Is it just me?

[Saigrim]

Ever since the last 'real' event, the Sacrifice one I believe, I've notice rewards from all aspects of the game have gone to shit. It's been over a month since a skill shard or even a regular soul has dropped in a Quest Location. One regular soul has dropped in LOL. No Skill Shards there either. Barely any of the new junk shards have dropped anywhere. I've just notice that lately I'm not getting anything. I have a rule where I don't spend cash until I get an actual toon rewarded to me that I need. I broke it on the Sacrifice Event because I was getting decent drops all around and it balanced out because I actually got Eternity Eddie the next day. But since that week the game just nose dived rewards wise.

Which brings me to another thing. I think in the entire year of playing this game I have never gotten a single toon I've kept from a Legendary Soul. I get no more excited about those than the petty ones. Almost all of my good drops have come from increased drop rate events. At this rate I know the only thing keeping me here is my love of Maiden. Never have I played a mobile game longer than a week. So yeah, it's all Maiden.

So, is it just me with the super long bad luck streak?

[druid138]

I haven't noticed much of a change, if any, on anything except low tier Sacrifice rewards. It seems like 99 Regular Souls would regularly yield 3-5 Rare Souls at the altar. These days, I'm happy to get just 1-2.

[Monte47]

Ever since the last 'real' event, the Sacrifice one I believe, I've notice rewards from all aspects of the game have gone to shit. It's been over a month since a skill shard or even a regular soul has dropped in a Quest Location. One regular soul has dropped in LOL. No Skill Shards there either. Barely any of the new junk shards have dropped anywhere. I've just notice that lately I'm not getting anything. I have a rule where I don't spend cash until I get an actual toon rewarded to me that I need. I broke it on the Sacrifice Event because I was getting decent drops all around and it balanced out because I actually got Eternity Eddie the next day. But since that week the game just nose dived rewards wise.

Which brings me to another thing. I think in the entire year of playing this game I have never gotten a single toon I've kept from a Legendary Soul. I get no more excited about those than the petty ones. Almost all of my good drops have come from increased drop rate events. At this rate I know the only thing keeping me here is my love of Maiden. Never have I played a mobile game longer than a week. So yeah, it's all Maiden.

So, is it just me with the super long bad luck streak?

I notice the Talisman cache and hoard have gotten worse. I don't play the Hoard everyday. I have enough freeze Talisman, thanks lol.

I've probably gotten two skill shards off the skull quests in the last month.

[Bradata]

So, it wasn't only me that noticed this. Today for a first time in many days I played the skull quests I got my first skill shard. I think you are right about this shit.

[R1ck]

Last week I got 2 skillshards from SQ, one was from talisman horde, the first one there. But it is annoying that you only get freeze or death talisman from there, not even ironite being the most challenging SQ.

[ovy]

Hey -- just wanted to chime in because in these threads we tend to only hear from one side. For my part the past 2 weeks or so have been extremely rewarding, more so than the previous 3 months I'd say. Culminating with getting Samurai Eddie, whom I'd wanted forever, not from the legendary soul fragments (that was a dupe), but from the 20 souls I bought to get them! Go figure.

Plus more than usual 4 stars, some even non dupes, and a bunch of skill shards from SQs, including one from the Talisman Horde yesterday. It's by no means frequent and at one point I'd almost given up on that SQ (I'm drowning in talismans), but it's still worth a try.

There are tails in any normal probability distribution, on either side of the mean. No doubt I was one of the lucky ones this time. I've just seen another thread from the same place: http://forum.ironmaidenlegacy.com/showthread.php?8556-Holy-Smokes!

Best,
ovy

[Patrice-1201]

Hey -- just wanted to chime in because in these threads we tend to only hear from one side. For my part the past 2 weeks or so have been extremely rewarding, more so than the previous 3 months I'd say. Culminating with getting Samurai Eddie, whom I'd wanted forever, not from the legendary soul fragments (that was a dupe), but from the 20 souls I bought to get them! Go figure.

Plus more than usual 4 stars, some even non dupes, and a bunch of skill shards from SQs, including one from the Talisman Horde yesterday. It's by no means frequent and at one point I'd almost given up on that SQ (I'm drowning in talismans), but it's still worth a try.

There are tails in any normal probability distribution, on either side of the mean. No doubt I was one of the lucky ones this time. I've just seen another thread from the same place: http://forum.ironmaidenlegacy.com/showthread.php?8556-Holy-Smokes!

Best,
ovy

No lately the drops have been amazing, just this week after ditching around 120 Rare Souls I ended up with Viking, Samurai, Visions, Mystic, 4 CR, 2GCR, 3 MCR, Green harpies, GCOTB, Death Dog, Nomad, CG, Navigator and more... Of course all dupes that's because I have most of the toons i want... Of course these resulted from Legendary Souls from the fragments, Scarifices and Vortex, but RNG is improving for some ;-)

[scott-5496]

I think things have been a bit better for me. I regularly get Skill Shard from Quests - usually four or so a week I would say. Also getting decent other loot from these too - other than maybe the last one which is usually just a single Talisman of no consequence. On the current event a spent a fair bit of my ironite on Rare Souls and got decent hauls from these and from the resultant Legendary Souls - lots of dupes of course but decent ones - I got a 2nd Shaman and Mystic as well as other decent toons to sacrifice - I even got a GCR at last but really she is the only keeper of the bunch - but still compared to my previous luck I will take this!

Over the last few weeks I also got other decent RNG and got a Aces High and Tailgunner which I did not have.

I still have not spent real money on the game in a while as that never worked fro me so just do not do it unless there are guarantees on what you get!

It is still a grind and PVP and my troopers are the draw - the events have been decent and I quite liked the challenges recently - at least it was a little something that was different. They do really need to get on with new real content though and I really do hope that BNW and Night City get a roll out soon as I could do with something fresh in the game to look at. I have to say though I really do not have loads of time to even look at playing with my new characters all that much and I do want to!

PVP is a classic case - I never, ever change my attack team as just cant be bothered much. I always end up about mid 90% on attack and somewhere in the high 20% or 30% for defence given that I am rarely in the top 100 over the last few weeks as I just cant be bothered giving up too much time on a Saturday to climb. I kind of hope they revisit the reward in PVP to make it really better for the top 100 or top 200 maybe - it may draw more folk in but I guess they do the number crunch analysis every week to see how it is all playing out across the full player spectrum.

Does anyone know how many daily/weekly players there are on average?

[Lulero]

Had 53 skill shards saved over a bit more than month this morning, just spent 13 of them on relatively "cheap" toons (Undead Rescuer (ikr) and Pharaoh Dog).

18 of them from troopers (didn't covert those 90k badges yet), 7 from a vortex spin, about as much from PvP reward/shop, rest (about 20) from skull squests (including talisman hoard).

I'm not sure where to spend those 40 leftovers, will probably keep saving until that "very special serie of character fragment events" mentioned by Kaz, or if I get my Clairvoyant.

About toons, over the same period mostly dupes but Alliance General and Death Dog I believe. Still missing 7 natural 5 stars (1 magus, 2 warriors, 3 assassins and 1 gunner), 2 eternals and Coalgiver.

Long story short, can't complain given what I already have. Actually glad I still have stuff to look forward to. The odds being so bad now though, I'm not spending any $$$ in current event.

[DaveMurray]

Ever since the last 'real' event, the Sacrifice one I believe, I've notice rewards from all aspects of the game have gone to shit. It's been over a month since a skill shard or even a regular soul has dropped in a Quest Location. One regular soul has dropped in LOL. No Skill Shards there either. Barely any of the new junk shards have dropped anywhere. I've just notice that lately I'm not getting anything. I have a rule where I don't spend cash until I get an actual toon rewarded to me that I need. I broke it on the Sacrifice Event because I was getting decent drops all around and it balanced out because I actually got Eternity Eddie the next day. But since that week the game just nose dived rewards wise.

Which brings me to another thing. I think in the entire year of playing this game I have never gotten a single toon I've kept from a Legendary Soul. I get no more excited about those than the petty ones. Almost all of my good drops have come from increased drop rate events. At this rate I know the only thing keeping me here is my love of Maiden. Never have I played a mobile game longer than a week. So yeah, it's all Maiden.

So, is it just me with the super long bad luck streak?

No it's not just you, hang in there.
There are a few guys(mostly the same and dunno why) that get lucky from time to time and the rest of us get shit all the time.

[slash1424]

No it's not just you...I am there as well. Tried to get 3* evo shards for Mummy Eddie, I spent over 300 SoT and got 0...so. It's frustrating but just keep grinding, at least you can run it on auto..



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[thealchemist]

Personally I have noticed more rare souls dropping from petty sacrifices this week, especially yesterday and today. Other than that its been a grind to get anything good whether its rare souls, skill shards, evo shards, etc.

[Blacksteel]

It's not just you, I opened many, many souls of all types afterwards including 9 legendaries and more than 40 G/A after crappy sacrificing rewards etc, got only maybe 4-5 red eyes outside of the legendary and 0 new toons.
The only thing that I have had luck at is at not getting dup eternals.

[HomemLivre]

I m with you too...
Got 3 Beelzebub from 4 Eternity Souls, thats awesome, right?
Still missing chars that looks like I will never get... I got my FIRST Warrior Troll a few weeks ago, thats completly bs! hahahah

[Dank Brew]

I've got more skillshards in this month than I ever have before. Also got a few new toons just in the past week... Hang in there guys, it'll happen... Before June i had crap constantly lol i'm sure it'll be that way again for a while now... :\

[Dank Brew]

But yeah, the talisman cache and hoard are terrible. The same damn talismans every single time and nothing else, ever. The other skull quests are where its at, especially the gold and soul cache hoards.