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Beads vs. Bells - concerning drop rates and Exchange prices
inkrunner
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As many of you may have noticed, there is quite a market for holiday items of all kinds on the Exchange right now. More than likely, the current prices will drop - as they have already decreased since the Winter Event began - once people get what they want and start building a surplus of the commodities.
Unfortunately, the price of the uncommon items is still incredibly high, because they drop at deplorable rates throughout the Winter Wonderland.
Still worse, there is an odd trend with the price of Bajoran Gratitude Beads. Last I checked, their price was slightly more than three times that of the bells. This is due, in part, to the fact that beads drop far less than bells. Coupled with the fact that neither item drops often enough, the Beads are now in high demand and short supply, landing them somewhere around 300,000 EC each. (Again, last time I checked - hopefully I'm wrong and it changed to something lower than that already.)
I don't normally say it this way, but...
Devs, please tell the Grinch to give back the Uncommon items he stole!:D
Unfortunately, the price of the uncommon items is still incredibly high, because they drop at deplorable rates throughout the Winter Wonderland.
Still worse, there is an odd trend with the price of Bajoran Gratitude Beads. Last I checked, their price was slightly more than three times that of the bells. This is due, in part, to the fact that beads drop far less than bells. Coupled with the fact that neither item drops often enough, the Beads are now in high demand and short supply, landing them somewhere around 300,000 EC each. (Again, last time I checked - hopefully I'm wrong and it changed to something lower than that already.)
I don't normally say it this way, but...
Devs, please tell the Grinch to give back the Uncommon items he stole!:D
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My character Tsin'xing
Maybe it's just happening to some people, but I've gotten only three beads so far, as opposed to thirteen bells. Either you are really lucky, or I'm really unlucky.
As for the Exchange prices, I realize that they'll probably go down, but I've never seen a disparity like this between two functionally identical items. The current prices just seemed to be evidence that Beads were rarer than Bells.
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Beads rarely drop for me.
I've even resorted to the Exchange.
What's funny about this situation is loot from snowpiles were disabled because of the farmers BUT those same farmers from last WE are the only reliable sources of Beads and Bells, now.
Enable the snowpiles, Devs.
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Same with the race, everyone who finishes the race gets a token, but only the winner gets enough to buy a Epohh.
(Though I was short on bells, so I used some of that EC to buy bells.)
My character Tsin'xing
I don't know why they drop more rarely, but either they should be blue to indicate they're more rare, or the rate should be adjusted.
Then again, it's possible I'm INCREDIBLY unlucky, I suppose!
I've collected approximately equal numbers of beads and bells, but I've actually been having a minor issue with getting Terran ornaments. I've gotten a lot more of the other commons.
My character Tsin'xing
I had fifteen left over from last year, and I've only earned six beads this event thus far. I had eighty of some of the other commodities.
By my estimates I'm going to need something on the order of 125 beads in order to do my Christmas shopping on all four characters. This is gonna suck.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
The thing is, the item costs have a much tighter ratio on them, with Scarfs being 3:2, Jackets being 10:8, and weapons being 8:5.
Hopefully the drop rate adjustments will bring the ratio from 10:1 to more like 3:2 which would be more in line with the costs of more items, though the jackets still have the highest cost ratio. That could be fixed by dropping the Jacket cost from 8 to 6 for the green quality items, bring all the items cost rations roughly in line with the 3:2 ratio.
As with others, I'm dreadfully short on beads.
Left over from last year I had 600-800 of each common holiday commodity, but only about 150 bells, and 50 or so beads.
So I'm pretty much done with my Winter Shopping on my main character, and getting frozen boots for my Rommies and other new toons (those don't require uncommons), but I'm going to need many many more beads (and still some bells) to get all the clothes I want for may Alts.
Unfortunately, my uncommon drop rates have been more in what I'd call the "rare" column of things, with "very rare" beads drops at best (I think I've got less than 5 at all so far this year).
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I'm estimating that my daily haul will triple overall. O_O!
My character Tsin'xing
Hopefully the aforementioned patch notes will help with that.
Interesting method of fixing the recipe issue in Winter Invasion.
I kid, I kid. Thanks to the team for increased drop rates.
But here's my frequency, so hail me maybe?
My character Tsin'xing
But it seems others do have some trouble with Beads...
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Still I do seem to be getting plenty of the other ornaments and my fleet is big enough to pool it's numbers and even out the RNG for us.
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