Air drops

[SketchboyQ]

I have about 900+ hrs on this game and about 98% of the drops I get are med crop plots is this normal... Orrrr

[Diablerie]

pretty much, most of the time it's medium crop plots, compass blueprints or metal hatchframes, at least this is in my experience. sky drops were nerfed months ago however. I used to get full sets of flak and other goodies when I first started playing.

[darknight9]

I get ramshackle/journeyman miners helmets, gps blueprints, improved tools/etc. You realize that there are different color drops at different places on the island? :)

[Ssaph]

Same here.
Even the red, yellow and purple drops. for me they mostly contain either metal structures or medium crop plots.

[SketchboyQ]

Originally posted by darknight9:

I get ramshackle/journeyman miners helmets, gps blueprints, improved tools/etc. You realize that there are different color drops at different places on the island? :)

of course and I still get the same basic mats regardless of color

[Riorach]

They will be doing a pass on the drops eventually, so just hang onto your butts :)

[Obahar_]

I find that the green drops have the best loot in them, just because extra resources and building materials is always nice.
I went to a few red drops, and so far I've only gotten primitive chitin chestpieces from them all, sometimes purples aren't too bad - got all the blueprints for every piece of metal structure - if only I could get better tools! D:

[Pingers]

900+ hours , you know its normal.........

[axenation]

Originally posted by Obahar_ Sombrerbro™:

if only I could get better tools! D:

You can get j-man tools out of blue sky drops and up. Just saying because most people don't realize this.

[Obahar_]

Originally posted by axenation:

Originally posted by Obahar_ Sombrerbro™:

if only I could get better tools! D:

You can get j-man tools out of blue sky drops and up. Just saying because most people don't realize this.

Oh really? Guess I should stop ignoring the blue drops then, thanks dude!
Say, do you know the order of drops? I just know I can open any of them and Red is "meant to be the better loot"

[Ssaph]

Originally posted by Obahar_ Sombrerbro™:

Say, do you know the order of drops? I just know I can open any of them and Red is "meant to be the better loot"

White = lvl 3
Green = lvl 15
Blue = lvl 25
Purple = lvl 35
Yellow = lvl 45
Red = lvl 60

The loot seems to be completely RNG based (in my experiance). Even red drops have a lot of Medium crop plots or water jars

[Blackfyre]

don't forget that the cave loot is always a little better too... try some of the easier caves, you can find some good stuff there too

[axenation]

Originally posted by Obahar_ Sombrerbro™:

Originally posted by axenation:

You can get j-man tools out of blue sky drops and up. Just saying because most people don't realize this.

Oh really? Guess I should stop ignoring the blue drops then, thanks dude!
Say, do you know the order of drops? I just know I can open any of them and Red is "meant to be the better loot"

You should never ignore drops if you're farming them on pve .. or if you have free range on pvp.
Open it up and toss the contents on the ground if it isnt something you like. Doing this allows for another drop to spawn. It just allows you to be a bit more effiicient if you're specifically faarming for something.

However, what Blackfyre said is true. Cave drops are far better than sky drops atm. This may or may not change when the devs do a balancing pass on supply drops in the coming weeks.

[darknight9]

Originally posted by axenation:

However, what Blackfyre said is true. Cave drops are far better than sky drops atm. This may or may not change when the devs do a balancing pass on supply drops in the coming weeks.

When you say cave drops do you mean random stuff or the 'chests' at the end of the caves?

[Dr Cyanide]

have gotten practically every single weapon BP on mastercrafted so far doing air drops (hunting now for a master crafted sniper rifle to complete the collection)

I find caving and camping crate respawns helps and using a speed buffed pterra helps...

how ever the number of medium crop plot, compass and water jar BPS I have gotten is some where in the thousands I think...

[axenation]

Originally posted by Blackfyre:

don't forget that the cave loot is always a little better too... try some of the easier caves, you can find some good stuff there too

Not only do they have a higher chance of containing something useable, but also the intensities on the items you get are higher from cave drops when compared to sky drops.

I've found ramshackle saddle bps with almost 50 ar, apprentice saddle bps with 60 ar, and j-man saddle bps with 69 ar. All from cave drops ... I've never seen anything like this from sky drops.