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Please change the Alabaster and Zok drop rates back
sometimesyoulose
Member Posts: 18 Arc User
you changed the drop rate over 4 weeks ago, since then, i have gotten no alabaster from MEs, at all. i have gotten no item level 1000 gear or artifacts, nothing good at all from Zok, just pieces of IL 950 gear, which he wasnt dropping before that patch from over 4 weeks ago and i get from the MEs.
i am playing 6 characters through 3 MEs everyday, trying to get alabaster and 1000 level gear. before this rate change, i had completed the alabaster set on 2 (playing everyday since i finished UM campaign), got an alabaster piece of 2 others and had gotten 4 1000 IL gear from Zok (2 were the same piece), an umbrax pet and an arturia music box. that ended over 4 weeks ago and i have gotten nothing since then. i thought finally you guys got smart, then you changed the rates and i realized i was wrong. it wasnt that they were dropping so much before, but they would drop every now and then.
this is why i stopped spending money some time ago on vip and keys. its just a waste. spending hundreds of dollars and getting nothing. 10 characters, no legendary mount, the only legendary companions, i upgraded. ive been playing for years.
i am also not going to be doing the summer festival this year either. 4 years, 10 characters getting the ticket ball every day, doing the kicking parties, thousands of mithral tickets... and... NOTHING. 100s of hours wasted.
THIS is why games lose players, this is why games struggle to make money. insane, near impossible drop rates.
you bottle neck the zen exchange and raise the price. you get rid of salvage and limit accounts to 100k refined ad a day, all to limit players and try to get them to spend money. this is the wrong thing to do. you want to make money, stop with the insane drop rates. i would spend money if i could ever get anything from a lockbox worth having. but in over 2000 keys over the years, the only legendary thing i have gotten is a brilliant diamond.
unless you think its good for a player to spend hundreds of dollars on a game and get nothing and they just feel used.
people do not like wasting money and most dont like to waste time for nothing.
i am not even going to try to get the other 4 characters through undermountain. whats the point? boons? boons arent that great now.
i am playing 6 characters through 3 MEs everyday, trying to get alabaster and 1000 level gear. before this rate change, i had completed the alabaster set on 2 (playing everyday since i finished UM campaign), got an alabaster piece of 2 others and had gotten 4 1000 IL gear from Zok (2 were the same piece), an umbrax pet and an arturia music box. that ended over 4 weeks ago and i have gotten nothing since then. i thought finally you guys got smart, then you changed the rates and i realized i was wrong. it wasnt that they were dropping so much before, but they would drop every now and then.
this is why i stopped spending money some time ago on vip and keys. its just a waste. spending hundreds of dollars and getting nothing. 10 characters, no legendary mount, the only legendary companions, i upgraded. ive been playing for years.
i am also not going to be doing the summer festival this year either. 4 years, 10 characters getting the ticket ball every day, doing the kicking parties, thousands of mithral tickets... and... NOTHING. 100s of hours wasted.
THIS is why games lose players, this is why games struggle to make money. insane, near impossible drop rates.
you bottle neck the zen exchange and raise the price. you get rid of salvage and limit accounts to 100k refined ad a day, all to limit players and try to get them to spend money. this is the wrong thing to do. you want to make money, stop with the insane drop rates. i would spend money if i could ever get anything from a lockbox worth having. but in over 2000 keys over the years, the only legendary thing i have gotten is a brilliant diamond.
unless you think its good for a player to spend hundreds of dollars on a game and get nothing and they just feel used.
people do not like wasting money and most dont like to waste time for nothing.
i am not even going to try to get the other 4 characters through undermountain. whats the point? boons? boons arent that great now.
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I currently have a Paladin, Warlock and Wizard with a full Alabaster Weapons set, some of them got their set together within the first daily ME runs rather recently (the Wizard), while my Fighter is stuck with a mix of Ebonized/Prized weapons for weeks now.
And the same goes for lockboxes, i think i got my first legendary nearly 2 years ago, and after that not even one single epic drop for a very looong time.
As suggested by others, NWO should have some kind of "streak breaker", for example after running xy MEs the Alabaster Weapon drop should be guaranteed. And in case of lockboxes, it could be a guaranteed (but bound to account) item from the first reward bracket after opening xy lockboxes.
Belive me or not - but while we doing a dungeon runs we have a new joke.
We are happy when we dont get any drop form bosses.
Cos when when we do - we in fact fell offended/humiliated with it.
So its much better to be offended once - opening a last box than 4 times in a row in 30 minutes (or so)
But best part is - a friend of mine got his first legendary mount recently form a VIP key.
It was that horrible looking demonic cart from undermountian lockbox.
He is old timer so he still remember legendary mounts form old days - worth 30KK AD and making a real dfference.
So when he imidietly sold that terrible thing he just got 4kk+ AD
And he said - after so many years - I fell stupid and humiliated with my "great luck" I can't even buy myself 2 top radiants for my lucky drop.
And that pretty much sums its all up.
This game is not rewarding a player in any way - and even if it does its still humiliating, and far below expetations. Legendary mount drop is nice only when you are new to the game and dont even realise how much AD you need for your toon....
Now if the mechanism for Watcher could be fixed ... it's just insulting as is.
As for Zok, I have gotten a decent drop (Arcturia's Music box) once....the rest is basically just rAD and a useless potion.
And yeah, I miss the days when we had a real chance of occasionally getting some valuable, unbound gear from dungeons.
That's what i'm currently doing, i gave the newer ones a 30 daily ViP lockbox keys chance, but ended up with my inventory being overflowing with worthless junk. I'd wish they would remove this new design again, but i guess it's working out in their favour, so they'll probably keep producing more and more of them...
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned, last week or so, Rage and Empowered runs with 1 rune are almost exclusively giving blue drops now. The one time I've run 3 runes, got purple again. Not conclusive but it does seem consistently blue these days.
What they only makes players with less luck angry.
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i think i am done with doing MEs for awhile, this is pathetic. there is a reason you give rewards, to keep players coming back and to keep them happy and playing. but this is taking up all my time and i cannot do anything else. freaking burning me out all together.
have had time to do other things in the game for the same reward of no alabaster and nothing from zok.
Anyway, the Mountaineer Weapon set is in the Trade Bars Store now, but i'm not going to waste 160 bars per character on them, at this point i'll rather wait for the next fresh weapon set in the seals vendor and keep on playing with whatever HAMSTER i get from RNG...
i did legacy campaigns on 6 characters and managed to get at least 1 boon on each. did quite a few protection order runs too.
amazing i get the same alabaster and zok drops when i dont do them, as when i did, but have time to get some other things done.
... and it looks like it's working, got the missing OH on two characters with their first daily ME run.
Anyway, have to wait and see if i'll get the MH with my Cleric in the next daily runs.
Good grief, why couldn't they just change this HAMSTER to a straight forward "if player has not MH or OH Alabaster weapon after xy ME runs, then generate missing MH or OH weapon drop. end of line." thing...