My buddy has been trying d2 as a New Light (f2p) player and has been enjoying it so far-lots to do for him. He's trying to participate in the seasonal event and just turned in about 1600 frac at the EDZ obelisk (he's rank 8 on it). He noticed something weird, something me as a veteran player have never seen before- He got 8 Righteous Mark's in a row. Now I've had bad RNG in the past but this just looks all kinds of wrong, especially for someone who has little to no materials.
He was noticeably pissed off "I thought I would get new loot from this, why am I doing this if I only get one item?" and I had nothing to tell him. As a vet player I have seen a diverse pool of all the current world drops of armor and weapons along with[b] the entire seasonal armor set[/b] in the Obelisk engrams. I have personally not seen this kind of selective RNG before and I had to say "I guess you can only get the Mark as a New Light player, I'm sorry."
He does not have a lot of materials being a new player so it is hard for him to get high chances of Fractaline. I told him to try and complete his two new EDZ bounties and try it again, but he doesn't see the point. "Why grind through over 100 scout kills and 3 adventures, which will take me a looong time, to only get another mark?" He doesn't see the point because he had a terrible case of unfortunate RNG and I can't blame him.
I want him to keep playing and I want him to know that his time will be well spent during this season, but I don't know how to brighten his spirits. Is this working as intended? Can he only get random element class items as a f2p player?
EDIT: He just turned in another 200 for an engram at the Mars obelisk this time, got another class item.
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Has your friend claimed the armor from the seasonal rewards? If they have only picked up the class item, then that will be the only armor piece that will drop until they claim the rest.
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That definitely sounds off. I've had some pretty bad "selective RNG", as you put it, but never that many of the same item slot in a row. As far as I'm aware, there shouldn't be any kind of lock on the armor drops for the season to a New Light player(pretty sure it's just the ornaments that are exclusive to paid players). He may want to try holding any further donations till after reset to see if that kind of "corrects" things for him. It may also not be a bad idea to try clearing his cache.