After just a couple hours NPCing, I've encountered 4 Elios Phoenixes, no Cosmiren. Last year I filled my BT with Phoenixes. It's really annoying to have an NPC with drops that are useless because they're just upgrades to drops from a much rarer NPC. Phoenix and Cosmiren are both listed as Extremely Rare, it would be nice if they actually appeared with similar frequency. I understand that 5 people can get rewards from Cosmiren vs just 1 from Phoenix but even with this advantage my surplus of upgrades continues to grow.

I was a little disappointed on my first cosmiren to be the only person not to get a powervault.

+1 to increasing frequency...or having phoenixes sometimes drop the powervaults and sometimes the upgrade...either works for me.

Yes the Cosmirens need to be more common or phoenixs also need to be able to drop powervaults and not just the upgrade. Got more upgrades and no vaults to upgrade them with.

Phoenixes can drop standard powervaults. Had 2 already

EVERY seasonal ... same complaint... decrease rarity... it's been years that this goes on. It's not going to change. Deal with it and move on, Dan ain't going to hand you a spoon.

1,000 NPCs, 3 Emps, 2 sparks, 1 phoenix no Cosies. Meh.... got 4 dark mass carriers though.

If you really do not like it open a ticket to moan to support and work it with them.

I had that happen twice, the MESSAGE CLAIMED I got a powervault. Check your inventory, because when it happened for me, I actually got the upgrade



I'd be happy with the ratio of drops being better balanced. Or even making the upgrades scrappable for CTP would be nice. For the record, I already have my Sparks Fly Medal- this is NOT a complaint about the difficulty finding seasonals. It's just annoying having a bunch of useless upgrades

While you're at it Dan, eliminate Gravitic Amplifiers too. They're worthless and don't scrap for CTP either.

Agree. Every season the drops get more rare. And the drop rate of Cosmiren Luminaries ridiculous compared to Phoenix upgrades. I've gone for days without seeing a Cos, and npc'ing for an avg of 6-7 hrs a day, along with others in my legion and not finding stuff we should be is rather annoying and disappointing.

I do like the new arti addition for the heatsinks, but goodness why on Earth is it so hard to get the other arti's during this event?

Thanks for posting this, I resurrected a thread from the Q-Pedd season to complain yet again about the drop rates.

i have seen no issue with this year's elios drop rates.

my rank on 04jul2017: 1829
my rank on 23jul2017: 1870

Non-Player Kills on 04jul2017: 376827
Non-Player Kills on 23jul2017: 407177

this is my haul so far:

Elios Solar Drill (Uses Left: 11)
Elios Radiant Attractor (Uses Left: 92)
Elios Powervault (Uses Left: 7)
Elios Phoenix Powervault Upgrade (Uses Left: 9)
Elios Stormburst Ray (Uses Left: 5)
Elios StormPhoenix Ray Upgrade (Uses Left: 10)
Elios Heatsink (Uses Left: 96)
Elios Solar Inverter (Uses Left: 2)

i had a dozen or so ray upgrades from last year that were trashed for credits. i also have a fully upgraded Elios Heatsink and the rest of the heatsinks will scrap nicely during Chuhn season.

Elios Powervault / Powervault Upgrade on planets on 04jul2017: 104
Elios Powervault / Powervault Upgrade on planets on 23jul2017: 142

Elios Solar Drill / Solar Inverter on planets on 04jul2017: 131
Elios Solar Drill / Solar Inverter on planets on 23jul2017: 185

as for gravitic amplifiers ... i have hundreds of planets that are not maxed out to 2100 passive defense.