Howdy pardners!
Plane of Hate was changed March 14th, 2001. The new loot tables had "Staff of Elemental Mastery: Earth" dropping off of Magi P`Tasa as well as the male "a forsaken revenant".
I dug into the Allahazam pages for it. I asked on the Daybreak forums. It definitely dropped off (and still drops off) revenants. The only question is: Did that happen on the
Mar 14 2001 during the Hate revamp, or later? Comments indicate it *may* have been 2003, but nobody knows for sure.
Can the p99 dev team consider a change to make this drop off male revenants? There have to be hundreds of mages on the server for which this item is their last piece. (Clearly I'm one of them). The reality is a duo of wiz+ench port to PoH and snipe the Magi within seconds of a quake. It feels like since the evidence for this loot table change is murky, but there's a possibility it was 2001, you have to make a personal call one way or the other. Why not make a personal call that benefits the players?
Thanks for your consideration
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