector Attack encounter in Dwarven Valley where there we finished it with only a GF and a low-geared GWF. So there you go. I only got it because compared to the GF or the low-geared GWF I had better gear. If the GWF had equal gear to me, I would have definitely not gotten it. I can't believe how lucky I was that no one else decided to show up to help us. If they did they would've made the encounter easier but then I wouldn't have gotten my main hand dagger! This was before the stupid nerf that Cryptic did. I'm sure that if they did not do this, all of us would not be complaining on the forums trying to get their attention.
In my opinion, I propose that Cryptic either creates a system where you get tokens from these encounters if you perform a medium amount of damage or healing (tokens), or do it so that if you surpass a certain threshold of damage during the encounter and enter it during stage 1, then and only then you are allowed to participate in the chance to get the item. That would compltely resolve the problem of zerg rushes. Sure, people would still zerg rush, but at least this way, zerg rushes would not prevent almost everyone who isn't a GWF, CW, or DC from getting their items unless they have the perfect rank 10s, legendary enchants that are all about damage and not defence, max damage active bonus companions, etc.
It is a nice suggestion. For the time being, I guess I will have to just keep doing those HE and need lots of luck! :rolleyes:
Ebony (Whisperknife)
Ebony (Whisperknife)
Pretty sure it is. Most of the people I know who have multiples are CWFs. Because, you know, those are two classes that really needed the leg up in this game.