1% or less drop rates and how they hurt the game

[Giantbane]

If you want to prove this is running people away from the game you are not helping your case. They cannot just gate everything behind tough battles, eventually with a few days/weeks people hammer these fights down and have them on farm. Then they start selling runs to others who cannot quite get it done, then you have hundreds/thousands of people with relic weapons in no time at all. Sound familiar?

A good chunk of the community as well as the devs were not too elated about this, so now we get low % drop rate, so you either have to be lucky or dedicated to obtain these items. But it feels oh so good when that magic day finally arrives.

Too much RNG is a bad thing. Novus isn't *too* bad because at least the alexandrite can be acquired primarily from non RNG methods (and probably should, the fate drop rate is worse than the atma garbage). But atma sucks. 12 1% drops to continue the quest line create a great deal of disparity between player experiences.

Running the same thing over and over and over again and failing, not based on skill or time spent, but because of some arbitrary number roll you have nothing to do with is just not fun. It can easily erode one's enjoyment of the game if you're one of the unlucky ones (though no fault of your own).

I don't mind mounts being subject to the 1% drop rate, since they're just vanity items. But I don't think core gameplay items (like gear) should be tied behind such a heavy RNG gate.