After terrible rng when farming OR characters...

"Whatelse73;c-1824866" wrote:

"jhbuchholz;c-1824635" wrote:

"Whatelse73;c-1824633" wrote:

"Ultra;c-1819615" wrote:

"Whatelse73;c-1819265" wrote:

"Ultra;c-1817001" wrote:
Character shards have a 33% drop rate and purple gear has a 20% drop rate

You're in for a ride

However, as I hear, the last time someone tried to do a "scientific" long-term drop rate study, they were told to "stop it!" by someone important. Why? Because drop rates get "massaged" from time to time.

I stopped using Facebook to avoid this kind of vague pulled out of thin air misinformation

I'm not a part of any SWGOH facebook group and what I said was stated by a game changer.....

Source?

Here is a very recent long(ish) term study documented in these very forums: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/196365/new-old-republic-characters-drop-rates-day-28-completed/p1

Yep, only a month long "study" which really doesn't mean much in the long-term. It's good for tracking purposes leading up to the event and during. The one I heard about was a year-long study of drop rates which would've been more indicative of actual rates and would've shown how drop rates go up and down during certain times and certain events.

Good info on that one though, but during the same timeframe I was getting 1, maybe 2 a day from the three characters I needed to farm for D Revan. But I didn't do any node refreshes, just the basic 8 per day on each.

Once again, do you have a source for this year-long study that was shut down? It sounds like, at best, third hand knowledge.

And you're refuting a data driven study of over 1300 attempts across 4 weeks with "I was getting 1, maybe 2 a day" ? I'm not sure the two are comparable.