On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Greg Gillan wrote:

>
> Yeah, I've got doubles. I've been the only bard around for a lot of these
> runs. The BP just dropped this weekend, I was ecstatic. Think we only
> pulled about 3 banshees that night, and it dropped on the 2nd one. Maestro
> was also kind enough to give me an evensong that same night (which was
> perfect since I already had the six note) It was the luckiest night for a
> bard ever I think. We only got about 4 drops total, and I got 2 of them.
> They really need to re-tune this zone, everyone is getting a little upset
> with the drop rate (well, except the clerics since there seems to be about
> 20 times the number of their armor dropping mobs than everyone elses)

From how I understood Abashi's comment on this, it seems they
tuned it thinking "16 hour respawn in Fear, 2 hour respawn for
wanderers in Hate, make stuff in Hate drop 1/8th as often as
in Fear." That makes sense if you want to cap the rate at
which these items enter the game world as a whole. From an
individual standpoint, since the difficulty of the mobs in
Hate and Fear are roughly the same, you end up getting much
fewer drops in Hate than in Fear.

Put another way, Hate has the ability to support a lot more
people than Fear. But since it's not camped like LGuk or
SolB, we're nowhere near saturating it. Unfortunately, the
drops are tuned assuming saturation.

--
John H. Kim
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