Miscellaneous: Potential Bug with No Manastones Dropping

[Daldaen]

While it does indeed drop it sounds like the drop rate is around 5% from those who have camped it thus far.

This doesn’t jive with the typical classic common/rare break down for named mobs. If you go through most Named in classic in dungeons, most break down to around 75% common and 25% rare roughly.

Evil eye’s drop table should likely follow this break down as well.

Regarding the above poster suggesting Manastone was the common drop, I have no idea if this is correct. The fungus tunic was common for a period so it’s possible but there’s very little in-era information about Manastone drop rates available. I’ve only found one or two sources that say bags is common and Stone is rare. Haven’t seen anything to suggest the opposite.

However the rareness still sounds off with the stones dropping thus far taking 15+ Eye kills. They, like every other common/rare configuration from classic EQ should be seen 1/4 kills roughly.

[turbosilk]

Is there any proof of drop rates one way or the other?

[Daldaen]

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

Is there any proof of drop rates one way or the other?

I’ve not seen anything to indicate exact drop rates. Just that the bag was the common and the Manastone was the rare.

If you check Magelo drop rates for every classic named mob with a two item common/rare loot table the spread is generally 20-40% Rare and 60-80% Common drops. The Manastone seems to be artificially rare compared to the rest of the comparable drops in vanilla EverQuest and should be adjusted accordingly.

[Albane]

Does EE spawn every time, or is there a placeholder? I recall the Manastone being very rare on Red, something like 1/10 kills.

[turbosilk]

There is a PH. So far its roughly between 1/15 and 1/20 kills of EE.

[YendorLootmonkey]

They probably properly halved the drop rate of legacy items when Green split to Teal post-Thanos Snap so the same amount of coveted items would have entered the world once Green and Teal were merged post-Hulk Snap.

[Videri]

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

They probably properly halved the drop rate of legacy items when Green split to Teal post-Thanos Snap so the same amount of coveted items would have entered the world once Green and Teal were merged post-Hulk Snap.

Dang...I wonder if that is true. There is a certain logic to it, and the drop rates seem to reflect that. I think Green is at 40 hours now. Perhaps someone can confirm.

[Baler]

23 list hours for my manastone and an unusually high number of PH frog spawns.

[Jeni]

If you are farming both servers at the same time like I am currently the % drop rate is actually right inline with classic values .

[turbosilk]

No need to troll here. I've been the only person camping EE on teal for the last 3 hours.