Lodestones don't drop at all. Or did you hear they have a very small drop rate? You have to craft them. 1 Lodestone is 2 Crystals. 1 Crystal is 4 Shards, 1 Shard is 4 Fragments and 1 Fragment is 5 Slivers. Whatever that math is. 240 slivers?Lumi - I hit a round of 65 portals this morning with a small zerg but not a single Lodestone dropped for me. But at least you know you can hold onto your mats now.
Well, as it stands now - this change is a massive nerf to that grind. So its a good change in that it takes a lot less leg work to get the pieces. As Lumi pointed out to me yesterday, Corrupted Lodestone is an obnoxious grind. Out of all the 65 portals Ive ran, I didnt even have one for reference. I havent grinded the hell out of them, but I would say at least a handful of hours since the "fix" to do them was introduced.
Lumi pointed it out to me yesterday that they are crafted, memory slip on my part. I was under the assumption that they dropped in different tiers before that, so green, blue, purple then legendary and Corrupted Lodestone being the Legendary component - before he corrected me. A blue shard is all I got this morning.
I think I have gotten the 2nd tier as a drop, from a major breach. Maybe? But I've definitely never heard of a full lodestone dropping. Although with max stonecutting and a full stonecutting outfit you get quite a few extra. That'd be a neat use for luck tho, to have a higher chance at getting the higher tier ones. Luck infuriates me. I'm tired of my guild spam linking tropy materials with their inferior luck, while I've run 2x as much as any of them and still have literally 0 trophy materials. Pisses me off. They've all had 100k in trophy materials from all the runs, and I'm sitting here with lint. All I've had is 3 fucking dummy frames. God damnit.
They said there is bad luck protection, but I guess thats just related to water mark upgrades. Ive ran full luck gear around BW about 18 times now, and I havent gotten anything worth a fk - but at least Ill have every non valuable furniture and cooking recipe in the game. I would rather they some other routes to get these legendary materials for trophies rather than depending solely on luck. Or really just any other route other than RNG and/or auction house. Ive got plenty of money, enough to last me, but Im not going to be an idiot and just vaporize it all for more "luck" RNG in mining, or whatever.
There's no bad luck protection for trophy materials from chests. It's impossible with how many I've done while getting absolutely nothing. I have gotten 3 dummy frames, which fucked me hard because that could have been a Loaded Dice or whatever, but even then, I've gotten very little. I've gone days running 100 chests a day and not gotten anything purple or higher.
The corrupted lodestones don't drop I don't think or maybe they're just insanely rare. You have to combine the lower tier ones into them. I've done enough portals to have 8 of them now.
I just feel like they should tell the playerbase one way or the other. I'm trying to rush to 200 across the board, and if I'm just going to get flipped to level 160 when they roll this shit out, it would be nice to know.
Well, technically it still does and essentially it's still the same grind as basically camping the same mobs over and over. The only difference is that it's more randomized like Diablo style loot and you have to continuously kill mobs to increase the power of the loot they drop.
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