Game Mechanics: Plane Mobs drop chances

[Phallax]

I know Runes are dropping cant recall Words tho.
I also dont sit there and look at every item linked, so there may have been Words linked last night while we were in the planes.

[LazyFuj]

this is true, necros do get the shaft when it comes to plane gear.

[Gwence]

SK gear in fear is more scarce than necro, their certainly is not 30 "knights" the majority of the amygladans are warriors which cannot drop sk armor.

Your numbers on hate mobs are way off as well, I'd say max their is 12 clerics when zone is full pop, it may vary 10-15 range. No mob drops their class specific armor all that often, you have good clears and bad clears. The more you do, the more you get.

[dojo420]

i do not know where we are at on the patch-timescale but i found the following:

May 16, 2000 10:00 am
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***Patch Day***

*General Changes*
- Increased the number of frightfingers in the Plane of Fear.
Previously only 3 frightfingers would pop per respawn.

source: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2000-1.html

i think that change happened here already though it should be closer to kunark. maybe those new frightfingers were boogeymen before?

regarding words: haven't seen high level words drop of allizewsaur in a long time (about the same time as the words stopped dropping in planes).

[dali_lb]

Can't see the big problem ... yes it sucks to be a necro .. oh wait .. your the most powerfull class in game ...

Really. This is the way it always was on live too .. too few boogiemen, and tons of necroes before you have whined about it to Sony [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was the same way with pally drops. for each single pally armor that dropped, 2 or 3 SK's and Rogues got a full set of armor.

This was how it was on live classic, and P99 emulates live classic, so live with it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[mitic]

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

Can't see the big problem ... yes it sucks to be a necro .. oh wait .. your the most powerfull class in game ...

Really. This is the way it always was on live too .. too few boogiemen, and tons of necroes before you have whined about it to Sony [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was the same way with pally drops. for each single pally armor that dropped, 2 or 3 SK's and Rogues got a full set of armor.

This was how it was on live classic, and P99 emulates live classic, so live with it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i take you havent raided the planes on P99 yet. we have had several clears with like 0 necro drops but already fully decked out clerics

[Uaellaen]

It was the same way with pally drops. for each single pally armor that dropped, 2 or 3 SK's and Rogues got a full set of armor.

LOL most of our SKs looted full pally sets already, since they dont get theyr armor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] its all luck based and random ...

[guineapig]

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

SK gear in fear is more scarce than necro, their certainly is not 30 "knights" the majority of the amygladans are warriors which cannot drop sk armor.

Can't agree with this either. Our SK's generally get geared within their first few raids.

But that being said, random is just that. I've been on raids with 3 armor drops worth mentioning and ones with 15.

[dali_lb]

The thing with pallies vs SK's and Rogues, was from Live.
Pally armor drops only from ... i hope i remember right .. "MALE"
fiends, wich always made funny commands ... and i remember farming
so many times to get full pally set, while on each farm trip SK's and Rogues got replaced because they got all their pieces. I'm not saying it is this way on P99 but there are still a whole lot more octapus men than male Fiends in Fear, so it isn't just random, if the drop % is the same for each mob, wich i believe it is, lot more SK armor will drop than pallies. Its the same with necro stuff. I agree with that necro drop ratio is sucky. Mainly because there is so few boogiemen spawns compared to other mob types. If the drop ratio is borked too its gotta be bad.

[Brut]

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

Can't agree with this either. Our SK's generally get geared within their first few raids.

What! Tons of fear raiding and I still lack bracer + bp. Pretty much only SK of ours with a nearly full set, others have a couple random pieces.
We've had raids where we clear whole plane and 0 umbrals drop off the amygs, just 1 piece came out of a blob.

On the other hand, one of our rogues had a full set of pally gear in bank, and I almost got my pally set completed too.

I srsly have long since suspected some code hidden in there that counts classes present when mobs die, then calculates a chance according to how many there are of them. Ie. 3 SKs = 1 SK drop... 0 PALs = 3 PAL drops.