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I got 5 in a row Hitokiri84, I confirm they drop, you are just unlucky.

(but I did 10 REs too without getting any before that series ^^)

This post has been edited by garm0: May 18 2015, 19:26

Some additional tweaks and additions:

- Health, Mana and Spirit Elixirs have been re-added to the drop table as a rare variant of restorative drop. The overall drop rate was also shifted slightly from crystals to restoratives.

- Cooldown for consumables was reduced to 40 turns.

- The drop rate for soul fragments in random encounters was increased, but there is now a daily cap to how many you can get. The cap is, on average, 6 per day. (It is implemented as a linearly decaying counter, being decreased by 1 every 4 hours.)

- You can now soulfuse equipment that is up to 50 levels higher than you. (Note that you still cannot equip items that are higher level than you, so you have to soulfuse them to equip them.)

- Fixed soul fragment cost not being properly rounded.

Every bit of this was a step in the right direction, without a doubt. But I am still afraid this is not enough to revive equipment trade, because soulfusing means item is forever lost for market. Adiitionally, every trade with a higher-level player requires either a 10 days of dedicated grinding of soul shards or 1000000 credits besides the cost of equipment.

The simplest solution would be to allow to equip items up to 50 levels higher than you. That still would mean that lvl 500 players make no impact on market for lvl 300 players. And even if Free Shop makes a return (I would call it a beneficial feature of the game's community and not something to be destroyed, but in any case) it will hand newbies lvl 50 superiors (It wouldn't make them able to do PFUDOR RE, just make game for them less grinding and more fun) and lvl 200 players would get lvl 250 eqips. In any case I think that soulfusing should be as you described it "Picking a keeper" and not just the way to get upgrade (because equipment with level lower than yours is incredibly likely to be no better than your current equipment).
If you are completely averse to idea of using equipment over your level at least make some way to lower the level of eqipment without account-bonding. It should not be as prohibitively expensive as soul-bonding, (for example just 1 soul shard for every other level, without the base 50) this way good items can be kept in circulation.
In general i understand the desire to forbid top-down trades, but it is deadly to the trading. In every online game the usual way of trading is top-down.
(And trade between "equal levels" will not happen - there is too many levels, not enough good equips on each level. If you would allow to equip equipment up to 50 levels higher than you then it's entirely different because you have access to 1/10th of total levels of equipment, not to 1/500th. I did not mention lower levels, because without soulbonding chance to find upgrade on lower than yours levels of equipment is almost zero.)

Maybe need to add chance to get bindings(respectively to eqip suffix/prefix) when salvaging mag/leg equip.

+1

You have to get 1 before you can get 6... Seriously, do they actually drop? I have none after about 10 RE. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

I just got 2 straight from 2 consecutive RE. This new system is working, cause I already got 3 before this new change. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

You have to get 1 before you can get 6... Seriously, do they actually drop? I have none after about 10 RE. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

Good news: if your fragment counter is below 2, you're guaranteed to get a fragment drop.

Exq lights are now with only 2 PABs, and M/L are 3, pre-patch the lights can have 4.
Exq clothes and heavies can have 3 PABs before the patch.
And some new shields will now lack on STR or END, for a Legendary shield, it have to roll on which PAB it will lose. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

I got M with 2 PAB

Good news: if your fragment counter is below 2, you're guaranteed to get a fragment drop.

Fragment counter? You mean how much we currently have?

Good news: if your fragment counter is below 2, you're guaranteed to get a fragment drop.

Sounds good (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) so no need to wait front of screen whole day.

Gonna assume that Elixir chance is 2% of restorative drop roll.

This post has been edited by Maximum_Joe: May 18 2015, 19:53

Good news: if your fragment counter is below 2, you're guaranteed to get a fragment drop.

Step 1: Two shards, mooglemail to snowflake
Step 2: Two shards, mooglemail to snowflake
Step 3: ???
Step 4: profit !

mooglemail to snowflake

They're tokens.

They're tokens.

Hmm i should have tried before talking derp.

Good news: if your fragment counter is below 2, you're guaranteed to get a fragment drop.

Thank you. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Tenboro, are you planing on making any changes to the equipment drops? Because I've been getting a bunch of useless stuff playing on the highest difficulty.

So, this is why I've been gathering equipment stats over the last few months. Literally every single patch, people complain that after the patch, they only get shit compared to before. So let's look at the numbers shall we.

Looking specifically at the drop stats for random encounters at PFUDOR difficulty, I'm seeing:

Pre-patch, everyone:

CODE

+-------------+----------+-------+
| q           | count(*) | pct   |
+-------------+----------+-------+
| Peerless    |        4 |  0.00 |
| Crude       |      146 |  0.03 |
| Legendary   |      391 |  0.08 |
| Fair        |     3611 |  0.77 |
| Magnificent |     4678 |  0.99 |
| Exquisite   |    66776 | 14.17 |
| Average     |   104082 | 22.09 |
| Superior    |   291554 | 61.87 |
+-------------+----------+-------+

Post-patch, everyone:

CODE

+-------------+----------+-------+
| q           | count(*) | pct   |
+-------------+----------+-------+
| Peerless    |        1 |  0.02 |
| Legendary   |       52 |  1.25 |
| Magnificent |      245 |  5.91 |
| Exquisite   |      762 | 18.39 |
| Average     |     1530 | 36.92 |
| Superior    |     1551 | 37.43 |
+-------------+----------+-------+

Is that really worse? Well, there are fewer superiors, but vastly more legendaries, magnificents and exquisites, and nothing below average. The superior factor for difficulty might need a slight tweak, but otherwise I'd say that's a pretty damn big improvement.

Yours is a very small sample size, with just 10 RE higher-difficulty drops after the patch, so you shouldn't conclude anything quite yet.

Fragment counter? You mean how much we currently have?

No, the internal drop counter.

and nothing below average

So does PFUDOR have 0% chance for Fair/Crude or just super low?

statistics

Those are great; a 15 times increase in legendary drops is huge. Are the numbers similar for high-level arena or RoB clear bonuses?

.....(No, you won't be able to soulfuse all your equipment. This is by design. The idea is that you should be able to grab one "keeper" every week or so just from playing. Past that, it will require a significant investment at the item shop, or (bad?) luck at the equipment lottery.)....

I can only assume I've been buying gear in the EqShop that was substantially above my level at any given time, since much of what I see as comparable gear is ~150-200lvls higher than I am right now.

I have gear I guess I can't equip until I've gained about 60 levels or more, and will have hopefully accrued the credits or fragments to make fusing possible.

Finding one 'keeper' a week hasn't been my experience the past year, not sure yet if gear drops have improved dramatically enough to make this true for me, but praying for fragment drops is gonna have to be the way I go... at 1Mcredits per item soulfuse, f@#k!! I don't think I've accrued 1Mcredits in the past year lol



Edit: as an aside.... I had a staff I coulda offed into the EqShop for about 7700credits previously; now it's only gonna get me ~1500. What happened to gear values?

What happened to gear values?

Weapons don't have tiers anymore.

blah blah blah

That seems good. Now another question: Does the grade of an equipment decide the max number of PABs for it?

No, the internal drop counter.

I sense bait. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
Wonder how many will eat it. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif)

So does PFUDOR have 0% chance for Fair/Crude or just super low?

Nintendo and above have 0% Fair/Crude.

Are the numbers similar for high-level arena or RoB clear bonuses?

It takes a few minutes to get the numbers for every combo, but I'll be looking at them in time - preferably after more than just a day of data. The trend is quite clear, though.

Weapons don't have tiers anymore.

Aaaahhhhh... okay, thx.