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Sir drannor * 138 posts There is a good chance I will be getting this staff first. Due to its common drop rate, and the fact that VS is rather easy (I think he's easier than the golem, or rather all that's involved in dropping the golem), I may get this well before being done with my epic. In which case, I will definitely be weilding it... Nov 19 2001 at 4:28 PMRating: Decent Obiquon 37 posts What are you talking about?! its 10/30 and this one is a much more common drop than the blue crystal staff of Phinny. Hardest Part? Quote Reply #Mar 20 2003 at 5:57 AMRating: Default Codeguru * 166 posts I am told and have found that the staff drops 1 in 4 kills now. I was keeping track of the kills about 5 months ago and many have said they upped the drop rate on a patch so I checked and it is indeed higher now. Now it's not even that uncommon for the staff to drop multiple times in a row but it would still be rare. All I can say is it's about time, for something as over camped as Phinny sometimes is by the **** insomniac uber guilds it's nice to give the common wizard a greater chance to get it on 1 kill. Maybe they decreased the drop rate after the initial near 100% drop ? That would explain magelo, not sure, I just know it was a near guaranteed drop for my time period of playing after the epic revamps went in and VS was 3 days. May 29 2001 at 6:54 PMRating: Decent eclypse 6 posts No this is not the hardest part, the hardest part is phinny who drops his staff about once every 15 kills, as oposed to VS who drops it fairly regularly. Least thats been my expierence. My 2cp was what I found on Zam - Phinny by far the mob most wizard complained about on all the commentary
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Nilbog the VS on Magelo doesn't have any way to differentiate the Venril Sathir and the Venril Sathir (Fake - Druid Epic) when entering into their system.
For example that VS shows 120 Pulsing Green Stones out of 328 loot entries. I'm fairly certain it doesn't properly account for double drops as well. So in actuality, you have either 208 VS Kills (if it doesn't account for double drops), or 268 VS kills (by subtracting the 60 double stone fake VS logs). 122 Gnarled Staves 122/208 = 58.6% 122/268 = 45.5% That being said, again Magelo isn't the most reliable system. Here are my logs from Al'Kabor: Quote:
I know that was EQMac, but 12 / 19 Venril Sathir's had staves and it is quite possible a few more dropped the staff without me mentioning a rot or trying to loot it. It *is* possible he didn't have a staff. But as I do comment, I found it peculiar he didn't have a staff on that one kill. I don't think I'd seen a staff less one up to that point. Something to the tune of 80% is honestly probably around what it was on Al'Kabor, and I can't see any evidence that suggest there was an uptick at some later date. There are posts on EQClerics which I posted in an earlier thread that mention VS has around this 80% drop rate, when the cleric is talking about a long VS rotation on their server. It should be around that 80% number here on P99. Here is the EQCleric 2002 post I mentioned: http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/show...otation&page=2 Quote:
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Excellent thanks Nilbog for the classic update.
I look forward to reliving the classic "I've killed 20 Phinigels and still no Blue Crystal Staff" woes from wizards now instead of the Gnarled Staff ones of late.
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