Box of Gray Host Pillage drops

jlb1705

Can anyone tell me - when these drop from world bosses and harrowstorms, is it RNG-based, or is it like the Anniversary Event where the top X% DPS get the box?

jlb1705

Nevermind, got my answer by spamming bow light attacks at a world boss and still getting the drop. I was going nuts unloading everything I had at like eight WBs in a row and getting nothing. I never have any trouble getting Anniversary Boxes so wasn't sure if I was doing something wrong.

SeaGtGruff

I think there might be a time-based limit, like 1 box every 15 minutes or something like that, but I'm not sure. I know you can get boxes by farming nodes, so I've been grabbing nodes whenever I see them, but if I get a box in a node then it's going to be another 10 or 15 minutes before I get another box-- and that includes boxes that drop from bosses. So if I get a box from a node and then 2 minutes later I help stop a harrowstorm, I won't get a box from the boss.

trackdemon5512

There is a cooldown timer

jlb1705

trackdemon5512 wrote: »

There is a cooldown timer

Weird, I'm camping one WB in particular and I'll go several clears in a row without getting one and then a few in a row where I do. Either way, as long as it's not tied to DPS it's cool. I just didn't want to waste my time camping a WB that's super crowded where my chance for a drop depends on whether my skills even fire.

jlb1705

FWIW, just got the drop at two WB spawns in a row, 5 mins. apart.

SeaGtGruff

Yeah, I think there's a cooldown, but I'm not sure about that, nor about how long it is. And I don't know if the cooldown applies to everything or not.

trackdemon5512

@jlb1705 it's a cooldown timer on top of RNG. So you can’t get during the cooldown (except from daily turn ins) and after cooldown ends any of the drop sources has a strong chance of dropping.

jlb1705

I'm on a heater now... 5 drops in a row, 5 mins apart each.

SeaGtGruff

I used the stopwatch function on my iPad's Clock app to see how often I'm finding reward boxes while running around farming nodes, looting chests, and killing things.

The typical interval seems to be every 6 minutes or so, which suggests a 5-minute cooldown after which RNG takes over.

My longest interval between drops was 19 minutes, which felt more like 30.