Drop rate lowered?

your suppose to be poor in the game so u use real money.thats how this game works.

Raybeez - Lost City wrote: »

Ya some one said that with this new Lunar patch thing that also the drop rates of items have been lowered... is this true and if so is it for just the HH/TT mats
or did the dq drop rates for normal mobs get reduced too? I hope not cuz without dqs to sell i have not many other ways to make money?? Is this just some random stupid thing i heard or is there some truth behind itb:puzzled

from my understanding, they only lowered the drop rate on the 'elite instances'... such as Twilight Temple, Lunar Glade, and Forgotten Frostland

i don't think DQ or FB drops have been changed, as DQ is still dropping like crazy for me b:chuckle

__Kikyo__ - Lost City wrote: »

your suppose to be poor in the game so u use real money.thats how this game works.

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Falls - Sanctuary wrote: »

I'm curious, how do you know this?

that's the only info that's been consistent across all the rumors... and the DQ/FB part is from personal experience

dane12 wrote: »

becaz she is magic

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lol

funny was it a gm that said the drop rates lowered or was it some kid starting a rumor because they didnt get anything if it was a gm can someone direct me to the post please

Tharivol - Lost City wrote: »

Funny was it a GM that said the drop rates lowered or was it some kid starting a rumor because they didn't get anything if it was a GM can someone direct me to the post please.

Although I wouldn't put it past PWE, I too, see no convincing evidence anywhere.

man i have thought the drops have been good i dont know what u ppl r crying about

SultryShade - Dreamweaver wrote: »

The larger the level difference between you and the mob the lower chance to get anything besides coins, so has it been since the start of PWI, and of any mmo I've ever played. Get within 4-5 lvls of the thieves and you'll get decent drops again.

This is correct only if you are higher level than monster.
Here is how drops are calculated: http://www.pwdatabase.com/ms/drop
As you see being below monster level will always give you 100% probability of getting items based on your level. Only then drop rate kicks in and screws everything.

Ragenar - Dreamweaver wrote: »

This is correct only if you are higher level than monster.
Here is how drops are calculated: http://www.pwdatabase.com/ms/drop
As you see being below monster level will always give you 100% probability of getting items based on your level. Only then drop rate kicks in and screws everything.

Haven't GMs mentioned a few times that PWdatabase is not accurate? b:question

Telarith - Sanctuary wrote: »

Another thing that lowers drop rates, is element type. There is an element of cycles that Duke Black will inform you of in one of his rumors. At any given point, 1 element type will have boosted drop rates, even giving 2-3 DQ drops per kill. The opposing element will have reduced amount. That is why people will have good drops on ones that were bad before, or bad on previous good ones.

fortune teller Duke.

I think the element cycle is correct but that dude black tells you? I have heard that before but never been confirmed.

Deadlock - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I can surely tell a lot of people are getting feed up with Perfect world's Greedy way's ,as i as well, it's only a matter of time before people really get sick of this game and just stop playing i know several people who are just plain sick of the game and it's greed. there's noting perfect about this game unless you compare it to real life then it's perfect match. for example people who spend up-seen mount's of money to play this game control perfect world's Economy like 1Gold is worth 440k now that's down right crazy Gold charm's i've seen for a mil and all it's just sad,i can't tell the people who spend there money on this game it's unfair but it's there money and there right and i pitty the people who spend the in game coin for the **** that's hardly worth the price. but it's not tall that big way better F2P game's are hitting the market this winter. It's only a matter of time...
before the **** it's the fan and people walk away.

If you haven't figured out that PW is going to do what they want, when they want then you really need to stop.

The players who are so upset about the last updates that they needed to leave, have already left.

The players who *aren't* running around in circles and foaming about the mouth over the updates are going to stay, and are here.

This leaves us with the group of people who continue to *claim* they're gonna leave, but instead of just *leaving*, they need to proclaim it to everyone everytime the lights blink.

Do it.

Decide you're gonna leave, or decide you're gonna stay. We've all heard the constant proclamations on the Death of PWI, how their actions are gonna sink the company, yadda yadda yadda.

Get it over with, or just stop complaining about it. We Get It - you're not happy.

Now either leave, or get out of the way. I'm frankly tired of hearing it. I try to avoid it, but the criers keep putting it in every single thread.

If you're here crying, you are still playing the game. SHUT UP ALREADY.

If you're here crying, and you've already *left* the game, then for the love of FSM, go holler in your *new* game's forum.

RedMenace

Telarith - Sanctuary wrote: »

He babbles something, doesn't say the drop rates on element X are good. Something like X element is strong today, or X element is more powerful today. It's been a long time since I actually talked to the duke, and usually I would grind what was good for xp, instead of drops. So not much use for my cleric to listen to. But I did get the info a few times. It's easier just to spend 5, 10 mins on one element type, and switch if not getting great drops.

One time he did say "X type is Weak against Y, so Y monsters will drop more" or something quite similar to that.

Ragenar - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I can confirm this at least from my own experiences.
During last double XP weekend I was grinding near Sanctuary on Seaweed Thieves and other mob around with a help of a cleric. All mob was at least 7 levels above me at that time. According to PWI monster database Seaweed Thieves have Seele Token dropping rate over 50% so I was assuming getting drops at least every second kill. Fat chance! I could get something only out of 10 kills on average, mostly potions. Same thing has continued the whole week with regular mob, I am getting much less DQ items than before.
Can't say anything about TT, haven't done it recently.

You're using the drop rate on pwdatabase innacurately. If you look higher up, on the # of items dropped for Seaweed Thieves, you'll see;

Drop rate of severals items
0: 73.5809%
1: 19.8143%
2: 5.2838%
3: 1.3210%

That right there says 73%ish of the time NOTHING will drop. Then IF something drops, it has a 50%ish chance of being a Steele Token. If you look at the number next to drop rate you'll see "real drop rate" of 15%ish. That a pretty close number to what you described. There is no nerf.

Mob link; http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/mob/12267

Telarith - Sanctuary wrote: »

Another thing that lowers drop rates, is element type. There is an element of cycles that Duke Black will inform you of in one of his rumors. At any given point, 1 element type will have boosted drop rates, even giving 2-3 DQ drops per kill. The opposing element will have reduced amount. That is why people will have good drops on ones that were bad before, or bad on previous good ones.

OMG Thats a cool bit of info to have thanks, now Duke is gonna get rich off my 10 golds ^^ haha, as for Drops rates, OMG, Only problem I have is being a mage, By the time i can farm for anything Especially Mats Im lvled to a point where it dont wanna drop, sooo uncool.
And as for PWI databases drop list, I use it but , I use it as a general refrence, you cant expect every single detail and percentage point to be 100% accurate,So i just let it tell me where to find stuff, and mostly ignore % of stuff.. Maybe your just unlucky , Like me ^^ XP sorry jk jk..