Atomic Moose Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 been doing missions some pvp and i swear in the last 3 days i have gotten like 1 upgrade drop and it was a like grey i used to remember that they would drop fairly regularly when doing missions and some when doing pvp no the only way to get them is to do port battles have the dev changed the drop rates so it makes people to have to do port battles to get anything higher than a green and dont say craft them, some cant be made and who would use crafting notes on upgrades instead of ships blue and purple need be able to be bought at ports and only exp should be drops can we maybe get a comment on this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galileus Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 blue and purple need be able to be bought at ports and only exp should be drops can we maybe get a comment on this I would make only grays purchasable at ports. Blue/purple upgrades are way to easy to get, and you get them for life. These need to be territory for crafters and/or loot drops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prater Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 In all my time playing OW, I have only ever received 2 gold drops and maybe 5-10 purple drops. However, I am pretty lucky in crafting and getting crafting notes as rewards. Since EA I haven't crafted a single high grade crafting note, and I've used maybe 10-15 and still have 17. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Rice Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 yea crafting them now is a lot easier now that we have people who are maxed lvl in crafting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Moose Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 well i agree with the loot drops but as i have said in 3-4 of playing about 20 hrs i have gotten 1 loot drop that i really thing something has changed but if you dont want to be able to not buy blue or purples then they need to drop sure you can craft them but they take a stupid amount of resources to make and again as i have said some are not craftable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galileus Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 sure you can craft them but they take a stupid amount of resources to make and again as i have said some are not craftable Which ones? From what I've seen, modules are amazingly cheap actually. Crafting ALL (!) gray upgrades is a matter of 163k worth of resources, which is nothing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Moose Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 i am not talking about grays i am talking about blue or purple also make me some powder monkeys or is it mag access well one of those you cant make now what do you do i am talking about drops not crafting them when game first went ea upgrade drops were a lot more i am asking if they changed them cause is sure seems like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prater Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 i am talking about drops not crafting them when game first went ea upgrade drops were a lot more i am asking if they changed them cause is sure seems like it Ya, and I am saying that in the year and over 1000+ hours in OW, I have only received 2 yellow drops and maybe 5-10 purple drops, and most of the purples from port battles. Other people are luckier. I hate ai, so maybe that is it. But even from port battles, this is all I've received. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quineloe Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 yea crafting them now is a lot easier now that we have people who are maxed lvl in crafting. Now if only you could craft powder monkeys, marines or boarding parties. But hey, Speed Trim and Copper Plating can be crafted, yay for +10% speed raceboats. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Moose Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 as i said most of the important onces cant be crafted so more loot would be nice, i have just noticed it because of our move to pvp1 from pvp2 i have received in one week like 1 upgrade i could use and it about 30hrs of play time maybe more we need more loot would make alot of people happy and just maybe keep them around longer last nite on pvp1 the server that is supposed to be the grand server there was 503 people on at 8pm cst that doesnt instill confidence with me about this game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Robert Calder Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 I have millions of gold but can't use it to hire some Exceptional Crew. How droll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 my buddy got gold marines from fighting npcs yesterday, i got purple grog rations the day before. these were the first good ones i'd seen in quite a while, i think random is just random Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babble Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 I have millions of gold but can't use it to hire some Exceptional Crew. How droll. You could hire me to sink whatever attacks you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonVolks Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 You could hire me to sink whatever attacks you. Exactly... Open world RP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacapus Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 I see that some players are alot luckier than me... How many Belle Poule break does I need to get the damn Blue Print... Broke more than 8 now. Also build exceptionnal Renomee and Surprise and still no Belle Poule Blue Print Captured lots of NPC Frigates, Belle Poule, Cerberus and its always empty, no modules, they should at least put a little bit of cargo on these ships. I'm probably the unluckiest player ever lol sniff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonVolks Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 I barely ever get loot drops from fights so as far as I am concerned since early release loot drops of upgrades = 1% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prater Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 How many Belle Poule break does I need to get the damn Blue Print... Broke more than 8 now. Also build exceptionnal Renomee and Surprise and still no Belle Poule Blue Print Don't break up ships to get blueprints. The chance is very rare, especially on 1 dura ships. Instead, craft exceptional frigates. If you are higher than lvl 28, I don't think it should take that long to get it. You might get a Trinc or other ship as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbert Dole Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Maybe this is speculation on my part but I seem to get way most of mine from the target of opportunity suck in 2-3 ow fleets worth of traders and escorts giving me 6-10ish ships to fight and almost always get an upgrade of some kind (or 2 or once 3)... quality wise idk, seems like blue/purple mostly but yellows aren't that uncommon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnovotny6 Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Im on pve, dont do port battles, do upgrade drops have the same chance of dropping from: 1. traders 2. warships 3.captured ships 4.sunk ships thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Ribault Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 (edited) This is purely anecdotal, as I think most of these comments are on this subject, but I have received the most upgrade drops by attacking a single AI ship and causing as much possible damage to it before it sinks, i.e. knocking down armor on all sides and sails way down, then sinking it. That has produced the most results for me. I have gotten some pretty good drops that way. Includes low-level missions too. Edited July 14, 2016 by Jean Ribault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnovotny6 Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 This is purely anecdotal, as I think most of these comments are on this subject, but I have received the most upgrade drops by attacking a single AI ship and causing as much possible damage to it before it sinks, i.e. knocking down armor on all sides and sails way down, then sinking it. That has produced the most results for me. I have gotten some pretty good drops that way. Includes low-level missions too. thanks, both trades and warships? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Ribault Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Personally my drops success has been with trade ships, but like I said also has been ok for me in low-level missions which are warships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 mission drops seem terrible now sometimes fleet fights drop 2-3 upgrades but ive never seen anything over common grade in a looooong time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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