Oddity with drops
By
Chyll,
Posted on: 2011-02-15 05:39 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
A little confused.
V-merit?? Tips? shards?
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You know what Vanguard Merits, Tips, and Incarnate Shards are, right?
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Originally Posted by Chyll
A little confused.
V-merit?? Tips? shards? |
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ah, vanguard... yeah, I saw v-merits and thought Villain Merits.|
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
You know what Vanguard Merits, Tips, and Incarnate Shards are, right?
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thought maybe he meant one of the others and mis-typed. And my caffeine had clearly not kicked in. My post (in my head) read:
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I am a little confused by your question. Villain Merits do not drop. Do you mean Tips (since you mention them later in the post), or Shards perhaps? |
To more directly address the OP: I haven't run a lot of Borea or other content recently, but my elec/ tank likes rikti... I didn't notice any oddities in drops the last time he took a spin. I'll try to take him out and check.
City of Heroes was my first MMO, & my favorite computer game.
R.I.P.
Chyll - Bydand - Violynce - Enyrgos - Rylle - Nephryte - Solyd - Fettyr - Hyposhock - Styrling - Beryllos - Rosyc
Horryd - Myriam - Dysquiet - Ghyr
Vanysh - Eldrytch
Inflyct - Mysron - Orphyn - Dysmay - Reapyr - - Wyldeman - Hydeous
Something I've been noticing intermittently with tips and V-merits in particular, but not with salvage.
Been clearing some Borea missions to get V-merits for a couple of my toons.
On my granite, I was running +0x8 with bosses, and at no point did I get a V-merit off the first 3 groups I faced in a mission, ran about 4 or 5 missions.
On my blaster, I was running +0x2 no bosses. So spawn size was usually 5, and for the first 5 missions, I didn't get a V-merit in the first 5 spawns. Indeed in 2 of the missions I didn't get a V-merit at all before completion (6 and 7 groups).
Once V-merits start to drop in a mission, they seem to drop normally for the rest of that mission.
Have had this experience with tips in the past, where I'll kill ludicrous numbers of badguys (2000+ in one case) with no tips, and then once they start to drop, you'll get the next two in reasonable time. (and yes I do know how tip eligibility works, that wasn't the issue).
It doesn't always happen, but there just seems to be occasional days where it does, I'm wondering how the drops are handled and whether something has to "synch up" before you can drop tips or V-merits, and until it does, you won't get any.
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