Yah it seems like 1 per hour. I played for like 4 hours today and got exactly 4 keys. They need to make that shit a bit more common, like WTF? I killed dozens of those mofos.
I have not done any other seasonal type events in this game, this is my first so I ahve nothing to compare to, but man, that shit is kinda weak for all the hooplah surrounding it. At least I got my lexington.
Yeah, without joining a group the whole thing is completely impractical. If you really want to do it as fast as possible, matchmake for Open World Exploration and keep leaving until you get a group that's on Normal or Hard with no directives on. Might take a few tries because there's tons of idiots making the whole thing unnecessarily tedious. I did my 200 keys on challenging and it was retarded. Every ronin had to be killed 2-4 times because of their endless supply of medkits. And that was with me making a conscious effort to be right in their faces and ready to melee/shield slam them to interrupt. Even doing that, half the time they just say fuck you and heal anyway. Yeah, the loot is shit on low difficulty but the whole time I was in a targeted loot zone for backpacks there wasn't a single thing that I kept. Every loot drop was just grab the key and hold Lstick to dismantle.
In the end, I got 4 Lexingtons, enough Caretakers and First Blooms to get their expertise about half done, 5 shitty prototypes that turned into cores, 4 Turmoils, 4 Investors, and at least one each of the hunter weapons/chest so that I can buy them from Cassie when she has a godroll without having to do the hunter stuff. Also a big pile of random trash turned into expertise or exotic comps, and still 50 keys leftover after all that plus 80 donated and 30 used on apparel. Not going to say that the event isn't as bad as I was bitching about yesterday though, because there's no way I'd have gotten it done even in three weeks without cheesing spawn rates.
FYI the way the spawn bug works is you have to be in a group that was started by someone who then leaves. Leader gets passed to someone else and you can carry on farming, but for whatever reason it makes the ronins spawn endlessly. People keep saying it's going to be patched soon, but the same exploit was used for the Krampus event back in December and they didn't fix the bug then either, so... I'd still try to get it over with ASAP though, just because there will be many more groups doing it now then in a week or two.
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Damn shame that iKia quit because of how badly Massive botched escalation and prototype gear. I guess that was the final straw for him. The spreadsheet and docs were especially helpful for figuring out how to gear a Pestilence build properly. Most people get the math wrong on what actually makes the DoT ticks huge.
