Some modification has occured, I went to covetous level 3 yesterday to 'farm' some relic frag items. Boy was that a waste of time. I used to spend an hour or so there and get stuff to unravel for at least 20 relic frags if not more. Yesterday after an hour I had zip, zilch, zero item that would unravel to a frag. What the hell happened ??? When was it changed and why? I heard that shame and wrong are also bad now.
It has seemed to me that all of the things I used to do to get stuff to unravel to build up a supply of relic fragments (e.g., hunting monsters for loot, fishing up sunken chests, treasure hunting) became a lot more tedious and time-consuming earlier this year, maybe around March-May (??). Granted, my characters that I use aren't running around in mega-luck armor. However, compared to what I previously was gathering from the same locations doing the same things with the same characters, there just seemed to be a real drop-off in quality around that time. I believe Kyronix has said nothing has changed with the loot tables; however, I don't believe he's specifically addressed whether or not the dev team has made adjustments to our characters' chances of getting the best-quality (or at least "better-quality") loot from normal, everyday activities in UO.
My theory is that the big sellers of high-end looted jewelry/armor/weapons complained about there being a glut of such items and they weren't selling as much of it as they used to on their vendors or via their auctions. So, maybe to appease them, the dev team adjusted some things around RNG so they could honestly be able to say they haven't tweaked loot tables and make us think we're all imagining that things have actually changed.
