NA - Drop rate decreased confirmed
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 6:33 pm
Alright so I noticed after 5.6 launched in NA that the drop rate is so bad that past 66 lvl you won't be getting any mythic drops anymore, unless you grind like 10 hours to get 1 drop or something.
I usually enter luna daily, and then 2x fissure, and I use a 100% amulet. So when I am done with all these three entries, I still have like 35~40 minutes of amulet XP bonus, so I am burning it in Upper Abyss in 72~73 lvl mobs. Within the 35~40 minutes I would play, sometimes I would have 4 mythic drops.
Before 5.6 (at some point) I left my char afk for like 3 hours with the sidekick akumu for auto-scrolls and I had almost 3 rows of my inventory (3x9 = 18 slots) full of frostforged mythic items (head, body or even weapons)
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Now I only get junk and some +1/2/3 archdaeva manastones and cheap basic materials.
This is what I got in about 35 minutes of XP (the timer says 40 minutes but this is because I hit the reset on timer about 5 minutes before I started the actual grinding). Anyway it is 157 mobs killed, so time doesn't matter. I usually kill about 300~330 mobs per hour at that spot.

Then I asked on LFG if they screwed drop rates and everyone confirmed that NCSoft did this to harm the bots.
In reality they harm real players more, my char can still survive with the rest of the drops if I bot plenty of hours.
I usually enter luna daily, and then 2x fissure, and I use a 100% amulet. So when I am done with all these three entries, I still have like 35~40 minutes of amulet XP bonus, so I am burning it in Upper Abyss in 72~73 lvl mobs. Within the 35~40 minutes I would play, sometimes I would have 4 mythic drops.
Before 5.6 (at some point) I left my char afk for like 3 hours with the sidekick akumu for auto-scrolls and I had almost 3 rows of my inventory (3x9 = 18 slots) full of frostforged mythic items (head, body or even weapons)
~~~~~~~~
Now I only get junk and some +1/2/3 archdaeva manastones and cheap basic materials.
This is what I got in about 35 minutes of XP (the timer says 40 minutes but this is because I hit the reset on timer about 5 minutes before I started the actual grinding). Anyway it is 157 mobs killed, so time doesn't matter. I usually kill about 300~330 mobs per hour at that spot.

Then I asked on LFG if they screwed drop rates and everyone confirmed that NCSoft did this to harm the bots.
In reality they harm real players more, my char can still survive with the rest of the drops if I bot plenty of hours.