Totem of Chromatic Fortune change??

Larisa

Noticed this morning when I went with a non guildmate to try for more pretty mares that the totem is no longer protecting the rare spawn from being killed.

Has anyone else had this issue? It was working as intended last night.

Okay so upon further testing I noticed that it seems to only happen in the southern most spot in T2A. There are areas in that location where I got the message *You cannot place a totem there* When I was finally able to place it, it did not protect the rare spawns from being attacked by other players.

Urge

I'm up to 16 totems with zero of any shade of purple. 1 red, 1 doodoo brown, 1 silver. Going by my instrument i use to disco and kill the plains, i'm over 450 killed.

If these give an increase to colors i'm not seeing it at all. 

Skett

try using a different account partied i had same issue switched account and instantly got color again maybe its just a coincidence but it worked

it seems like those totems have a diminishing return maybe ? 

keven2002

Yea I wish there was more defined numbers on what a totem does because I'm starting to doubt it myself. I have placed a total of 24 or so totems (so 8ish full charge items from the store) and have yet to see a single purple; only 1 demonic (this was early in the release), 1 green (again early), maybe 6 or so "bloodwood" red, and 10+ greys (some of the shiny look grey to me so I don't have a super accurate number).

To break down the numbers further...One full charge totem gives 3 charges and is good for an hour; I've done this 8 hours total broken up in a few sessions. I kill about 4-6 mares a minute (depends on respawn rate). On average I kill 300 mares an hour give or take. So 8 hours of using totems multiplied by the roughly 300mares per hour is 2400 mares. I'm not sure what the spawn rate of those more rare colors are but I almost feel like by killing 2400 mares I'd see one demonic & green even without a totem. I understand that breaking up the times between using totems might "miss out" on spawning a rare color one so the last time I used totems (maybe a week ago), I used 7 charges (2hr 20min) and in that period I saw 0 purple/demonic/green at any point and 3 bloodwood; that's roughly 700ish nightmares.

Even though Kyronix said they didn't turn down the color spawn since it first launched, what I've seen does not support that as I haven't seen a green or higher spawn for me since things kicked off (with or without totems). Maybe there is something to the account thing? Not sure about that though, it kind of brings me back to the feeling of my account being "marked" and not getting drops during EM events lol.

keven2002

Also - quick add to my previous post is that I've also spent probably 4-5 hours killing mares without totems (never longer than an hour straight though). I've had less void/grey mares spawn I think than if using a totem. I have seen 2-3 bloodwood mares in that time frame and no other color.

It's loose math but I feel like using a totem, for me personally, very slightly increases the low color spawned but doesn't seem like it's working on the higher end colors. Again this is where I'd like to know what the expected bump from a totem is versus not using one.

Macrophage

I think they have lowered the spawn rate of the colored mares at the same time as the hot fix for the lag in Atlantic

Urge

Skett said:

try using a different account partied i had same issue switched account and instantly got color again maybe its just a coincidence but it worked

it seems like those totems have a diminishing return maybe ? 

Ok thanks for that info! I guess i need to dust off a warrior for the kills then keep the tamer on standby.

This is also on a character that i've had a close to max luck suit on for years and years and never gotten any phat lootz from either. 

Skett

use which ever char can kill the mares the fastest and have them place the totem and use your tamer to tame them and gate to stable make sure to party them