Miscellaneous: No more fine Steel from guards

[Yinaltin]

seems all guards are bugged then . innothule troll guards drop rusty long swords ...

[Wutno]

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

looks like the massive plat farms were nerfed just in time for PoSky to open.

Value of plat is on the rise!

This makes no sense, honestly. My money is on it being a bug because as a "classic" server the guards not dropping 2 FS and seafuries in OOT being nerfed on their gem drops is definitely not classic.

Also, this affects a minority of the farming population. There are already many many people with plat in the 100s of thousands - why nerf them now?

I definitely would like them looked into for a fix please [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Leche

[doacleric]

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

This makes no sense, honestly. My money is on it being a bug because as a "classic" server the guards not dropping 2 FS and seafuries in OOT being nerfed on their gem drops is definitely not classic.

Also, this affects a minority of the farming population. There are already many many people with plat in the 100s of thousands - why nerf them now?

I definitely would like them looked into for a fix please [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Leche

This post makes absolutely no sense. Crying "I want my easy money NOW" does not give any pluses to your credibility. There has to be a certain amount of balance in the game. EQ has always been about risk vs reward.

With that said, I will look into the issue.

[Wutno]

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

This post makes absolutely no sense. Crying "I want my easy money NOW" does not give any pluses to your credibility. There has to be a certain amount of balance in the game. EQ has always been about risk vs reward.

With that said, I will look into the issue.

I greatly appreciate the work you devs do.

To clarify my post, because it didn't make sense (I should have thought out my response better I guess), my point is that a nerf on these doesn't make sense on a server which aims to be classic.

For this reason I was not upset at the situation thinking something I enjoyed doing (farming plat while getting xp) was nerfed - rather I assumed it was simply a bug and wanted to bring it to your attention.

EQ has definitely always been about risk vs. reward. EQ has always had that loot on those mobs. Thus, I assumed it was balanced.

Many thanks for looking into the situation!

Leche

[nilbog]

Just an error most likely. Especially if its not noted in patch. Will try and fix it up.

Seems to be a discrepancy with EFP/WFP. That's verified.

Will look into the deputies, bashers, and seafuries?

[Haul]

the hhk/highpass guards are also currently dropping rusty short swords instead of fs

[nilbog]

Yep, it was a guard issue.

wfp/efp guards, troll bashers, halfling deputies, highkeep guards corrected.

seafuries? :P no change in months to their tables.

[Wutno]

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

Yep, it was a guard issue.

wfp/efp guards, troll bashers, halfling deputies, highkeep guards corrected.

seafuries? :P no change in months to their tables.

Thanks for the quick work guys. The seafuries were a small sample size. Friday night it seemed about 30% of the mobs had no gem/jewelry loot only 1-5pp. Sat night post patch we killed ~10 mobs and got nothing but 1-5pp on all of them. We thought maybe something was up along the lines of the guard issue so we left.

Thanks again!

Leche

[Intricus]

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

This post makes absolutely no sense. Crying "I want my easy money NOW" does not give any pluses to your credibility. There has to be a certain amount of balance in the game. EQ has always been about risk vs reward.

With that said, I will look into the issue.

Dude, no disrespect or anything, but I don't really think he/she is 'crying for easy money', they are just stating their opinion. And honestly, the FP guards aren't exactly 'easy' from what I remember...a good deal of risk involved, not to mention they are level 30 mobs.
C'mon, if you were just a regular player and not a dev, woulden't you be slightly dissapointed if you went to enjoy a camp you frequently fight at for exp and money,only to find the drops were bugged/nerfed?

...and I just read the follow-up posts after this one...this person was NOT 'crying'. =D

[Kainzo]

As of last night, the FP guards are still dropping Rusty, (I didn't kill them but I ran by and checked a corpse to see a Rusty Sword)