It does. I recently popped a birthday cake buff and did 24hrs of hunting at Narcion. Mostly Shadow Wolves. In that amount of time I got like 8 Hunting XP artifacts and almost as many Hunting mastery ones too. They weren't hard to obtain at all.
There we are facing two opposite realities. I usually hunt at the same spot, not specially focusing any species. I have tried rhino, wolves, deers and lions, dropped several breaths, but no artefact. I remember using a book of life there, it has the same duration as birthday cake. So I don't get how in the same amount of time you could drop around 15 artefacts when I didn't had any. The only explanation I can think about, to explain that disparity, is on mastery level. Those artefacts might be considered as 'very rare item' and thus only drop after 900 mastery? How much hunting mastery do you have?
Same thing for the sailing artifacts....I got them from Crocs and it didn't take too too long.
Can you expand a little on this, what do you mean by 'too too long'? As detailed in my former post, I have grinded the equivalent of two blue carrack gears materials there : so about 800 materials in total, and I dropped one artefact only. Are you part of that group of players that one or two taps PEN blackstar by any chance ?
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