Odds of Epic Weapon

[Ele]

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

Might be a silly question, but why is VS so contested? I was a pretty annoying bastard of a 16 yr old back in the day and somehow I got my ranger epic pre raid guild.

It does help being able to track and maybe they got me my epic so I'd shut up [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Gnarled staff for wizard epic (only source even after post-Velious epic balancing patch) and Kunark class legs

[TarukShmaruk]

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

Gnarled staff for wizard epic (only source even after post-Velious epic balancing patch) and Kunark class legs

SoE really hated Wizards for some reason.

At one point in the PoP-era, they tinkered with some faction and broke the broken golem spawn, which caused it to get gibbed as soon as it popped by the other denizens in fear (probably Fright/Terror/Dread).

I was bound in fear and would check every single day by solo'ing enough mobs to run an Eye of Zomm over to the spawn for *over a month*.

In constant contact with a GM, their staff finally found out that the spawn was indeed broken, and after I begged him to pop the mob so I could get a group to kill it - he simply handed me the oil and said "I think a month is long enough".

(I'm not making this up. It's how I got my epic)

[Atmas]

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

SoE really hated Wizards for some reason.

At one point in the PoP-era, they tinkered with some faction and broke the broken golem spawn, which caused it to get gibbed as soon as it popped by the other denizens in fear (probably Fright/Terror/Dread).

I was bound in fear and would check every single day by solo'ing enough mobs to run an Eye of Zomm over to the spawn for *over a month*.

In constant contact with a GM, their staff finally found out that the spawn was indeed broken, and after I begged him to pop the mob so I could get a group to kill it - he simply handed me the oil and said "I think a month is long enough".

(I'm not making this up. It's how I got my epic)

Yes, I recall when this happened. On my server at one point GM would just give anyone who had the piece to hand in to the golem and zoned into fear the oil.

There are a couple of other things that made me wonder about the wizard hate. Skyfire evac point for instance. At one point in PoP I even hear they considered giving Strike of Solsek a percentage chance to backfire and cause 300 damage to the caster.

[TarukShmaruk]

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

Yes, I recall when this happened. On my server at one point GM would just give anyone who had the piece to hand in to the golem and zoned into fear the oil.

There are a couple of other things that made me wonder about the wizard hate. Skyfire evac point for instance. At one point in PoP I even hear they considered giving Strike of Solsek a percentage chance to backfire and cause 300 damage to the caster.

It was really bad on PVP servers - they gutted Manaburn (I think this impacted PVE as well, with some cap on the damage that made it absolutely awful) and there were tons of limitations - you could only do a certain % of health maximum with a nuke, all nukes only did a certain % of their damage against players anyway, etc.

Made all the high damage nukes absolutely worthless.

And don't get me started on Wizard vs Magician, where at one point (PoP I think) did 80% of a wizard's nuke with a storebought spell (ours was a high end boss drop of course) yet had the pet which beat out Wizard DPS all by itself :|

They seemed to ease up a bit later on with the familiars and later content like Omens of War.

[Nirgon]

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

SoE really hated Wizards for some reason.

At one point in the PoP-era, they tinkered with some faction and broke the broken golem spawn, which caused it to get gibbed as soon as it popped by the other denizens in fear (probably Fright/Terror/Dread).

I was bound in fear and would check every single day by solo'ing enough mobs to run an Eye of Zomm over to the spawn for *over a month*.

In constant contact with a GM, their staff finally found out that the spawn was indeed broken, and after I begged him to pop the mob so I could get a group to kill it - he simply handed me the oil and said "I think a month is long enough".

(I'm not making this up. It's how I got my epic)

The (kunark) CT skin was so rare on live, every wizard would have probably given up on getting it here if it was like that :P.

[Visual]

even if your odds were even, it would be odd to even audit the odds

[TarukShmaruk]

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

The (kunark) CT skin was so rare on live, every wizard would have probably given up on getting it here if it was like that :P.

I remember hearing about this but I don't know of any first-hand reports - IIRC it cockblocked almost every Wizard on every server except a handful that were able to complete it (it was of course one of the last epics to get completed by any reasonable number of people) because the Cazic Skin was something like 1/32 or 1/56?

[Aeolwind]

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

The (kunark) CT skin was so rare on live, every wizard would have probably given up on getting it here if it was like that :P.

There are wizards with epics on the server?

Not classic

[RevengeofGio]

So basically 3 classes need pieces off one mob? Not guarunteed to drop either I take it?

[Ele]

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

So basically 3 classes need pieces off one mob? Not guarunteed to drop either I take it?

Correct. Gnarled is like 25-50% chance for one drop, Green Stones are like 33-50% up to two drops.

Faydedar is guaranteed a druid pod each time though.