I think that’s why your initial response about drops was received so poorly. Players were basically told they may have been wasting their time grinding for something without ever realizing they were never gonna get it. That’s not an easy pill to swallow.
This is how most looters work though. It's very rare for the devs to tell you where to go find the specific legendary you want, usually the community does all the testing for it and writes guides on where/how you should farm for certain things.
This is how most looters work though. It's very rare for the devs to tell you where to go find the specific legendary you want, usually the community does all the testing for it and writes guides on where/how you should farm for certain things.
You're spot on.
Having watched the community evolve every single day since it's inception, my personal belief is that it would have been highly likely that the community would have created it's own farming guides that were community data-driven and through that would have seen the patterns in drop rates and come to an understanding of optimal vs limited or impossible farming opportunities.
Would that understanding have meant that drop rates didn't need to be improved? Not at all, but it would have made clearer to players where the best possible drop locations were, and that in turn would have allowed us to be more surgical in improvements to the rates. And all of that sooner as wel...
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