Quest Issue: The Essence Lens quest is in-era for P99 Blue but missing

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Awesome, thanks Nilbog!

I'm curious if you noticed this post in the wayback that Dolalin posted earlier in this thread. It's a few posts after the guy who completed the first essence lens and he mentions that ST is "a plush, cushy place to go" and that the Ancient Sentries no longer flurry.

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A few posts further down another person posts the following:

Easier or not, i havent looted anything but 1 prmial 1hs, 2 primal axe and 1 primal 2hand piercing in 4 month of ST. In 1 months since Kerafrym awaken and ST been fixed, we looted more Primal 1hb and 1h piercing than we ever loot of warder. nuff said.

Suggesting that at the very least 1 hand primals should be the same drop rate as their 2 hand counterparts. Currently it doesn't seem like that's the case.

Fitten goes on to state in a follow up post:

Regardless, every mob in ST is only a shadow of what they were before Kerafrym was released. The fact that they don't see invis now makes CR trivial which wasn't in the past. The drop rates are like 4X what they once were. Killing everything down to the Warders once netted about 1 primal weapon and 2 priceless. Now that can be gotten just from killing the sentries and MotG. We cleaned ST out (before Kerafyrm release) except for the Warders a few times and got nothing at all. Basically ST is about 1/3 the difficulty as before (if not less) and drops at least 3X the rate as before (sans Warders, of course). (MUCH) Less risk and more reward.

All these forum posts are circa September 2001. Seems like pretty solid evidence to update ST on Blue.

re: wayback link for reference
https://web.archive.org/web/20011030...c&f=4&t=000292