Loot Ego Boost?

[crasher]

http://community.defiance.com/en/201...weapon-skills/

".... Another obvious difference is the color of the weapon name. This indicates the weapon’s rarity, as follows:
• White: common
• Green: uncommon
• Blue: rare
• Purple: epic
• Orange legendary
....."

Big Jim is right.

[Bonehead]

Okay dokey... I know a losing battle when I see one.

Believe me if you want to, or don't.

It makes no difference to me really... I am just trying to help people understand.

Someone who has already purchased it, has come into the thread to explain further, but has been ignored... okay dokey.

That's why I love you Mack.

[Amack]

I put an edit on the last post, but am rewriting here just in case...

Should it have said frequency? Probably... that is not what I was trying to get at.

[Bonehead]

http://community.defiance.com/en/201...weapon-skills/

".... Another obvious difference is the color of the weapon name. This indicates the weapon’s rarity, as follows:
• White: common
• Green: uncommon
• Blue: rare
• Purple: epic
• Orange legendary
....."

Big Jim is right.

How did you know I was big?
That kind of freaks me out.

[Amack]

This board doesn't need moderators to get people to quit coming here... lol.

[WhiteF8ng]

As far as I can remember that boost has always been worded wrong... Am I missing something?

[Valethar]

From the bit store:
" Want better loot? Increase the rarity of your loot with the Loot Ego Boost."

So it's better ,not more.

Unless they fixed it, that thing breaks the loot table and spams white grenades/shields more than anything else.

And just for clarity, in case anyone's missed it, that boost existed during Alpha testing (as did all of the boosts) and was available at launch. It's not at all new.

[Amack]

I wish I could say, yes you are missing something, but I can't because you really aren't missing anything.

[Valethar]

Sorry, I thought they left the old loot on there. They changed the frequency of drops to rarity, so the OP's point still stands. You're paying for better drops. Which is curious after the ninja change to warmaster drops. Unless it's still the same as the last loot boost which was just for the frequency of drops, in that case it's not a clever play on words, it's false advertising.

It's never said frequency on it, unless it was altered after release at some point, then changed back to the original text. I have a screen cap from April of last year with 'rarity' in the description.

I've called them out on this several times since release, they never bothered to reply to any of the forum messages, bug reports or CS tickets on the subject. I even spent several days cataloging every drop I got from kills, both with the boost and without, showing the marked increase in white grenades and shields, and sent them that. Not once that I can recall did they ever acknowledge that the boost was not working as the description states it should.

I wasn't the only one that pointed this out either. Quite a few of the Alpha testers mentioned it as well. It was ignored. I'm sure it didn't trouble them at all to take the money for the boost, knowing that it wasn't working, and knowing they had no intention of ever addressing it.

[Arsenic_Touch]

It's never said frequency on it, unless it was altered after release at some point, then changed back to the original text. I have a screen cap from April of last year with 'rarity' in the description.

Could've sworn in the past (before they revamped the store) that it said it increased the amount of drops, not the rarity like it does now.