Question on Orchard changes

[Havok.cry]

Awesome, thanks for sharing your findings.

[nivarch]

Here is a list of the drops I received from about 20 runs on one toon.

Tapestries : 41
Sigil Pieces: 2
Shield Fragments: 5
Tome pages: 5

This was on a level 20 barb.

Shield fragments breakdown was 2 fragment 1s, and 1 fragment 2,5,6.
Tome pages: 2 page IIIs, one pages 4, 5, and 8.

So they fragments are easier to obtain.

I saw between 5 and 7 chests each run. Of those chests 1 or 2 would be nothing but vendor trash each run although one run dropped only vendor trash. I was seeing 2 tapestries ech run except for the one trash run and 2 others that only dropped one tap. One of the runs dropping one tap yielded a sigil a page and a fragment. So it is random. I will be running another toon trhu to see if the pattern follows as well.

Awesome information.
Really thanks a lot for doing this research on lamannia!

Maybe I'll finally be able to make myself a skiver

[Sarisa]

i really like this change.

anytime we have the option of running more of the things i like as opposed to running less of the things i hate for flagging or any completion mechanic is great game design imo. i dont mind spending more time for the same result if its more enjoyable for me.

Agree. I don't mind running these quests, rares, and slayers during leveling, they're fun and good experience. I don't want to have to grind them out countless times post cap just to try to get a party/guild member flagged, just because the random number generator decided it was going to laugh at us.

[somenewnoob]

This is a great change. Flagging for Abbott was one of the most painful experiences of my life, pulling the sigil pieces I didn't need 1000 times before I finally got lucky enough to get the one I needed.

Definitely a good change! This update really has some freaking good stuff in it!

[CarpeNoctu]

Well, the way I read it, the answer would be no, as the explorer chests never had a chance to drop sigil pieces.

...J

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b9...AbbotSigil.jpg

Sigil: Eye of the Abbot found in the chest of Edeva Yllka, Dread Wraith right after the Dev XP/u13 loot event the other day... I'm not going to make any assumptions about frequency or anything, but we popped about 10 or 12 chests before we got this. We bailed immediately after we got it though, since confirmation is all we really wanted...

[Miow]

That's a good question. I had just assumed you would still have to run the quests at least once.......but that's just speculation.

And I'll NEVER be running Fleshmakers again if so!

Your assumption would make sense they will probably implement running the quests once for flagging...imo

[Silverleafeon]

[slimkj]

I think everyone getting tome pages in the rare chests should be vewy, vewy quiet until this hits Live.