Seafuries on GREEN99!!!!

Vizax_Xaziv · #1 09-26-2019, 02:22 PM

Will the Seafuries be dropping gems as originally-intended during the Classic era of EverQuest? If so, can the players be trusted not to ruin it again, or will the same madness and insanity ensue?

soronil · #2 09-26-2019, 02:33 PM

I think you can expect that any non-classic change that was made on blue will also be made on green, for the same reasons the change was made on blue.

Jibartik · #3 09-26-2019, 03:00 PM

There was a question about this a little while ago, the going theory is that the change was to fix unclassic itemization, and so we should probubly expect the current drop rate.

zaneosak · #4 09-26-2019, 03:05 PM

Were seafuries changed for P99 specifically or was the change something that was part of the timeline? I forget. If it was changed on P99 specifically it might go in immediately, otherwise you can expect it to be changed at the correct moment in the timeline.

Jimjam · #5 09-26-2019, 03:15 PM

Sea furies were fixed to drop gems at the classic rate. Previously they were bugged to be too 'generous'.

I did sea furies the other day. They still drop gems. I got 6 in 13 kills.

Kraznor · #6 09-26-2019, 03:37 PM

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Sea furies were fixed to drop gems at the classic rate. Previously they were bugged to be too 'generous'.

I did sea furies the other day. They still drop gems. I got 6 in 13 kills.

Excellent.

Videri · #7 09-26-2019, 04:02 PM

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Will the Seafuries be dropping gems as originally-intended during the Classic era of EverQuest?

Yes...hehehehehe

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Sea furies were fixed to drop gems at the classic rate. Previously they were bugged to be too 'generous'.

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If so, can the players be trusted not to ruin it again, or will the same madness and insanity ensue?

They weren't nerfed because of player behavior. They were nerfed to a more classic drop rate because evidence was presented. I looked and I can't find the thread with the evidence...does anyone have a link to it?

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Some think they are still worth doing, though. So don't lament.

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I did sea furies the other day. They still drop gems. I got 6 in 13 kills.

Vizax_Xaziv · #8 09-26-2019, 04:40 PM

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Some think they are still worth doing, though. So don't lament.

Well that certainly doesn't sound "classic" to me. Seafuries were universally accepted as being essentially THE #1 cashcamp during Classic and Kunark.

I very clearly remember farming them night-after-night on my friend's lvl 60 Wizzy while he was on vacation one summer.

Jimjam · #9 09-26-2019, 04:44 PM

They are only viewed bad now from the perspective that they used to drop 1-2 items worth 1-200pp each per kill.

It was rediculous, i remember making 1k every other quad while waiting for my turn on AC. Not classic and proven not classic with logs.

~150pp for a quad is still good.

Wenai · #10 09-26-2019, 07:29 PM

I have no idea what happened to the drop rates I originally setup back in 1999 but the amount of gems that Jimjam listed is about what I would expect to see as drops (I know he listed a pretty small sample size). I am going to guess someone over the years may have increased them?

I know at one point some changed one my tables to include Sapphire Necklace/Ruby Crown at Seafurries which was just wrong. That was likely an inadvertent change and not done on purpose.

So rates being changed over a 10 year period would not have surprised me.