Not getting anything

It really makes me made that now that this Sorrows Furnace update has taken place I dont get drops. I go farming outside of sorrows furnace in the outter mine part and get maybe 1 or 2 things......but from the chests. And then we venture inside to Sorrows Furnace and yet again I dont get any drops......I get usually around 5 drops whenever I go there and they aren't any good. I dont understand why this is happening. I dont have any henchies iwht me and im traveling in a group of 5 and im a w/mo. It just really makes this game suck since im fighting for nothing at all.

It's all luck man. The first time i ventured into SF when it first launched, i got a purple crystalline sword. and for some reason, every chest in the kilroy quest was for me. everyone was mad. but when we did some bosses and other quests. i didn't get any drops. so it goes around man. no need to get mad over it.

p.s. you had a typo in your post. "makes me made" Mad*

peace.

Haha yeah thanks for pointing that one out man. Yeah I'm getting over it but it just makes it less fun because you really dont have much to go and do that for.

yea, i haven't been getting many good drops since the patch, might just be me though...

I dont know, the only way I was able to get a green hammer was by buying it, the drops i get are gold and the drops other than that if I happen to get them are just little badges things and whatever I get out of the chests. I prefered the not knowing what your gonna get rare or common. But hey thats just me. I seemed to get better drops back then too.

The best drops are the chests. My best run I got 2 gold items 1 purple item and 1 green item from a boss. The keys are a definite money sink but it's an easy way to get good items.

True but it seems that people are so interested in the green items now that they don't want to buy the gold ones any more. And I mean that is understandable because those green weapons are almost perfect it seems.

My advice if you aren't having good luck is to switch to a different character. I found that my monk was getting no greens at all.
I don't buy any more keys either and my gold has started to accumulate once more.
I just sell the keys i find to the merchant too.

Be lucky!

i'm still counting... this is my 23rd run into sorrows furnace with my monk. all my runs comprise of either farming runs (3 man, 4 man groups) or full out missions to completion.

not a single green yet.

lol rough, well, kill all the bosses, and go visit other places inbetween. thats about all you can do. also, dont do it with henchies. sure, some people say they get drops, but the chances are LOWER.

Yesterday I found a vampric 5:-1 longbow but it was 14-27.

This morning, I found something that hit me like a ton of bricks

Vampric Half-Moon of Fortitude
Piercing Damage 15-28
Damage: 14% while health is above 50%
Life steal: 5
Life regen: -1
Health +30

Maybe I should salvage it for the bow grip?

Definitly

Hell no,
Half moon is one of the best bows, 5/1 vamp is max and highly sought after near perfect dmg, and perfect +30 health, keep it or sell it like it is but to waste that bow salvaging it is nuts!


Back on topic:

They just patched it Friday to fix drops but I did not see any change, I did final assault, only one green dropped, then with another team killed every boss outside and inside no green drops (we had 2 hench healers is probably why) then I did final assault again with another group, this time 3 greens dropped 2 for the same person.

I think;

A, No matter what anyone else says on the subject my personal experience is my own proof that bringing henchs no matter how few kills rare/green drops.

B, I theorize that rare/green drops are not so random that the game only allows X amount to drop per hour and there are so many people farming for them they are just farmed out 90% of the time.

For the past couple of weeks have I've been playing a mix of grouping with friends or just with henchies. The green drops seem truly erratic. In two weeks an average of 1 or 2 greens every 2/3 boss runs outside SF. Yesterday a group of us did outside and in SF with 3/4 greens but nothing dropped for me (except blues...oh and a black dye! first I've seen since pre!), yet today with 7 henchies 3 green drops on the one run only outside SF!

It really seems to be just luck.

I got a monk green that I didn't have a char for so I gave it away to someone, in the next few days I was receiving bows not only from this new friend but friends of hers also! I have now 4 green bows!

Now all I need is to get that damn Mr. Willcrusher to drop something...

got a yakslapper off a boss
what now eh?

Hey, its called SHIT HAPPENS.

Edit: woah it didn't censor it =O

That's funny. I've had two gold drops and a handful of purple since the day this game came out. Oh ok, shit happens. great RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing logic.

Got 2 greens tonight a Shadestone and some other focus item I can't recall. This running the circuit in Grenth's and up to Razorstone in Sorrow's. Had the usual mix of purples, blues and junk, don't do chests since I'm saving for 15k. This was with 7 henchies

Note to the OP - Stick with it.

If there's one thing human nature shows, it's that everyone thinks the grass is always greener.

Let's take a hypothetical party of eight people out on an SF farm run, clear GF and SF, and typically, 5 people will complain that the drops sucked, & 1 person will complain that the green/gold weapon that fell for them is not suitable for their class. (Pretty much the same with UW ecto runs, FoW runs, and almost any group farm activity. )

Now, the chances are that this hypothetical party had some pretty good drops across the board. Lots of gold, a few blues & purples, even a few keys, rares and greens. Chances are that most of the group will still be unsatisfied because they haven't noticed what they've got, but they're looking at what seems to drop for other people.

Also, it depends on what they're going for. If the group went to farm for green items, the might still be unsatisfied even if the drops were really good. It's because they're actually LOOKING for greens that the other items are not of interest.

Finally, with this hypothetical team, even if a few greens do drop, the one who will feel most satisfied is the first player to get a green drop. Even if a green drops for all the other players at one stage of the farm run, it will only be the first green to drop that actively gets noticed by the team. It also means that the player who got it has achieved their goal, and the rest haven't, and the chance of the same player getting another item during the run is unaffected, so they may end up with another one or two during the run.

I'm not directing this at anyone. It's just human nature.

Personally, if I'm farming in SF, I go with the attitude of "Hope for the best, expect the worst". I find that if I've got a "Must have a green drop or else" attitude, that I'll be disappointed. And everyone knows also that overfarming in one area reduces the drop rate for players, so if you think the drops are getting a bit shitty, go somewhere else. Perditions, UW, FoW, Desert are all good high level places to farm. Granted, you won't get Green items there, but you will boost your storage account, and chances are after a few days, when you go back to SF, you'll see a better quality of drops again.

Quoted and bolded for truth.

No one has a right or any guarantee to green/gold drops, sometimes you'll get multiple ones in one drop then you'll playing for 5 days without a single one, get over it, thats random drops for you.
If you cannot handle that then play a game where you can predict exactly which boss will drop which item when...exciting stuff...