Last night in PoA I had one of my guild members ask me to put on my plane
armor so they could take a screen shot (my current look is all black plate).
I sadly informed her my only piece of plane equipment (after nearly 2 months
at 46+) is my Six Note Blade. She was apalled :)
Rokenn
-----Original Message-----
From: JasonF [mailto:
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Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 11:49 AM
To:
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Subject: RE: [eqbards] A run of luck
From: "JasonF" <
jasonf@...>
Let me clear something up about the drop rates on Druzzil. I assure you
they're no better than anywhere else - that's one reason I was so thrilled
at getting both gauntlets and arms in one trip. In fact one of the drops
was from a patroller (pats we call 'em), the odds of which are very, very
close to zero.
I've made about 14 Hate trips that cleared essentially the whole Plane. Of
those 14 trips I have seen exactly FOUR pieces of Imbrued drop. I was
fortunate enough in three of the cases to be the recipient of the item.
Therefore, I now have Breastplate, Arms and Gauntlets. I got the BP on my
second trip about six weeks ago and have seen ZERO pieces drop until this
weekend.
You have to have a wide streak of masochist in you to get a full suit of
anything but Clerical armor, which everyone seems to agree drops almost
twice as often as anything else. But when Planes capable players see my
armor there is no question in their minds about how difficult it was to get.
A lot of people complained pretty loudly that the armor resulting from the
Lambent (and other) armor quests was not NO DROP and just simply too easy to
get. We see a lot of level 8 bards running around in full Lambent, don't
we? You sure as hell don't see Planes newbies running around in full
outfits of anything. A Druid in my guild that has been going to Fear *since
it opened* just got his final piece (breastplate) over the weekend. He said
that he was almost in tears over having received it finally.
We're in their world now.
[48 Bard] Crier (Half Elf) <Seekers of Norrath> ZONE: work
> 3 days in Hate this weekend. First night the zone crashed just as we
> were cleared to the Maestro. Absolutely no bard stuff dropped. I think
> Warrior legs dropped the first night, then no more all weekend. No Mage
> stuff dropped, a few shaman pieces. In general, other than cleric stuff,
> the drop rate is just pitiful and has a few people who've been going for
> several months contemplating quitting as there's just not much point to
> playing anymore. Playing for fun isn't once you've done Hate a few
> times, as IMO, it's one of the most boring zones they've created. The
> fast spawning roamers keep you camped in the same locations for hours
> and even if you did move around every place looks pretty well like every
> other place.
>
> To top it off, a 6 note blade dropped and all the bards had one, and
> Inno dropped a fatty shaman hammer and there were no fatty shaman on the
> trip.
>
> And to add to the buggy RNG theory, I foraged 100 vegetables over the
> weekend compared to 20-40 of fruit, berries and rabbit meat. What are
> the odds of that happening? :)
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