Stycky

Drop rates are fine. Why? Take the total number of hours that people spend in instances and equate that with the number of masters. Then take the total number of hours people spend in KC and equate that with the lower masters.

It only looks like there is a huge discrepancy due to the amount of time overall that is spent in instances. Tons of people run instances all day long which equals the possibility of tons of master. Very rarely are people running about in KC and certainly not the volume of folks who run instances.

Personally, I have gotten 7 masters out of KC and don't spend much time there.

if you really want to get technical, masters should not even drop off anything but raid mobs. They certainly are not needed outside of raids.

Chemist

ding ding ding, we have a winner

Kizee

Yep! I always wondered why raiders had to farm heroic shit to get mastered.

SoE needs to eliminate them from heroic drops and up the drop rate in raids.....FOR THE PEOPLE THAT NEED THEM.

Vainamoinen

and, then, make them no-trade.

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Mahsta

Minor quibble - Even if people spent equal time in the contested dungeons that drop 71-74 masters, there would be less masters from the contested dungeons than the instances. Respawn times and placeholders reduce the drop rates per unit of time spent farming.

That being said the only problem I have is that SOE does not include 71-74 masters in the raid zone loot tables.

Stycky

You do have a point, but also keep in mind trash can drop random master chests. More trash in KC than in any of the instances. Basically I was more or less trying to show that the numbers only seem that far off because of the amount of time spent in one vs. the other.

Slippery

Your comparison oh time spent fails simply because the amount of available content to get the masters from is not equal.

Stycky

It certainly is. I have seen 71-75 masters in KC, Chardok, and even Seb. Those 3 combined are much bigger than all of the instances combined minus raids.

Slippery

They are rare as hell in chardok and seb. Even if you include Chardok and Seb which also drop the 75-80 masters in a far larger quantity than 71-74 you still amount to a lot less content dropping the lower level ones then the higher level ones.

Mahsta

SOE should just put all the masters in the raid zone loot tables. Simply add the masters to the zones that require their use. Imagine that! What a novel concept!