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    RNG change or just luck change?

    In the last 2 days I've gotten a 283 House with Deadly and Vicious (Then another worse one an hour later) and the Striker and Nomad chest pieces after WEEKS of grinding.

    Did they change something after the last GE?
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    I don't think so. Cause when players have suggested anything about drop rates. The CMs are saying they are looking into it.
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    I got two pieces of classified gear the morning after the last GE ended. I've averaged probably about 4 to 5 hours of playtime per day since, and have gotten a grand total of 0 classified and 0 exotics.

    LZ bosses have been dropping gold almost exclusively. Daily missions, gold as well. I've had slightly better luck with UG, I can at least get a few gear set pieces, but nothing useful and like I said, no classified or exotics.

    Drop rates of 0.03% or whatever it is, is fine in a game like Diablo, where you're plowing through literally hundreds of enemies per minute. But in this game, the body count is significantly lower by design, yet we are still faced with these miniscule drop rates...and that just leads to frustration.

    I never went a week in D3 without obtaining an Ancient item (would be the equivalent of classifieds in this game)...heck, I pretty much got something every time I played. It may not have been what I was looking for, but Ancients were still dropping. In The Division, they could've taken classifieds out of the game entirely after the last GE for as much as I've seen them, and I'd never know the difference.

    I understand you want to give people something to chase, but when we can't even see the stick (much less the carrot that's tied to it), motivation starts getting hard to come by.
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    Originally Posted by TCs_LCD_Dave Go to original post
    In the last 2 days I've gotten a 283 House with Deadly and Vicious (Then another worse one an hour later) and the Striker and Nomad chest pieces after WEEKS of grinding.

    Did they change something after the last GE?
    It's always been like that for me. I'll get a bunch of great stuff all at once and then weeks of very little.
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    Originally Posted by TCs_LCD_Dave Go to original post
    In the last 2 days I've gotten a 283 House with Deadly and Vicious (Then another worse one an hour later) and the Striker and Nomad chest pieces after WEEKS of grinding.

    Did they change something after the last GE?
    It's always been like that for me. I'll get a bunch of great stuff all at once and then weeks of very little.
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    Originally Posted by Trippul G Go to original post
    I got two pieces of classified gear the morning after the last GE ended. I've averaged probably about 4 to 5 hours of playtime per day since, and have gotten a grand total of 0 classified and 0 exotics.

    LZ bosses have been dropping gold almost exclusively. Daily missions, gold as well. I've had slightly better luck with UG, I can at least get a few gear set pieces, but nothing useful and like I said, no classified or exotics.

    Drop rates of 0.03% or whatever it is, is fine in a game like Diablo, where you're plowing through literally hundreds of enemies per minute. But in this game, the body count is significantly lower by design, yet we are still faced with these miniscule drop rates...and that just leads to frustration.

    I never went a week in D3 without obtaining an Ancient item (would be the equivalent of classifieds in this game)...heck, I pretty much got something every time I played. It may not have been what I was looking for, but Ancients were still dropping. In The Division, they could've taken classifieds out of the game entirely after the last GE for as much as I've seen them, and I'd never know the difference.

    I understand you want to give people something to chase, but when we can't even see the stick (much less the carrot that's tied to it), motivation starts getting hard to come by.
    Exactly. The 3% drop rate (0.03% per item) would be ok if all NPCs had that chance but in the LZ,there's 15 NPCs with that rate and nothing else. And they're on a 4 hour timer.
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    Originally Posted by mckrackin5324 Go to original post
    Exactly. The 3% drop rate (0.03% per item) would be ok if all NPCs had that chance but in the LZ,there's 15 NPCs with that rate and nothing else. And they're on a 4 hour timer.
    That's why I'm dubious as to their 'increase' in drop rates.....anyone that thinks the above rate (let's be honest they went live with this so someone at the studio though it was ok) is great has rocks in their heads, which leads me to believe 'yeah guys we hear you and we are going to increase the drop rate to......drum roll..... 4%! That's a 30% + increase! lol
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    Originally Posted by SF_Gweadobane Go to original post
    That's why I'm dubious as to their 'increase' in drop rates.....anyone that thinks the above rate (let's be honest they went live with this so someone at the studio though it was ok) is great has rocks in their heads, which leads me to believe 'yeah guys we hear you and we are going to increase the drop rate to......drum roll..... 4%! That's a 30% + increase! lol
    Yeah. We need like a 10,000% increase to get each piece to 1% hahaha
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    Came back to the forum to see if anyone was in the same frustrating situation as me. I am not alone. I have farmed hard during the Ambush GE and got all new cladsified sets. But now feels like I am being punished. I get only gold and a few gear set, but for days I have not seen a classified or exotic. The drops in this game sucks.
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