Has anyone else noticed a drastic drop in the drop rates since they nerfed the farming ability? Just today alone I'm 2/40 combined between ls/ds ship nodes. It's getting ridiculous and makes me want to just give up entirely on the game.I got a few yesterday on carth and 1 the day before. But before that i hadn't gotten a single shard since they lowered the count.

It's not less attempts vs less shards. It's percentage of attempts that yield shards. Most people say the drop rate is around is 30% or so. Since the drop in # of attempts, the % (at least for me) has gone way way down. It was at like 20ish or so before hand, but now it's in single digits.

Unlucky streaks are more noticable with less attempts per refresh but overall drop rates seem to be unchanged.

I got 0 shards for Jango yesterday and today as well as 0 Wicket shards today and 0 shards for Embo something definitely is up that has never happened to me before it's bullshit

"Altaki1006;c-1839738" wrote:I got 0 shards for Jango yesterday and today as well as 0 Wicket shards today and 0 shards for Embo something definitely is up that has never happened to me before it's *****rolls eyes* can you not whine so much about a little bad luck that isn't remotely unusual or new?

I definitely “feel” like I’m getting less on the Carth node, but I know that by the end of the farm it’ll be close to the expected drop rate. These past few days of 0 and 1 are demoralizing, but I’ll hit a few days with 3 and 4 and it’ll all be forgiven.

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mattinger
6 years ago
It's not less attempts vs less shards. It's percentage of attempts that yield shards. Most people say the drop rate is around is 30% or so. Since the drop in # of attempts, the % (at least for me) has gone way way down. It was at like 20ish or so before hand, but now it's in single digits.
Rath_Tarr0
6 years ago
Unlucky streaks are more noticable with less attempts per refresh but overall drop rates seem to be unchanged.
altaki1006
6 years ago
I got 0 shards for Jango yesterday and today as well as 0 Wicket shards today and 0 shards for Embo something definitely is up that has never happened to me before it's bullshit
SataiOtherGuy
6 years ago
"Altaki1006;c-1839738" wrote:
I got 0 shards for Jango yesterday and today as well as 0 Wicket shards today and 0 shards for Embo something definitely is up that has never happened to me before it's ****

*rolls eyes* can you not whine so much about a little bad luck that isn't remotely unusual or new?
Haunting_Kmety
6 years ago
I definitely “feel” like I’m getting less on the Carth node, but I know that by the end of the farm it’ll be close to the expected drop rate. These past few days of 0 and 1 are demoralizing, but I’ll hit a few days with 3 and 4 and it’ll all be forgiven.
Nikoms565
6 years ago
Now track the data for several weeks and report back....like the people who have actually reported the 30-33% drop rate for character shards across all nodes regardless of situation have done. I'll let you guess what you're going to come up with.

TL;DR - it's 30-33%, like it's been for the past 3+ years. No they don't hate you. No they didn't change it.
cstonelsx812
6 years ago
It does feel like I’m barely getting anything now.
f15xwing
6 years ago
My drop rates are like ant-man taking out Thanos.
AequitasVeritas
6 years ago
Absolutely noticeable.
MasterSeedy
New Ace
6 years ago
I got 0 shards for Jango yesterday and today as well as 0 Wicket shards today and 0 shards for Embo something definitely is up that has never happened to me before it's ****

Exactly. This is how RNG works: You always get the average shards and you never get a run of bad luck. Lots of shards? You got good luck. No shards? Obviously a conspiracy to change the drop rate without telling anyone, because what is RNG if not completely, utterly dependable?

I mean, that complete dependability in providing minimum rewards is why they call it RNG, right?