Miscellaneous: Potential Bug with No Manastones Dropping

[Erati]

so what is the consensus here?

Did they nerf the drop rates THEN remove the stone all together and on P99 we are experiencing the 'nerfed' drop rates based on the evidence of these testimonies?

[Dolalin]

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

so what is the consensus here?

Did they nerf the drop rates THEN remove the stone all together and on P99 we are experiencing the 'nerfed' drop rates based on the evidence of these testimonies?

I think this is a case of good old fashioned rumor mill running in overdrive. People were saying "it still drops it's just uber rare!" after the Temple of Sol Ro patch in October, but I don't think it was.

After the Temple of Sol Ro manastone stoppage, I see posts like these in the newsgroups:

11/27/99
Subject: Rumor Control on Manastones !

HI, I'm hoping to get an official word on manastones, rumor has it they may
come back as a quest item and others say they are gone forever. Anyone seen
any OFFICIAL word on this? Thanks....
Non-staggering druid on erollisi marr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Nope .. just drops a lot less ... A RL friend of mine looted one from the
Evil Eye yesterday

Parricide <parr...@fastmail.ca> wrote in message
news:81p512$2m8$0@206.162.38.99...


> Gone forever due to a cleric exploit. Current price on E'ci? 30kpp.
And
> as soon as i can come up with 30000pp, im getting one ;-)

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/al...N0g/discussion

But it just smells like bullshit to me.

[Erati]

Ah so the drop rate “nerf” was just rumors and more than likely it was a normal lguk rare variety loot. Once it was removed w very little publication people went crazy thinking “uber rare” and began mixing stories /spreading rumors to explain the situation as no official response on the removal was found.

[Dolalin]

That's my take on it yeah.