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Is the low drop rate for the ultimate stones just a simple bug?
adinosii
Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 4,294 Arc User
As those of you who run ToNG regularly know, the drop rate of the ultimate enchanting stones is rather disappointing - my estimate is around 1% - a rate which I just consider demotivating. Getting a single character back to BiS will take years of grinding - not fun.
However, I wonder if this low droprate is maybe just a bug....and here is why:
When you kill the other bosses (Orcus and Withers), you frequently find some loot on the ground afterwards - say, maybe half of the time you find an IL480 armor piece, an enchanting stone or a (worthless/useless) blue insignia there.
When you kill Ras Nsi, he does not drop loot on the ground. Might it perhaps be possible that Ras Nsi is actually supposed to occasionally drop loot (including an ultimate stone), but you don't get it because he gets swept off the platform ?
Just wondering....there has to be some reasonable explanation for the drop rate I am seeing.
However, I wonder if this low droprate is maybe just a bug....and here is why:
When you kill the other bosses (Orcus and Withers), you frequently find some loot on the ground afterwards - say, maybe half of the time you find an IL480 armor piece, an enchanting stone or a (worthless/useless) blue insignia there.
When you kill Ras Nsi, he does not drop loot on the ground. Might it perhaps be possible that Ras Nsi is actually supposed to occasionally drop loot (including an ultimate stone), but you don't get it because he gets swept off the platform ?
Just wondering....there has to be some reasonable explanation for the drop rate I am seeing.
Hoping for improvements...
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And Ras Ni does drop refinment and salvage sometimes. But it would be cool to introduce the stones as boss drop.
Pls fix that HAMSTER as soon as possible.
Assuming some people open 1 chest, others two, that's reasonably consistent with a 1% drop rate from the chests.
The intention seems to be that we do 8 runs per week - you can make 8 keys through the Chult campaign per week, and that way you will also max out your 400 Seals of the Brave per week.
That's 400 runs per year, opening 800 chests - and with a 1% drop rate you could expect an average of 8 stones per year.
Born of Black Wind: SW Level 80
BIS in one day. You poor people go invest that little amount of mmmh... 2000 zen x 90