FBSS rarity?

[fischsemmel]

Post is getting old, but figured I'd come back and edit it incase anyone using search function digs this up looking for fbss rarity or drop stats or whatever.

I camped frenzy in 2 sessions. First one was 18 hours, killed 108 pops, 7 of which were frenzied ghouls, but just got 7 rings as loot. Second session lasted about 3 hours, killed 17 pops, 4 of which were frenzied ghouls, and the last one of those coughed up the sash for me.

[guineapig]

In all honesty, with the rate at which haste belts are rotting in sky you are better off just grinding your melee character to 46 then buying a Sky stone. for 100 and change.

Just my opinion of course, but I think too much time / platinum is wasted on a 1AC zero stat item in classic where most of the mobs you will be fighting have ridiculously low hit-points to begin with.

[fischsemmel]

Originally Posted by guineapig [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In all honesty, with the rate at which haste belts are rotting in sky you are better off just grinding your melee character to 46 then buying a Sky stone. for 100 and change.

Just my opinion of course, but I think too much time / platinum is wasted on a 1AC zero stat item in classic where most of the mobs you will be fighting have ridiculously low hit-points to begin with.

I'm leveling my melee character along with a friend's shaman, and it will probably be at least a month before we are level 46, if not longer.

Ridiculously low hp mobs or not, 21% haste on a 1 ac belt obviously has a much, MUCH larger impact on my little rogue's killing potential than any other belt I could get, especially when I'm primarily playing in 2-3 person groups.

The frenzy camp IS kind of nice though, assuming that the average time it would take to drop isn't any longer than it has taken for me so far. You only need to pay attention for like 10-12 minutes out of every 28, which leaves a lot of time to hold the camp and also do some reading/studying/housework in the meantime

[Dantes]

Originally Posted by guineapig [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In all honesty, with the rate at which haste belts are rotting in sky you are better off just grinding your melee character to 46 then buying a Sky stone. for 100 and change.

Just my opinion of course, but I think too much time / platinum is wasted on a 1AC zero stat item in classic where most of the mobs you will be fighting have ridiculously low hit-points to begin with.

I would agree with this. This is exactly what I've decided to do. A lack of FBSS isn't really hurting my ability to tank, my Yak still procs a lot. The sky belts are better, and it pains me to remove the 9 AC 9 STA 9 STR mithril plated girth for a lowly 1 AC 21% haste belt.

For a twink rogue/monk it makes more sense, DPS is your biggest deal. Haste is a must. But for a tank, meh.

[Sparkin]

Well... sky belts have better stats, but less haste. For anybody just doing dps the FBSS is better, and even tanks might prefer it a lot of the time when just doing relatively easy trash I'd think.

Procs aren't based on swing rate.

[Badmartigan]

Originally Posted by Sparkin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well... sky belts have better stats, but less haste. For anybody just doing dps the FBSS is better, and even tanks might prefer it a lot of the time when just doing relatively easy trash I'd think.

Procs aren't based on swing rate.

some belts like the warrior (Contention) and the Monk belt (Tranquility) and rogue belt (Transience) are all 21%.

The hybrid belts and the bard belts are 16%.

[guineapig]

Anyway, it's hard to judge the true rarity of the item since you are dealing with 3 placeholders that all have the same chance of spawning the frenzied. So basically how many hours you end up spending at that camp is going to depend on how lucky you are with multiple random chances.

[fischsemmel]

Originally Posted by guineapig [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Anyway, it's hard to judge the true rarity of the item since you are dealing with 3 placeholders that all have the same chance of spawning the frenzied. So basically how many hours you end up spending at that camp is going to depend on how lucky you are with multiple random chances.

It's not hard, it just takes a large amount of data. That's why I submitted my info from what I've done so far and asked about it on here instead of just assuming that my experience is the typical experience [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Remember, I didn't ask how long it would take for me to get a fbss... I know that random chances mean I might NEVER see one, or that I might see one on my next kill. I asked about the average, ballpark-ish time required to get one.

[guineapig]

Originally Posted by fischsemmel [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I asked about the average, ballpark-ish time required to get one.

In that case you will need a ton of people responding to this thread.

My guess is that there are somewhere between 600-700 sashes in the game right now.

I'm basing this guess on the number of days the server has been live, rounding down to 400 due to server down time and the first month when the population was low and leveling up. Then I'm guessing that about 1-2 sashes drop on average per day.

[Droodler]

One more thing you might find useful

Here I plotted the chance of getting at least 1 FBSS vs number of hours spent camping, using all the above data/assumptions

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