Can we all acknowledge that first day after the mutators update we were all getting INTERESTING (not necessarily great) named items that previously would be near impossible to see in the game.
Today my team and I did few mutation runs and it’s apparent that it’s no longer the case and VERY FEW NEW ITEMS can be encountered there, namely Instrumentality Ring (even 8 times per run).
Previously we could find items like Dusk, Absolute Terror, Weightless Sabre and many more and IT WAS FUN. Now the preview of mutations shows for example +40 “difficulty items” as an additional drop, but guess what- we are doing the mutation with GOLD 3 rating and all we get is 5-8 instrumentality ring per run + maybe 1 or 2 new skin armors.
They definetly changed something with the drops. I only did normal laz gen on first day and almost got all of the named drops legendary. Now i get a lot of purples again. I bet they overtuned the drops a bit thats why they rushed the 2nd patch out. That ring is a joke. I had 10 of them 1 run…
Something definetly happened, but it was a timer issue or sth, i did a mutation after the fix and got 20 named weapons in mutation 1, now on mutation 6 there is only the instrumentaliy ring and earring.
Either it was a timed event like happy hour for 3 days or something to create a hype to reel back in players, or it is a bug right now or it was a bug and they fixed it with the fix patch
I literally filled a storage shed with 1,000 weight of specific purple weapons that dropped, all brand new purple BoE weapons. I had so many that I had to salvage the bad ones as there was more loot than I could store and keep tabs on.
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I have not found a single one of those items in over 7 mutated runs since.
I have been refreshing Youtube, Reddit, and the forums looking for ANYONE talking about this, what on earth is going on?! This is Youtube scandal click-bait title gold mine stuff, guys!
Because they went ahead and removed the sole reason for excitement for doing these dungeons. you won’t be getting those items. However, you will be getting literally dozens of never-legendary instrumentality rings and earrings and BUNCH OF USELESS AUTO SALVAGE CRAP from the new table like life staffs with INT or Fire Staff with curated FOCUS.
WHO APPROVED THIS?
Ok so we did another full rotation of mutations. Reached level 9.
The drops from mutated dungeons are absolute GARBAGE. There is not even a glimpse or a chance for obtaining anything REMOTELY interesting since they removed the BoE named drops from the loot table.
Right now, once you naturally insta salvage all the green and blue garbage you will be left with purple garbage in for of instrumentality jewelry and those god awful armors that can’t even drop or upgrade to legendary - so you guessed it - insta salvage purples. Even when you occasionally get a legendary BOP drop, there’s a good chance it’s a spear with focus or some crap like that. There’s zero chance to get ANYTHING GOOD once you get all the named drop, yet AGS insists we KEEP GRINDING this chore of a gameplay.
You like what you see? Because that’s all you will be getting for spending HOURS AND HOURS doing the same boring crap that now just arbitrarily requires you certain GS number or you don’t do damage. How are you expecting us to repeat this content when after just 3 runs we already exhaust entire drop table and there’s no hope for dropping anything exciting anymore.
Awful. Just Awful. My entire group has over 1000 hours in this gam EACH and we just can’t take this anymore. You tease us on the PTR adding a large variety of drops to mutations just to take them away after day 1. This is the most insufferable grind I have ever seen and I was born and raised playing grindy MMO’S. New world simply is NOT REWARDING TO PLAY.
Same boring items every drop, every run. Items that due to being purple (not even having a possibility to drop on legendary) and not having specialized stats are of no interest for a team of players from which you expect them to already run a full Legendary Gear at 600-625 GS just to even attempt this mutations. In what world someone thought this would be an exciting or even useful possible drop if you won’t be able to even do level 2 diff without upgraded full legendary gear. In what world this is useful or rewarding?
I would agree there is something going on here, though whether it is intentional or not is yet to be determined, I still had a few pieces of gear under 600 expertise when the mutation update came out, as to not waste mutation orbs, I completed normal Laz and Gen runs to increase my Expertise.
The amount of legendary drops I was getting was great, I didn’t get all the named drops but I got a decent amount, a few keepers for my build, then I noticed at some point after 3 consecutive Gen runs I was only getting purples.
Decided to have a run at Mutations and just got endless purples, with nothing of use, since then I have run roughly another 8 Laz and 10 Gen normal runs to help out other players in our company, but have only received 1 named legendary drop and it was one that had dropped for me previously.
Even if the current state is what’s intended, I would like to know why the drops rates where so good for a short period of time after the initial patch.
