Nieyko Posted November 2, 2015 Posted November 2, 2015 Before 4.0, a flashpoint's decoration was dropped 100% of the time as long as the flashpoint was set to hard mode. The story mode version had a much lower drop rate chance. This system seemed fine as if you wanted to guarantee a decoration, you needed to up the difficulty setting. I don't know if this is a bug or just a poor decision by the dev team, but the drop rate for decorations in flashpoints now seems to be horribly decreased. I've run at least a dozen hard mode flashpoints, with a grand total of 3 decorations dropping. Is this a bug? Is this a conscious decision by the dev team? If so, what's the logic behind that decision. I'm not bashing the system, I'm just confused. Anyone else noticing this? I looked for a thread regarding this topic but couldn't find one. If this has already been addressed, I apologize.
Faardor Posted November 2, 2015 Posted November 2, 2015 (edited) ive never had a 100% decoration drop rate in HM FPs (now or in 3.0). Only thing I noticed was a higher drop rate on bonus bosses. (Killing them usually netted a optimized enhancement gear piece, deco or speeder) Edited November 2, 2015 by Faardor
Mowermanx Posted November 3, 2015 Posted November 3, 2015 (edited) The bonus bosses in HM are a guaranteed deco drop, as they were prior to 4.0. I've ran the daily since 4.0 dropped and have never not seen one drop. Edited November 3, 2015 by Mowermanx
LudhaninRolgge Posted November 3, 2015 Posted November 3, 2015 Never had 100% drop rate. You may just have been extremely lucky.
Nieyko Posted November 4, 2015 Author Posted November 4, 2015 Okay, now I'm even more confused. Three responses to this post so far (thank you for those by the way ) and we have conflicting answers. One person says it was never 100% on bonus bosses and still isn't. Another person says it was definitely 100% from bonus bosses and still is. In my experience, it was 100% pre-4.0 but now is not guaranteed. Anyone else having strange drop rates as well?
trashy_spartan Posted November 4, 2015 Posted November 4, 2015 Bonus bosses in 50/55 HM had a 100% drop rate for decos and final bosses had random drop for decos/speeders. Then in 60 HM, bonus bosses had a very low drop rate for decos/walkers and final bosses could drop a walker. Now, it seems that every bonus boss has the lvl 60 drop rate because all the 50/55 bonus bosses I've done didn't drop the decos.
wainot-keel Posted November 5, 2015 Posted November 5, 2015 Prior to 4.0, the bonus boss on HM had a 100% drop rate. Black Talon, False Emperor, B. of Ilum, Directive 7, Lost Island, Boarding Party, Taral, etc, etc (all the old lvl 50 ones). Also the ones that were made hm when 2.0 hit, Mandalorian Raiders , Athiss, Hammer Sation, Cademimu. All dropping a deco on bonus boss, with some chance of that same deco on last boss. I farmed the crap out of this and it never failed, not on bonus bosses. And I'm stil holding on these decos, to sell them later for outrageous prices obviously, lol Now ? I've only done two bonus bosses, False Emperor and Directive 7. No deco drop. It's changed. How rare these decos are, can't really say.
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