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Problem obtaining Mod8 Elemental MH/OH (Motes)

zeusomzeusom Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 810 Arc User
in NeverwinterPreview - Feedback/General Discussion
The new elemental MH/OH's (water, earth, wind, fire) on PTR require 100 motes from heroic encounters in the proper zones. But I did 8 heroic encounters in water zone and did not get a single mote drop. I was thinking with 100 HR being required the drop rate on motes would be 1 per HE not 10% or 0% chance or whatever it is. Either is bugged or low drop rate. I hope when it goes live they do not expect people to complete more than 100 HE! Some farming grind is fine but 100 with RNG chance is some like some kind of punishment!
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  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    Yikes.

    Sounds like a repeat of various EE "collect the macguffins" vigilance tasks where the drop rates were distressingly low. Cryptic's solution to all of these was to increase the macguffin drop rate while simultaneously increasing the number of macguffins needed, with a net result of making the quests marginally easier to complete.

    I know these weapons aren't intended to be "easy" to obtain (though "easier" than either of Twisted or SH sets for the solo player), but how many HEs are we expected to run? And that's per character, and not very in keeping with the idea of trying to make the game less punishing for alts.
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  • zeusomzeusom Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 810 Arc User
    Yea, we cannot do preview MH/OH feedback reporting on the set bonuses since we cannot farm them in any reasonable time. Wish they would put these on the Store/Preview tab like did for older artifact weapon sets.
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  • silverkeltsilverkelt Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 4,235 Arc User
    gawd.. I hope they just make strongholds available at a lower level instead.

    I would shoot myself if I have to farm 1000 hes times 4-5 times to get new weapons.. I just cant do that. What a boring terrible implantation.


  • pando83pando83 Member Posts: 2,564 Arc User
    Typical NW implementation.

    Ungodly level of RNG-based farming.
    I'm not even surprised.
  • jaotutjaotut Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 576 Arc User
    Maybe they're going to add some item in zen store to speed up this progress, so this long boring and frustrating grind would make sense.
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  • urabaskurabask Member Posts: 2,923 Arc User
    Has anyone actually gotten a mote from an HE even?
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  • urabaskurabask Member Posts: 2,923 Arc User
    metalldjt said:

    100 motes and i heard only the Big HEs are dropping motes, imagine that you need 100 of them and the encounter appear lets say every 15 minute..
    so you have to spend 150 minutes of play time to get them , 2 hours, only that if the encoutner appears every 1 hour, think about it...

    there's 24hours = 24 motes a day, but since no one plays 24hrs , lets assume 7hrs = 7 motes , in 15 days you have your weapons and lost sight of real world.

    I've done the 10 man HEs and they don't drop them. So unless it's the 15 man HEs...

    Pretty sure no one has gotten a mote to drop yet and they're just making assumptions.
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  • dabiksdabiks Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    urabask said:

    metalldjt said:

    100 motes and i heard only the Big HEs are dropping motes, imagine that you need 100 of them and the encounter appear lets say every 15 minute..
    so you have to spend 150 minutes of play time to get them , 2 hours, only that if the encoutner appears every 1 hour, think about it...

    there's 24hours = 24 motes a day, but since no one plays 24hrs , lets assume 7hrs = 7 motes , in 15 days you have your weapons and lost sight of real world.

    I've done the 10 man HEs and they don't drop them. So unless it's the 15 man HEs...

    Pretty sure no one has gotten a mote to drop yet and they're just making assumptions.
    i got one from feeding the fire HE in the fiery pit, and its not a 100% chance drop either.
  • freshourfreshour Member Posts: 623 Arc User
    Just did 20 minor he's... not a single one. AWESOME
  • freshourfreshour Member Posts: 623 Arc User
    FYI - someone needs to figure out what zone drops the most.. So we can all do that then just trade for the one we want.
  • juttetsujuttetsu Member Posts: 33 Arc User
    Did 10 HE and not a single mote drop. I gave up and went on to do other things. I hope they see thus and address it.
  • kalit00kalit00 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    I think that so far no one has gotten even one of these motes(correct me if I'm wrong)... maybe it's a problem from the game has anyone tried to send a report?
  • coolgeek357coolgeek357 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 91 Arc User
    edited November 2015
    Soloed a 5 man HE and didn't get one.
  • coldfire473coldfire473 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 16 Arc User
    kalit00 said:

    I think that so far no one has gotten even one of these motes(correct me if I'm wrong)... maybe it's a problem from the game has anyone tried to send a report?

    The motes are a very rare drop off the smaller HEs (about 5-10%, but they're pretty easily soloable) and ALWAYS drop off the major HE in the zones. With zone jumping and people tracking the times (this was happening consistently in the water zone two weekends ago) you can get 15-20 motes per hour. I just upgraded my water orb to gold earlier today.
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