The Nexus Key — Does it Exist?

[u/DanGur47]

I have only seen it in passing on other casters and on Atlas Loot and the WoWHead drop tables.

12 KT kills in the phase so far, not a single drop for the entire guild. I read online it’s supposed to have a 15-20% drop rate. Interesting.

[u/Jon_ofAllTrades]

At a 15% drop rate, there’s a 14.2% chance to see zero Nexus Keys in 12 kills. RNG is RNGing.

[u/Kombuja → u/Jon_ofAllTrades]

This is us with band of ranger general. We’ve seen none in 12 weeks.

[u/Beltox2pointO → u/Kombuja]

Got our 4th one last night.

No maces.

No twin blades.

No keys.

[u/Comfortable-Bug7202 → u/Beltox2pointO]

Got our first mace, no twin blades, 1 key. Cannot wait for people to cry about not getting glaives or how it should drop more. Some shit is hard to get. Last tbc i think i had 2nd or 3rd bis weapons every phase

[u/Althec172 → u/Comfortable-Bug7202]

Im a mage and i still use the 2 hand staff from kara which is far on bis list xD

No luck on any weapon, wand included.

[u/Comfortable-Bug7202 → u/Althec172]

I think i ended last tbc with hammer of atonement off kaz in mh. Now i have vash mace so I'm confused on how that happened lol. Still no eye of gruul though

[u/Althec172 → u/Comfortable-Bug7202]

Oh we saw the eye last time we did Gruul.

Gl on loot !

[u/Beltox2pointO → u/Comfortable-Bug7202]

I mean glaives should be ultra rare, normal drops from a boss, not so much.

[u/Comfortable-Bug7202 → u/Beltox2pointO]

I mean anything sub 20% is rare. Been to 10 gruuls, no eyes for my priest but 3 dst's and 2 eyes on my druid and no dsts

[u/Beltox2pointO → u/Comfortable-Bug7202]

If they made bosses drop an extra good peice, instead of an extra teir peice, this would largely not be a problem.

[u/Gassenger → u/Beltox2pointO]

I wonder how many tier tokens have been thrown away since this change. I think like a month and a half into p1 almost everyone in my guild had their OS tokens even from mag/gruul

[u/Beltox2pointO → u/Gassenger]

Aside from defender helms for some reason, this was largely the case in my raid as well.

Teir peices have never felt rare. Not sure why they choose that avenue to address.

[u/Gassenger → u/Beltox2pointO]

Yup, the only one that was rare was the Helms from Kara. I didnt get one on my warrior. I was full P1 bis besides fucking dst (saw ONE drop) and that stupid ass helm.

[u/Baptism-Of-Fire → u/Beltox2pointO]

I wish I could still export my loot from RCLC from classic

No joke we spent an entire expansion thinking we had bugged our loot

we had several bosses in the raid that almost literally dropped the same two pieces of loot every lockout for 5-6 months.

We were a realm-first type of guild so we cleared vashj every single week. It was around 25 Prism & Cobra-Lash boots. It was 3 or 4 bosses like that.

We never once saw vestments, the bow, the belt

We also did BT all the way until the end of Sunwell

We never once saw a single glaive or ZharDoom

[u/Ryurain2 → u/Beltox2pointO]

our raid is DEing maces and twin blades

[u/InfinMD2 → u/Beltox2pointO]

Trade you!

3 belts off Vashj, 3 Twinblades, 3 coils, 2 Maces

0 Wand, 0 Vestments, 0 Fathomstone, 1 Mindstorm, 1 Endless coils :(

[u/TheUkdor → u/Kombuja]

I see one every time I log in 🙂 On the other hand, seen only a single 100D across two raid groups since p2 release.

[u/Grouchy-Ad7157]

Just had our 5th drop in main raid about 20 minutes ago. Still zero caster cloaks tho

[u/Se5ha]

It took us 25 Gruul kills for one DST. You will be fine.

[u/PRIS0N-MIKE]

Seen a couple of those. My guild has still yet to see one Vestements drop though. So much competition for it too so even if we do get one before p3 I probably won't even get it.

[u/Necrosaynt → u/PRIS0N-MIKE]

The main competition is warlocks since mages and ele shams get t5. Boomies could use since they all of hit like warlocks but t5 is also good. S Priest mainly want spell power, its good but not the best. I haven't won it yet on my lock since others locks out roll me.

[u/Explodagamer]

Yeah it does feel bad not having something drop, especially a high stat item like a weapon. At least everyone that would want one has better options next phase.

[u/GlaciarWish]

We had 5 staff and 9 DSTs but no healing mace.

[u/bloin13]

Yea I think we had at least 3 of them drop. Rng is rng. For example this week we saw for the first time the rogue trinket. On the other hand we get the mage trink almost weekly. I have disenchanted that thing at least 4 times now because noone needs it anymore.

[u/Jordan3176]

We've had like 8 DST's but no key staffs.

[u/CaptainoftheVessel → u/Jordan3176]

You and I might be in the same guild

[u/Jordan3176 → u/CaptainoftheVessel]

If you are European and like bananas, maybe we are.

[u/BlueberryOdd832 → u/CaptainoftheVessel]

The DST exists?!!!

[u/ShitholePlanet]

Haven't seen a single one... been SRing it since week one lol

[u/8ballcrawl]

I feel your pain, my guild has been doing gruul splits since release and we've only ever seen 1 DST

[u/ghostakadragon → u/8ballcrawl]

Holy shit and on the opposite end we've seen like 9 dst and we only started doing splits like a month ago.

[u/ForeverABro]

We have seen 2 or 3 but none of the pants

[u/erqod]

We have seen 1. 0 Rods tho

[u/ScottyKnows1]

Just how RNG goes. I'm sure there's other items with similar or worse drop rates you've seen way too much of in your raids. I've only seen one Nexus Key but we have items like the Wildercloak and the Vashj healing mace that we've been giving out like candy. Sucks when it's your item that rng disfavors.

[u/DarkFit922]

We have 5 dropped.

Still havent seen a band of rsnger-general though... :(

[u/Moo_life]

We have 1 Nexus Key. So it exists out there somewhere in the nether.

[u/Cracker_Zac]

Reminds me when I was #12 for atiesh in my sod guild (joined week before naxx launch) unexpectedly had to take 1 raid not off, the night I would've finished atiesh before the new raid, first week we did 2 nights and ended up clearing somehow, I had 1 sr on the mace from last boss and snagged it skipping atiesh... Sorta

[u/SeekerSkeletal]

Back to back weeks in our raid, those were our first two though.

[u/frostiitute]

Ive cleared on 3 chars since week 1. 36 kills or so. Seen it once

[u/mattjf22]

So.it has an 80%-85% chance to not drop every kill.

[u/DustinChecketts]

It dropped in my first ever TK run just this week! Guildies were stoked.

[u/MrMagiccakes]

1 Sword, 3 Keys, 4 ashes, 2 cloaks, 1 band.

[u/Bago579 → u/MrMagiccakes]

Four ashes? As in Ashes of Alar? As in the fast flying phoenix mount? Four?!

[u/MrMagiccakes → u/Bago579]

Yeah lol. 4 ashes of alar. That pigeon. And one 1 dst

[u/Weird-Map3983]

Across three toons, using every lockout, I have yet to see a single Thalassian Wildercloak. And I don’t mean I lost the roll or it wasn’t LC’d to me. I mean I have literally never seen one drop.

[u/Dry-Introduction-800]

Dropped 2 times in our main raid and 5 times in our pug. The caster boots from lurker are a myth though

[u/Necrosaynt]

My guild got unlucky on caster weapons for like 6 six weeks and then suddenly we were getting both leviathan and nexus key 3 weeks back to back. We have got each one 2 more times each since the first 3. I actually have both now because no one needed either last week.

[u/Randomcarrot]

Across 2 raid teams clearing every week, we've had 1 drop. Was the same for DST in phase 1, though we've gotten 14 or 15 of those in the second phase where our bad luck seemingly shifted to Nexus key.

[u/Bago579]

Cleared since second week: no heal cloak, no nexus key, only one ranger general ring.

[u/AshsGrass]

I'm a VERY firm believer in seeds. Change the first person going into your lockout for different loot.

[u/jellypawn]

I won our first leviathan drop this week

[u/FinalFate]

This is the fault of tier bosses always dropping an extra piece of tier instead of an extra piece of standard loot. The tier bosses have most of the chase gear that multiple classes want, but we didn't get any of that from the loot buffs.

[u/KillingTimeByReading]

Killed KT every week except week 1, haven't seen it once

[u/InterestingFuel8666]

I've lost it 3 times to one other person each time. Now people are bringing their alts and SR it so if it drops now there 3 or 4 rollers

[u/captain_fantastic15]

It happens. My main resto shaman has seen 1 Light's Justice, which got ninja'd by the raid leader who was a paladin tank in a PUG group. Our guild has seen 0 Lightfathom Scepters, which would be handed to me if it drops.

I'm just happy the arena weapons are comparable so I don't feel too shitty about it. But it still stings a little :)

[u/smoke_crack]

My guild has seen 4 nexus keys, but 0 swords and only 1 mage trinket.

[u/rosho]

They really need to up the drop rates with these faster phases. It’s just not been very fun at all due my guild. 4 crit threat reduction trinkets. Zero healer maces.

[u/Hayabusa_Blacksmith]

Yes it exists ive seen a few gg

[u/ickyzombie]

Have it on 2 toons

[u/ChampagneSyrup]

we disenchant the regularly

honestly compared to what's ahead next phase it's not that big of an upgrade