Caravan Missing

[C00LBR33Z3]

I've done 20 or so runs of the Orchard now since U13 started. But in all the runs I've yet to see the Caravan, I've always had issues with it in the past but never to this extent. Is it just a streach of bad luck or have others been missing.

On a side not I'm finding the drops to be good right now especially on Tome pages

[Matuse]

I clobbered a caravan this morning. For me, the rare one is the one inside the water cave that divides the two halves of the map. I can go 9-10 runs in a row without seeing that one.

And yes, the drop rate on tome pages and shield parts is INSANE.

Easily 5x more common than from the "actual" chests they come from. Unless those chests were hugely stealth-buffed and it wasn't mentioned in the patch notes. I need to do some Litany runs for XP anyway, so I'll see if the drop rate has gotten any less appallingly awful (my first skiver took 147 runs, and I still ended up buying 3 of the pages).

[C00LBR33Z3]

Then stack it up to bad luck, back to farming

[Ninety]

a guildie and I ran around the orchard once and got 0 tome/shield/sigil. how often are you seeing those pieces?

[FrancisP.Fancypants]

They didn't adjust the drop rate for taps did they?

[Zyerz]

a guildie and I ran around the vale once and got 0 tome/shield/sigil. how often are you seeing those pieces?

You mean Orchard... Vale is a different area.

[Psiandron]

The rares are streaky in the Orchard. I'm in a spell where the Caravan isn't appearing much for me either, but that said, I did have it appear last night. Also, yes I've been getting regular drops on taps and the newly appearing tome pages, sigil and shield pieces are dropping as well.

[AZgreentea]

I always see the caravan.

In 3BC I just had the Lacerator left to do. It took me a week of running it 15 times a day before that little scorpion popped.

[Matuse]

They didn't adjust the drop rate for taps did they?

No, tap rate is at least as high as it was before, maybe higher.

I've done 3 clears, 7-8 rares each time. I've gotten 14 taps, 2 shield pieces, 2 tome pages, but zero sigils.

[Sarisa]

My group has been averaging 1 tome page or so per clear with a full group of 6, only avoiding the two northernmost rares (Northern Crypts, and the wraith by the Abbot's family plots). Slightly more common than our averages for a full run of all four bosses in Litany in.

Also haven't seen a sigil piece, and only one shield piece.