Congrats.

And yes, they really need some type of decon/shard reward system for vMA.

In other news, hopefully you saved some of the other drops for alts.

Late to the party but the best way to get whatever vma weapon you're farming is to do it once a week on as many toons as you have leveled for it and try to get a good score.

1 drop from the clear + 1 weekly reward drop per toon.

vma is like riding a bike, you'll never forget it.

You've dedicated a chunk of your brain to vma and it'll stay that way for a while

just got Flawless conqueror on my mag sorc finally last week mine is just as bad about 40 runs give or take including 4 weeks of rewards
got
28 two handers an assortment of swords, great axe, maul
1 resto staff
1 ice staff
1 lightning staff
4 bows
4 daggers
2 swords
1 mace
surprisingly no axe at all
1 shield
1 inferno staff
sadly I got rid of most of the two handers last week should have taken a screen shot of my storage chest full of Maelstrom weapons. I nearly quit the game I was getting so many 2 handed weapons I think I got 6 2 handed weapons in a row

RebornV3x wrote: »

just got Flawless conqueror on my mag sorc finally last week mine is just as bad about 40 runs give or take including 4 weeks of rewards
got
28 two handers an assortment of swords, great axe, maul
1 resto staff
1 ice staff
1 lightning staff
4 bows
4 daggers
2 swords
1 mace
surprisingly no axe at all
1 shield
1 inferno staff
sadly I got rid of most of the two handers last week should have taken a screen shot of my storage chest full of Maelstrom weapons. I nearly quit the game I was getting so many 2 handed weapons I think I got 6 2 handed weapons in a row

Tons of evidence that for some reason the drop rates are not equal, are different on each character and reset every 3-6 months. I've run chi-square goodness of fit tests on tracked drops that show with great certainty 99.99%+ that this is the case. For some people it appears to be really skewed. Which basically means for some people it can be nearly impossible to get certain weapons while other people will see them repeatedly.

Consider the guy in this thread that could not get an inferno staff then all the sudden (odds reset) he says he got like 7 in a row. If it was 7 in a row and the probabilities are equal for each weapon the odds of this happening in 1 in 36 million. Proof no, strong evidence yes. If you had all your drops I could run it through a chi-test and all but prove your odds were not equal.

Good thing is if you run it long enough 3-6 months your odds will reset. Which is why a lot of people report sometimes trying for over a year to get a weapon and once it drops it drops again for them within the next run or so.

I also believe this is why people will say they get staves on stam characters and bows on magica characters. Its not a stam vs magic thing, it is just a different character with different odds. It just so happened that the stam character got higher odds for the staff and vice versa. After say 6 months it will change.

I don't think this is intended at all, just a function of a random number generation system that is too complex to be really understood. The only thing that is certain, the random number generator is not random and it is imperfect. Now whether the imperfection is at a detectable level, that is open for debate.