I’ve done like 100+ Dregs of Lies more often it gets wrong element. but when it still has %Fire dmg the 3rd tier affix is always wrong. I have over 30 wrong fire Dregs of Lies and no correct one. Blizzard, could you please increase the droprate of the Hellforge Ember? At least a bit. Because it 's getting no fun at all to fail so many times.
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The season has just started. You have plenty of time to pray to RNGesus still.
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then they should give all Tier 3 affixes an equal chance to roll.
Even if they all have 33% chance to roll you can still not have it roll in 100 tries. Unlikely perhaps, but not impossible.
Which means you’ve had 300+ hellforge embers, in the first week or so of the season. At that rate, if the season lasts 3-4 months, you’ll have had thousands of rank 3 soul shards.
300+ in a week is around 43 a day. Isn’t that high enough already?
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I just want the shards to display their unlocked grey powers before using my embers,so I can just discard/salvage it if I don’t like it.
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No way. I think the drop rate is spot-on as it is. I’ve had around 50 or so in the week it’s been live, and I’m around paragon 670. If they increase the rate then everyone is going to get all their gear stat boosted far too easy. Season has only been live for a week.
Blizz letting us do that with the shards this season is an excellent idea but it still should still require a bit of work to do all your gear.
Oh, and whoever came up with the idea to let us do this, give them a bonus. A lot of players really happy someone made that design decision for this season.
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no , only 2 needed to see if it s Fire or not
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So you won’t need as many. You’re not making the point with this you think you are.
“I’ve only found 15 hellforge embers since the season started, I’ve only been able to augment three pieces of gear and my helmet and weapons shards are pathetic. I need a higher drop rate.”
Your humble bragging doesn’t elicit as much sympathy as whining and that isn’t really effective either. Try the math gambit using the drop rate per hour of farming and be sure to mention that RNGesus is cruel.
By the way the drop rate is fine I’m having a blast.
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I would say rather reduce the droprate. They drop like crazy.
Maybe the farming place is important … nearly all (if not really all) hellforge embers I found are from Grifts (or maybe Rifts).
I only need embers since Dregs of Lies easily farmed from Khule in Act II. With the current embers droprate I can make , say, 15 tries per day. And that seems not enough as I 've yet not gotten the proper affixes on Dregs. If they increase the droprate I would have like 25+ tries per day and chances are higher. Simple logic. Another solution is not to make that particular Tier 3 affix so rare. The chances for it seem ridiculously low.
15 a day, given that a season is about 90 days that’s 1350 tries over the season.
yes but the chance for that Tier 3 being so low I wouldn’t be surprised if I still won’t get it by the end of the season 
But I still hope… every day spend all my embers on Dregs
On console, in couch co-op, there appears to be a drop preference. So far, of Shards that have dropped, 95% have been Player 1 (around 20) with 5 being Player 2 drops; for Embers, it has been 100% P1 (much lower drop rate though - only 3.)
I have been able to get all the shards and more Embers (around 25) playing solo, though, so that’s no so bad… but if I were to play the season more frequently in a group with my lady, I’d be very disappointed.
It may be that my character is currently more capable solo and runs at GR90. My lady’s crusader is not so fortunate.
you’re lucky i’m almost 2k para and have farmed over 50 dregs and only got 3 with fire dmg not with the dps buff required for the build. 3 out of the 50 dropped as fire all with the wrong rank 3 affex. I’m doing less damage than people 300 paras below me. The problem is the fire drop rate is way lower than the others. Significantly I have over 10 physical and poison dregs and about 20 none elemental dregs and 3 fire one’s RNG seems to be skewed to not drop fire.
Today, I am very lucky to get 5 hellforge embers from Torment level 14, one from killing the Rift Guardian at Paragon level 424 , the 2nd. one from killing the daethrattle the doomed (Nephalem Rift) at Paragon Level 474, the 3rd one from killing elite boss at PL 475, the 4th. one from opening treasure chest at PL 476, and the last one from breaking the pile bone at PL 508 from Nephalem Rift.
I am not sure if the hotfix that was applied to PC was applied to consoles or not, but I created a HC character on the same day as the hotfix was released to PC and drop rates for both shards and embers has dropped significantly with the new HC character, making my suspicious that the drop rates were nerfed with the patch. The decrease in drop rate is for both shards and embers, at a close enough paragon level between my SC and HC character to be comparable.
I will switch back to my SC character over the next few days to do more farming and will see if the drop rate decrease occurs with the SC character, or is only with my HC character.
I am just curious to see if others have seen a drop rate decrease post hot fix.
edit: 9 embers for HC, 33 embers for SC. 27 shards HC, 59 shards SC. Essence of anguish and sliver of terror have both become much harder to drop. The other shards all seem to be as common as before in terms of chance to drop out of the shard pool.
Yes I noticed that too. Previously I had at least twice as many embers. Now if I drop like 5-8 per 3 hours I think I’m lucky… and still can’t get %Fire dmg + 3 tier Pet affix Dregs of Lies 
But now it 's become even harder to get
Thus far, they have been more plentiful in Hardcore mode, but that’s the nature of RNG.
I’ve had 3 and have just barely crossed P100, at Torment 4. My lady, across both modes, finally got one to drop. Which is very much annoying.