Quote Originally Posted by Mahoro View Post
I actually completely agree with this. Other "final bosses" of content in this game have actually had higher drop rates or 100% drops (AV, PW, Kirin, Odin, etc). I don't see why Prov Watcher should be any different.
Kirin and Odin have high drop rates? Well, that's news to me. I would also like to point out that (when these NMs were in their prime) it took much longer to get a pop. The kupofried thingy is a bit of a bottleneck now, I suppose, but a year from now you'll have more provenance access saved up than you'll use in your lifetime.

Here's the reason threads bashing the drop rate of VW stuff is so common: I went 0/10, therefore droprate sucks. I went 7/7, therefore drop system sucks. This 30 minute event has a lower drop rate than an NM who takes 30 man-hours to get a pop for, therefore drop rate sucks.

My personal experience with VW versus my experience with getting a Novio earring: I did ~16 Akvans, about 10-15 minutes per kill and got kalasiris, and then I stopped killing Akvan. I did ~24 Qilins, about 5 minutes per kill and got Fajin boots, and then I stopped killing Qilin. I joined an endgame LS, farming sea twice a week for 2-4 hours per run. After half a year (56 sea runs for ~3 hours each or roughly 150 hours of sea), it was finally my turn for a Novio, and then I kept doing sea.