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Old 02-21-2017, 01:04 PM
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Default Ancient Blade Drop Rate

Previously discussed and resolved in this thread:

http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...t+Blade&page=3

At some point on Live however it went from being an uncommon drop to a guaranteed drop. I'd like to make the argument this change coincided with the June patch which eased the requirements on the Warrior epic to add Green Scales to Hoshkar:

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20010627.html

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Rumor has it that there is a new source for green dragon scales in Norrath.
First mention of the blade drop being changed is in August 2001:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/n...9&p=2#comments

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the ***** drops blade every time now.
Granted the post doesn't seem like the most credible of posts, but I know on Live this did get changed and I've yet to find any posts about Queen not dropping a blade after this point.

Now I know Magelo shows an 84% drop but it doesn't count it if you don't actually loot the item and being that it is a non-MQable piece of an epic it's understandable some people would leave it behind. It is 100% on Live currently and has been since late Velious.

In the absence of evidence to suggest June versus August, I think flagging this change for August is also acceptable, I just figured they might pair up some epic changes in a single patch and not mention the drop rate one.

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Old 02-21-2017, 01:30 PM
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this is clearly hyperbole...
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the ***** drops blade every time now.
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Old 02-21-2017, 01:31 PM
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Could be... But at some point it was changed to 100% drop.

That's the only mention of a drop rate change and no more posts exist past that point where someone claims they killed a Queen and it didn't drop a blade.
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Old 02-22-2017, 03:49 PM
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(Tauron) Sunday, September 02, 2001 at 15:06:55 (EDT) :

https://web.archive.org/web/20020108...mber&Year=2001

They killed queen 3 times in september 2001 same raid, 3x ancient blades, so before september 2001 ?
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Old 02-25-2017, 02:12 AM
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omgawd bump, just found this thread. I'm 0-6 on blade.
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Old 03-01-2017, 02:19 AM
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bump im like 0-15 on blades now this is stupid
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Old 03-05-2017, 10:47 PM
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warrior epic sucks, who cares?
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Old 03-16-2017, 02:25 AM
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