Has Bungie patched the miserable Skywatch engram farming yet?

[illuser]

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[EckyThump]

Nope!

[DJukor]

Just kill the ogre in the hillside cave every 10 minutes or couple of times a day and it will get done.
It has a much higher engram drop rate than killing mobs.

[EckyThump]

I know that anecdotes aren't data (anecdata?) but I killed that ogre 8 times today and didn't get a single engram from it. It was working fine at the weekend though.

Did manage to get the last of the engrams I needed however. So yay?

[trukr]

I just did bounties, patrols and public events there and got them all in a couple days.

I can just see it "we're not there to do bounties!", I have mine, you don't.

Edit: Honestly, all the tips I have seen I think are mostly wrong, I had some drop from trash red bars. I doubt there is a formula to it, I could be wrong, I am from time to time, but this is how it felt to me.

[techno2k9]

Seems to me like Bungie have reduced the drop rates to 0.5% chance of an engram.

I completed the Red Death catalyst 0-100% on my Epic account and didn't get a single engram.

Took me over 12 hours of gameplay to get the 15 to drop, none from public events, none from HVT's, most came from the ogre, a couple came from random enemies.

[illuser]

Bungie increased the amount of adds spawning but didn't increase the miserably low drop rates.

GG Bungie

[robruckus65]

Originally posted by illuser:

Bungie increased the amount of adds spawning but didn't increase the miserably low drop rates.

GG Bungie

Thats not too bad then it took me like 6 hours total over a few days to finish it right after it dropped. It is incredibly mind numbing though and an all around waste of time not bad if you need to finish a catalyst or 3 though two birds one stone.

[illuser]

Originally posted by robruckus65:

Originally posted by illuser:

Bungie increased the amount of adds spawning but didn't increase the miserably low drop rates.

GG Bungie

Thats not too bad then it took me like 6 hours total over a few days to finish it right after it dropped. It is incredibly mind numbing though and an all around waste of time not bad if you need to finish a catalyst or 3 though two birds one stone.

No, it's still pretty bad. All they did was really make more red-bar enemies that have the lowest conceivable drop rates for engrams spawn more. The actually enemies that have higher chances of dropping engrams are a bit better, but the drop rate still means you're wasting your play time grinding them and competing against the rest of the instance.

[robruckus65]

Originally posted by illuser:

Originally posted by robruckus65:

Thats not too bad then it took me like 6 hours total over a few days to finish it right after it dropped. It is incredibly mind numbing though and an all around waste of time not bad if you need to finish a catalyst or 3 though two birds one stone.

No, it's still pretty bad. All they did was really make more red-bar enemies that have the lowest conceivable drop rates for engrams spawn more. The actually enemies that have higher chances of dropping engrams are a bit better, but the drop rate still means you're wasting your play time grinding them and competing against the rest of the instance.

Oh that's lame. They should of decreased the time between events. Most of my engrams came from that.