FHEL4 Drop Rate Nerf

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A few days ago, a Customer Support Agent told Jim that the FHEL4 loot drop rates were decreased (err...NERFED). Here is the conversation.

Thanks for contacting Zynga Customer Support.


My name is xxxxx and its a pleasure to assist you. Jim I understand that your having problems with the fighting drop rate. Allow me to inform you that the drop rate has been reduced a small portion regarding the rare items and this might be the reason that its difficult to loot them. As a gesture of good will I added a Venomous Vehicle for the inconvenience, allow me to inform you that you had 34 and now have 35. If you have any other concern or doubt don't hesitate in contacting us back.
Have a great day Jim!
Kind regards,
xxxxxxxxx
Zynga Customer Support.

Over the past few days we saw the drop rate drastically decrease, increase and decrease again. Here is a stamina run I did on the day FHEL4 items were introduced into the game.  Out of 5414 fights won, I got 13 FHEL4 items giving me a 0.24% drop rate.

Jan 27th
Drop Rate = 0.24%

Here is a run from February 11th and I only got 1 FHEL4 item for 3,120 wins!  This is only a 0.032% drop rate and I was not very happy when I reviewed the results.

Feb 11th (day)

Drop Rate = 0.032%

The next day, things looked like they were improving, because I got 9 FHEL4 items with 2,393 wins.  This run gave a 0.38% drop rate and showed an  increase from the baseline drop rate (0.24%) and most players were happy to see the improvement.

Feb 11th (night)

Drop Rate = 0.24%

Today I did the same run using the same account in the same destination (Italy) and got what is probably a more accurate drop rate for my account on this day.  I tripled the number of wins from the baseline run (16,242 vs 5,414) and got a drop rate 0.086% (vs 0.24%).  I should note that my win rate was 96% on Jan 27th and is now 97%.  This shouldn't be a factor because I calculated the drop rates from the number of fights won and not the total stamina spent.  Basically I won 3 times the number of fights to get the same amount of loot as I did on Jan 27th. I hope the Zynga team will realize that getting 500 of any of these items will be a very difficult task for the majority of their players. What's really annoying is I didn't even have a chance to get 500 of the last batch of fighting loot.  Hopefully Zynga will give us all a chance to accomplish a goal before they throw new higher ranking loot into the game.  If they are in a hurry to do so then they need to adjust the drop rate. If they can be patient and wait to add more loot (yeah right!) then maybe we could deal with these ridiculously low drop rates.  I threw in the logs for Broken Hearts for those who are interested and Railgun Barrels/Portable Fusion Reactors as the drop rates on these were nerfed a while ago.

Feb 13th
Drop Rate = 0.086%

Many of you have asked about my settings on Brawler so here they are.  I don't try to get fancy and just let it run to attack anybody on my fight list who is alive.  As stated above, my win rate is 97%.  If I adjusted things to improve this statistic, the runs would take much longer.  I think it's a fair trade off.

If you want to see more drop rates from a variety of players, go to the Mafia Wars Loot Lady Fan Page.  Since Facebook nerfed the chronological order of posts, you may have to do some scrolling. Why can't Zynga and Facebook just leave things the way we like them?  If it's not broke, don't fix it!

Article written by Jennifer Patterson, Creator of the MW Loot Lady Blog, The Mafia Wars Loot Lady Facebook Fan Page and Co-Host of The Informant Podcast. All material is protected by copyright law