Almost 3 years (33 months) without garmoth heart. Ridiculous.

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Since the day PA added those crap quests for the guaranteed garmoth heart, I haven't gotten either the heart or the dragon pet from the boss.
Throughout this period I missed a few (2-3) fights against Garmoth. But adding event spawns it can be assumed that I participated in 100%.
33 months with 3 spawns per week = over 400 fights.
If every boss gave even just one aura, I would have 4 hearts right now.
It's ridiculous that an item that every player must have in the amount of 2 is so hard to get. In any normal mmo, after 3 years I would have all the best items in the game.
At BDO, after 4 years, I am not even close to such items.

[CrackeR]

They don't want us to reach the pinnacle, they want us to play forever in hopes of that ONE lucky roll. It's sad but very true!
Must say though, in that time you should've had ample time to grind out the silver required to buy off CM..even if ya had to wait halfway to forever on a PO... ;)

[Karna5]

*Nods* I'm not surprised. Although I've gotten two garmoth heart drops (and three karanda heart drops), I've never actually gotten a garmoth heart with a boss alt. I've always gotten it on the rare times I used my main (higher AP) characters, but even those garmoth heart drops were over a year ago.

I can't prove it, but I think the massive hoards of players who fight garmoth make the chance of getting a drop infinitesimal because, if my understanding is correct, if you're not in the top 1% of damage dealers your odds of getting the heart are next to zero.

There's a Garmoth heart quest, but it's not only absurdly boring due to having to farm the same monster practically forever, but it's also expensive. It does not make sense at all to do the Garmoth heart quest.

In my humble opinion they should completely overhaul:

1. The Garmoth heart quest to make it accessible for everyone to get at least one heart without quitting the game in boredom and without paying so much they may as well buy it off the CM, and

2. They should increase the drop rate (by quite a bit) on the Karanda Heart and the TC Kutum Heart as those cannot be sold on CM and are decent pity drops whiule waiting for the better Garmoth heart.

[Not_Tola]

Originally posted by CrackeR:

They don't want us to reach the pinnacle, they want us to play forever in hopes of that ONE lucky roll. It's sad but very true!
Must say though, in that time you should've had ample time to grind out the silver required to buy off CM..even if ya had to wait halfway to forever on a PO... ;)

You just spit fact.

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Originally posted by Karna5:

if my understanding is correct, if you're not in the top 1% of damage dealers your odds of getting the heart are next to zero.

Urban legend. Garmoth does not apply to the extra drop rule for top 10% dps players.
I had a lvl 56 alt under Garmoth for a long time wearing main quest items and got 2 hearts and one horn (pet).
Hearts have stopped dropping since PA added these quests. In other words, they added quests but at the same time quietly lowered the drop chance from low to unrealistic.

Originally posted by Karna5:

There's a Garmoth heart quest, but it's not only absurdly boring due to having to farm the same monster practically forever, but it's also expensive. It does not make sense at all to do the Garmoth heart quest.

These quests are absurd, heart should be a reward and these quests require you to pay (around 5b if I remember correctly).
Also you need 50 turo hears and turo zones is a totally unfriendly zone for player. Requires 2 players, mobs are very strong, have a good chance of knocking you down and drop of these hearts is zero (I got more embers than hearts).

Originally posted by Karna5:

Karanda Heart.

Karanda heart is no alternative. I have 11 of them. To unlock 2 slots for crystals, you must have garmoth heart, karanda heart only unlocks one slot. Karanda heart cannot be used on sub weapons, while garmoth heart gives additional bonuses on sub weapons.

Originally posted by Not_Tola:

Originally posted by CrackeR:

They don't want us to reach the pinnacle, they want us to play forever in hopes of that ONE lucky roll. It's sad but very true!
Must say though, in that time you should've had ample time to grind out the silver required to buy off CM..even if ya had to wait halfway to forever on a PO... ;)

You just spit fact.

You can't buy something that doesn't exist, and garmoth heart preorders currently exceed 1000 in Europe.