Game Mechanics: Nihilist Zeegarn / Nihilist Yeegarn incorrect item drop table

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

Not at the moment, from my first 2 posts I drew the following conclusion:

The 3 items I had wanted (the NO RENT ones) were added later given the item IDs they had got.

Classic mobs drop the weapons they are shown wielding.

Only Rod of Battle has the spike staff graphic, and the nihilists always have the rod displayed, therefore they must always drop it.

Or are the nihilists going to show up with a weapon now and not actually drop it?

That's pretty reasonable logic.

Couple things:

I'm not entirely sure on the Rod of Battle being the only Kunark item with that graphic though. I mean this literally. I'm really not sure.

And the point about mobs dropping the weapons they are shown wielding is unfortunately not always the case. I encountered this a lot sniping Chardok SoS/shields before the time of AE groups. Most of the Sarnaks who were holding a stave did not drop either a SoS, Burnished Wooden Stave, or anything else. Just an empty corpse. Though I will concede that this statement is correct 99% of the time.

Anyhow, I'll toss up 500pp blue (or 5g on Nostralius to anyone starting out there) to anyone who can find confirmatory evidence of these guys dropping the Rods of Battle on live.