Items drop ratio?

Shadow_Tail - Lost City
Shadow_Tail - Lost City Posts: 6 Arc User
edited August 2009 in General Discussion
I am lvl 73 at the moment.

I have recently started grinding lvl 86 mobs (despite their level they arnt much stronger then lvl 73 mobs but thats a different story).

Anyway as i started grinding them i noticed their drop ratio on items was low at best as i only managed to get 2-3 dq items and some arrows despite killing 25-30 mobs.

However when i made a squad whit a friend of mine who is lvl 77 i noticed an increase in drop ratio even when he was not anywhere near my location.

But according to PWI database there should not be any difference in the % chance that mobs drop regardless how low level you are compared to them, only if your higher level then they are.

So the question is, is drop ratio really lower if your to many levels lower then the mob u kill?

Any why does it chance just cause your in a squad?
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  • Vitenka - Dreamweaver
    Vitenka - Dreamweaver Posts: 4,125 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    From personal experience:

    Yes, you get lower drops if you are sufficiently below the monster, not just if you are above them.

    It appears to do something like take the average level of a squad, or possibly tests each person in the squad to see whether there should be a drop for them. Drop rate does seem to go up in a squad, presumably to compensate for the fact that the drops get shared out.

    If a high and a low group together then you get some low drops, whereas if it's just the high on their own you don't.
  • Zerza - Harshlands
    Zerza - Harshlands Posts: 59 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Shadow_Tail - Lost City wrote: »

    But according to PWI database

    PW database is wrong more often then right. Its handy for mat locations and little else really. It hasn't been updated it seems in a very long time, or is meant for another version entirely.
  • Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver
    Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver Posts: 432 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Zerza - Harshlands wrote: »
    PW database is wrong more often then right. Its handy for mat locations and little else really. It hasn't been updated it seems in a very long time, or is meant for another version entirely.

    You might have it set to a different region. Try clicking the US flag in the top right corner of a page, that's the one for Perfect World International.
  • Shadow_Tail - Lost City
    Shadow_Tail - Lost City Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    To cholla.

    Actually not, another site ive been to says the mobs im killing has same drop% as most other mobs i would grind on (for dq items that is).


    To Rurik:

    No i know its set on PWI.


    But the whole conclusion about if your level is to low you get less drop ratio seems to be correct but in just 3-4 levels the drop ratio should be much better according to when i squaded whit my friend so in the mean time ill just grind on the mobs my level.

    Thanks for the answers tho.

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