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Of beads and bells... :P

lexusk19lexusk19 Member Posts: 1,415 Arc User
edited December 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Ok, they really need to up the drops on Beads and Bell item drops in the winter event. I have been playing since it opened and have only gotten 1 bead. -_-
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  • dahminusdahminus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    All I can think of is head sounds like bed and bead sounds like deed...
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  • erei1erei1 Member Posts: 4,081 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    It was the same problem last year. But last year we were able to dig them.
    The uncommon drop rate is ridiculous, especially in the winter invasion event.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    they drop reasonably quickly in the doff missions.
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  • erei1erei1 Member Posts: 4,081 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    markhawkman wrote: »
    they drop reasonably quickly in the doff missions.
    I've done DOFF missions with 6characters. Dropped none. Some people are lucky I guess :)
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  • ursusmorologusursusmorologus Member Posts: 5,328 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    erei1 wrote: »
    I've done DOFF missions with 6characters. Dropped none. Some people are lucky I guess :)
    They drop on crits. There are 3-4 assignments available all the time, some at WW, some at ESD/1st City (none at NR Command).
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  • erei1erei1 Member Posts: 4,081 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    ursusmorologus wrote: »
    They drop on crits. There are 3-4 assignments available all the time, some at WW, some at ESD/1st City (none at NR Command).
    Yep, that's mean I have around 20DOFF mission, and no green from them.

    Also, that's beside the point, as the items should be available without the need of purple DOFFs, and the queued mission should award a lot more than AFK doffing.
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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    So many items in the store..........unless you are a hardcore grinder, you aren't going to get most of that stuff in the store on all your characters.

    Of course desperate people will buy the costumes on the Exchange for a couple million or buy Zen to buy the packs in hopes they get the uncommons they need. Which really is disappointing since it defeats the fun factor, because we aren't here to grind, we are here to have fun.
  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Yes after 9 straight hours of grinding every mission including doff missions, the common-uncommon drop ratio I have noticed is roughly 50:1 with 1 uncommon drop no less than every 15mins tops. They should have made them rare or VR and not uncommon! :rolleyes:
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  • alan171717alan171717 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    shadowwraith77 wrote: »
    Yes after 9 straight hours of grinding every mission including doff missions, the common-uncommon drop ratio I have noticed is roughly 50:1 with 1 uncommon drop no less than every 15mins tops. They should have made them rare or VR and not uncommon! :rolleyes:

    My results are about the same, though I get 1 per 8 minutes, I always have been lucky
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  • mericpxmericpx Banned Users Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    So many items in the store,i think this is what you like
  • seniorkafeiseniorkafei Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    These are pretty rare. I do DOFF missions (on eight toons), participate in the snowman event, do the gingerbread colony, and I still only have... 21 bells and 13 beads. They drop in such small amounts, and it's really a pain to try and collect so many of them to get all of the costume options if you have several alts.

    I've said it before, but... 3 outfit types and 5 colors times however many alts you have... that can easily add up to hundreds of these things required if you wanna get all your alts outfitted. I think the outfits should either be... a) account unlock or b) three different kinds, but with a palette instead of static colors. There's no real reason (other than artificially boosting the difficulty) to use static colors when the tech already exists to give outfits a palette.

    If you have to bump costs up slightly, I think that would be an acceptable trade-off.
  • z3ndor99z3ndor99 Member Posts: 1,391 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Im just greatful that I got a truckload of commodities last year, since we can't get nice surprises from snowpiles, it makes things a little bit more " grindy ", or you can spend a fortune on the exchange.
  • nileight1nileight1 Member Posts: 249 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    The Doff drops seem to be a lot stingier this year as well...
  • wildmousexwildmousex Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    didn't know you could get the bells and beads from doff's - which missions? I only want to grab a nano pulse weapon for my Rommie toon and already hate the grind for these two mat's.. I have enough of everything else to buy a dozen weapons, still only two of these.
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  • anodynesanodynes Member Posts: 1,999 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Agreed on the drop rate for the Uncommons. It's terrible, and I'm wondering when the developer in charge of rewards will be getting his visit from some ghosts to enlighten him to how stingy this is.
    dahminus wrote: »
    All I can think of is head sounds like bed and bead sounds like deed...

    Tomb, bomb, comb and aplomb, the only 4 words (outside of compounds that use one of them, like honeycomb) that I can think of in the English language that end in "omb" can have, depending on which pronunciation you use for aplomb, 4 different vowel sounds for that o. English is a goofy language.
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  • fruitvendor12fruitvendor12 Member Posts: 615 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    z3ndor99 wrote: »
    Im just greatful that I got a truckload of commodities last year, since we can't get nice surprises from snowpiles, it makes things a little bit more " grindy ", or you can spend a fortune on the exchange.
    I did get a terran ornament from a snowpile this year. I didn't bother actually mining snowpiles this year.
  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    lexusk19 wrote: »
    Ok, they really need to up the drops on Beads and Bell item drops in the winter event. I have been playing since it opened and have only gotten 1 bead. -_-

    RNG hates you apparently. Got new snowball weapons for 4 characters so far, seeing no problem with having all 10 in winter jackets with snowball guns before next week ends with ease.

    -shrug-
  • fruitvendor12fruitvendor12 Member Posts: 615 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    The drop rate makes more sense when you look at what it takes to build the fleet starbase holiday ornament. By the time individual captains are done tricking all their 100 alts it is hard to get folks to pony up 228 of everything...
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    aloishammer wrote: »
    RNG hates you apparently. Got new snowball weapons for 4 characters so far, seeing no problem with having all 10 in winter jackets with snowball guns before next week ends with ease.

    -shrug-
    Ditto, already bought 3 new guns, and I have the mats required to buy more. Then again, I rock at Snowman hunter.
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