Has the drop rate of influenced items been nerfed?

Hi there,

it feels like the drop rate of influenced items (just about any) has been significantly reduced. I've been trying to get an elder influenced helmet for a couple of days but no luck, barely any influenced items drop at all. I've tried to use elder scarabs or even elder influenced maps off of Kirac. Even the Elder Guardians often don't drop any unless I skill all the points on the atlas passive tree. Elder does drop his share so I know they are not hidden by the lootfilter.

Is that normal? I mean I know it ain't cause I play every league and have a dedicated Influenced Items Quad Tab that usually is a bit more filled up at this point, than it is right now.

Did I miss yet another announcement?

Heist Armor / Weapon / Jewelry chests used to drop influenced pieces quite frequently, but it's been nerfed hard.

Expedition in maps with the influence drop mod have become more rare, and you don't really get a ton of influenced equipment dropping like it used to in the past.

As for the amount of Shaper / Elder / Conqueror maps that I run, I have to say that the main way I get influenced equipment is through the bosses themselves and very rarely an item will drop from a monster.

If you trust me as a source, then, yes influence item drop rate has been nerfed.

I mean yes that is excactly how it feels to me. I wouldn't have made this thread if it wouldn't feel so off as it does right now. I was just wondering if that is something that has been communicated or is it just a non issue for trade league players?

I play SSF an it is so noticable that I made this thread. I haven't found a single influenced helmet (doesn't matter the influence type). This is especially apparent because I am specifically looking for an elder influenced one and have safed up a bunch of harvest influence reroll crafts, so I'd be happy if ANY influenced helmet drops so I at least have chance to reroll it into elder.

Seems crazy to me.

Juice up some conqueror fights. Their orbs seem to drop at a fairly decent clip. Once you get one, you can slap it on the base of your choice, then use your crafts.

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TemjinGold wrote:

Juice up some conqueror fights. Their orbs seem to drop at a fairly decent clip. Once you get one, you can slap it on the base of your choice, then use your crafts.

Thanks, I had this in mind too. The problem is in ssf conqueror maps aren't just available left and right. My atlas tree is set up for it but they still drop fairly rarely or won't get the atlas juice if I try to farm them through Kirac.

Thats an SSF problem so I am okay with that.

I will find one eventually I was just wondering what was going on. Seems like a shadow nerf. I really wish stuff like that would be communicated since this is something that heavily influences peoples league starter choices.

I fully agree with SleepyHeadedSkeleton, experienced the same, but already in previous league.
For Elder / Shaper, You can use their scarabs and use it on 8-mod rare T16s.
That way I usually get some influenced items each maps.

I cannot get much even from 8-mod conqueror maps, those mostly dropping from bosses for me.

The harvest swap influence is also useful, it is a random swap, but quite common craft.