Drop rates on Quillmane

[Briscoe]

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

If you've killed him so many times, then you should be able to deduce an estimate for his drop rates.

I seriously doubt many "rare" items (like fbss vs. moonstone ring) are a 5% drop rate, let alone lower than that. The fact that you think not getting a 5% drop in 20 kills is "super unlucky" just makes me think you don't know how numbers teh work. In fact, you actually would end up going 20 kills without seeing a 5% rare about 1/3 of the time.

My guess is a typical common vs. rare drop on the server is something like 70-80% common and 20-30% rare. The fact that named mobs often are the rare version of whatever pops at a given point in the first place + the way numbers work just end up making the average Joe who gets a little unlucky farming something think that stuff is a lot more rare than it really is.

Agreed. I think the majority of typical "rare" drops off of named mobs are probably 1/4 or so, with the actual spawn rate of said named probably in the same 1/4 ballpark.