NPC Spawn Issue: Magi P'Tasa Staff of Elementary Mastery Earth drop rate

[Lothisu]

Originally Posted by gwideon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Gnomish Greetings!

Well, it took my 11th Magi to drop the staff for me. And, yes I still believe this needs to be addressed for future Magicians.

A very special Thank you to Kittens Who Say Meow for hanging in there and chasing Magi spawns at 5:00 AM in the morning and late night when sane people sleep! To all who answered that call dozens of times, /bow. I am a very grateful gnome to have you all as guildmates!

Congratz on your epic! I hope to someday complete the epic on my mage!

[Izmael]

Why is RMT being continuously brought up? Don't you guys think the staff monitors staff drops closely enough for said RMT? What idiot would pay what would amount to thousands of dollars for what will inevitably get him permabanned sooner or later.

[b11ri11an]

I've just quit playing my mage, to depressing knowing I'll never get my epic. I rerolled as a cleric and completed my epic in 7 days. My mage grows dust in character select.

[Bristlebaner]

If anyone has been following along - there is a former EQ Dev streaming on Twitch. He has interviewed several old time EQ devs.

When asked about epics, it's clear there was very little oversight. Essentially each epic story line was created by one person, and then given to the programmers to build it. It doesn't seem anyone reviewed the difficulty across the spectrum of classes to balance it.

Long story short, I don't get the impression any epics usefulness or power is weighted against it's difficulty. I fully believe we could have just as easily ended up with a mage epic as common as the rogue or cleric if it had been designed by one of those folks. It just so happens the person who designed the mage epic quest line had a much higher bar for what constitutes epic.

[Telin]

With the removal of the fire staff, the earth staff may drop slightly more often.

[circlerogue]

Originally Posted by Telin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

With the removal of the fire staff, the earth staff may drop slightly more often.

Hi Telin, could you please comment on what mob the fire staff was removed from? Are you referring to Magi P`Tasa, Mistress of Scorn, or a forsaken revenant? If it was removed from the revenants, how does this affect the drop rate of the earth staff since it only drops from Magi P'Tasa?

Thank you!

[Xrevin]

Originally Posted by circlerogue [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hi Telin, could you please comment on what mob the fire staff was removed from? Are you referring to Magi P`Tasa, Mistress of Scorn, or a forsaken revenant? If it was removed from the revenants, how does this affect the drop rate of the earth staff since it only drops from Magi P'Tasa?

Thank you!

^^ this. Bump for visibility. Thanks for your hard work.

[nenja]

Originally Posted by Telin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

With the removal of the fire staff, the earth staff may drop slightly more often.

"May" and "slightly" in the same sentence. Oof. We may now be up to a 0.002 drop rate. Rejoice!

[gwideon]

Gnomish Greetings!

I see this is removed to resolved issues and we had a patch today. Does this mean the drop rate has been increased to 30% as our research has uncovered? I did not see that note in the implementation notes.

Thank ye kindly!

[nenja]

@gwideon

I guess that depends on when this thread was moved to Resolved Issues. I'm guessing it was with the patch as a result of Telin's note above, which I don't feel address or resolves this problem in any way. Especially when he says "may" and "slightly". I'm basically reading that nothing changed to address the issue at hand.