I think it really needs to change that the last bosses in Heroic Dungeons drop the gems on the same loot table as the epic items. I rand 8 Heroic Dungeons today, and every single one of them dropped a gem. At this point I think I have a 60%+ gem drop rate over epic items.
I don’t remember it being like this and it is really un-motivating to have such a small chance at getting the item you’re farming for over a gem that shouldn’t share the loot table.
I think the best solution for this would be to make the Gems have their own loot table, and also a chance to drop no gem. Then the Epic items are on their own loot table, then the blues (as they are now).
Just unlucky / rng. All I need are the gems and after running the two instances I need every day, I’ve only seen one of them.
If they placed them on separate loot tables, they would probably reduce the drop percentage of one or the other, making it extremely rare to get both…. And then either the gems or the items wouldn’t drop as often…. That would be bad
I’m pretty sure the low drop rate on certain items is intended so you keep running heroics for a while, I mean some items just do not drop at all and will easily take over 15 runs which can be explained by the big loot tables some bosses have (usually a mix of regular and heroic drops).