No more fine Steel from guards

[Imorthan]

Is it design or a feature

Imor

[nilbog]

There are 569 guards in Everquest.

Can you be.. more specific please.

[Zordana]

hahaha :)

[Gorgetrapper]

Rivervale guards no longer drop only spears, they carry mainly rusty weapons.

[Wutno]

Rivervale guards no longer drop only spears, they carry mainly rusty weapons.

specifically, the guards are only dropping rusty weapons. The guards I checked personally were wfp and efp. I also was told in ooc that grobb guards were the same now - only rusties.

Also - Seafuries are currently dropping 1-5pp and no gems. Last night this was not the case. We also had 1 cyclops toes drop.

Are these loot nerfs a feature or a bug?

Leche

[Brut]

Oh noes it's Greece!

[Rarcoan]

There are 569 guards in Everquest.

Can you be.. more specific please.

I killed the following guards: Jendl, Mizraen and Ledshin, all of which dropped rusty short swords.

[Mingo]

looks like the massive plat farms were nerfed just in time for PoSky to open.

Value of plat is on the rise!

[Uaellaen]

i can concur .. i killed WFP guards today, only rusty swords BUT one of them dropped a rusty sword and a finesteel greatstaff ... so it seems only the swords are bugged?

[Jify]

i can concur .. i killed WFP guards today, only rusty swords BUT one of them dropped a rusty sword and a finesteel greatstaff ... so it seems only the swords are bugged?

THIS ONE HAS A STAFF! GEEET IT!

[Yinaltin]

seems all guards are bugged then . innothule troll guards drop rusty long swords ...

[Wutno]

looks like the massive plat farms were nerfed just in time for PoSky to open.

Value of plat is on the rise!

This makes no sense, honestly. My money is on it being a bug because as a "classic" server the guards not dropping 2 FS and seafuries in OOT being nerfed on their gem drops is definitely not classic.

Also, this affects a minority of the farming population. There are already many many people with plat in the 100s of thousands - why nerf them now?

I definitely would like them looked into for a fix please :)

Leche

[doacleric]

This makes no sense, honestly. My money is on it being a bug because as a "classic" server the guards not dropping 2 FS and seafuries in OOT being nerfed on their gem drops is definitely not classic.

Also, this affects a minority of the farming population. There are already many many people with plat in the 100s of thousands - why nerf them now?

I definitely would like them looked into for a fix please :)

Leche

This post makes absolutely no sense. Crying "I want my easy money NOW" does not give any pluses to your credibility. There has to be a certain amount of balance in the game. EQ has always been about risk vs reward.

With that said, I will look into the issue.

[Wutno]

This post makes absolutely no sense. Crying "I want my easy money NOW" does not give any pluses to your credibility. There has to be a certain amount of balance in the game. EQ has always been about risk vs reward.

With that said, I will look into the issue.

I greatly appreciate the work you devs do.

To clarify my post, because it didn't make sense (I should have thought out my response better I guess), my point is that a nerf on these doesn't make sense on a server which aims to be classic.

For this reason I was not upset at the situation thinking something I enjoyed doing (farming plat while getting xp) was nerfed - rather I assumed it was simply a bug and wanted to bring it to your attention.

EQ has definitely always been about risk vs. reward. EQ has always had that loot on those mobs. Thus, I assumed it was balanced.

Many thanks for looking into the situation!

Leche

[nilbog]

Just an error most likely. Especially if its not noted in patch. Will try and fix it up.

Seems to be a discrepancy with EFP/WFP. That's verified.

Will look into the deputies, bashers, and seafuries?

[Haul]

the hhk/highpass guards are also currently dropping rusty short swords instead of fs

[nilbog]

Yep, it was a guard issue.

wfp/efp guards, troll bashers, halfling deputies, highkeep guards corrected.

seafuries? :P no change in months to their tables.

[Wutno]

Yep, it was a guard issue.

wfp/efp guards, troll bashers, halfling deputies, highkeep guards corrected.

seafuries? :P no change in months to their tables.

Thanks for the quick work guys. The seafuries were a small sample size. Friday night it seemed about 30% of the mobs had no gem/jewelry loot only 1-5pp. Sat night post patch we killed ~10 mobs and got nothing but 1-5pp on all of them. We thought maybe something was up along the lines of the guard issue so we left.

Thanks again!

Leche

[Intricus]

This post makes absolutely no sense. Crying "I want my easy money NOW" does not give any pluses to your credibility. There has to be a certain amount of balance in the game. EQ has always been about risk vs reward.

With that said, I will look into the issue.

Dude, no disrespect or anything, but I don't really think he/she is 'crying for easy money', they are just stating their opinion. And honestly, the FP guards aren't exactly 'easy' from what I remember...a good deal of risk involved, not to mention they are level 30 mobs.
C'mon, if you were just a regular player and not a dev, woulden't you be slightly dissapointed if you went to enjoy a camp you frequently fight at for exp and money,only to find the drops were bugged/nerfed?

...and I just read the follow-up posts after this one...this person was NOT 'crying'. =D

[Kainzo]

As of last night, the FP guards are still dropping Rusty, (I didn't kill them but I ran by and checked a corpse to see a Rusty Sword)

[Kaevelioth]

As of 1:37 PM est 5/11 Bashers in Grobb are still dropping rusty swords. I'm filing bankruptcy.

[nilbog]

There hasn't been a patch. Fixed with the next patch.

[siinge]

this effects the economy as a whole big time

with the resent nerf to guards dropping fine steel

all the big ticket items, fbss, ssoy, mith 2hander, rubicite, manastones etc are all selling at a higher value due to people thinking everyone is getting more cash they they are, jacking up prices, when in reality the value of plat went up skyhigh due to guards being nerfed and the lack of raw plat coming into the economy... ssoys were 10-12k, now there up to 14-16k when plat is actually worth more, same with gebs etc.

supply and demand but this hurts the economy more so than youd think

[Gorroth]

Either people will buy items at jacked up prices or sellers will lower their items when they realize no one is buying from them. I don't see the issue here.

[mitic]

Either people will buy items at jacked up prices or sellers will lower their items when they realize no one is buying from them. I don't see the issue here.

if this would be a fresh server id concur but in this case new players would have a hard time to get their hands on highpriced items

[BeepBeep]

The recession in America is finally hitting the virtual NPCs. They need to cut costs and only carry the essentials.

[Omnimorph]

The recession in America is finally hitting the virtual NPCs. They need to cut costs and only carry the essentials.

Lol! I hear the militia is only handing out regular rations instead of iron rations too...