Game Mechanics: Nihilist Zeegarn / Nihilist Yeegarn incorrect item drop table

[Man0warr]

Even if not classic, adding in ~80k plat per day to the economy sounds damaging - this is way better raw plat generation than say Seafuries.

Should be removed for that alone, and is probably the reason it was changed on Live as well.

I never saw people farming them on Blue when going through Cabilis until recently (been someone there for last 3-4 weeks), so I'm guessing they saw someone on Red doing it where apparently it's been happening for months and months.

[pasi]

Originally Posted by Man0warr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Should be removed for that alone, and is probably the reason it was changed on Live as well.

Just to avoid confusion here: There is no hard evidence showing that the Nihilists ever dropped the Rod of Battle on EQlive. You're not only making that claim, but also making the claim that it was probably changed due to abuse on EQlive. If we knew the first part of that equation, this thread wouldn't be on the bugs forum. If it was abused on live to the point of change, we would hopefully have anything (other than the graphic) to link the Rod of Battle to the Nihilists.

Anyhow, I will say that I do like the idea of giving some use to cities. I always liked that people exp'd in Oggok, fear kited in Freeport, grouped the instant spawn guard in Freeport, and even did 50-60 in Neriak and Felwithe.

While the plat generated is likely too high, the camp would still be useful with say ~10 minute respawns and a 50% droprate. It would still be about 1k/hour of pure plat and doable while semi-AFK.

Unfortunately, I don't think they ever did drop the Rod.

[tristantio]

I may have started the farm trend on blue as I did kill a few after making this thread, and I'm sure some people saw me or saw the rods on the vendor 1 building over, but I never saw them farming on red, I wanted the no drop robe shd usable since it saw it on alla (i tried killing them a year or so ago and got beat down at low 50s).

If this was a secret farm on red for guilds it was pure coincidence (and i suppose bad luck for them that I found on blue)

[tristantio]

Although even if it added 1 million plat a day should be irrelevant in the pursuit of classic (if we could show it was)

[Grimjaw]

isnt it possible for NPC to show a weapon graphic without actually dropping a weapon? Maybe thats how it worked in classic for these NPCs