should rod of discord have a higher drop rate

[holy diver]

just wondering

[ThreeNineTwo]

If you're complaining about Rod of Discord drop rate, how about the 1/4000 drop rate of the Hard Mode Dungeon keys? Not quite sure what they did to them in the last update, though.
No, I think the drop rate of such a cool item is good.

[Pumpkin_Masher]

I went to build a farm in the underground hallow to farm the rod and it dropped before I even finished building it.

Yesterday my brother wanted it so we went down to finish the farm and he farmed about an hour and got it to drop as well.

It's more than possible to get. The thing I wish had a higher drop rate is the Axe. I've lost count of how many times I've fought Plantera and I still don't have it.

[Honorable_D]

Rod of Discord is, imo, the best item in the game so it should be quite rare...

[Celator]

If anything, I think they should make the Rod of Discord harder to get... Its drop rate is actually pretty high considering how amazing it is and you can get it pretty much right after starting hardmode, and it can even be used to bypass all the mechanical bosses and Plantera completely and just go straight into the Jungle Temple to get endgame items. IMO, they should at least make it so it can't be obtained until after beating Plantera so you don't skip the entirety of hardmode with it.

That said, it's amazingly useful. After I got mine, it pretty much completely changed the way I played the game.

[Glosanbi]

^I figure if people want to ruin the game for themselves, then they can. I don't see how it really spoils the game for someone else? If people really wanted to play the game most properly, they would not read on Wiki for as long as possible, nor confer with external sources (I say these things from the point of view that when you see something drop from a monster without knowing what it is, you become very excited and the same excitement extends to the rest of the game for other items).

Mine randomly dropped as I as farming for crystal bullets. When I saw it it didn't look too impressive, but when I picked it up and read the stats, I had to reread it twice to make sure that such an item could exist. That was exciting. I was also worried it would suddenly disappear lol.

[Celator]

Well, you could argue that people spoiling the game for themselves is their business, but then everyone made such a fuss about Spectre Armor and dungeon chest items being available so early on that the developers actually blocked them until later, so I'm not sure why they aren't making the same fuss about the Rod of Discord. If anything the Rod is even worse than those other items, since while you had to brave the dungeon's insanely overpowered enemies to get them all you have to do to get the Rod is just farm Chaos Elementals in the hallow for a while.

I got my first Rod pretty much day one after 1.2, but for some reason I didn't think it was really all that useful or impressive aside from as a novelty item and I sold it. Later I learned how rare and useful it was, and I had to spend an entire day farming the hallow to get another one. Now I make sure I always keep at least one of every new item I find, unless it's something obviously outclassed by something else.

[Irdilavice]

Red's wanting to *nerf* the RoD due to how powerful it is. In his live stream, he said he was thinking about adding a cooldown. The (more likely to not happen, but would keep many more people happy) alternative would to make it a difficult-to-craft item. Odds are, it'll stay a rare drop *and* receive a terrible cooldown.

[Glosanbi]

:( Guess I'll have to start using boots again.

[Celator]

I would be okay with a cooldown, as long as it's not incredibly long like the potion cooldown is. It would still be useful to get from place to place (combined with wings and boots it would still get you places faster), you just wouldn't be able to spam it to avoid attacks or anything. Though I would of course prefer the latter alternative, especially seeing as how I already have one, heheh.

[Irdilavice]

I'm all for the hard-to-craft. I'd even go as far to personally throw mine away to recreate it for the feel of "achieving" it the "right" way. But I think Red wants to put a harsh CD on it (I think he said he was thinking 15 seconds or more), which would basically make it worthless. Even 5 seconds makes it almost worthless - it should be a supremely powerful and supremely-difficult to obtain, not very-difficult to obtain and very weak (a la Piranha Gun).

[flamedance58]

It's a rod that gives you a teleport to wherever the mouse is and it's got a minimal MP cost and no cooldown atm, that's pretty powerful if you ask me. If anything the drop rate is fine where it is.

[Granger]

How about no cooldown but a high mana cost? Like 20?
Would be a much better solution if you ask me.

[Celator]

^Yeah, I'd think mana cost would also be a good solution, and I'm surprised Red hasn't considered it. But I agree, 15 seconds is too much. I was thinking more like 5 seconds. At the very most, it shouldn't be any longer than the cooldown on those Chaos Elementals' teleporting skill, those cheating bastards.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

引用自 flamedance58：

It's a rod that gives you a teleport to wherever the mouse is and it's got a minimal MP cost and no cooldown atm, that's pretty powerful if you ask me. If anything the drop rate is fine where it is.

[Silvador]

HOW THE @!#$ IS IT OVER POWERED?! Are you people MORONS?! By the time you can get the RoD there is LITERALLY nothing you can't do (save for enter the Jungle Temple) without the RoD and a little extra EFFORT! As for entering the temple before it's time? The solution has been in the game SINCE THE BEGINNING! Add a guardian. JUST LIKE THE DUNGEON! The Dungeon Guardian spawns according to the walling behind the player. DO THE SAME FOR THE TEMPLE!

But what am I talking about? This is Red. All he apparently cares about is giving his fanbase the ol' middle finger and a "Thanks for the money".

Of course the RoD is going to get nerfed. Simple reason really behind it, really. BECAUSE IT'S GOOD! Not "too" good. Just GOOD. But, oh no, we can't have something in the game that is good, or fun. If that was the case people might actually like it. BETTER COAT IT IN ♥♥♥♥ AND CALL IT "BALANCING".