Current drop rate system.

When the last release r38 was on, we had this new artifact drop rate which was pretty good. I could find one a day by farming about 6 hour a day. Now, i farm a week, and hardly find an artifact. The problem is, there is what, 60 artifact now? Not counting the recipe, and there will probably be more rare drop in the futur. So if i want to get all different artifact, it will take me about 30 year. The drop rate is wayyyyyy too low. I consider myself as a hardcore player, which play all day. Imagine the new incomers that play a casual 2-3 hour a day (which is still insane imo) and never get anything, how dull is this?

I know that some people can kill boss by duo or solo, and that should be impossible imo. But bosses should drop one each time. Everytime i ask my guild (which has alot of people on) to go bosses hunting you know what the anwser is? No. No one want to go boss farming because it takes too much time for a whole 0 loot most of the time. And not counting the death and xp lost. So the result of bosses fighting for most people is alot of pain, and no gain.

I dont know if you have plans or something about this but these need to be worked on. I played online games for 20+ year and this is the worse drop rate i have seen. Ill say something you probably heard a thousand times but which is true, people have lives. And those people will switch game just for that reason. This is a slow game, meaning you have to prepare before every battle, have to go back in town which takes a couple minutes to drop stuff in bank, sell stuff, repair gear, etc. Which come to ask myself the question, is it really worth it to play this game? Taking couple weeks to get 1 of the 500 skill to gm, just to kill monster and get nothing. I was really happy when r38 came out with the artifacts. I got my hand on about 8 different arti since then, out of the 30, took a month, with my farming rate. I was far away to get them all 30.. Now 60... and drop rate nerfed? This is disapointing.

I dont know what to say to convince you to raise the drop rate or change the system, i know its hard to think of a way to please everyone and not get tricked by some people that will finds way to get them faster than other. But there gotta be a change in this cause many people is already abandoning to farm stuff after 3-4 day of release. Cause they know they wont get stuff.

Another example. i farmed a kobold chain blade from kobold brawler for the pattern. Took me about 150 chainblade, that mean 150 kobold brawler killed, out of 700 monster total (counting all those around them, gunner, mechanical). All that for 1 pattern, which is pretty heavy but its okay. But i know some people will take more than that, and most of the guys in my guild are looking for another weapon, the katana. I went to restless wood to farm for katanas, but hey, the skeleton that drop them spawn randomly, the drop rate is random, and the chance to get a recipe is random. Your chance to get a katana pattern? Maybe 20x harder than kobold?. This is ridiculous :\

Maybe you are out of ideas, its possible, so here are some suggestions from my experiences in gaming:

- Luck
Add luck to drop rate, a variable that start at 1 going to 1000, which means 0.01% chance at 1 and 10% at 1000. The more monster you kill the more the luck variable get up +1. So the more mob you kill, the better chance you have. In partys, the rate would reset to 0 and an addition of 500 could be added to whole group luck. If you are 2, its 1500 point, 3, 2000 point etc.
(The calculs are probably bad, but that give an idea)

- Instances drops
I saw that message about instance closing in 60 minutes in the rises and that made me think the boss was dead. Not sure if it was the case or just a problem with the instance itself but that would be good to give good drop to bosses in instances, and make them non respawnable (if its not already this way) so people have to actually get out of the instance and come back in (which take more times), maybe make the way to the boss harder with a better respawn rate. So people will really fight for their loot and will have to be in group.

- More random rare bosses.
After killing a certain amount of monster in an instance, a random harder monster with a better drop rate could appear, and give better loot. First to kill first to get.

- Better drop balance on mobs/bosses
That would be the greatest and easiest idea so far, just raise it a little bit more and give every monster chance to drop artifact, low and bad artifact could be dropped from lower monster tier 3-6. Bosses should have those non-negative, hard to find artifact. (Or something around that) Its more complicated to adjust drop for every kind of monsters give better result, way better result.

Anyway, thats my tought about the drop system. Its a long post and im pretty sure not many will read it all but if you dev do please consider it.

 

Guess i am the only one to find the loot is crap. Many games i played was taking a couple weeks/months to get the stuff i wanted, here i dont see the end of it. If only the crap artifact would drop a bit more often that would give some hope, most crafted item are better than those anyway. I got another ring of luck after a week of playing (in rise, cause i got nothing other than in there yet). That isnt my definition of something exciting...

 

Nope but that could be a solution. To drop something random on monster like gem, scroll, more potions, . I farmed 45 minute in grundvall shard today and got a poison potion that last 15 second... This is the kind of disapointment im talking about. Artifact that are cheap could drop more often than artifact that are rare, instead of having them all in one lot or whatever it is and make them drop randomly between them, which give you even less chance of getting the good one when it finaly drop something. I got 2 copper weapon from monster drop, you know what, they were normal weapon, but i was still happy, that gave me some hope to get something and continue farming. I can create those in no time by crafting them but still, that was cool to know that could drop. Thats the kind of coolness missing in this game.

 

And yes the high level mages drop seem to drop more than other, why i have no idea, but its really exagerated the difference between a elven mage and a elven archer for example. Or a hardened skeleton footman and a skeleton mage (the high levels one). Even lich sharshooter and lich mage could give a bit better. They are in middle of ruins giving hope but nothing to loot. :\