"The Adventures of RNG!" Top 3 Hamlet Provisioner

[Scytale]

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to be sponsored by my Hamlet LS to go for a Top 3 slot. For those who have gone for the Top 3 you realize this is more of a group effort, meaning many sacrifice their time and fun for the benefit of the one.

Though the competition was intense, I came in 3rd. My LS was happy to see their hard work pay off, one less person needing seals, leading to the ultimate goal of us earning our Relics.

Last night we were able to run 6 Hamlets before it became too late to keep going (my LS is only 'part-time' hardcore). Each of those 6 Hamlets were wins with scores greater than 60K.

From those 6 Hamlets, I received 1 seal, and 5 sets of Ebonknots. Not only was I shocked at such a result, my entire LS was rocked to their core. The hours of farming and buying provisions had all but been a waste.

I understand RNG, however I believe in a situation such as Hamlet where community effort is a must to succeed, why would there be such a brutal system in place to punish everyone? If it were just my supplies I would be the only person affected, but this goes beyond that.

I truely believe SE needs to re-look their drop rate on Top 3 Provisioners. If SE wishes us to play and function as a Community, by George they need to support their Community and reward their efforts from time to time. Had I known the Top 3 Provisioner RNG was so bad, I would've never even tried.

I can only hope I cam sneak out early from work today and PUG some Hamlet later. I don't want to let my friends down...

[Gentaro]

They should consider that even with a 100% droprate, static groups need to do this 72 (seventy-two!) times to get all seals.

[ShinMetsu]

Place 3 is rumored to be 25%.

That means
1/4.
2/8.
3/12.

Should do a little research before blindly going for place 3.
I myself went like 2/16+. Need make more threads to whine about RNG.

And i disagree on changing the % on 2nd and 3rd place.
Don't have to make this even easier than it already is.

[Req]

If you were only capable of doing runs for a few hours it honestly wasnt even worth it to try and get in the top 3. While the RNG does suck you should have atleast planned on doing around 10 runs when turning in all your items. Either way, good luck on getting your seals, maybe you can get into a pickup or something before the battle phase changes.

[Renen]

And i disagree on changing the % on 2nd and 3rd place.
Don't have to make this even easier than it already is.

They DO have to make it less repetitive

[ViciousValentine]

Sadly people still consider time wasting activities such as hamlet...challenging. I feel for you bro, sorry for what happend.

[Masamune1004]

And i disagree on changing the % on 2nd and 3rd place.
Don't have to make this even easier than it already is.

Since when is doing content more times considered challenging?

[Velhart]

Sorry, SE has been stubborn since the very beginning about the RNG system and is too late at this point to get anything out of them when 2.0 is so close.

While it is unfortunate you didn't get seals, the drop rate is still decent, must of just had real bad luck. Now places like dungeons however, that is a different story. SE was successfully able to make the worst drop conditions/loot system ever created in MMO's (my opinion). They prolong content by making the hard working suffer, and reward the lucky. I say this as a person who has done the dungeons several hundred times and only have gloves to show for it. I have only seen something I want drop once during those hundreds of runs. While too late to complain now, SE never really at least attempted to justify the system beyond "Ohh there will be more content, don't worry.".

Back to Hamlet though, sorry that your team put that much into it and got nothing for it. That is how the system decides to treat us, so just have to work with it.

[TheVedis]

The main problem the OP has is that they werent willing to run hamlet enough to make their contribution worthwhile


if your going to be donating so much, do a full day of runs, dont just do a handful and hope for the best

[AmyNeudaiz]

Since when is doing content more times considered challenging?

The challenging part is not quitting after 300 hours to get one item in a video game.