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Low Gear Drop Rates - Glitch or Intentional? Something's Not Right


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Even with VP the drop-rate is insanely low. Ppl here have already tried that and came up with 1 in 15 or something similar. Plus, I could max out my uncommon gear from Rebellion with my initial 88 PSP I bought on its release without problems.

Modifié par Siran, 05 août 2012 - 06:59 .


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^ What he said. I gave up after buying at least 20 Veteran packs myself. Found they were dropping more frequently (so-called "Uncommon" Earth DLC gear) in Spectre Packs. That said, the so-called "Uncommon" Earth DLC gears still dropped slower than the Typhoon and Particle Rifle -- which I leveled both to X -- yet somehow only managed to land 9 out of 20 so-called "Uncommon" Earth DLC gear drops. So I simply stopped buying a couple of days after maxing all of my Ultra-Rares. Figured Bioware would have realized what was going on and fixed it by now.

Looks like I was wrong :\\

Modifié par freemyheart, 05 août 2012 - 08:22 .


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OneTrueShot

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Ranked 63 globally, got everything but two levels of UR (Harrier X and Typhoon X)

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OneTrueShot wrote...

Ranked 63 globally, got everything but two levels of UR (Harrier X and Typhoon X)


Im on par with you as far as UR, but still have 10 uncommon gear cards to go and 12 rare gear cards. Just find that very odd. All I buy are PSP

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PrebuiltTub wrote...

OneTrueShot wrote...

Ranked 63 globally, got everything but two levels of UR (Harrier X and Typhoon X)


Im on par with you as far as UR, but still have 10 uncommon gear cards to go and 12 rare gear cards. Just find that very odd. All I buy are PSP


I buy a mixture based on the credits I have.

For example, two platinum runs is 2 PSP and 1 SP.

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i've been getting ammo and ultra rares over gear... very annoying

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making an ongoing record of all my unlocks and posting the probabilities on bsn.  here is the thread: 
social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/343/index/13527160

so far, rare gear has a lower % chance than ultra rares.

Modifié par artificial-ignorance, 05 août 2012 - 09:29 .


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artificial-ignorance wrote...

making an ongoing record of all my unlocks and posting the probabilities on bsn.  here is the thread: 
social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/343/index/13527160

so far, rare gear has a lower % chance than ultra rares.


Keep it up :)

#284
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Up in case Bioware still checks these forums.

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freemyheart wrote...

Up in case Bioware still checks these forums.



This^

PLEASE AT LEAST COMMENT ON THIS THREAD BIOWARE.

Modifié par x SHIRO x, 06 août 2012 - 09:45 .


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N7-Commander wrote...

Just out of curiosity, ever consider that a big reason so many people have trouble with gears is because a lot of them are Uncommon, and they're trying to get them through Spectre packs? Vetern Packs are alrightish for getting uncommon gear.


I recently bought 600,000 credits worth of Veteran Packs:  i got a single Structural Ergonomics.  That is not good value for credits IMO.

Earth Uncommons are glitched or too low a drop rate for me to bother trying to unlock.

#287
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...Ignored?

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Up. Waiting for comments....

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rka001 wrote...

Up. Waiting for comments....


I wonder how long we have to wait?

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The saga continues...2 Ultra-Rares from SPs over the weekend, 1 "Uncommon" Gear.

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This really is a problem

#292
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Stinja wrote...

N7-Commander wrote...

Just out of curiosity, ever consider that a big reason so many people have trouble with gears is because a lot of them are Uncommon, and they're trying to get them through Spectre packs? Vetern Packs are alrightish for getting uncommon gear.


I recently bought 600,000 credits worth of Veteran Packs:  i got a single Structural Ergonomics.  That is not good value for credits IMO.

Earth Uncommons are glitched or too low a drop rate for me to bother trying to unlock.

The sad thing is Structural Ergonomics isn't even the Earth DLC gear. I'm sure you already know that, but I wanted to make it clear to others.

Hopefully Bioware isn't on holiday and can respond sometime in the next year or seven to this ongoing issue.

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freemyheart wrote...

Hopefully Bioware isn't on holiday and can respond sometime in the next year or seven to this ongoing issue.


They must have seen this by now, question is, why are they ignoring it?

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x SHIRO x wrote...

freemyheart wrote...

Hopefully Bioware isn't on holiday and can respond sometime in the next year or seven to this ongoing issue.


They must have seen this by now, question is, why are they ignoring it?


Probably have to get permission from legal or whatever to comment on it. I don't care if they comment on it or not. I just want them to go into the store and fix it.

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Yeah. I generally pick Veteran Packs in order to max the Uncommon gear, and from the last 10 packages I had no gear, just ammo. Previously I managed to get quite a few gears from them.

I hope they fix this soon.

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BW please respond to this.

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ollpet wrote...

BW please respond to this.


More 'actual' Earth DLC character & weapon drops, as well as gear bonus, from the PSPs.

Less Sniper Rifles & Shotguns.

I swear this game wants me to use a shotgun or sniper rifle. That's all I get from the premium packs. No, I'm not expecting everything to be handed on a platter, but atleast increase the drop rate or something. Playing for several hours just to earn guns/characters that I don't even want are a pain.

BW, please address this.

Modifié par lboog_081284, 06 août 2012 - 04:39 .


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I wish we'd stop calling it a "store."

A store lets you decide what items you're going to buy. We're not picking items, we're picking lottery tickets that give us varying levels of items. Because this is a lottery, not a store.

And the only people that really win lotteries are the people running them.

I've gotten to the point where grinding through yet another iteration of the same waves to make credits to maybe get another 1/10th of a decent weapon or 1/5th of a useful gear just isn't something I want to do. This isn't fun.

Remember Chuck E. Cheese, where you could play skee-ball and whatnot to get tickets, that you could turn in for crappy "prizes" that were worth maybe 5 cents - $5? (Maybe if you collected 100,000 tickets, something worth $25 or more!) And it cost you 25 cents a go on the skee-ball machine... as you can imagine, the investment to reward ratio wasn't kind to the player. But they don't expect kids to suss this out, being distracted by playing the game. And, you know, being kids.

This is the same thing. Except the "prizes" aren't even real, and the skee-ball game is harder/less enjoyable unless you have some of the best "prizes" to begin with.

And EA thinks its customers (us) are enough like naive kids distracted by the game (even if it's slightly broken) that we won't figure out this is a waste of time, and move on to something that's actually still fun after a while.

Modifié par Darth Nikon, 06 août 2012 - 07:36 .


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Darth Nikon wrote...

I wish we'd stop calling it a "store."

A store lets you decide what items you're going to buy. We're not picking items, we're picking lottery tickets that give us varying levels of items. Because this is a lottery, not a store.

And the only people that really win lotteries are the people running them.

I've gotten to the point where grinding through yet another iteration of the same waves to make credits to maybe get another 1/10th of a decent weapon or 1/5th of a useful gear just isn't something I want to do. This isn't fun.

Remember Chuck E. Cheese, where you could play skee-ball and whatnot to get tickets, that you could turn in for crappy "prizes" that were worth maybe 5 cents - $5? (Maybe if you collected 100,000 tickets, something worth $25 or more!) And it cost you 25 cents a go on the skee-ball machine... as you can imagine, the investment to reward ratio wasn't kind to the player. But they don't expect kids to suss this out, being distracted by playing the game. And, you know, being kids.

This is the same thing. Except the "prizes" aren't even real, and the skee-ball game is harder/less enjoyable unless you have some of the best "prizes" to begin with.

And EA thinks its customers (us) are enough like naive kids distracted by the game (even if it's slightly broken) that we won't figure out this is a waste of time, and move on to something that's actually still fun after a while.


Also, a Chuck E. Cheese employee would never come by and cut an arm off of your stuffed bear after you paid for it with tickets.  But Bioware sees no problem with nerfing ultra rares that most of the player base hasn't even unlocked yet. 

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ultra rares seem to be dropping way more often than a couple months back when i was playing. Just started up again and ive recieved UR after UR through premium spectre