So, even though you are VR16, the rewards only scale to VR15, with the exception of the monster helm/shoulder. That needs to be changed.

Akavir_Sentinel wrote: »

So, even though you are VR16, the rewards only scale to VR15, with the exception of the monster helm/shoulder. That needs to be changed.

yea that caught my eye when i first opened the first chest and i was like hold on did the game not update my level yet!? i almost freaked out lol, good thing i got monster set on my first key though to confirm that i still get v16

Kobaal wrote: »

so 9 out of 74 got you a monster piece. so the drop rate is 6.66%

Ominous.

74 divided by 9 is 8.2%..... math

Lightninvash wrote: »

Kobaal wrote: »

so 9 out of 74 got you a monster piece. so the drop rate is 6.66%

Ominous.

74 divided by 9 is 8.2%..... math

Math. You're doing it wrong. 9 out of 74 is 12.2%.

Rosveen wrote: »

Lightninvash wrote: »

Kobaal wrote: »

so 9 out of 74 got you a monster piece. so the drop rate is 6.66%

Ominous.

74 divided by 9 is 8.2%..... math

Math. You're doing it wrong. 9 out of 74 is 12.2%.

Lol, that Karma.

woops

12.16%

RNG sucks in this game...even if you lucky enough to get a helm and shoulder you are looking for, you then need to be lucky enough to get one with the armor type you are looking for....and then maybe if you are lucky enough the trait you are looking for?

Screw that I would rather not play the RNG game and just buy/craft something else, not worth it.

They should make a token npc where you can trade in the helms and shoulders you don't want for something you do actually need, like maybe at a higher trade ratio or something....

100+ days of doing something over and over and still not getting what you are looking for...

SCREW THAT.

I hate these drop rates. I feel awful for a wizard buddy of mine who has yet to get one set while me and another buddy have 1 and 2 sets of stuff we wanted. I lost track of how many times we've run engine guardian and COA. Coupled with the possibility of getting the gear in a light, heavy, medium WITH a stupid stat like 9% sprint reduction.......... uuuuuuggggggg.

I'm all for some grinding to get the good stuff. But it's getting to the point if we don't complete our sets and move on to other stuff we want to do Taken King is looking mighty fine. It's not like we'll have nothing to do when we get the sets we want either. There's still things we want to move on to but we keep having to farm this stuff as much as possible to increase our chances.. in theory.

EDIT: OH AND what makes things worse is we farm these things and more often than not we are getting complete junk from the bosses. I can't count how many times Skoria's chest has given me a blue piece of @#$* not even worth deconstructing. If I was at least getting purples to melt down on a consistent basis I would feel better about it. We ran engine guardian the other day 3-4 times in one night and walked out with like 2 purples or some crazy thing (no helms of course). I mean not even a consultation prize!

Lightninvash wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

Lightninvash wrote: »

Kobaal wrote: »

so 9 out of 74 got you a monster piece. so the drop rate is 6.66%

Ominous.

74 divided by 9 is 8.2%..... math

Math. You're doing it wrong. 9 out of 74 is 12.2%.

stay in school...

stay on subject :P

Ok, I'm going to splain this too you guys because I feels bad. I had a buddy go 0 for 60 once and when I am actually opening large numbers of keys I go about 1 for 2. We have good reasons to believe that drop rates are time dependent (server system clock). I'm not going too go into all of why this probably is but there are good programming reasons. Most of us who worry about these things are not sure if different people have different happy times or if happy times are global and some think your happy times are the same every day or they change. I personally believe that they are global and change each day as that has been my personal experience.

So, how is this information of service? Well, most of the time it's not. You kill bosses and mobs when you kill them and there is really no way to know if it's happy time or not. However, when opening key's, crafting writ bags, fish filleting, or refining mats, you can stack the odds. Did the first key give you a shoulders? No? forget about it and try again later. Yes? try a few more. If you get another empty the whole clip. It's as simple as that. Sure it's a pain as it may be a while before you get the first one to flip but let me tell you it is oh so worth it. Sorry about your 74 keys, especially since we all know drop rates for the new stuff are always higher for the first couple days to wet the appetites and then are super nerfed. About half my shoulders were the new sets on day 2. I expect this will change soon if it hasn't already.

Meshal wrote: »

Lightninvash wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

Lightninvash wrote: »

Kobaal wrote: »

so 9 out of 74 got you a monster piece. so the drop rate is 6.66%

Ominous.

74 divided by 9 is 8.2%..... math

Math. You're doing it wrong. 9 out of 74 is 12.2%.

stay in school...

stay on subject :P

I dun wana tho I find if you enter in a calculator 74 divided by 9and hit the % button it comes out to 6.66 bahahaha which is funny....or really creepy
by that I mean 74/9 then % button haha its awesome

You got screwed. I saved 12 keys, 11 gold and 1 silver. My silver key gave me a VR16 shoulders. My 11 gold keys got me 3 more shoulders. Yes, so 4/12 was my ratio, or 3/11 with gold keys. This is right around the expected rate of 33%.

I am seeing 27 monster shoulders out of 74 keys...