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Makeb Dark Datacron (Endurance)


VKholarienn

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I've been trying for the decoration achievement "Master Exhibit: Dark Datacrons" for around 5 years and cannot locate the Dark Datacron (Endurance) on Makeb. I've taken ten characters (not level boosted) and played through the entire planet each time at Level 55 or below to make sure I was getting appropriate level gear drops.

 

I also revisited Makeb with all of them as Lvl 70 & Lvl 75 - I read somewhere that the other dark and light datacrons still drop on other planets regardless of your level.

 

I've completed all the Heroics many many items, looted all the large and small chests, beaten countless Elite mobs and Champion enemies. I've seen zero of these on the GTN over this time, and I've read several posts that say the drop rate was bugged when the credits were removed from Makeb chests to discourage farming.

 

I haven't seen any posts after 2014 stating that this deco was still dropping. Also have submitted a bug report. I've also noticed The Observer and The Specialists heroics (which were reputed to have higher drop rates back in the day) are not always available on the mission terminal for certain characters.

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The Master Exhibit: Dark Datacrons decoration is granted, along with the Master Exhibit: Light Datacrons decoration, for completing the Galactic Datacron Master achievement. That achievement requires one to find all of the datacrons on various planets, not the datacron decorations. To track your progress open the Legacy window and navigate to Location -> [Planet Name] -> Exploration where [Planet Name] is one of the planets needed for the achievement. To track your overall progress toward the achievement navigate to Location -> General -> Exploration.
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  • 2 weeks later...

I just ran a Lvl 50 Pub through the whole planet, killed all champion enemies and as many elite mobs as possible. There appear to be two large chests left on Makeb, hit those multiple times without any results.

 

I read somewhere that once you are past the recommended level for Makeb (55), enemies will no longer have a chance to drop this. It seems like lockboxes and the chests are still leveled for Makeb so those present the best chance.

 

So I've now camped two Imp characters by the chests and having companions run 8 treaure hunting lockbox missions (grades 6-9) constantly. Nothing yet (of course) but the items seem to be appropriately leveled. I would give up except I got the Quesh light datacron to drop the other day for a Pub alt (Lvl 40).

 

Does anyone have any other suggestions for farming this dark datacron? The last GTN listing was almost 800m - seeming like a bargain at this point.

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