Nebula Fragment

[FURYous]

There has to be a better way to get the Nebula Fragment. It seems that all I do anymore is try and figure out how to get one of these ******* things to drop. Ever since release, this is ALL I HAVE DONE! I am sick of it.

• I have 9 characters ransacked on ALL the epic explorer area rares (9 characters X 8 chests X 17 Rares = 1224 chests)
• I have spent over 4000 shards rerolling chests (4000/15 = 267 chests)
• I have done the complete saga several times, most of them on R8 or above (at least 100 chests)

That's over 1,500 chests opened without one of these dropping.

Can we please get a consistent way to obtain these without the crazy money grab from having to buy shards? I already spent $200 on shards, I am done playing the ******** slot machine, Give me any other way to do it.

Too frustrated for words.

P.S. I tried to do the heroic rares too but it seems they are on the same ransack timer as epic???????????

P.P.S. And don't tell me about how I could have played the scavenger hunt without it, who thought it was a good idea to hold a scavenger hunt but only give 1 in 100 people a bag? I am not going to run all around looking for items I can't do anything with! This was not a great idea.

[QuantumFX]

Yeah, they need to do something like "Guaranteed drop on 3rd saga reward". I'd like to see this kind of stuff keep it's goodwill in the community.

[mikarddo]

Well, by spending $200 you have certainly encouraged SSG not to do so again...

Apart from that, if something is to be really rare it does need some mechanism to keep it rare - and thus to deny it to some players. Otherwise it wouldnt really be rare. Getting it 100% on the 3rd sage reward would mean it was very, very common very, very fast.

They just changed ERoSS from ultra rare to extremely common - I farmed 6 in a single day - so something new needs to be the "rare" stuff.

[droid327]

Apart from that, if something is to be really rare it does need some mechanism to keep it rare - and thus to deny it to some players. Otherwise it wouldnt really be rare. Getting it 100% on the 3rd sage reward would mean it was very, very common very, very fast.

They just changed ERoSS from ultra rare to extremely common - I farmed 6 in a single day - so something new needs to be the "rare" stuff.

Yeah, this. None of the Perfected artifacts looked especially game-breaking, so I dont think its necessarily something everyone needs to have short-term access to for balance's sake.

DDO has a habit of putting out "chase" goals, losing their nerve, and then pouring out shortcuts like pinata candy. Reaper points. Sentient leveling. Otto's Boxes and Wishes. Pretty much every named item that isnt named Jibbers. I'd be glad if they could steel themselves enough to keep Nebula shards as actual "jackpot" drops. Except for all the new augments - "meat and potatoes" items like that shouldnt be jackpot drops :P

Also, do you mean you farmed them with your Elixir? Or they actually changed the base drop rate to something non-astronomical?

[FURYous]

Yeah, this. None of the Perfected artifacts looked especially game-breaking, so I dont think its necessarily something everyone needs to have short-term access to for balance's sake.

DDO has a habit of putting out "chase" goals, losing their nerve, and then pouring out shortcuts like pinata candy. Reaper points. Sentient leveling. Otto's Boxes and Wishes. Pretty much every named item that isnt named Jibbers. I'd be glad if they could steel themselves enough to keep Nebula shards as actual "jackpot" drops. Except for all the new augments - "meat and potatoes" items like that shouldnt be jackpot drops :P

Also, do you mean you farmed them with your Elixir? Or they actually changed the base drop rate to something non-astronomical?

all of my farming was done with elixirs.

I don't mind hard to obtain items. I farmed more Essence of Cleansing for Green Steel than I can remember (before you could buy them with runes). I would like to think that the work I put in wasn't completely random. Make it a guaranteed drop on the 17th saga turn in on elite. that would require someone to do 170 quests in a single life to get it, still think it would be common?

[rabidfox]

We have no clue what the drop rates are on them; it's quite likely they're like jibbers where the odds are next to none and pots/difficulty don't matter. Didn't someone say they got one off heroic mode (I could swear I saw that in a thread or on discord at some point but I might be misremembering or they were joking/trolling)?