Drop Rate Reality

Even if it is just my subjective experience, I've also been experiencing a veeeery low drop rates on cantina battle. Since the updates of course. Doing 36 battle a day for JC, and usually getting 4/5 shards. I've never experienced that. My Geo soldier was 7* before my Sid and lumi. And now I'm grinding QGJ faster than JC.

Of course we need a lot of tries to get a solid statistic to say "Yes, drop rates have been lowered", but according to many player's experience, something changed.

The argument that it is just our feeling and it depends on days won't satisfied players very long, in my opinion.

"AbysmalDarkside;12992" wrote:
For everyone going for Jedi I have only got 4 Mace shards in the past 3 days. It should be obvious that they lowered the drop rates on purpose

I got 14 shards of him just today, with 36 attempts (3 full refills). Currently 55/65 for the fifth star, started to farm him when the Jedi event was announced.

The drops are fine.

Since the update it's been abysmal. Hard modes and cantina feel like they are dropping at 1/2 rate they use to be or worse. I do several refreshes a day. Complete waste of time running a full cantina refresh to get 1-2 shard max per refresh on GS. Use to be consistently 30-40%.

I doubt anything changed its just depressing

I notice everyone talking about the drop rate has anyone noticed how bad they are trying to screw us with the shard exchange? For every 5 shard you give to exchange we get 75 points. So in order to get an exchange we need to give 1600 worth of cantina/pvp / galactic points to get 2 shards of what they are offering (and we are supposed to get excited for an exclusive character that's only goin to be available in shard exchange) most of us won't see that merc til next year..... you will need to give 100$ a month to get close to having that merc any time soon total B.S in my opinion....screw over the f2p players so a few high rollers can have an exclusive merc

"AbysmalDarkside;12992" wrote:
For everyone going for Jedi I have only got 4 Mace shards in the past 3 days. It should be obvious that they lowered the drop rates on purpose .

I guess they must have overlooked me then. I unlocked Mace yesterday and I started farming him the day the Yoda event was announced. I only used the free energy plus any refills I could buy using crystals from dailies (so pretty much one refill per day). Today Mace is at 20/65 with 9 shards from this morning: 6 from 20 attempts at his cantina node plus 3/3 (yes, THREE FOR THREE!) from the mission.

All those who keep complaining about nerfed droprates - please keep a record of all your drops over a period of, say, two weeks. Make a note of which nodes/missions you attempted, for which characters and so on. You'll see how the rates even out in the end and are a pretty consistent 25-33%.

"Zen;121278" wrote:
And I don't believe the data anyways

So... why would anyone lie in what they are saying?

Also, if you need at least 50 attempts to have a valid sample (I'm curious why 50 and not 75, 100 or 237), you have just successfully destroyed any and all arguments most people complaining about droprates have, because the majority of posts go along the lines of "over the last few days" or "since the update". I really don't think they were able to get a sample of 50 attempts per node/mission in such a short time.

I've recently started working on Mace though not because of the yoda event rather I needed a new toon to focus on in the cantina. My rates have been about 25 to 30% since I started.

"Zen;121307" wrote:

I don't believe it is accurate is what I meant.

So a guy posting every single drop/attempt and providing percentage is not accurate. Someone starting 236th thread along the lines of "over the last few days my drops sucked" IS accurate? Is that what you're saying?

"Zen;121307" wrote:
All you have to do is read like all the posts complaining about the drop rate to realise that.

I have. And all YOU have to do is read the replies of people actually providing their averages (not just complaining that their drops are not up to their expectations) to see that there is no actual hard evidence to prove that the drops have been nerfed. It's all about the subjective opinion of the poster, nothing more.

"Zen;121307" wrote:
still others have already verified the rates

Yes, they have. And in the majority of those posts the average drop rate is around 1:3. Which is pretty much what it's always been. Maybe you can get 1:5 over a couple of days, but then you get 1:2 for a while and it evens out. Don't believe me, look at my numbers: I started farming Mace the day they announced you will need 5x5* Jedi to get Yoda. That was what, the second of February? Or the fourth. The announcement has since been deleted, but I think it was one of those days. At that point my Mace was at 1/80. Right now he's 20/65, meaning I farmed (79+20)=99 shards in that time. If we assume the announcement came on the second, that's 12 days. 99/12=8,25 drops per day. Since you get 120 free energy plus another 120 from a refill, that's 24 attempts daily. 8 shards out of 24 attempts: 8/24 = 1/3. That's more or less the droprate I've seen over the last 12 days. But hey, you don't have to take my word for it. You KNOW the drops have been nerfed. And if facts don't fit that theory... well, too bad for the facts, right?

"Zen;121466" wrote:
Do all the calculations you want, it's evident that the majority of people(including myself) are noticing a decrease. I don't need to convince anyone of that.

"Don't confuse me with facts -- I've made up my mind!"

"Zen;121307" wrote:

"Ring;121296" wrote:

"Zen;121278" wrote:
And I don't believe the data anyways

So... why would anyone lie in what they are saying?

Also, if you need at least 50 attempts to have a valid sample (I'm curious why 50 and not 75, 100 or 237), you have just successfully destroyed any and all arguments most people complaining about droprates have, because the majority of posts go along the lines of "over the last few days" or "since the update". I really don't think they were able to get a sample of 50 attempts per node/mission in such a short time.

I don't believe it is accurate is what I meant. All you have to do is read like all the posts complaining about the drop rate to realise that. I haven't successfully destroyed anything, I have done more than 50 cantina matches already not a node obviously but still others have already verified the rates and clearly you just contradicted yourself by saying I was wrong not to believe the data and getting 50 refills wouldn't have happened when 4 of the above samples actually have over 50 tries. Quit nitpicking asshole.

People who hsve average drops dont come to the forums to talk about their average luck and mediocre, run of the mill day of farming. Those with bad RNG do, that's why there are so many threads about bad luck streaks. But in all of those threads, other people post and say their drops are just fine.