varietasplus Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Artifact level 500 gathering/mission travels should return 4/5 pieces of artifact grade 10 crafting materials, yet regardless of type those only return 3 pieces with max affection characters +2 critical. It would be nice to know if this is intended (revised return rate) or it is a bug (just like after patch 2.0). I do not know which is worse: if it is bugged again or if it turned out it was inentional. In case of the latter, running slicing missions for lockboxes must be re-evalueated for lower rate of returns. Considering the demand for artifact materials upon releasing an expansion, this would seem to be quite an unfriendly decision towards customers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joonbeams Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 I have noticed this was well and would like to know if its a bug. Also, 500 lvl artifact mission for, e.g. archaeology take 3.5 hours and return only ~2 crystals, 2 artifact frags, and 2 of each color crystal. A rich/bountiful mission, on the other hand, returns around 4-6 (non crit) of the respective mat (e.g. 4-6 frags). Literally no reason at all to run 500 lvl artifact missions with the amount of time, costs, and the lower drops. Low drop rates generally are fine with me as a crafter (helps reduce supply and allow for higher profits) but artifact missions should always return more than the standard missions, especially non-crits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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