Have you ever reliably had a drop rate HIGHER than the alleged 1/3 for Mk 3 Sienar Holo Projector? I find myself beyond excited when I actually hit anywhere near the 1/3 benchmark. I’m so accustomed the numbers closer to 1/8th, which would be 5 pieces of gear for 3 full refreshes, or one or two pieces of gear per energy refresh.
It’s gotten to the point where I wince every time I hit Sim 20 because I’m afraid of the absurdly low numbers I get every time. Feels like I’m literally tossing crystals and energy into the trash, but how else am I supposed to get the thousands of pieces I need? RNG dictates I should be seeing good drop rates at some point to balance out somewhere near 1/3 over time... But it just isn’t happening. Any one else felt the same?
PS anyone that thinks they’re particularly witty or feels like they’re about to drop some knowledge about RNG or the laws of large numbers: don’t. I know how it works.
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Check out the guild shop. So easy to get holos there now. Also, if you're scoring high enough in the arenas, you may have some crystals from time to time to grab one for 300 crystals. (also keep your eyes peeled on the shard shop)
But 1/3, no.
this
+ something witty about rng and law or large numbers. =D
Easy, but not that cost effective. Nearly 3.5 coins/crystal equivalent from the store, vs. stun cuffs that are only 2 coins/crystal.
still worth it though. i can afford getting them both when they show up, so i don't have to choose the most cost effective one.
Sounds nice. I can't afford to buy either.
This. If not the Holo Projector then they need to add something else to the TAC gear challenge because it’s so useless at this point it’s almost not even worth the sim tickets.
Stun guns will do you no good if you need a holo.
+ something salty about EA
I wasn’t aware it was 1/5th for purple gear, that’s just sad. Thanks for setting me straight, @Dretzle. Never again!
No doubt. I still use my free energy to farm hard to get gear, like the new gear 11 gear, but I'm also close to being done with all hard node only farms.
Lol. Sometimes I feel like I am playing a different game than other people. I need 600 holos and 1600 stun cuffs for the gear levels on my wish list right now. It's never just one thing.
I've found it easier to try to collect gear for one or two toons at a time. Much easier to decide how to use your limited resources. Of course, I have a lot of shard shop coins from the google promotion, so I buy stun cuffs or holos from there whenever I see them, but if the currency is limited, like the guild shop, one or two toons at a time.
I'm a hoarder so I need to see the bigger picture before I can decide to commit to giving gear to any particular character. I need to see what I'm sacrificing and how many other of those pieces I might need for other people and then evaluate whether the character I picked is going to be worth it or not. It's not like I'm actually gearing all of those people, they're just in a spreadsheet. Like I said, different games.
hey, that's not possible =D
How and why there's MK 3 _____ is just a single item, versus another MK 3 ______ you need 20 Salvage to make it, versus another MK 3 _____ where you need 50 salvage to make it. Is just nuts.
Just keep farming, or buy it with crystals, or with the other in-game currencies in their stores.
Started mid-FEB 2017, and not trying to reach the top.