Kunark spells should not be dropping in Velious

[Honest]

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March 27, 2001 2:00 am
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[dafier]

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

- Increased the drop rate on some Kunark spells to coincide with the
narrowing of the creatures carrying those spells as the game evolves.

This is very important but this was done for Kunark mobs that drop spells in general. I remember Wizard boxes farming certain mobs for Kunark spells to corner the market.

There were definitely more (increased number of) spell drops so this is correct.

[Freakish]

All the links I went through last night were inconclusive. I heard recommendations that if you want kunark spells you need to go to kunark and farm the world bosses or vp trash then the next post would say they got divine intervention(kunark spell) off sontalak.

My assumption is they were really rare off raid spell dropping dragons in WW with esorpa dropping 55-58 kunark spells. I don't think esorpa is even 60, which is normally the cut off except in the case of Fay.