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Arcane River Symbols Drop Rate Bugged / No Nebs

LShadow3LShadow3
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Member, Private Tester
edited January 2018 in Bug Reporting
Bug type: Arcane Symbol drop rates / Nebulite Box does not drop

Brief bug summary:

This brought up repeatedly during the Community Feedback event, and is vital to the majority of players' progression, especially considering most players farm at Arcane River in some capacity or other. Nebulite boxes do not drop. Symbol drop rates are completely bugged.

Before the drop rate nerf / node change, most people were getting 1-3 symbols per hour, with average rates slightly higher than that of droplets. Now people are getting 1 symbol every 4-6 hours, with arguably even more droplets than symbols.

This was already confirmed to be a serious bug during the Community Feedback Q/A session. Without this, Morass is mostly obsolete. With the new KMS content as well, players need to effectively farm symbols.

More details:

(anything not included in the other sections of your report)

Steps to reproduce: Hunt in any part of Arcane River (Vanishing Journey, Chuchu, Lachelein, Arcana, Morass)

(if not covered in the summary)

Character name: CodeNox

Character level: 250

Character job: Night Walker

World name: Reboot

Date and time of the incident: Since drop rate nerf in late August / Early September

See date stamp of this video (not mine):
  1. Have your symbol rates been excellent or atrocious in the last 4 months?3 votes
    1. Excellent
       0% (0 votes)
    2. Atrocious
       100% (3 votes)

Comments

  • OkhuraOkhura
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    Member
    edited January 2018
    Thanks, I have forwarded the report on Neb boxes not dropping. I have passed on the symbol droprate as feedback.
    LShadow3
  • DFDFDDFDFD
    Reactions: 2,160
    Posts: 219
    Member
    edited May 2018
    How long is this gonna remain unaddressed? It's such an easy fix and has such a massive impact on Reboot.
  • AKradianAKradian
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    Posts: 6,340
    Member, Private Tester
    edited May 2018
    Regarding the low symbol drop rate: this is intentional. Nexon does not want people to increase their Arcane Force much faster than allowed by the dailies.
    The Ark patch, coming June 20th, will add daily quests for Morass symbols. That patch will also reduce the number of quests/runs you need to do of existing dailies, although it will sadly not increase the number of symbols acquired. We have informed Nexon that our players are not happy with the low symbol drop rate and consequent slow progression. We will continue to remind them of it.

    Regarding Nebulite boxes: at the Q&A, SavageAce said that it was "game balance" issue.
    Meanwhile, we have been informed we'll be getting Bonus Stats (flames) on June 20th, and Arwoo has hinted on Discord that we might lose nebulites entirely when that happens. If we do lose nebulites, then of course the issue of where they drop becomes moot. If we get to keep our nebulites, we will remind Nexon that they need to drop everywhere.