I've been in several groups that just farmed the purple named rares looking for Black Pearls / Dinosaur Bone weapons - I can't have been the only person to do this, so the fact that nobody has ever seen one (I'm discounting oldkraft's post since they're pretty clearly not trustworthy) doesn't really track with this.Mystical Bands was added the same time as IoD.
It's not an obvious drop because nobody has verified finding MB's, a few claims with no screenshots aside.
The loot table for the purple rares in IoD wilderness was "corrected" in U55.1. Not many people farm the purple rares because they're a PITA to find and then more bear than the average bear to take down.
Maybe Mystical Bands drop(s)(ped) in U55 and then was accidentally "corrected" in U55.1.
Maybe Mystical Bands drops at a very rare rate in just the purple rares chests. If it was a 1% drop rate we could easily just have not seen any significant drop rate yet given the locations.
I've been in several groups that just farmed the purple named rares looking for Black Pearls / Dinosaur Bone weapons - I can't have been the only person to do this, so the fact that nobody has ever seen one (I'm discounting oldkraft's post since they're pretty clearly not trustworthy) doesn't really track with this.
This does seem the most likely explanation.Occam's razor's solution for this is they exist in the database but no one ever hooked them up as a reward or drop anywhere; so no one has gotten as a result.
Any chance they can be gotten in those crafting ingredient crates from low gold rolls?
I usually don't even open those, so I have no idea.
Do also bear in mind that the data-mined description says Mystical Bands should be dropping as end rewards from quests, like the other Mystical Ingredients.If it was a low drop rate you might have to kill 100's of the rares to get the drop.
Think Jibber's blade only 5% or less of the active farmers hitting the rares.
I actually agree that it is unlikely that this is the source however. MB's either drop from a ridiculously rare chest or they're not actually linked to anything in the game - thus achieving in the game but never found.
Any quests in particular?Do also bear in mind that the data-mined description says Mystical Bands should be dropping as end rewards from quests, like the other Mystical Ingredients.
Any chance they can be gotten in those crafting ingredient crates from low gold rolls?
I usually don't even open those, so I have no idea.
Afraid not. Have a look at this page on the wiki: Mystical Band.. (The image is auto-generated using the item's in-game data file.)Any quests in particular?
All the quests in IOD are needed for the saga. Because the lore on the item says ferrocrystal, that infers feywild. Perhaps there is something in the introduction to IOD quest that we need to do for the bands.
I always skipped the final due to the length of quest and time it takes to run there. (that and I ran it like 40 times when it came out to get the low kill numbers so I am quite done with it)IOD intro quest is an interesting idea. I suspect that quest gets skipped in the saga by VIP's more often than others because of the cut scenes.