Well said, I also don't care about nerfs as I rarely optimise dps in a scrap over getting a job done. BUT! introducing bugs like the irritating degrading of Graviton Lance and an event like Solstice getting messed up when it's not even something new? You have got to be kidding yourselves Bungie if you think this is hitting any sort of mark other than your own feet.
Oh and this :- "[b]Adjusted chances for acquiring Exotic class items from chests to be more generous.[/b]
Increased progression on escalation chest chances.
Removed progression on world chest chances.
World chests can still drop the item but won't increase drop chances from future chests."
Has me seriously doubting competence on a whole new level, firstly it's Overthrow not escalation (Unless you stealth moved the class drops into another activity) Secondly I have been running around in Pale heart opening all chests, completing 2 runs of Overthrow including all high value targets and not had a single drop.
For comparison before your "Generosity increasing patch" doing the same amount of this activity would land me 2 class items.
Of course I'll be carrying on, if only to see just how bad it has really become.
Note:- Passing an Overthrow threshold while completing a node means no chest, no chance of a drop, no increase in chance......Bungie are you actually trolling here?
Update: Just got an exotic class item drop (World chest) - Hoarfrost/Alpha Lupi for my Titan (Fourth drop of this pairing) - sweeeeeet.
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I knew I was crazy! I would get 2 in 1 1/2 runs of overthrow on average. I got nothing last night. This was nerf definitely not a buff.
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The escalation chests are the overthrow chests 🤦🏻♂️ they were referring to the chests that increase your chance of getting the item every chest you get.
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Ok I'll accept a grammatical mix up when they wanted to say Overthrow chests have an escalating chance of dropping a class item. Now when that chest vanishes as you kill a mob that crosses the 1k points threshold, you lose that extra chance increase and don't get a loot dip. Worst case scenario you miss 3 buildup chests and only get to open the final chest for a 1 step chance increase overall. Without the chance increase applying to world chests this is truly an overall nerf, yet the patch notes insist it's more generous. Time for the make it stop emote I think.
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The escalating chance carries over to other overthrows lost sectors and coop campaign mission, it doesn’t reset your chance after the overthrow is finished. It does suck when you miss a chest though .
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Bungie has released a statement that the tier 4 chests do not contribute to chance increases and class items cannot drop from them. They are working on a hotfix....... They are also looking into focusing perks we want to target YAY! Huh, whassat, eta for that is 2025, ah right. ;)
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Same bullshit. Did 3 Overthrow with all targets + about 8 world chest on each run. Exotic didnt drop at all. How the f this is a buff to a drop
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4 in a row while opening every chest I come across, nothing. Now watch overthrow completely die because the drop rates are now damn near non-existent
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To be more generous : 0.5% increase because it's too generous for them if they give 0.6% increase
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It's not even an increase though, it seems everyone is seeing more time between drops, if they even get a drop. The chest not appearing if you happen to cross a points threshold during an encounter is the most annoying thing when Bungie has chosen these chests to have the chance increase. I can't say for certain but if the world chest nerf was designed to hit the AFK macro farming then it's a fail from the start and obvious to anyone with an ounce of sense. AFK farmers don't care how long it takes to get a drop and have probably got what they want by now anyway so this just hurts the rest of us. I can only conclude that :- They don't apply even a basic level of process testing when making changes like this as they would have seen that it's likely to be an overall nerf in practice. They intended to troll, in which case they hit the mark. We wanted a buff to exotic class item drop rate and some form of dupe protection. We got a nerf to droprate and a handful of bugs. Nice.