Ever since you all nerfed the appearance rate of rank IV blessings, trying to collect them has been an unmitigatedly horrible and unsatisfying experience. For example, I just spent 6k plasteel upgrading 370+ base power level shotguns, two of them at 380, and got a grand total of two rank IV blessings on the legendary upgrade, both of which I already had. For the record, both 380 weapons rolled rank III blessings on the legendary upgrade. Again, max level character, upgrading max power rating weapons, getting rank III blessings instead of IV. The remaining shotguns, again, all level 30 weapons with near-maxed base power, rolled rank III blessings on the legendary upgrade.
Look, if I’m spending that much plasteel, only the blue-level upgrade should be a chance of a rank IV, at level 30, and even then the chance should be fairly highish, again at level 30. For the very expensive legendary/orange upgrade, a rank IV blessing should be 100% guaranteed.
Your nerf to appearance rate of rank IV blessings perhaps affects melk’s shop most negatively, now taking weeks or months to get the BIS blessings for our builds with mostly rank II and rank III blessing junk showing up in his shop most days. Again, at level 30. There should be no rank II blessings in his shop at max level, that’s ridiculous.
Stuck in RNG limbo checking back every day to see if today’s the day I can finally play the game. Like, is that what you’re designing for? Player logins vs. players actually playing and enjoying the game?
From what I’ve observed, upgrading 300+ rating items to blue is ~20% chance of T4, and upgrading to orange is ~60%. The last time I noticed a change in the odds was back in… April, I think, and that change improved the odds.
Its probably just probabilities statistically screwing me over but sometimes it really does feel like the game checks the blessings on your equipped weapon and actively tries to give you anything and everything else before the upgrade you’re actually looking for…
But on a more serious note, they did change the shops when Brunt’s Exchange was released where in the Armoury the average rating went up but became (practically) impossible to get T4 blessings and T3s appeared once in a blue moon, and Melk’s had average rating go up and (in theory T3/4).
Patch #4:
It’s still balls that you can consecrate an orange and get T2 blessing at level 30.
