Faded memories with no proof

[Goregasmic]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Anecdotes about drop rates etc. is harder to prove, but the frequency on P99 is probably pretty easily explained by level of knowledge etc. For instance, on live you didn't have guilds on a weekly Sky rotation clearing all of POS like it was nothing (on most servers at least). You didn't have multiple guilds able to efficiently and easily clear the Planes.

I don't remember the exact timeline but on the rathe the attainable raid bosses/zones were on a big rotation. IIRC some point there was 25+ raid guilds on the trakanon one. This would "dilute" the loot and make it seem more rare than it actually is. There's 500-700 players on green spread into a handful of major guilds. Back then on live it wasn't rare to see 3000+ players on a server and many more guilds. So you'd get to see a raid drop once every couple months sometimes, if it actually dropped.

And yeah, for the "current" content usually only the top 1-3 guilds could manage it if even. I was in a top3 guild and I think we were wiping on vindi post velious.

And he remembers earring of station being rare but not here but I investigated that particular item a couple weeks back and most people agreed it takes several thousand kills to get one on p99. Might have been a lesser known item back then or have less terminally online people going after it. The general knowledge base back on live was terrible.