Dartain the Lost

[dustysr06]

Alunova: Dartain the Lost is more magic resistant and will sometimes drop 2 times.

^recent patch notes, searched forums and found a daldaen post where it was discussed about him dropping 2 items possibly, but nowhere with any evidence he would have a chance to not drop at least 1 item (seems crazy for even a slight chance to not drop something @ 36hr respawn)


Slain this devil recently on red, and no drops =(

Classic?

[Daldaen]

Yea I'm not sure where the no drops came in.

The classic posts suggest 2 every time and extremely MR. I felt 2 every time would be warranted with that MR bump personally (also cause classic). But I dunno why they chose to do 0 drop...

[dustysr06]

He's also an extremely tough fight now- completely crazy for there to be a chance at no drops on a 36hr timer

[Erati]

any slows land on him at all after Malo?

[dustysr06]

i did eventually get him slowed but defenitely would not be solo'able on shaman without some very excessive clicky usage

*note* i dont have a tash stick on the sham on red so results may be different if tash + malo'd but i could not land a malosini after malo, period.

-also attempted on first try with druid + sham, wiped. swapped druid for cleric and was able to take him down

[dustysr06]

also note: root seemed to land at will (mostly)

rooted at least 6-8 times while trying to get slowed, not sure how that was possible?

[dustysr06]

bumping - back to back with 0 drops on red, can someone verify his loot table is not bugged on red please?

[nilbog]

Looks fine to me. Most of the time, you should receive 2 loots. It is possible to receive none, though.

[Daldaen]

Think the point he is making is that 0 drop rate was a dev design decision but not classic.

If that's confirmed its the end of it. Otherwise, classic it was 2 drops every time and the 0 drop case should be removed.

[nilbog]

I don't think anyone knows for sure how Dartain's loots worked. Am I missing some research for this or what.

[Daldaen]

Well my last bug post found comments (albeit few) that stated he was dropping 2 items in each case. Didn't see anything suggesting 1 or 0 drops. Only comments with 2 drops were found.

See here: http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=158557&highlight=Dartain

Problem with him is due to his location in the Hole and behind a locked door there is very limited info on him.

[dustysr06]

can confirm hes at least not broken on red

last 3 spawns have been 0, 0, and 1 drop

There is very little info on him, that is correct- but what little info we do have supports the fact that he dropped two items, there is no evidence to suggest he should ever drop nothing- that i can find (see daldaen's post)

A very tough (now) level 55+ 'boss' mob buried behind a locked door in the basement of an 'expansion' zone, on a 36 hour respawn, has a slight chance to drop nothing? that surely cannot be an accurate assumption either

[oldschooltrader]

he also has 3 items on his loot table

surely one of them should be 'super common' , I think the shield should be seen pretty frequently instead of nothing

[Nirgon]

Need some proof on these 0 loot on raid or "group required" epic mobs

Haven't ever seen anything suggesting that

[Erati]

bump the 0 loot drop makes no sense nor had any evidence to suggest he ever had an empty corpse

as Mylez said its a 36 hr named spawn with special attributes ( very high RM) behind a locked door in one of the hardest to reach areas of an expansion dungeon

theres no way I would ever believe he would drop nothing for all the lucky adventurers who chance the opportunity to not only take him on but slay him

I cant think of any mobs in the game that are similar in difficulty in both arriving and succeeding in the encounter yet have a chance to yield no rewards

Yes I have farmed him here n there so the 0 loot drop % affects me personally however that's not why I am posting. I just feel that part of his recent update had no supporting evidence and should not have been included

[Pint]

can confirm hes at least not broken on red

last 3 spawns have been 0, 0, and 1 drop

There is very little info on him, that is correct- but what little info we do have supports the fact that he dropped two items, there is no evidence to suggest he should ever drop nothing- that i can find (see daldaen's post)

A very tough (now) level 55+ 'boss' mob buried behind a locked door in the basement of an 'expansion' zone, on a 36 hour respawn, has a slight chance to drop nothing? that surely cannot be an accurate assumption either

None of the assumptions used to change dartain were very accurate, iirc it was like 2 posts by unknown ppl saying he was pretty mr or something.

[dustysr06]

I don't have a problem with his difficulty- now or then, thats whatever

But the change made to slightly have a chance to drop nothing is completely unwarranted. If there was even a slight chance, there would be at least ONE post pointing to that... there isnt, in fact its the contrary- every post i've found indicates he actually dropped two items

The chance to drop nothing was included for whatever reason because they changed him to potentially drop 2 items "sometimes"

Please fix!

[dustysr06]

bump for justice, remove this mob's chance to drop nothing for classic's sake!

also, WOW he is a PITA when dual-wielding books.... LMAO! fun stuff :D