I had 4 rb's in 30 mins yesterday, 5 in 50 minutes today, nothing wrong here



Edited by Legendrunner (08/30/07 04:12 PM)

I ahvent had 4 rbs in two weeks total

I run the Quest Dungeons and HDOL equally....
For me, the HDOL drops have not changed, But the quest dungeons Bite!
I noticed this on the PTS and now live, that I get the same amont of drops as before. Unfortunately, in the quest dungeons, 8 of 10 drops are grey or green... yellows and purps hardly drop for me at all.... BAH!
I keep on thinking that it is all random chance.... maybe I am having an EXTREMELY bad week!
Either way.... Drops have been Nerfed. Intentionally or not, it does not matter... But if intentional, a notice from the Devs would have been nice.

I get yellows and purples left and right.

But I want blues so its all useless.

Dunno about the drops pre-patch, but perhaps this supposed change (if actual) was made to address the "sell time" of dungeon crawling. I've noticed that this game (opposed to others like EQ and WOW) has a smaller inventory and a higher droprate, resulting in more trips to the vendor. Having to run to the vendor 2 or 3 times every floor of a dungeon has become quite a bore to me, being a veteran of those games previously mentioned. Perhaps simply more cash now drops and less items. I personally wouldn't mind seeing drops with more rarity therefore requiring less trips out of blasting my way through the levels, as long as the total cash accumulation is taken into account.

-Shmak

For what it's worth drops don't appear to have changed to me. Last night I played from level 19 to 22 and got two rainbows and loads of purples and yellows. I filter out anything below yellow.

Also for what it's worth, I've been playing mmorpgs for the better part of ten years now and I've yet to see a patch in any of those games where players didn't complain that they were getting less and/or worse loot. Not to say that there wasn't a change, though I can't seem to see it, but it is interesting that every patch to every game gets the same comments.

For the post that complains about too many trips back to sell, you don't have to go back if you're not ready. As mentioned, I filter out everything below yellow which helps limit how much stuff I pick up but even then I don't always go back to sell if I'm in the middle of something or in a hurry. I still have more than enough gold to buy all my skills, potions, and the odd piece of gear and still have close to a million left over. I also have a character near 40 and the same strategy has left a few million gold on hand. So in my experience at least it doesn't look like money is so hard to come by that you really have to worry about it that much.

I have yet to get a rainbow since the patch. hours and hours of play not a single one. the purples have slowed as well. still running on insane killing Addy or even in the new dungeons.

Same for me me now. I haven't seen a rainbow in a long time.

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Artimus, you should try running Rasputin. Unless you think it takes too long (not enough rph), It can probably be done in 6 minutes or less if you don't pick up all the gold piles and only pickup high value items. I do it in about 8 minutes, it is four total encounters. I've dropped 3 mythics in the last 2 days, 20+ runs give or take, as well as 1.5 million in gold. I run on normal difficulty, the extra time isn't worth the extra loot, I'd rather finish and reset.