bensansMember, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild UsersPosts: 6Arc User
edited August 2014
I feel I must share my frustration also. Your chances of dropping something "useful" (i.e. piece useful specifically to you) should slowly creep up as you complete encounters. It does not have to be deterministic but it should reward faithful participation over time. Funny story, I had entiretly given up on black ice gloves and IcewindDale in general as I had pretty much completed everything else meaningful there, but just on a whim I did a few more encounters before going to bed and then, twice in a row, gloves!!! My feelings were a strange mixture of wonder and annoyance. Things should not be THAT arbitrary. I do not think I did anything special to get them either. I am not particularly good at this game (get creamed sooooooooo bad in PvP against anything stronger than a hamster, regardless of equipment rating) and do not understand at all how to tune my equipment (too many different stats for me to understand what is a better optimization). I rarely get "Great Successs". I usually am just happy to piggy-back on other people completing the encounters and lending my meak but enthousiastic help Hope they tweak the drop rules a bit to reward people who put honest effort and hours into it!
I feel bad, I got bracers on my HR in 2 days, the day that I got them i was on the phone playing with 1 hand when I got my bracers. Casually walked into a prospectors and held right click while talking (aimed shot) and what do you know..bracers.
You Don't know the half of it... I was walking through Ice wind pass doing my dailies when remo came up, I got there with about a min to spare and shot 3-8 aimed shots and presto I got my bracers. I finished my dailies in IW-Pass and jumped over to Dwarven valley and beholder was up, i got there and the boss had less then 1/6 HP (couple aimed shots and presto I had my main hand.
Max time between getting both main hand and bracers 20 mins!!!
My HR has less then 200 reputation in IWD...
My DC has had 350 rep since the earlyest possible time and still no bracers or main hand....
I feel your guys pain becuase it's really messed up.
I've come to the conclusion that GFs and DCs are getting knobbed in IWD.
My GWF once again got a reward from IWD and he has only been doing Major HEs for two weeks. Not a Black Ice piece this time, but a HRs Hammerstone Hood that netted me 53k after tax. So, in two weeks he has received Black Ice gloves and 53k AD worth of loot. My GF? Two months in IWD and NOTHING. He has 4/6 Purified pieces, all charged and enchanted, just waiting for the bloody gloves or mainhand to drop. I haven't even received a purple asset since the first week of Mod 3! Just useless potions. There is still bias towards damage output as far as I am concerned.
For the love of god, please let me buy these items from a vendor. I do not have the time to stay in IWD anymore with the new mod arriving. Aimlessly riding to-and-fro in IWD followed by chasing dragons is not an appealing prospect. I should've been done with Mod 3 by now. It is stupid holding me back with a silly RNG.
To further reaffirm my beliefs;
Last night I took my GF and GWF through IWD again. GF does 4 Majors and as usual gets nothing. Full aggro build, tons of damage taken. I was TAB-marking everything to me, Enforced Threat plus Enhanced Mark. My GWF's turn. Ice Troll invasion in Dwarven Valley. Guess what? Black Ice mainhand. . .
So, my GWF has spent a fourth of the time my GF has spent grinding HEs and he has recived the mainhand and the arms while my GF still has nothing.
I will officially conclude that the drops are heavily biased towards DPS and I do not care what Cryptic says about the drops being reworked to take into account damage taken. I will also officially state that I am done with IWD on my GF. GG.
PSA: You don't need to grind Spinward Rise for your Elemental artifact main hand if you have some AD lying around. You can craft it via the Tyranny of Dragon's campaign screen.
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You Don't know the half of it... I was walking through Ice wind pass doing my dailies when remo came up, I got there with about a min to spare and shot 3-8 aimed shots and presto I got my bracers. I finished my dailies in IW-Pass and jumped over to Dwarven valley and beholder was up, i got there and the boss had less then 1/6 HP (couple aimed shots and presto I had my main hand.
Max time between getting both main hand and bracers 20 mins!!!
My HR has less then 200 reputation in IWD...
My DC has had 350 rep since the earlyest possible time and still no bracers or main hand....
I feel your guys pain becuase it's really messed up.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me." - Montgomery Scott
To further reaffirm my beliefs;
Last night I took my GF and GWF through IWD again. GF does 4 Majors and as usual gets nothing. Full aggro build, tons of damage taken. I was TAB-marking everything to me, Enforced Threat plus Enhanced Mark. My GWF's turn. Ice Troll invasion in Dwarven Valley. Guess what? Black Ice mainhand. . .
So, my GWF has spent a fourth of the time my GF has spent grinding HEs and he has recived the mainhand and the arms while my GF still has nothing.
I will officially conclude that the drops are heavily biased towards DPS and I do not care what Cryptic says about the drops being reworked to take into account damage taken. I will also officially state that I am done with IWD on my GF. GG.