You can still farm Market Research. I only just got my paragon mount the other day. Like I said I tried that grinding farm once, hated it. I didn’t do the rep grind to Exalted that way either. Just didn’t interest me.
Again read the previous issues.
No one is saying that market research isn’t dropping or can be attained anymore…
The issue is that now scraps and rares are the only sources that gives them. and that is a 90% drop in market gain or a mere 1/1000 of what you could gain from the exploit that was patched but their patch to the exploit removed a farm that has been there since day one that they are clearly okay with us using.
For the last time. The recent change was not in response to an exploit. Farming on the beach itself was NOT an exploit. I am not going to go into any detail about what the exploit was because it is against the rules to discuss.
The recent change was nothing to do with exploits. The exploit was only active for a very short time at the start and was patched very quickly.
You can still mob grind in other areas if you so wish but personally it was the most dull experience and frankly after doing it once for one paragon, I decided I’d rather watch paint dry that do that again.
I did all the way to exalted without mob grinding, then two paragons wihtout mob grinding, then tried once for one paragon to do the mob grinding and it was so boring I went back to what I was doing before. Got the mount on my fourth paragon, not mob grinding.
The reputation current rep buff means it’s halved the amount of hand ins required.
NO ONE IS SAYING THIS!
The question is why the mobs by the beach no longer can drop the items as part of the hotfix this seems to be the case for many of the none rare mobs if not all of them. as now the market research only drop from scraps and rares.
I can understand why that is a question.
My best guess would be with the buff that was proving too successful.