Before the patch (or around that time), at level 400 M1 I could find various good crystal and eternal items (Cosmic, Aether), rare runes & gems (Ruby, Amethyst, Obsidian, Time, Master), rare pets (Eternal).
Since then, with similar gear, at level 600 M1 and 500 M3 I haven’t find much anymore (after all this time: a few rare gems, only 1 good new pet, very few eternals).
It’s as if my drops quality worsened incredibly.
Is my luck too low, bugged or what?
I have 435% in the stats and 790% in the adventure panel.
Has anyone else noticed this? (end-game players with super rare gear are excluded, obviously)
Drops rates are the same. RNG just isn’t favouring you. Trust me I had this for 6 whole months or more, even with maxed out farm affixes and super fast farming for hours on end , even with fortune bringer but I did get some time off at times (which arguably somehow made me luckier). Still I managed to make some high quality builds and learn a lot during so much time. I managed to build Charged Inferno, my Will of the Force PvP build, My seasonal Maidens’ Build and even a farm wizard. Also my Alchemy pierce wizard which is work in progress. Just need to collect an absurd amount of crystals to feel rich and then spend it once the next patch comes. That’s the best way to be playing DQ imo. Also 2-3 Expensive Exp builds.
Now I’m suddenly getting as lucky as Griffin/Cronos in terms of crystal drops . I always wondered how Griffin got rich so quick lol. But now i know, I do the same as him and pray to the gods of DQ. Clearly they favour Griffin and other notable players. They always seem to favour you when you play a lot, if you take breaks or if you played for a year . It is random though, hence Random Number Generator or RNG. Then again I’m finally farming for hours like I always used to for those 6 months I was unlucky at.
I played various ARPGs, so I can distinguish temporary unlucky RNG from changed RNG formulas, by now.
The frequency of good “rewards” has drastically changed for me, for one reason or another.
You mean like 3 Eternals, 2 Crystals, 1 legendary pet, few gems, no rare stones for months?
Because this is what I’m talking about…
Is this confirmed or just speculation?
I wouldn’t like it, because I cannot play too often.
Btw, I still play as frequent as before the patch (or slightly less).
No of course not. What I meant is that I wasn’t getting as consistent of getting as much crystals like cronos and many other players even though I tried pretty much everything. Although part of me not getting as much crystals is my reduced play time and because I used to run on a slow laggy phone.
Anyways I run Epiphany on Main and Hirling at (5).
Also 350% item drops , 1012% Luck and Gold find. Drop rates are always what it were for sure.
This just means fortune 20 on both characters , 4× legend item drops per character or 6× Fortune Mythstone on sockets +100% bonus from hirling= 350% item drops. 350% item drops is extremely amazing.
For the gold find, I simply just put Mythic 3, Fortune 20 per character and 1× 225% gold find crystal affix as well as 2× epic gold find affixes on the main character as gold for some odd reason isn’t affected by averaging the same way Luck and Item Drops are. Also fortunate perk from ascension and that’s 1012%+ Gold Find.
For the 1012% Luck, 6× nature per character, fortune 20 per character, Mythic 3 , 1× crystal luck per character and at least 1 epic affix.
These listings are the most efficient possible ways to make use of Epiphany (5) on both characters for farm affixes.
Are you sure you’re on the right patch? It can’t be that bad in 2.5.
@phaolo , A very efficient item drops setup if you use Epiphany. If not, you just remove 1 legend affix per character or 2 fortune mythstones per character and it’s 200% item drops (300% it shows up because you having hirling so you get 100% over the cap item drops bonus).
1 or 2 days of farming for gold, eternals and crystals in general when you have Epiphany (5) per character, 350% item drops with 1012% Luck does wonders as well as 1012% Gold Find.
Your case isn’t much help to me, because you have endgame gear.
I’m still at mid level.
I’m going by memory about the drops, but in the past it took me like 10 maps to get a few Eternal\Crystal, whilst now I’m lucky if I get one after like 50.
Before the patch: 10 legendary pets, 2 eternal. After: 1 legendary pet.
The setup i described is a basic setup so any person can simply be in my shoes.
I was shit at farming gear for a year and a half (mainly because i used to be casual and because patch 2.0 farming was harder due to no ascensions and stuff).
What’s even worse is that I didn’t choose to make a full fledged farming build before the battle arena build (although I managed to be no 1 Eternal League for a while in patch 2.0 even when half finished).
Also even at 2.1, I kept messing up at making a farm build but it took me a while to make one that it ultimately costs me my potential. I could have had so much more crystals than i get today (60k or 70k total crystals instead of 40k total crystals or even 100k). However I managed to catch up quite a lot to make many fantastic builds despite my losses and hard trials and errors.
Good thing I spent a lot of time learning synergies and combos and a way to make efficient builds without spending crystals figuring it out due to experience and many hard lessons.
Definitely agreed. Then once you got all the item drops due to mythstones, you can slowly work your way up to Legend Item Drops when you have 20-30 rubies but for starters, using mythstone Fortune.
