After terrible rng when farming OR characters...

"jhbuchholz;c-1824882" wrote:

"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.

If you watch and listen to the game changers' youtube streams and videos, you'd know who and what. I've heard it more than once. I'm not going to say who specifically to put them in hot water or cause them to get 1000 questions about it they don't want to answer. There are only a few current and former game changers that are fairly active on youtube with swgoh.

As well, I wasn't "comparing" my experience as fact compared to the 28-day long "study". I was indicating that's what my experience was. I'm sure others got a lot better drop rate. And good for him for getting that rate for drops. I'm sure some people got 4-6 per 8 sims a day. If someone else wants to do a year long study of drop rates, have at it and see what it shows. I'm sure many of us would be curious to see what it says.