Drop Rate Bug

P. Fricebottle · Post by **P. Fricebottle** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:30 pm

Almost forgot to post about this, because I'm pretty sure its a bug. On Reflections, I went up the mountain and decided to take a detour to kill the Trolls simply because I haven't leveled there before. During this, Five Alliance Plates dropped. Considering Trolls don't even wear Armor, I'm pretty sure there that something went wrong somewhere.

Lorkar1 · Post by **Lorkar1** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:44 pm

Its not just trolls but all critters on that map.

P. Fricebottle · Post by **P. Fricebottle** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:16 pm

Lorkar1 wrote:Its not just trolls but all critters on that map.

Yeah, I got two to drop outside the map. Inside the cave I got the other three.

kgb · Post by **kgb** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:33 pm

It's not just on reflections. A while back I picked up three alliance plates outside fighting the trolls.

Blystos Re · Post by **Blystos Re** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:26 pm

This is because LA is tasty and good with ketchup.

Celorn · Post by **Celorn** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:45 pm

Drat.. you've stumbled on Fatzo's secret plot to recruit all the NPCs in Aetheria into the defense of LA!

But seriously..that's funny, and DEVs as you fix this problem, can you bump up the drop rate on TOMES?! I have not seen a single one drop in a long time now...

Fezz · Post by **Fezz** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:56 am

no need, there is nothing wrong with the drop rate i got 1 today off an ogre - there supposed to be extremely rare yet at least 2 or 3 times a day ppl are on shout wanting to trade 1.

IMO leave it as it is.

P. Fricebottle · Post by **P. Fricebottle** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:08 am

Actually Tome Drop Rates are just fine, you're just having bad luck Celorn. So far I've got two on my Barbarian.

de_slider · Post by **de_slider** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:06 pm

Tome drop rate is just fine. It's the luck of the roll. I've seen one of my pc's collect 5 tomes before lvl 20, then on the next 2 pc's not see a tome all the way to lvl 40 yet use the exact same zones to lvl as the "lucky one".

FYI: I have found tomes in/on:
Locked chests that I have had to bash.
Zones outside NC on lowbie zombies
Skeletons bother low and high level
All Planar zones
Ogres
Trolls (Ice and regular)
Orcs
Efferts
Ice Giants
Formains

My experience has been, you never know when or where a book will drop.

Celorn · Post by **Celorn** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:44 pm

P. Fricebottle wrote:Actually Tome Drop Rates are just fine, you're just having bad luck Celorn. So far I've got two on my Barbarian.

Well actually I believe my 'luck' is bad because I've only been leveling toons 35+ where mobs take a bit longer to kill, and drop rate is a LOT lower...

Just compare one zone of the mountain with one HoD map... basically like 30 drops to 2. That's gotta lower your odds by a LOT.

Post by **Amoenotep** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:38 pm

not to mention that individual items don't have individual drop rates

its based on cr of creature vs item lvl settings and how many lvls of items that can be dropped by that cr of creature....just thing...a cr 30 creature can drop anything from lvl 16-30 gear. thats alot of choices for the engine to spit out

Lorkar1 · Post by **Lorkar1** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:53 am

So whats the cr range of a +2 tome? I am guessing they are not in the cr 30 tables.

Rummybum · Post by **Rummybum** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:46 am

I don't know, my luck is like Celorn's I've seen 2 tomes since February and I din't win those rolls.