Is there some trick to these? I don’t notice any appreciable increase in drops related to the type of opal I’m using.
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a friend said he considers it noticeable, but yea, i dont really feel them either.
had big loot problems before, today ive been mostly doing nightmare dungeons, where the loot did feel a lot better. maybe i should pay attention in nmds when using the opals.
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They sure don’t seem to work for me. I was wondering the same thing.
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As far as I’m concerned, they are bugged and do basically nothing. The entire season mechanic seems kind of broken, pick the option to get chests of materials and you open a chest to get 2 bundles of herbs and nothing else on torment 1, pick the gear option and you get like a single rare item that is instantly salvaged, and then the opals don’t appear to do anything, often not even provide the rep they are supposed to. Feels like something went wrong here, I don’t know why I’d want to engage with this content over literally anything else in the game.
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did you test this out? was wondering about it as well to be honest but didnt really fact check it on the npc.
The rep is bugged, yes, it either doesn’t show it visually (+1 Zakarum Remnant or whatever) or does it in spurts of +30, which is just as annoying, or it just straight up doesn’t do anything, i honestly can’t tell
That being said, I have noticed the actual drops improving, so the seething opal of gold? On t1 I was getting gold piles of like 2.5k average right? With the opal i was getting almost 5k average gold piles. Stack that with a greed shrine and you’ll have more gold than you know what to do with until you start rerolling enchantments
Same with equipment, I noticed a lot more legendaries dropping as opposed to rares
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My friend tested it more than me, but ya often I have an opal up and never see any green rep gains, my rep level is surprisingly low for how much I’m played but I haven’t done serious testing on it myself. I’m pretty sure I got 0 rep in the pit. My friend said she spent hours with opals up doing various content without getting any rep. I don’t know if the issues with their rep are consistent or not, but there certainly seems to be some issue with them.
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Yeah. Even the rep is buggy. Just burned up an opal killing almost constantly in helltides and 2 NMs and got zero rep.
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increased [type of opal] rate could be bugged (the rep seems to only work on some mobs not all atleast what i have seen) but could also just be that the reduction of loot dropping in general makes it seem liek doesnt do much.
If I use a boss mats summoning opal I’ll often only notice maybe one drop seemingly related to the opal for the full duration. Same thing on torment 1 2 and 3.
You could have an item that gives you 1000% drop increase but 1000x0 is still 0. At least that’s what the entirety of this season feels like atm, hell they even went back to helltide chests not dropping equipment again smh
Same here. Spent an hour, wasted 2 opals, running around doing world events, Whispers, dungeons and just open world farming. Got a grand total of 11 reputation points.
Its blizzard math again. Since even the end of the season character cache you wont get a spark, its worthless cause the moved to account based season so you literally only get 1 now per account per season. Last season i kept making characters, RNG till i get the spark, rinse repeat. Made 3 Mythics in 3 days. Since the season mechanic drop is broken, ill go fix my eternal characters, oh wait, next season they will move to lvl 70 and rework the points again and brick the characters.
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Seems all the reward stuff is bugged to hell. Opals dont work. Undercity stuff doesn’t work. This is what happens when they make 8 billion things to do 8 billion other things. I like being able to select choices but its just too much farming stuff to farm other stuff to farm other specific stuff.
I liked the way faction worked last season better. Didnt need to have any buff. Just got xp whenever you killed stuff anywhere.
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Yes, blizzard has a thing they like to do. They find what people enjoy, get them hooked, then remove what they enjoyed to try and get them farming longer. People wont farm longer. They will just quit out of boredom from not being rewarded.
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They seem to randomly work. So basically pop one every 30 minutes and hope for the best. Maybe by the end of the season you will hit rank 12
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The trick is to stockpile the opals and then wait for the forum complaints to trigger a fix from blizzard.
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Maybe this is the way forward. Still seeing the same issues this morning. Opals used in all end game activities without much effect. Rep gain seems hit and miss.
My wife and I were wondering on this mechanic as well. We have not received any Rep since 2 nights ago where we got like 65 points, and it had not moved since. On the other hand, Raheir rep/rapport is at the end of level 4… lol. I came on the board looking to see how we are supposed to even get the rep, since it was not changing at all after hours of play. We hit level 40 or so last night and are still sitting at the same rep.
Hope it gets fixed, since the patch a day thing, we are still crashing at least once a night as well…
Something is weird. I’ve been using an Opal since the Expac started and I’m only halfway through the Rep.
Feels like i should be already done.