I've gotten about 4 purple items total so far all in the first week or so and none at all since. Could it be a bug with Rapport maxed out?

All items to date that I've collected

Purple: 4 items - Gloves, Pauldrons, Necklace, Greatsword

Blue: 43 items - Resto Staff (9), Helmet, Epaulets, Guards (2), shoes, Belt (2), Ring (6), Necklace, Inferno staff, Helm, Gauntlets, Greaves, Sabatons, Girdle, Jerkin, Axe, Boots, Bracers, Breaches, Greatsword (3), Mace (2), Maul (2), Sash, Shield

Green: 80 items - Jack (3), Axe (2), Battle Axe (2), Belt (2), Boots (2), Bracers, Breaches, Cuirass, Epaulets, Girdle (2), Gloves (5), Greaves (2), Guards (2), Helmet (2), Inferno staff (2), Jerkin (2), Lighting staff (2), Mace (6), Necklace (4), Resto Staff (9), Ring (12), Sash, Shield (3), Shoes (2), Sword (2), Helm, Robe, Sabatons, Bow (4)

Edit: to give an idea of how much I have played: Mirri - Maxed Rapport and Level 20, Bastian - Maxed Rapport and level 17+

On June 10 the score for me was:
"From the 66 items I have 39 are green, 23 are blue, 4 are purple,
Almost all from Public Dungeons.
With grinding bosses, mob packs along thye way, repairing armor: per 1 hour gross time approx 2-3 drops"
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It would not surprise me when the drop rate per hour playing is higher when you do dolmens, but I prefer less hectic travelling all the time and just do currently mostly (bosses) public dungeon grinding for my companions on a new character I started in May.
The drop rate since early June could be slightly higher because I am now for my feel at around 3 drops per hour.

I am now at a total of 199 blue and have no count anymore of green because I sell armor at the trade guilds and weapons to a merchant or Nuzhimeh.
I got from drops 35 purple. With selling off some and buying some my total purple is now 42 pieces.

Although the numbers are a bit small foir statistics to say something strong, that 199 blue to 35 purple I have now as total drop ratio, is not that differing from the 23 blue to 4 purple of my June 10 total. And I do get much more green than blue.

=> the drop ratio between purple-blue-green for mainly public dungeons could be around roughly 6%-34%-60%.
=> at 3 drops of any color per hour from mainly those public dungeons that would mean 1 purple per 5 hours.

I have so far developed all 6 weapon skill lines of Bastian and for Mirri 4 fully and the other 2 partially.
(Now doing the Ice staff. I had planned to save the Ice staff as last one but could not resist earlier. The nice thing about the Ice staff, besides the taunt for Bastian, is that your companion stays on your side in melee fights. No roll dodging. During playing now Mirri with Ice staff jumps into the fights with her Warp Strike).

For me it feels right that getting enough purple gear matches the full development, masters of all arms, of your companions.
And full blue is already very good in combat performance. Getting full blue in desired traits aided by some trading or buying cannot be a real obstacle.

honglatongla wrote: »

I've dropped one purple thing since Blackwood launched. Only a single one.

Do you play with a companion on your side ?
Or do you have a companion unlocked for the characters you play with ?

(In case that drop rates depends on having a companion relation at all (unlocked) or having a companion at your side while playing)

I had only one purple drop for my companion since release.

people were complaining the same way about companion gear in general a month ago, meanwhile guildstores are flooded with it.
You can't even sell a blue bow with penetration for 5k any more.

Purple already drops in price as well, as people sell their doublettes.

I just bought axe and flamestaff pretty cheap (staff 40k), and this even on xbox where companions started later than on PC.

In addition, it is not really an issue, as the advantage you get from upgrading is small.

On armor you can ignore it, as it makes almost no difference if a heavy piece gives 2800 (blue) or 2900 armor.

Most increase you see on weapons, as the increase of damage done from 800 to 900 is more than 10%. So focus on the first cheap weapons you can get in stores already, then upgrade armor a little later, like end of august.

There should be ways to improve quality and change trait for companion gear as well as normal gear.

I've gotten about 12 or so purple drops. Problem is, 99% are trash traits and worth nothing so they get vendored.

My statistics so far:
- greens: 77
- blues: 44
- purples: 4
Total: 125

G: 62%, B: 35%, P: 3%
stats are not descriptive enough, but 3:100 for purples is my rough estimate.

Drop 2 epic, 2 heavy, so not for me, but it's good money ~500k ea.
I was surprised how much it cost and how fast it sell tbh.
I don't really care about it, if one day I drop part I want, I'll use it, maybe, if price stay high, then, probably sell since I don't rely on my compagnon for anything anyway.

Bad but nothing like as bad as the companion dagger drop rate (ie ZERO)!

I got 1 purple shoulder with soothing trait and nothing else
I have maxed out fighters guild, mages guild and undaunted on both bastian and mirri
I have either one of my companions out doing wbs, public dungeons , delves, dolmens etc and i only got that one epic piece of gear 😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂