NPC Spawn Issue: Bilge falthom pkt drop rate too high.

[Phallax]

Originally Posted by hueylewis187 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I posted this months ago and petitioned it.>?> I mentioned that.

I am just sad that everyone has a pkt and the price is pretty low for 18 wisdom. This item won't be replaced for a longgggg time. Around 5-6k but I saw one for 4k yesterday. I paid 13k for the first one I bought.

The pkt price will drop because it's the common drop?? It has already dropped month after month. The price of the reed belt will keep going up and pkt down. I don't get how this post will affect the prices. I have only sold 2 of the pkt's and the rest went to friends.

I am just saying it is wrong to have pkt drop even half the time. If that is the drop rate. Pkt has been much more common on my looting of bilge than the belt. It should be a very very hard to get item. But people can farm for 4 hours at cyclops and just buy one for 4k now. I'm just saying it should be harder to get. I think the drop rate is very wrong, compared to eqlive.

50% doesnt mean youll get 4 belts and 4 pkts out of 8 kill. Shit you can flip heads 10 for 10 times with a coin but its 50/50. Its all based on your luck

[dali_lb]

The problem really aint the % drop chance.
The problem is the spawn rate, like posted by others before.

1. Many rare spawns have a much higher spawn rate on emu servers in general than on live.
2. Some drops are almost regular drops on eg a weekly base in Hate .. (Mage Fire staff) wich has never been confirmed to drop on live... ever !!
3. Quillmane... Is hillarious easy to get to spawn. You still have to kill him usually 5-10 times to get a cloak, but on a day in SK, I would guess he usually shows at least 10 times. On live you should be lucky to see him once a day, and yes. People knew the spawn cycle for him back on vanila too, and were running it very often.

[Aeolwind]

There was an issue with Bilge that has been corrected.

[r0xx0r]

tbh the 18 wis item is somewhat easy to replace. I know most ppl flip out when they see "omg uber lewts +18 wis." But take this into consideration- how many other slots have wisdom, what other items can go in offhand (yes it is offhand only) that have hp, mana, AC!! clerics would generally go with a shield of some sort or maybe even resist gear. This item while good in wisdom really lacks in everything else- so my 2 cents say that it's easily upgraded, and should never go for more than 7k. But you have folks out there that have too much money and will just pay what they can

[guineapig]

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

The problem really aint the % drop chance.
The problem is the spawn rate, like posted by others before.

1. Many rare spawns have a much higher spawn rate on emu servers in general than on live.
2. Some drops are almost regular drops on eg a weekly base in Hate .. (Mage Fire staff) wich has never been confirmed to drop on live... ever !!
3. Quillmane... Is hillarious easy to get to spawn. You still have to kill him usually 5-10 times to get a cloak, but on a day in SK, I would guess he usually shows at least 10 times. On live you should be lucky to see him once a day, and yes. People knew the spawn cycle for him back on vanila too, and were running it very often.

I think it took a while for people to figure out the spawn on live to be honest. To say that the cycle was common knowledge in 1999 is a bit of a stretch.

Even on the revamped Allkhazam there are posts from 2006 regarding Quillmane theories.

[dali_lb]

You're right that there was many theories on quill... there prolly was even more on Pyzjin.
But the common theory, wich always seemed to work, was to kill the different named low lvl gnolls and lions etc.. wich i know for sure we were practizing, even it was a more general aproach it still worked
But it took conciderably longer on live to get him to pop.
On P99 you can make him pop by killing just a few ph's. then you just have to find him, and hope a random person don't get to kill him first.
prolly 25% of the server population over lvl 30 has a cloak