http://www.monkly-business.net/forum...hp/t-8629.html
Kinda seems like the elders are spawning too slow and the beads are not dropping enough anyways.
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The beads are the rare drop off the Holgresh Elders. It takes most people 5-6 hours of killing elders to get a drop. People do sell them, but very rarely, and for around 1.5 - 2K from what I have seen. Some may be able to get them cheaper if the seller does not know the true potential worth of them to a monk !!.
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Then theres this post in the same thread (after they stopped dropping).
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Well I just tried to get myself a set of Elder beads and boy did it SUCK. I logged in and started the camp at 10am pst on 9/5 and ended at 3:30am pst 9/6. In the 17 and a half hours I was there, I cleared the entire 8 or so spawns in the holgresh cave non stop.
In that time, 3 Grand Viziers spawns, 6 Raiders and 51 Elders. The grand vizier NEVER dropped the Holgresh Grand Vizier beads, while 5 of the elders dropped the vizier beads. Out of the 51 elder spawns, not one elder bead dropped.
This is very very disappointing, as I can only assume that Verant went and f'd up the loot tables, by moving the Vizier beads to the elder table and taking said beads off the Vizier table. I am pretty po'd that I just wasted 17 and a half hours at a camp that Verant could have simply put a message in the patch saying they changed it. I for one do not believe that the elder beads drop anymore from the talks I have had with other monks over the past week when they attempted to get them too. /F-U Verant!
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If we assume that the spawn rate didn't change and we assume that the beads were just switched in the drop table. This basically boils down to ~10% spawn rate (one popping every 20 minutes with 8 of them on a 14.5min timer) and a ~10% drop rate (5 dropping out of 51 spawns).