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Fomorian Fabled Shield drop rate?

kingjon555kingjon555 Member Posts: 46
edited February 2014 in PvE Discussion
I would assume that all the fomorian offhand items have similar drop rates, but seriously, either my luck is ridiculously terrible or the shield has a very low drop rate.

I've been running MC 2/3 for two weeks now, averaging at least 2-3 times per day, so about 30-35 times, and I've seen....

1x Hilt
1x Riser
2x Talisman
2x Blades
4x Parrying blade
2x sword knot
1x Icon

That's just ridiculous. Has anyone else experienced this, or do I just have the worst luck in all of Neverwinter?
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  • tang56tang56 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Low enough that I've not got it on my GF. Seen it drop, but I wasn't on GF at the time, I think the BoP items from VT and MC should be made BoA really. Annoying having to salvage it when I know one of my alts could use it.
    RIP Neverwinter 26/06/2014
  • kingjon555kingjon555 Member Posts: 46
    edited February 2014
    If the rate of the shield is really that low, that's completely unfair to GFs; as if we aren't useless enough already...
  • imsmithyimsmithy Member Posts: 1,378 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I am pretty sure that I have seen the first boss drop the Shield two times in all the runs I have done but I had awful luck with the crafting fragments like the riser and stuff , it took me ages to get just two components and I ended up having to buy the third so you have had the good luck in my eyes xD hope you get your shield soon though.
  • kingjon555kingjon555 Member Posts: 46
    edited February 2014
    I really couldn't care any less about the fragments, I've got more than enough ways of making 300k AD to buy my pieces. Hell, even if it was 2m I could pull it off. I've spent 20+ hours in MC, I easily could have raised 2mill+ in that time to buy the shield if it were BoE.

    Thanks for the wishes of luck.
  • andferne3andferne3 Member, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 104 Bounty Hunter
    edited February 2014
    In my process of getting my Rogue off-hand, which took 58 runs to finally get. I saw the Shield drop 3-4 times during that.
  • kurisantonkurisanton Member Posts: 64
    edited February 2014
    The main problem with the drop rate is not the drop rate of the shield but the fact that the bosses also drop blues. Whoever thought that was a good idea deserves the ire of the community because it just makes us waste our time on runs. Ive run MC probably well over 200 times by now always doing at least 2/3 and Ive seen the shield maybe 5 times (luckily I got it on my GF not to long ago). However Ive seen the gwf, wizard, and cleric offhands drop even less although I only do 3/3 during delves. So far the rogue offhand has dropped the most but even then it would probably only be in the teens

    That said, the drop rate for all the items is pretty terrible but IMO its mostly because of the random blues the bosses drop.
  • tang56tang56 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    kurisanton wrote: »
    The main problem with the drop rate is not the drop rate of the shield but the fact that the bosses also drop blues. Whoever thought that was a good idea deserves the ire of the community because it just makes us waste our time on runs. Ive run MC probably well over 200 times by now always doing at least 2/3 and Ive seen the shield maybe 5 times (luckily I got it on my GF not to long ago). However Ive seen the gwf, wizard, and cleric offhands drop even less although I only do 3/3 during delves. So far the rogue offhand has dropped the most but even then it would probably only be in the teens

    That said, the drop rate for all the items is pretty terrible but IMO its mostly because of the random blues the bosses drop.

    In terms of drop rate in my personal experience:
    DC offhand
    TR offhand
    CW offhand
    ...
    ...
    GF and GWF off hands and I've only seen the GWF drop from Fulmi.
    RIP Neverwinter 26/06/2014
  • str8slayerstr8slayer Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 715 Bounty Hunter
    edited February 2014
    Yeah the problem with the MC/VT stuff is that the bosses loot pools are heavily diluted with trash (especially MC, they took unidentified blues out of VT loot pools). 60% of MC 2/3 runs will drop nothing useful for anyone so it's all about persistence. I had to run 2/3 at least 20 times to get the shield on my GF, but it did eventually drop.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • tickdofftickdoff Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    kingjon555 wrote: »
    I would assume that all the fomorian offhand items have similar drop rates, but seriously, either my luck is ridiculously terrible or the shield has a very low drop rate.

    I've been running MC 2/3 for two weeks now, averaging at least 2-3 times per day, so about 30-35 times, and I've seen....

    1x Hilt
    1x Riser
    2x Talisman
    2x Blades
    4x Parrying blade
    2x sword knot
    1x Icon

    That's just ridiculous. Has anyone else experienced this, or do I just have the worst luck in all of Neverwinter?

    I am absolutely SHOCKED at how many drops you have seen in MC. I have done MC 3/3 around 50 times in the last month and I have seen 1 crafting fragment and 2 off-hands. TOTAL. (Not counting the chest during DD). The drop rates in MC are pathetic.
  • ironzerg79ironzerg79 Member, Neverwinter Moderator, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 4,942 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I think the chance to drop an offhand item from any boss is about 10%. And then you have about a 1/6 chance of it being yours.

    In other words, it's not good. It just seems like it's "never your class" when the items do drop :)
    "Meanwhile in the moderator's lounge..."
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  • nukainotasnukainotas Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I have done ~150 MC runs, have seen lots of shields and other stuff, everything except the TR parrying blade which i need.

    From my experience only first MC boss drops shield, i have never seen any other boss drop it.

    I am starting to think there is some kind of bug that reduces the TR parrying blade chance for me.
  • blowfish4blowfish4 Member Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I manage to drop it with my CW and got it on greed. But guess what? It was bind on pick up, even if it wasn't my class gear. Did salvage . Dumb game.
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