Talk:Tellurium/@comment-25567838-20141223122344/@comment-25447658-20141223153732

@TychusMechanicus:

Warframe uses a probability system called random number generator (RNG), which is like lottery, enemies have a set percentage chance to drop resources and another set percentage to drop mods. Additionally, if an enemy drops a resource and/or mod, there's a set percentage of that resource/mod being common, uncommon and rare.

So everyone's experience varies. Some people might get dozens of X rare resource in the 1st run or in a few runs, while others might get nothing for days or even weeks.

If you truly need an example, go to the Banshee page here and see the old comments about how hard it was to acquire Banshee Helmet, some people played for months or hundreds of hours trying to acquire one, in some extreme cases, even after all that hard work, they still weren't able to acquire it. It took me over 120-150 runs on Xini to get it. This is the reason why DE put Banshee in the Tenno lab so it was a whole lot easier to acquire her.

I'm Mastery Rank 18 and have farmed and grinded every single thing available in Warframe ever since I joined back in December 2013, and have played the game for over 1,400 hours. While the grinding can get truly exhausting sometimes, I almost always manage to have fun while trying to get things.

But each person values their time differently, to some people spending days and getting nothing is fine and they keep at it until they do it, while for others it isn't. In 1 hour of trading, I got 15 Tellurium, while in almost 2 days of trying to farm it, I didn't get a single one.

Thankfully, DE made trading a great way to acquire almost everything in the game. So if someone is tired of grinding, doesn't has much time or prefers to spend their time in a better way, they have other options in most cases.

So, before you go accusing people of being lazy, try thinking a little first, not everyone has the same experience with everything. And while the drop rate of Tellurium might not have been or be bad for you, it certainly was or is for some people.

What would have truly helped in this case was if DE had released Tellurium before the Itzal research became available, like they have done in the past with other resources. Of course, it would still depend on RNG and it could still be hard to acquire for some people, but it would help easing feeling frustrated with farming and it wouldn't be so close to Christmas, when normally people are busy with family and travelling and don't have as much time to farm/grind for things.