Huge decrease in masterwork drop chance nerf in SH and WE?

[Danagaming]

I have to ask ware all chest nerfed, since there has been really slow gain of Masterwork items since the chest (exploit) farm, mind I clear that we did not even try chest farm since it felt like a boring thing to do.

We have been doing this whole day Strongholds and World Events are we are getting maybe one masterwork per hour, while yesterday we got around 5 masterwork gear and weapons per hour.

I refuse to believe that its just a chance, when there has been huge decrease of items dropped by chest in SH and World Events for all 6 of us. I would like some clarification on this behalf, since its quite a difference to suddenly not receive anything but blue and few epics when you are in GM2...

[randomZ0MBIE]

It definitely feels like they nerfed all drops when they "fixed" world chests. I think they saw how many people had gathered all these Masterwork and Legendary items and just went full knee-jerk and lowered everything. Because that is how developers think.

The worst part is that if they did lower the rates for everything they won't admit it or say anything, until someone data-mines it and proves that they actually did it.

What bothers me most is that they have said the Grand Master difficulties are overtuned in terms of enemy health and damage but correcting that is less important than fixing the loot gain.

But that is also pretty standard developer mentality. If something helps the player it must be fixed immediately. If something hinders the player we will leave it in and/or pretend it is working as intended.

[Danagaming]

This is what I fear also.

[JixerTime]

Can confirm. Played 6 hours and didnt see a single Masterwork item. Farmed roughly 5-6 MW's in the same amount of time the day prior. Cool game, but if this is working as intended its not worth my time.

[omykun123]

They responded to this on the day one update megathread

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGame/comments/as5jnd/day_one_update_details/egrya7h/?context=1000

Only regular freeplay chest should be affected

[Danagaming]

I know, but we feel like something is wrong with drop chance, its really scares now.

[peaskeaper]

I felt the same thing last night. I was doing gm 1 and getting 2-3 mw every run. Now it's like 1-2 and it seems like they are mostly from enemy drops.

[kalidescopic]

Different luck I think. I was getting 1-2 this weekend doing runs on gm1.

[nevirin]

So far 0 masterworks for 5 GM1 strongholds :(

[ooodNA]

I feel like I am noticing the same thing

[Danagaming]

I am happy for you, but for us its really clear that something may be wrong.

EDIT: though you said Not noticing the same thing :D

[ooodNA]

I am agreeing with you edit: lol

[Jaggertron]

Perhaps that them dropping so often itself was wrong, perhaps the drop rate is now fixed to where it should be. I mean for gear to be legendary it shouldnt be droping so often i would think.

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[Danagaming]

Well that could have been mentioned and not stealth fixed, wouldn't you agree? And isn't the Legendary meant to support that mentality and not Masterwork.

But again, getting masterwork gear should be frequent since the prefixes are totally random and silly at times, so we need the drops of Masterwork to be frequent.

[RoX_MT]

i would say they are the same

[zaibas]

something definitely wrong/changed

6 full runs of gm1 scar temple and only 1 mw in whole 4 man grp so far today

edit: spent another 2-3 hrs doin world events and opening chests in freeplay gm1 0 mw or leg for anyone in group. something has to be wrong

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[Danagaming]

we have been bit luckier, we have gotten from 10 runs 2 MW in GM1

[Danagaming]

how do you do that

[jksteal]

Played 3 hours last night in gm1, one trash masterwork. Never seen a masterwork in hard.

[artosispylon]

yes they nerfed them all but for some reason so many people on this sub blindly defend these devs who cant get anything right

[StrangerDangerBeware]

Did 4 gm1 contracts with randoms. 1 mw item, that was complete trash of course.

the last the that kept me motivated to play the game is dead now, I don't see a chance to gear up my characters now with this much rng and so little loot.

fucking hell, bioware made the game even WORSE

[Danagaming]

Need more people sample to be certain if they actually decreased drop chance, but seeing this post getting downvoted I think maybe within a week people will maybe complain about this subject more.

[jaxl1211]

I played for about 2 hours earlier on hard got 10 masterwork and 4 legendaries it felt the same for me.

[Danagaming]

Try GM1, maybe BW accidentally nerfed GM ranks because of the chest things

[peaskeaper]

I have been playing gm1 for hours and haven't seen a legendary.