camping undead jester

[Shamen]

so I have decided to get the Ikky club for my warrior....

I have killed 59phs
undead jester spawned 7 times
club dropped ZERO times

What is going on? Is it bugged or what? Nerfed? This is not normal....or is it? I have done it twice before and it took me roughly 4hrs each time....this does not smell right :eek:

P99 wiki:
An undead jester
Known Loot: Iksar Berserker Club (Uncommon) [1] 1x 50% (50%)

[Droog007]

I think you're still within the normal range for a rare spawn / rare drop scenario...

I believe the data posted on the wiki is a little on the optimistic side.

[Droog007]

If it was nerfed, it was probably rightly so ... 7/18 with a cool proc is kinda OP from a level 14 mob.

[Hailto]

Whats the issue here? You can flip a coin and have it land on heads 7 times, that's how probability works.

[Ele]

This comes up quite often with camps like Pained Soul and Rotting Skeleton. People sit there long enough and believe they are "due" a spawn/drop. This is completely untrue. Each spawn is an independent event and your chances of seeing the named/item on that particular spawn are the same each time. It is the gambler's fallacy.

[Abbot]

Got it twice within 4 spawns I think. Not entirely 100% but he was back up with club when I got back from putting the first in the bank.

You can have one for free if you want. PM/post ign and I will catch ya one day.

[Furniture]

info from the wiki is the drop rate in peq not p99

[Llodd]

Can be a long camp aye. I must have done a similar if not more amount to you with roughly the same amount of jester spawns around a week ago. He finally showed up with the club rather that that two handed steel.

Not broken, just laborious and without any luck... tortureous... :]

Abbot just incredibly lucky. Happens.

[whippetofspades]

This comes up quite often with camps like Pained Soul and Rotting Skeleton. People sit there long enough and believe they are "due" a spawn/drop. This is completely untrue. Each spawn is an independent event and your chances of seeing the named/item on that particular spawn are the same each time. It is the gambler's fallacy.

While every event is independent what makes this unlikely is the notion of an uninterrupted streak. That is that it is equally unlikely to get ten heads in a row as it is alternating heads then tails for every toss. If what you describe were true, there would be a fifty-fifty chance between getting ten heads in a row and getting ten tails, and every possible combination between.

[Shamen]

UPDATE:

I have killed 72phs
undead jester spawned 9 times
club dropped ZERO times

thanks for offer Abbot, sent you PM!

[Rasah]

Drop rate should be 20%. I think you are just unlucky.

[sykotic]

I got this club after about 15 PH and 3 Jesters, it will drop eventually.



"Sometimes you're the dog, sometimes you're the hydrant."

[Chokan]

Why don't you just buy one for 400pp, seems like you've wasted too much time lol

[Cippofra]

Spending hours camping something that other people get 2 or 3 of in half the time? This is the very definition of classic eq. Enjoy.

[Shamen]

Why don't you just buy one for 400pp, seems like you've wasted too much time lol

It is that "he migth spawn next" feeling that keeps me there. It is like some kind of limbo I cant get out of :(

Someone hit me with a stick! :eek:

Seriously...one last jester and if he does not drop it I am done! I swear! .... or am I? :D

[theaetatus]

It is that "he migth spawn next" feeling that keeps me there. It is like some kind of limbo I cant get out of :(


Hehe, the Skinner Box in action.

[Droog007]

I stressed more about the quest involving the cook while I camped this (off and on for several days, finally gave up on getting a second one for myself after my brother scored his).

As best I can tell that quest was broken on live until many years after Kunark launch, and is even brokener here... and the reward is either a meh neck or an uber helmet...

Mystery and spotty documentation = classic

[Savok]

I spent around 6 days camping him on and off for the weapon, mainly because it became a 'it will drop this time, the percentages say it has to!" game.

[Llodd]

I stressed more about the quest involving the cook while I camped this (off and on for several days, finally gave up on getting a second one for myself after my brother scored his).

As best I can tell that quest was broken on live until many years after Kunark launch, and is even brokener here... and the reward is either a meh neck or an uber helmet...

Mystery and spotty documentation = classic

Yeah there is no quest. P1999 wiki is wrong. You just hand in that no rent glowing skull thing to the cook and get a skull of torture.