#15

Greyham3 and Mayhem 3, a bit rhyming aren’t they?
That was what I thought when I replied to you…

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#16

That’s why we want an official explanation from Gearbox. So based off your own experiences so far, do you feel that the anointed droprates are still the same as during the Week 4 event? I would like to see others who are of the opinion that there is nothing wrong with the droprates.

#17

haha, technically it’s Greyhame, so should not rhyme at all. I changed all the “e” to “3”, back when I was full of youthful ignorance. I think it could also be that the nickname “Greyhame” was taken back in those MIRC days, so I had to adapt.

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#18

Fundamentally I don’t like this “limited time event” concept at all. It feels like being spoon fed or manipulated as a player. If I play a lot during the event period, I get 10x the usual drop. Thus is the incentive for me to play. This mechanism is not enjoyable.
The good dev team focuses on the quality, depth and art style which will last much longer than a few pieces of gears.

#19

Miscommunication. :joy:

#20

Nothing wrong with wanting an answer at all. There have been other threads? At least one thread anyway, on this. I’m just correcting people who are trying to amp this up along some kinds of personal lines, using language like “betrayed” and all that.

It’s difficult for me to tell, because not only did the 31st have a dramatic increased in Anointed drops, but I’ve also been farming Ghosts pretty much exclusively. People aren’t sure if Ghosts are affected by drop rates or not (this was in the other thread), which makes analysing this very difficult.

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#21

Am pretty sure they are. You can easily tell by farming in a spot with no ghosts, like Graveward, or doing say, a run-through in Athenas without killing any ghosts compared to when all ghosts are killed. I am quite sure just 1 set of those Athenas runs will be able to confirm that most of the anointed drops now are from ghosts, which seem to have kept the Mayhem on Twitch drop rates.

And when you say dramatic increase, does this mean in relation to the Mayhem on Twitch event before that from 22 to 31 Oct?

#22

Specifically with regards to the 31st, I can’t remember if it was a Tweet or what. There was an increase specifically for the night of Halloween (regardless of any other rates last week, vs. any rates now).

#23

The increase for Halloween was for more haunted enemies and thus ghosts, which meant more “anointed drops” since ghosts still carried the Week 4 buffed drop rates. The anointed drops for all the other sources were clearly much lower after the 31st hotfix. I am yet to see anyone tell me that they had the same rate of anointed drops from non-ghost sources after the 31st hotfix.

#24

I didnt see any nerf to anointed Items, I still get a bunch everytime, like the event week.

#25

Again, where do you get them from? Drops from ghosts? And define a bunch - is it 20% of the drops? 30%? Because it used to be around 80% before the 31st hotfix.

#26

from everything, i’d say its 60-80% depending on how RNGesus feel.

#27

No, what I meant was you should NOT INCLUDE the drops from ghosts. Try killing Graveward a few times and tell me how many anointed items drop. I have done so a couple of hundred times since the 31st hotfix and I can say it is consistently about 20% or so of the items being anointed. If I am in Heck or killing mobs in Athenas or SS, then sure, 60% to 80% is about right since I take out the ghosts as well.

#28

i did graveward and gigamind and everythinge else. I’m not gonna agree with you just cause you want to, I already told you I dont see any change.

#29

Wait, so you are saying that you get 60 to 80% of your drops being anointed when you kill Graveward? You are the first person to tell me that.

I would love to post a few screenshots of how my typical Graveward drop looks like now, but not sure what is the best way to go about doing so

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#30

Graweword drops way less anointed items, I notice that for sure.
Been farming him like crazy last couple days for white elephant artifact.

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#31

Yes, grave seems to drop 20% annointed. That’s any rarity, white to orange.

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Not sure if I can post this here, but these are my last 5 Graveward drops. Bar the one outlier where 5 anointed drops, the rest of the drops were mainly 2-3, even 0 anoined drops too in Run 5. Should even out to about 20% if increase the sample size.

I am running on TVHM Mayhem 3, with 14.83% luck from Guardian Ranks.

#33

I have a hypothesis: annointed drop rates were lowered because the imminent addition of M4. If they boosted drop rates beyond Mayhem week’s, it would be ridiculous. I think that’s something they realized, but they can’t backtrack that statement because it’d create more controversy.

#34

They could easily make it so that the anointed rates for Mayhem 3 and 4 are the same, while introducing the “Mayhem 4” only items that they talked about.