Is it just me or is the drop rate for cantina battles getting worse. I know they havnt been great but I seem to be having worse luck. I've been farming wedge and I just simmed 16 battles and got 2 shards. It's never taken me this long to farm characters in cantina as its taking me for wedge. It took me no time to farm lando to 7 stars, unless the farther you get in cantina battles the smaller the drop rate is. Seeing how wedge is in stage 6 and lando is in 1. I promoted wedge to 6 stars last Saturday and as of now I only have 40 out of 100 shards to 7 star him. It just seems like it's taking longer than usually

Honestly, I've been observing a fantastic drop rate over the last couple weeks while farming Aayla. I frequently get 5+ shards per energy refresh (10 battles). Sometimes, I do only get 1 or 2 but I've had enough great drops to keep the average at or slightly above 1 in 3.

"phroxenphyre;837294" wrote:Honestly, I've been observing a fantastic drop rate over the last couple weeks while farming Aayla. I frequently get 5+ shards per energy refresh (10 battles). Sometimes, I do only get 1 or 2 but I've had enough great drops to keep the average at or slightly above 1 in 3.Any other character I usually got between 4 and 6 shards but the going rate for wedge for me seems to be 2 shards everytime. I usually sim 10 battles at a time and sometimes more

Try B2 :) i'm glad i'm done with that tin can

Lucky if i get 3 ayla shards a day from 2 refreshes. I thought wedge was bad but ive reached a new low with ayla

"phroxenphyre;837294" wrote:Honestly, I've been observing a fantastic drop rate over the last couple weeks while farming Aayla. I frequently get 5+ shards per energy refresh (10 battles). Sometimes, I do only get 1 or 2 but I've had enough great drops to keep the average at or slightly above 1 in 3.Same. Been farming TFP and the drop rate has been fantastic lately. Even went 26/40 one day.

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phroxenphyre
8 years ago
Honestly, I've been observing a fantastic drop rate over the last couple weeks while farming Aayla. I frequently get 5+ shards per energy refresh (10 battles). Sometimes, I do only get 1 or 2 but I've had enough great drops to keep the average at or slightly above 1 in 3.
Bill0207
8 years ago
"phroxenphyre;837294" wrote:
Honestly, I've been observing a fantastic drop rate over the last couple weeks while farming Aayla. I frequently get 5+ shards per energy refresh (10 battles). Sometimes, I do only get 1 or 2 but I've had enough great drops to keep the average at or slightly above 1 in 3.

Any other character I usually got between 4 and 6 shards but the going rate for wedge for me seems to be 2 shards everytime. I usually sim 10 battles at a time and sometimes more
IFlamthrowI
8 years ago
Try B2 :) i'm glad i'm done with that tin can
fkitaly
8 years ago
Lucky if i get 3 ayla shards a day from 2 refreshes. I thought wedge was bad but ive reached a new low with ayla
Wildcats1203
8 years ago
"phroxenphyre;837294" wrote:
Honestly, I've been observing a fantastic drop rate over the last couple weeks while farming Aayla. I frequently get 5+ shards per energy refresh (10 battles). Sometimes, I do only get 1 or 2 but I've had enough great drops to keep the average at or slightly above 1 in 3.

Same. Been farming TFP and the drop rate has been fantastic lately. Even went 26/40 one day.
JacenRoe
8 years ago
RNG.
DarthBarron
8 years ago
I started tracking my battles on 6Dec16: To date I have played 1196 battles and received 413 shards (34.5% Drop Rate). I normalized/excluded the double drops. I played Nodes 4-B / TFP and currently 4-D / G-Spy. The rates will vary day to day, some days below 20% other above 40%. It's just natural RNG from what I have seen.
JacenRoe
8 years ago
"Tigzie;837554" wrote:
"Riloc;837439" wrote:
I know this is all superstition and nonsense, but every time I do bulk rolls of 10+ I get terrible drop rates of 1 or 2. When I only do 2 at a time, I more often then not get 1. Yes, some times I'll do it twice and get nothing, but other times I get 2 for 2. True or not, I "seem" to have much better luck doing 2 at a time. At least this way I feel less frustrated by the rates :)

Never do bulk rolls only ever one at a time

That has absolutely no effect whatsoever. It's all random. Doing single rolls for better RNG is like carrying a rabbit's foot. Worthless superstition.
JacenRoe
8 years ago
"Tigzie;837573" wrote:
"JacenRoe;837560" wrote:
"Tigzie;837554" wrote:
"Riloc;837439" wrote:
I know this is all superstition and nonsense, but every time I do bulk rolls of 10+ I get terrible drop rates of 1 or 2. When I only do 2 at a time, I more often then not get 1. Yes, some times I'll do it twice and get nothing, but other times I get 2 for 2. True or not, I "seem" to have much better luck doing 2 at a time. At least this way I feel less frustrated by the rates :)

Never do bulk rolls only ever one at a time

That has absolutely no effect whatsoever. It's all random. Doing single rolls for better RNG is like carrying a rabbit's foot. Worthless superstition.

Perhaps. But I bulk rolled for ages and received usually 3-4 when I single roll I get minimum of 5-7 it may just be a superstition and it may not hold but to me my RNG has imbedded my superstition

Do you have tracking data to confirm there were sustained differences?
JacenRoe
8 years ago
I tracked drops for months that way. Always averaged out to 33% or so no matter what.