Bards can’t get credit for group events if the group dps is too high. We don’t meet the minimum contribution unless we make an entire 2nd full dps set and even then we rely on getting lucky depending on the group dps. It is infuriating. It happens on
Chaos gates (Not getting chaos shards for the mini-bosses)
Ghostship (never reach contribution threshhold)
And we can’t just keep trying because it locks us out. We can’t group because it’s personal contribution.
For reference. Im 1460, I HAVE a dps set with 4x engravings. I open with the dps awakening, I landed ALL of my dps skills on a ghostship for full duration, I have 4/5 relic accessories and 2 relic pieces of gear. I still didn’t reach the contribution damage threshhold on todays ghost ship (that had high dps)
I am a paladin who also can’t get rewards from this type of event, you can reach the contribution threshold by joining a party on Ghostship, but we can’t really do anything on chaos gates.
The shards are dropped as items on the corpse. You have to be in range when they die and wait a second or two for the servers to catch up.
Had this happen to me the entire first month of doing Chaos Gates.
It’s something that as far as I’m aware was a problem in Korea and they gave supports a damage buff in solo content to address it and other issues. But they haven’t applied them in NA/EU even though it was like… a known problem in Korea.
Also happens in Alakkir too, I thought the golden Chicking drops were nerfed when I started getting 1 feathers,but I grouped with DPS and started getting like 5-6 golden feathers.
Odd, I main paladin and haven’t had any particular issues getting contribution on chaos gates, just have to make sure to attack the correct mob which is not always obvious since some of the other spawns are huge and get in the way. On ghost ship, you can kill one of the initial smaller spawns to get contribution checked, as well. I did both just now.
That said, there was a bug one time where it claimed I had already done my chaos gate (I hadn’t), denied me any miniboss rewards, but gave me the end reward. So there is that.
This is the second week I’ve received not enough contribution in a ghost ship as a 1472.5 Support Paladin spamming CDs & Awakenings to not get enough contribution credit.
Its extremely frustrating and a TERRIBLY designed system. Great way to discourage support mains.
You should record a video of this and send it to them, I’m lower than you are and I’m not having the issue for whatever reason. I was not even in a group, so this may be some odd bug.
Edit. The requirements for damage threshold is 1.4 million for the south vern chaos gate minibosses. This can be challenging for a bard averaging 140k DPS with full support set up if you miss soundholic.
For some unknown reason the damage requirement for my Shadowhunter is only 800k. Melee lower maybe?
Pirate ship requires about 2 million damage on specifically the little mobs ahead of the boss to get credit. This is much harder for a bard to be consistent if DPS are killing them quickly.
I now just go in a corner and awaken as soon as a little mob spawner near me.
I’m also nearing the vykas bard DPS set free swap so it’s no longer an issue for me personally if I swap my gear.
Still absolutely fucking stupid as a mechanic. Why not give bard the solo damage multiplier they have in Korea?
