A (Short) Rant on Master Drop Rates

Gwanath · 04-16-2008, 02:29 PM

Ok, I've been 80 for almost two months now and I run at least 2 instances every day and try to run 5 when possible. (CoA, MC, VoES, Chelsith, and CoK) That being said, after two solid months of doing instances I've seen a total of 18 master drops. Exactly one of them has been a wizard master. I've won a couple others and sold or handed them to guildies, but the market for Wizard masters on butcherblock is freaking bare.

All that being said, I have serious complaints about the drop rate on master chests. I've done CoA and seen 3 master chests drop, then gone for a week and not see another one. Does anyone else find that a bit ridiculous?? Is it really SoE's intent that you either have ungodly amounts of plat to buy your spells with (assuming they're on the market of course) or that you have to farm for a bloody year to get mastered out? Now someone is going to bring up raiding T8 zones and that masters drop there and should be distrubted fairly, and in my guild they are, but the drop rate is still horrendous. You might get one master on a PR run... if you're lucky... and you helped the old lady in your apartment complex take out the trash for the last 2,347 days. It isn't a whole lot better for the other instances. Even VP doesn't drop Masters very often.

So, to SoE Devs, increase the damn drop rate on masters already!

Illuminator · 04-16-2008, 02:31 PM

Fuck that, just sell them at the mage tower for gobs of plat. The game hurts for money sinks anyway.

agressiv · 04-16-2008, 02:33 PM

Good luck getting the 71-74 masters, too. Those were for the most part, only in Karnor's, but instead of adding them to instances/raiding, they added them to Chardok/Sebelis.

Master drop rate in Karnors is pretty low, but probably better than the instances. Still nothing like SoS or certainly nothing like SH/FG/RoV/RE.

agressiv

Virulence · 04-16-2008, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Illuminator

Fuck that, just sell them at the mage tower for gobs of plat. The game hurts for money sinks anyway.

actually selling masters starting at 50 plat per and then modifying the price on sliding scale dependent on demand would be quite interesting. San Francisco is going to start doing this with parking meters, no parking at night, price near free but during rush hours price will be incredibly high. That way if you have the money you can istantly secure what you want, offer a cash sink for the game yet still perserve players making a profit off drops by slightly undercutting the vendor.

Kizee · 04-16-2008, 03:53 PM

I never understood why you needed to farm HEROIC content for masters.

IMO the only way you should be able to get masters is from raids. After the people that NEED them get mastered out then they will trickle down to the grouper/soloers.

SoE seriously needs to up the master drop rate in raids. Every named should drop a master spell.

Gwanath · 04-16-2008, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Kizee

I never understood why you needed to farm HEROIC content for masters.

IMO the only way you should be able to get masters is from raids. After the people that NEED them get mastered out then they will trickle down to the grouper/soloers.

SoE seriously needs to up the master drop rate in raids. Every named should drop a master spell.

Alternatively, it wouldn't be so bad if raid named dropped masters every time and they left the heroic drop rate where it's at. That would give people running instances a rare treat to recieve and yet still allow guilds to master out their raiders without having to farm heroic content.

icKx · 04-16-2008, 04:17 PM

Putting them as a guaranteed drop on names seems little overboard to me, but there should be an increase in raid drops, especially the lvl 71-74 spells.

gungo · 04-16-2008, 04:22 PM

I have been 100% mastered since February. Most people in guild only need 1-3 masters. We are not even halfway through an expansion and people expect to be 100% mastered on all their toons. Although i wouldnt care if raid loot tables had a chance at all 71-80 masters. I do not think they should have 100% Master drop rates. Thats a bit excessive for people who are lazy.

Vydar · 04-16-2008, 05:00 PM

The 71-74 masters are a bit tough to get. I have 24 tier 8 masters on my zerker, 8 on my assassin, 14 on my conjy, 11 on my dirge... so I'm not doing too bad on masters. I just need a few more key ones of the 71-74's.

Snark · 04-16-2008, 05:04 PM

I woudl say leave masters as they are, and allow us to spend status to upgrade a spell to master quality at our trainers. It would have to be a lot, maybe 750,000-1,000,000, but just having the option would be glorious (especially for people who feel the need to mentor/farm for unupdated masters [that makes no fucking sense!])