I've been trying to find evidence to support the idea that EightySix should drop thrones, but instead found evidence
against it (on
planeofmischief.com):
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EightySix now hits for 120s and can still drop Crowns cards and Knight cards.
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Honestly this is probably the strongest piece of evidence, just because there's so little good PoM information and that site was dedicated to PoM ...
but even so I still think it's likely he dropped thrones.
I think it's really important to remember that this was a mob:
- in an extremely under-utilized zone (PoM wasn't nearly as populated on live as it is here)
- like much of the zone he didn't even work properly when first released
- not all that long afterward (<2 years?) his loot stopped being relevant, so there was a relatively small window of time people farmed him
- he's extremely remote, so people would have little incentive to make the one-way trip to him (with awkward jumping or levitating required)
- any PoM card is already a super rare drop, and thrones are rarer still, so unless you kill a given mob A LOT (which I've been trying to do, and it's not easy to kill a level 60 on a 72 minute timer in the middle of nowhere A LOT) it's very possible you might see it drop a crown/knight/squire and think they don't drop thones
Altogether I just think it's unlikely this mob was killed that much on live, by the same individual, enough times to get a throne to drop ... and when that did happen many didn't report it anywhere (if you went through all that trouble to find a "secret" remote thrones spot that everyone else thought dropped crowns, would you?)
It just seems more likely to me that the random guy on the live EQ forum who claimed he used to get "the rarest cards" from EightSix and TwentyTwo
wasn't lying (importantly he
wasn't trying to talk SOE into adding Throne to them in that post, he was just saying these mobs, which are important because of their thrones, are missing) ... and that all the other (not much) evidence saying he drops crowns could still be entirely consistent with that.
But I'll keep looking, because obviously if I could find even a single
in era report of a Thone drop from him that would be the holy grail ...