Looters fortune event

5 hours DSO? 5 hours are you off your heads?

 

Get 'em while they're hot. I hope these drops are pretty darn amazing if it is only going to be going for five hours.

It runs from 2PM-7PM local time for me, so I'm lucky that I get off work this Friday at noon, otherwise I'd likely have missed 60%-80% of it.

 

Work the swing shift and you are EDIT.

 

Darn amazing drops from DSO? I guess we can always wish right?

 

I've got three pictures in my head of how this may work and I have different farming plans to go with each. I'll need to wait and see what the official news looks like, but here are my three ideas of how it might work. My bet is currently on option 2.

1. There are improved drop chances for all the good stuff, including bosses uniques. In this case, I'll be going tank build and leading boss runs for 5 hours. I've farmed up 21k Materi frags in case this is the case.

2. There is no impact on boss unique drops, just normal equipment from the bosses and normal equipment from all the other monster. If this is the case, I'll likely run Q3M1 III with blues for the entire 5 hours, focusing on the mini bosses to get the maximum amount of exos and legendaries.

3. Drop quality is improved (e.g. higher odds of getting gold lines). In this case, I'll still be running Q3M1 III, but I'll be clearing all mobs on top of the mini bosses for the better odds at gold lines on blues and greens.

 

Bingo, same strategy here, though I'll miss 2-3 hours of it due to work.

 

After reading the announcement, it looks like I was right and we're looking at option 2.

 

And? Did it pay off?
(I'm serious, in asking... I had the impression that MAYBE I was getting SLIGHTLY more drops, mainly green and blue items from normal mobs. All in all, I found the effects not really spectacular. I wouldn't worry about missing the next iteration of this great new event...)

 

Personally, yesterday I wasted about 2 hours in a lot of useless runs around. Tried Q1, Q3, Q4, Q5 in mode 3 and got no item worth for crafting. This, again, without having a so high expectation, but really the stats were lower than ever before: how could I call a 2h weapon with 3 bonuses +20/25% dmg on weapon and 1 bonus +91 damage? And green/blue items were on the same line. Never seen so bad items before.

Just one run on Q1 was exceptionally fruitful in terms of quantity: 8 legendaries and 9 specials... but all them were good just for melting and, again, it gave no green/blue useful for crafting.

 

Nope. As said in the official feedback thread, I only got two items worth saving and the drops of exos and legendaries was not rased significantly enough to notice a difference.