They made some unannounced changes to the drops of these because there where no drops of the essense. :p
So now there is essense dropping like mad, but the petals is not dropping as much as they did in the beginning. :(
yeah, I preferred it the old way TBH.. 100% drop rate on the petals was great.. our party took turns at spamming the pickup to get 10 petals and a vit topup...
the drop rate of petals is such now that there's no point in making groups or even duo pending where you hunt as you will not be able to keep your vitaly up, gf
imo nc soft wants to promote solo & anti social behaviour lolz
i was doing some solo leving in cata and not even like that i had enough petals.. i kept losing them at level 4 or 5... and that's whilst keeping a big room empty at all times :S
As usual, NC has no sense of measure. They realised that 100% drop rate was too much maybe and decided to tuned it down. But they went overboard. Again. Pretty much what the do with classes. Take some random class-> Apply Godlike mode for a chronicle or two-> Send it to oblivion.
even awesome event ever can have some problems, for exemple this time rose petal are very hard to drop, and so wathever we like this event because rose petal, no because essence, essence is pollution, we want day 1 back with 100% rose petal drop and 0% essence drop :)
Tbh I could go without the essences, I was fine before without them and the 100% drop herbs. Don't really plan on ever using that 5min buff, never did.
The event is now making me really frusturated......
Rose petal drop rate gets nerfed, and we can't party. As a healer, party is essential... but no DD wants to party now. They want the rose petals/vitality 4, and they can't do it in a party.
Soloing sux for SE. Inquisitor mode is bad for EE and SE as we can't receive recharge. On top of all these, now i've lost rose petals at lv9.... three times in a row.
NCsoft members - please can you inform us about your changes during event?
1st day = 100% drop rate for petals
2nd day = 50% drop rate for petals 50% drop rate for essence
3rd day (today) = 10% drop rate for petals, 10% drop rate for essence (so each 4th mob drop something)
NCsoft members - please can you inform us about your changes during event?
1st day = 100% drop rate for petals
2nd day = 50% drop rate for petals 50% drop rate for essence
3rd day (today) = 10% drop rate for petals, 10% drop rate for essence (so each 4th mob drop something)
WTF?
Is it that bad? Because only today I will probably have a chance to start with this event :/ I really do HATE that they can't leave as players likes.... This game is all about exp more or less so yes! Please make us happy to see an increase of 5% at least...
if u guys are having trbl w vit, when ur companion starts the red buff animation to give u vit, click switch stance and sometimes it will give u vitality twice :)
there is probably some sort of quota on petal drops.
following the first day it has been working on a 24 hour distribution rate and with people farming places like Fog, and Tullys, Stakatos, and even Crypts...
the ratio at which the petals dropping is being spread more widely.
if everyone stopped AOEing for a day the drop rate would probably increase.
this is strictly speculation, but it is the same with the other events in the past.
there is probably some sort of quota on petal drops.
following the first day it has been working on a 24 hour distribution rate and with people farming places like Fog, and Tullys, Stakatos, and even Crypts...
the ratio at which the petals dropping is being spread more widely.
if everyone stopped AOEing for a day the drop rate would probably increase.
this is strictly speculation, but it is the same with the other events in the past.
Problem is that even in the AoE spots you describe above, you get lousy drop rate. 10-15 mob trains yield 1-3 petals, sometimes none at all.
NC managed to shoot themselves on the foot again. They created an event that everyone said "great" and they rushed to screw it (obviously the change they made was not tested enough). So typical.