FOTM 20+ Still getting Vials
Your assumptions are correct for the levels they are supposed to drop at. That is according to the Dec 14 patch notes.
•Vials of Condensed Mists Essence no longer drop after scale 10.
•Globs of Coagulated Mists Essence no longer drop after scale 20.
But I can confirm, as you have, that vials still drop 20+. So I would assume this is a bug.
So it sounds like they went in and removed globs from 20 but forgot to remove vials too….. Great. I’d much rather have globs than vials.
So I’m also wondering how they adjusted the fix. Say beforehand you had a .1% chance for a vial and a .1% chance for a glob and a .1% chance for Shard. Did you have a .3% chance of getting something? So when they fix this and remove vials then do we just have a .1% chance of anything? If so the solution would be worse than the problem. Or would they buff it up to say .3% chance for a shard? Would be nice to know.
You will never know the answer to your above questions. They will never give out that information.