Top Tier Lewt is busted.

[Umfafa]

Yep. Fairly certain.

Top tiers for sieges and arkbreaks gave you the standard 3 items and a chance at legendary.

Now, you get 3 items and some vaporware white box that doesn't exist anywhere in claims or inventory.

So, you broke all access to anything worth grinding for.

Gonna fix? Like, tomorrow? Cuz this place is gonna because a tumbleweed farm without lewt to farm.

(3 lewts for losing, 3 lewts for winning).....no moar warbabies. waste of time.

(3 lewts for losing, 3 lewts for top tier)......no moar infected sieges. waste of time.

((PS: Twitch. Look, bruddah I love my beer as well. BUT, with as many issues as this game has, it might be more professional to not be drinking at 2PM on your livestreams)).

Just sayin.

[Market]

Yep. Fairly certain.

Top tiers for sieges and arkbreaks gave you the standard 3 items and a chance at legendary.

Now, you get 3 items and some vaporware white box that doesn't exist anywhere in claims or inventory.

So, you broke all access to anything worth grinding for.

Gonna fix? Like, tomorrow? Cuz this place is gonna because a tumbleweed farm without lewt to farm.

(3 lewts for losing, 3 lewts for winning).....no moar warbabies. waste of time.

(3 lewts for losing, 3 lewts for top tier)......no moar infected sieges. waste of time.

((PS: Twitch. Look, bruddah I love my beer as well. BUT, with as many issues as this game has, it might be more professional to not be drinking at 2PM on your livestreams)).

Just sayin.

I have no idea about the substance of the table, but I think the Arkbreaker Stash that we're all seeing is the box that contained the three items that splashed before seeing the notice for said box. Think of it like the Jackpot Lockboxes, if you got 8 items it would splash up a YEAH! JACKPOT! at the end of it all.

It confused me the first time, too. If it were up to me (which it obviously totally is not! lol), I would have put the "Arkbreaker Stash" message *before* the three items were shown. That would have made far more sense to me.

Anyway, just my thought on that part of it. I've gone into four WM instances since yesterday, one was a win and the other three were... well... you know.

The losses ended up giving me greens and blues. The win awarded me a green, a blue, and a purple variant of a DLC-specific WM weapon. I can't recall the details of what I received, all I remember from it is that it made good Ark Salvage. lol

[Umfafa]

No, what it appears is that we have an unclaimable item that used to contain our maybe legendary.

Now, there's no legendaries at all. Was pulling them very frequently before the patch. I've done a dozen warbabies so far with no legendary drops. They borked it.

[Bonehead]

No, what it appears is that we have an unclaimable item that used to contain our maybe legendary.

Now, there's no legendaries at all. Was pulling them very frequently before the patch. I've done a dozen warbabies so far with no legendary drops. They borked it.

Ding ding ding ding ding, we have a winner!

[N7_Legion]

Market is correct about the "Arkbreaker Stash" message coming after the lewt. Here is a message from customer service, take it as you will:

Hello XXXX,


Thank you for contacting us regarding Defiance.

We were able to do some more investigation and it appears that you did receive items in last nights Arkbreaker Stash. I see that you received a Rare VOT Disruptor that was 5k EGO, VBI TACC Assault Rifle that was Uncommon at 4900 EGO, and an Epic Clusterdrop Detonator that was 5k EGO.

Right now there is an issue where the items will be added to your inventory before the Stash appears on the screen, but you do still receive the items. I apologize for any confusion that this has caused, but I hope this clears up any confusion!

If you have any additional questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to let us know. Thank you for your continued support of Trion Worlds and for playing Defiance.

Your reference number for this ticket is XXXXXX-XXXXXX.


Sincerely,

GM Treance
Trion Worlds Inc.


As for the lack of oranges, well, that's a different story.

[Umfafa]

Well, I haven't received a 4th item since the patches. So that means they cut off that 4th item. Sometimes it was a purple grenade, other times it was a legendary new weapon.

They tried to nerf grenades showing up AS rewards, and instead......nerfed the reward so no grenades would show up.

[Market]

Market is correct about the "Arkbreaker Stash" message coming after the lewt. Here is a message from customer service, take it as you will:

Hello XXXX,


Thank you for contacting us regarding Defiance.

We were able to do some more investigation and it appears that you did receive items in last nights Arkbreaker Stash. I see that you received a Rare VOT Disruptor that was 5k EGO, VBI TACC Assault Rifle that was Uncommon at 4900 EGO, and an Epic Clusterdrop Detonator that was 5k EGO.

Right now there is an issue where the items will be added to your inventory before the Stash appears on the screen, but you do still receive the items. I apologize for any confusion that this has caused, but I hope this clears up any confusion!

If you have any additional questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to let us know. Thank you for your continued support of Trion Worlds and for playing Defiance.

Your reference number for this ticket is XXXXXX-XXXXXX.


Sincerely,

GM Treance
Trion Worlds Inc.


As for the lack of oranges, well, that's a different story.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions!

No, what it appears is that we have an unclaimable item that used to contain our maybe legendary.

Now, there's no legendaries at all. Was pulling them very frequently before the patch. I've done a dozen warbabies so far with no legendary drops. They borked it.

I really don't think they intended us to be collecting the amount of orange weapons from that fight as we were. Compare it to the rate at which we normally see orange gear from Lockboxes. I'm not saying I like it as it is! I would like a bit better chance at them seeing what we have to deal with in the WM instances with people who don't know what they're doing. However, I seriously doubt the rate we were getting them before was truly intended.

[Vendor Valerie]

But, but guys! Trion said we'd get "Some of the best loot in the game" if we kill it!



it wouldn't be the first time Trion lied to us.

[ironcladtrash]

I really don't think they intended us to be collecting the amount of orange weapons from that fight as we were. Compare it to the rate at which we normally see orange gear from Lockboxes. I'm not saying I like it as it is! I would like a bit better chance at them seeing what we have to deal with in the WM instances with people who don't know what they're doing. However, I seriously doubt the rate we were getting them before was truly intended.

I would be shocked if they didn't use that as an excuse for them accidently nerfing the rewards and not knowing they did it or how to fix it. However the drop rate is supposed to be better for defeating the Warmaster. It takes a lot of skill and coordination to defeat him. It's very easy to get keys for lock boxes. If the rate was the same as the lockboxes there would be no point to do the War Master.

[Market]

I would be shocked if they didn't use that as an excuse for them accidently nerfing the rewards and not knowing they did it or how to fix it. However the drop rate is supposed to be better for defeating the Warmaster. It takes a lot of skill and coordination to defeat him. It's very easy to get keys for lock boxes. If the rate was the same as the lockboxes there would be no point to do the War Master.

I'm actually giving them the benefit of doubt on this one and thinking they did it intentionally. I can't really say either way, but it's just my own opinion. If that's the case, it's not like they are going to be able to come out and say "Hey guys! We know that you've been used to the OJ drop rates on the Warmaster these past several weeks, but um... yeah, we can't have that many legendaries rolling around out there... so, we've dropped it into the floor! Enjoy the grind!!" lol

Yeah, pretty sure that would just about light the torches and hand us the pitchforks... lol

On another note, I think doing anything (and I mean anything) to a game with a community like this (especially like this one... lol) without telling is us simply a bad move.

Much of what goes on here would be far more acceptable if they'd just be straight-forward with us.

Who knows. It may have been intentional to keep the game from being flooded with weapons that are supposed to be quite rare. It could have been accidental or a nasty side effect of some other thing they were working on. Who knows. Do the Devs even know... lol

I think the drop rate for OJ's should be somewhere in the middle of where it was and where it is now, but that's just my own thing...