New Boss Drops Episode 47 Influence Items Collection Guide

Discussion in 'Oracle’s Database (Guides)' started by NovaRandom, Jul 16, 2024.

  1. vRad Well-Known Player

    I really appreciate everyone running this content to try and determine where to get what.

    I've run (trying to sus out a collection source for the community) Nexus of Reality, Prime Battlegrounds, Power Core, Kandor Raids.... Return to the Nexus, Watchtower containment (honestly, more than that, i've just been lazy about tracking things), No drops. Yet, I've also run the omac duo 10x with same results (despite proof it drops there) and still nothing. I've even run star labs satellite duo 18x with no drops. Sometimes we're either looking in the wrong place or RNG-zus isn't in our court.
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  2. TheLQ-DCUO Loyal Player

    The issue this time around is that:

    a) most of the collection names are pretty vague (besides obvious ones like the Justice one), the last collection most of them you could figure out from the name or from the last location of the content the essence was named after (ie. we have only ever been to Limbo Town once in FOA and its highly unlikely the devs would add this collection to Halloween seasonal). Only ones that weren't so obvious were Resurrection or maybe Great Darkness.

    b) the devs have chosen to use the technicality of the collection being to do with technology rather than specifically Brainiac to choose less obvious locations (like Birds of Prey content or The Machine raid) for collection drops.
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  3. NovaRandom Well-Known Player

    I personally confirmed 10 of the actually drops, only 1 left is truly missing that no one has talked about and all i know is that its in a duo lol.
  4. TheLQ-DCUO Loyal Player

    Can personally confirm that Influence of Investigation drops from Volcano Mining Facility alert, and Influence of the Colony drops from The Machine raid. Both last bosses. Acquired and collected both.

    Now the hunt for Influence of Replication begins...........
  5. Iconic Simulation YouTuber

    Been on that hunt for a few days now.

    It must have a really low drop rate and be in content that is rarely run.
  6. Reinheld Devil's Advocate

    There kind of is. Now...do you have to be a productive, helpful or friendly member of a community? No. But same as when you move into a neighborhood, you are part of that community. You might be the wacko who stares out his blinds and calls the cops on a kid who steps on his grass, the Karen who measures how high your bushes are and complains when they are 1 inch too high, or you might be the guy who invites the neighbors over for BBQ every weekend. All of these ARE members of the community.

    And no...I don't believe anyone is 'obliged' to share this info either. If you knew were the collections spawned all along, go make that cash....or share it...it matters not to me. As you say, the info will be known sooner than later. But I don't think that people asking others to share info is laziness either. Some people just don't have the time to bang out every possible run looking for an answer. Every community needs the crotchety old man, just as they need the 2 kids selling lemonade on the corner for $.50 a cup.

    Personally I did a little digging last night and came up empty...however, I hate VMF, so it wouldn't matter how many times I looked I'd never have found that one. Wouldn't have found Sub-Construct either....ugh.
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  7. Florida Boii Well-Known Player

    In the alert Watchtower Containment Facility doesn't the last boss replicate himself? It been ages since I've ran it, so forgive me if memory serves me wrong. I've been trying to que up for it the last few days but no luck to even test to see if it even drops there.
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  8. Iconic Simulation YouTuber

    I kinda hope that isn't the case, because that's a hero only instance. I would like to think that they didn't exclude the villain side from getting this collection.
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  9. Fury Grinds New Player

    Have people tried fos 2 because bizarro appears in there for the Replication collection?
  10. Florida Boii Well-Known Player

    Ahh totally forgot about that. Welp, Scratch that off the list lol
  11. Reinheld Devil's Advocate

    Good lord....FOS2 AND Sub-Construct? What awful...awful placement if so.
  12. NovaRandom Well-Known Player

    Like i said before guys its most likely in a duo, very very high chance of the last drop being a duo because of the pattern.
  13. Iconic Simulation YouTuber

    I am now offering 1 Billion cash bounty to anyone on the USPS Server who can get me the collection and find out the drop location.

    It will add further incentive to finally discover it's location and someone gets paid big.

    My villain "Iconic Simulation" will be the character awarding the prize money.
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  14. Reinheld Devil's Advocate

    There are 2 duos and 2 alerts in the mix already. I'd guess it's got just as much chance of being either, but the lack of info on them, and the lack of them in the broker might point to NOT being a duo, as duos would be quicker to spam...and then maybe easier to find...than the others.

    For everyone's sake....I hope you are right.:D FOS2 would be terrible, and there are enough raids already.
  15. Iconic Simulation YouTuber

    Word coming in (multiple players) is that it is dropping in HODe+, so it probably has a really abysmal drop rate in HODr and is only dropping fairly well in Elite Plus, with it's increased drop rate chance.

    Even though that is being said, I would still take it with a grain of salt.
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  16. vRad Well-Known Player

    If true, the drop rate must be abysmally low- like, 'something must be wrong with it' levels of low since they're not landing on the broker (not long, at least) and it's the current episode during a 2x week. My LFG feed has been non-stop calls for HOD and the raids, a drop rate that low can't be by design. Well, shouldn't be...
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  17. Canadian Justice Committed Player


    That would be an extremely odd choice if it's locked to E+. The scavenger hunt, while requiring grind, is very casual friendly. To put something in the furthest reach of the game would be almost cruel.
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  18. Iconic Simulation YouTuber

    I doubt it's locked to the Elite Plus version, I'm sure is available for all versions of the alert.

    The regular version probably has a super low drop rate and it's always been the case that "more elite" content gets a boost in drop chance for rare drops. So more players are noticing it in Elite Plus vs Reg.
  19. Canadian Justice Committed Player

    Possibly. But with double marks I would have expected at least a somewhat regular broker appearance during double mark week. Though I guess people could be busy bounty spamming and hunting in any and all content that isn't current DLC.
  20. vRad Well-Known Player

    All week (for me) Omni has been a desert. That's q'ing primarily w/ roles for healer and/or dps. Usually, things pop in 30 secs or less. Summer does tend to be slower because people are traveling for planned vacations or whatnot, but Omni has been weirdly dead for how much chatter I see in LFG, watchtower, etc. Can only guess that people are spamming the two Bottle bosses and bottle instances to get their marks, keeping them from Omni. Still, you'd think a duo would pop pretty quick?

    When the last collection launched, it was almost annoying how much one got the JLD Pub Crawl, JLD fellowship, Convergence, etc... because they were annoying already but at least the collection added motivation to accept. I also feel like I knew all the locations for the drops (thanks to another thread like this one) within 2-3 days. It's so peculiar this one drop is evading most of us, or at least dodging verification. I have to think it's not HOD and some other duo or alert that people usually decline. Yet, the only thing springing to mind is OLD content, like pre T4 because, compared to recent stuff, that stuff can be quite the time sink so ROI is considerably diminished if you can't bum rush it in under 10 min.