Have drop rates been changed (purples)?

If you want your purple drop rate to increase, you have to /em calculate. Wait for the precise moment when the millisecond timer and your ping on the computer syncs perfectly with the server. From there, /em filelawsuitagainstarachnos and hope for the best.

/sarcasm

Had to do it. Honestly though, I got 3 purples 2 days in a row. I've not seen a purple drop since the initial Closed Beta testing of the IOs. The best I've gotten since then was a respec recipe, 3 days after the live release, then I hadn't seen anything of the sort since.

I seem to get a purple drop on average every other month or so figuring from when they were introduced. Very occasionally I get a couple in a short period then usually nothing for a long time.

In the last week I've gotten FIVE Calibrated Accuracy drops. I counted them... FIVE of the worthless (in every sense of the word) pieces of junk. The most valuable drop I've gotten this week was a Mako that sold for around 3 million. On the other hand I had a raft of fairly high dollar drops about a week ago that were in the 20-40 million range so as the saying goes average is average.

It's funny for me, because my Stalker has been sitting at 50 for a long time now. I play my Stalker semi-regularly, but have only received maybe one or two purple drops since they were introduced.

Then I play my Tanker, and I swear no longer than 15 minutes after hitting level 47 I get my first purple recipe. Pretty decent one too, sold for around 400,000,000 INF.