NPC Spawn Issue: Magi P'Tasa Staff of Elementary Mastery Earth drop rate

[gwideon]

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

It says spawn time 1 day, which seems to contradict himself when he says 72 hrs

It really should say Spawn Time: Special since the mechanics for his spawn are different than most other mobs. He describes that the 10 spots and says that each spawn point has a 30% chance to spawn the Magi. I think on P99 the rate of his spawn is lower that 30% in each spawn location, possibly 10% (since there are 10 different minis that can spawn there). So, I think you are correct that his spawn rate is lower than in period, but the research does not indicate a straight 1 day spawn.

but he has a very good chance of being up because he has about a 30% chance of spawning in 10 spots

In actuality the spawn rate could be many times in 1 day if the 10 spots are staggered in the spawn time.

This explains why he can spawn a ton in a few hours, or can sometimes never spawn even if hate is cleared completely.

This indicates to me that the Magi is far more likely to spawn than the other 9 minis. Or it is possible that a few of the other minis also have a higher rate than some of the filler placeholders. However, since the walk through is about the mage epic, he only catalogs the Magi.

[Sunderfury]

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

it says spawn time 1 day, which seems to contradict himself when he says 72 hrs

This is not a contradiction. "Spawn time" is a classic thing, it refers to how long the mob takes to initially spawn upon a server reset (such as a patch or zone reset).

Respawn time is how often mob pops after initial pop (spawn time)

[Jimjam]

Typically common means 75% and uncommon means 25%.

[Shroctagan]

Anecdotal I know and not submitting as evidence, but I got my staff on my first Magi kill on live and have pretty much reserved myself to slowly accruing 1 million pp here.

[gwideon]

And once again, Magi falls again to farm team camped out in zone this morning.

[Senn]

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

And once again, Magi falls again to farm team camped out in zone this morning.

Eliashib / Lothisu et al ?

[Lothisu]

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

Eliashib / Lothisu et al ?

/nod, would be nice if Galach and crew would just put all your worries to rest. I'd recommend doing a /who every 5 seconds when you see a Magi spawn.

Side note the drop rate on the staff is way to rare. Can't remember what Inny's drop rate was but currently Magi drops staff like 1 out of every 15-20 kills.

[Jimjam]

One of these days we'll have a nerd who is invested enough to write an anti camp spy bot to monitor how these magi kills are going down.

[vahlen]

Yeesh.....honestly had no idea how unrealistically rare the Earth staff is on P99. It was an expensive MQ back in the original, but 1million plat is pretty obvious RMT territory. Sort of makes one wonder why this hasnt been addressed by the Devs.

[gwideon]

Gnomish Greetings!

Well, it took my 11th Magi to drop the staff for me. And, yes I still believe this needs to be addressed for future Magicians.

A very special Thank you to Kittens Who Say Meow for hanging in there and chasing Magi spawns at 5:00 AM in the morning and late night when sane people sleep! To all who answered that call dozens of times, /bow. I am a very grateful gnome to have you all as guildmates!