Hi. Before the update I've been farming magatama using the Steal Attack skill which says gives 1.8x Drop rate increase. During that time, I was farming Kishinden Hell 5/5 for certain magatama drops. I did well over 200 runs and had a constant rate of getting a 1 magatama drop every 2 runs or so, and on rare occasions nothing for up to 5 runs, and very rarely 2 drops on one run.

After the update I've done another 100 runs and it appears that the Steal Attack Skill has no affect, and that magatama drop maybe once every 15 runs or regardless of whether I use the skill or not (ex:kills made with my bow have gotten me magatama drops as much as kills with the Steal Attack skill)

Also, the same goes for other "uncommon drops" such as stones.the element stones as well as the attribute stones Thunder/Inferno/Miracle/Fortitude etc. The drop rate seems to have been greatly decreased, and the skill meant to increase the drop rate seems to do nothing at all.

If things were changed, which I am convinced they were. It would be nice if the players could be informed of such things. Maybe in the form of Full Patch Notes.

Furthermore, on the chance that nothing was changed and the rates are just THAT random. #mindblown, and i still would like to see detailed patch notes o.o =]
Thank you for reading, and I hope to receive a reply.

It's just the rng trolling you. I did Room of Rites hard with the login bonus. In that hour I got a total of 11 magatamas. Yesterday I did the same thing only only got 2.

just did forum search for some of the stones for crafting magatama as they are also needed for som quests

then i realized i got almost none of these stones

guess now the only way to get em is breaking them things