Arcane Loops of Anger in FoS

I believe a lot of drops are no longer as random as they used to be, remember in the last major patch they said that drops would be associated with the group makeup and so could drop more cloth if there were a lot of cloth users?
If they tweaked the drop rates to match to players it has taken a lot of randomness out of the drops BUT the weird thing I have seen is that I see a lot of the same drops every time I run a dungeon and in particular in ICC 5 mans a LOT of plate drops.

So based on the original point of drops being aimed at the group makeup, then with a boxer they are going to see more of the same drops due to the group always being the same and in a random pug you are more likely to see more variety in the drops.

Drops suck. Been farming the places for a month now, and I'm still trying to get certain drops. Just gave up on getting the healing neck piece from James Brown.

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Originally Posted by Bigfish

Drops suck. Been farming the places for a month now, and I'm still trying to get certain drops. Just gave up on getting the healing neck piece from James Brown.

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Ironically all my caster chars have that in the bank :P

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Originally Posted by crowdx

I believe a lot of drops are no longer as random as they used to be, remember in the last major patch they said that drops would be associated with the group makeup and so could drop more cloth if there were a lot of cloth users?

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I haven't heard anything about that - do you have a link to a blue post? Wish they would though :-)

I believe I read it on a blue post before patch 3.3 was released. I do not see it in the patch notes though BUT I have noticed that loot does seem to match the group more. For instance the crossbow in UK never dropped for me when I ran it a zillion times pre- 3.3 , now I see it a lot, same with the the ring there, so they definitely tweaked something.

I sincerely doubt they'd make a significant change like that, without informing the community or release it in the patch notes. Also, I haven't noticed any difference going from paladin + 4 * shammie to a mixed team.

ive run it 5 times on my shammy and seen it twice. pretty lucky for me i suppose.

Random loot is random.

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Main Entry: 2random
Function: adjective
Date: 1632
1 a : lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern b : made, done, or chosen at random <read random passages from the book>
2 a : relating to, having, or being elements or events with definite probability of occurrence <random processes> b : being or relating to a set or to an element of a set each of whose elements has equal probability of occurrence <a random sample>; also : characterized by procedures designed to obtain such sets or elements <random sampling>

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Originally Posted by Svpernova09

Random loot is random.

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That's very informative - thanks.

/sarcasm off