Item Drops and Finds Version 2 - Post BB

[Mazz]

First one was 100% chance to rank up potential (yay!), second was no chance to be destroyed by scrolls (not so yay).

[TugboatWilly]

Again, not on my Marksman.

[Marksman Bryan]

!!!

both from one run

[qtpie]

!!!

both from one run

Jealous... Haven't got a single drop for two weeks. When I say single drop, I mean not even cracked stuff ffs

[TugboatWilly]

Jealous... Haven't got a single drop for two weeks. When I say single drop, I mean not even cracked stuff ffs

I haven't gotten any Reinforced stuff from Hard Gollux in over a week.

[moore4me]

Almost skipped doing voyages today but the drive for blades made me go and I got extra lucky.

[qtpie]

ironically, soloing with one filler/looter yielded me more weapons than going with a 6 men party.

@TugBoatWilly I say there's something wrong with Scanian gollux.

[TugboatWilly]

[prettygreat]

ironically, soloing with one filler/looter yielded me more weapons than going with a 6 men party.

@TugBoatWilly I say there's something wrong with Scanian gollux.

Is that all from one run!? What droprate were you at o______o.

[Tigeon]

Is that all from one run!? What droprate were you at o______o.

Yea seriously...

My group had 2x drop + wolf underling + 20% earring + 20% greed + 20% necklace, and we still got only 1 drop out of 4 people >_<

[qtpie]

Is that all from one run!? What droprate were you at o______o.

2x card, wolf, 185% drop rate gears.

[SaptaZapta]

Yea seriously...

My group had 2x drop + wolf underling + 20% earring + 20% greed + 20% necklace, and we still got only 1 drop out of 4 people >_<

I think Nexon might be messing around with the distributed drops mechanism, trying to make it so 6 looters doesn't mean 6x the loot, and they have it tweaked too low at times, especially when rounding down ends up meaning everybody gets 0.9 items => nobody gets anything.

[Blunderr]

Sigh. I don't know what it is with Cvellum's drop rate but it's definitely stupid.
I've killed it three times now, each with 2x drop, wolf, and 10 20% drop lines. We got four items the first two times and absolutely nothing the most recent run.

[Justin]

Honestly though, should the drop rate really be able to be manipulated so much? Even 10x drop rate is just ludicrous and shouldn't even be achievable... <_<;

Granted, the boss shouldn't just outright drop NOTHING, either...

[holycow]

Atleast you all can see it drop stuffs

Community Moderators (CM) have said that CRA in MSEA are already dropping CRA set.. just that the drop rate is unbelievably low

[Arrol]

Honestly though, should the drop rate really be able to be manipulated so much? Even 10x drop rate is just ludicrous and shouldn't even be achievable... <_<;

Granted, the boss shouldn't just outright drop NOTHING, either...

Ever since Chaos, I've been pondering why Nexon hasn't capped the EXP rate to 2x or 3x, just to be generous? An overly high drop rate is nearly as broken as an overly high exp rate. With all this much EXP buffs, items and potentials going around, economies would shatter and distort, I bet.

[SaptaZapta]

Honestly though, should the drop rate really be able to be manipulated so much? Even 10x drop rate is just ludicrous and shouldn't even be achievable... <_<;

Granted, the boss shouldn't just outright drop NOTHING, either...

Capping the drop rate would only hurt the biggest spenders. Why would Nexon want to do that?

[Justin]

Capping the drop rate would only hurt the biggest spenders. Why would Nexon want to do that?

Oh, right, this is maplestory, where "balance" and actually good game mechanics are just a figment of everyone's imagination.

[SaptaZapta]

Oh, right, this is maplestory, where "balance" and actually good game mechanics are just a figment of everyone's imagination.

One can safely assume that the top-tier bosses are never killed on less than 4x drop. So Nexon can set their drop rate to 1/4 of what would be "balanced", and all is well. People who kill on 10x drop will "only" get 2.5x a "balanced" amount, which isn't much worse than using 2x drop on other bosses.

[Gymleaders]

One can safely assume that the top-tier bosses are never killed on less than 4x drop. So Nexon can set their drop rate to 1/4 of what would be "balanced", and all is well. People who kill on 10x drop will "only" get 2.5x a "balanced" amount, which isn't much worse than using 2x drop on other bosses.

And then people who kill it without drop multipliers will get shafted.

If you want to balance boss drops, make drop multipliers NOT work on them. However, this would absolutely never happen because one; people are too used to the drop multipliers and would flip pomegranate, and two; nexon wants money.

And for instanced looting... Well, I don't really think it's a problem in the long run, but when they release equipment and make them VERY expensive at first by making them exclusive, and then ruin the drop rate a year or two later, forcing prices to get driven down, then that is an issue in itself. But Nexon does that with every good equipment that comes out. They make it super exclusive through NX, and then milk it for all they can, and once they can't get anything else from it, they release new, better equipment, and throw it in teapots/marvel/gachapon/whatever they can. Once they're cheap, THEN they let the public get them via drops... Examples: Empress equips (emp impossible at first, get the equipment from gachapon/etc, then Empress becomes killable, CRA equips don't drop from CRA bosses, but CRA bosses impossible anyway, so only way to get them is from teapots, then when they make a lot of money from that method, finally they drop from the bosses, and now we have our Tyrant capes dropping as well).