There has been considerable controversy on this topic, and I wanted to clear a few things up. Your equipped weapon will only drop if you are red and have 6 or more PKs. If you have 5 or fewer PKs then your equipped weapon should not drop. If you do drop your weapon while having a PK count lower than 6, or while white, please submit a petition so that the GMs can investigate.
Just if you have 6 or more PKs and your equipped weapon can drop? Or you can drop your equipped weapon if and only if you have 6 or more PKs AND you have karma. Subtle but important distinction :)
Nice to know, I've only droped my equipped weapon once. I was diong the quest for warsmith where I had to kill some bears and get the honey pots. A train of 3 farmers comes up and is killing faster than my dorf can get to the bears.
I log in my SK and kill the 3 toons and the 3rd one was my 6th or 7th pk. I opt to let the mobs kill me just because I had stoped off and stored my good equipment and took out noob gear to go red with. And ya know it, I droped half my inventory when the bears finally killed me; including the equiped weapon lol. I ended up dieing in a siege zone to wash me of my karma.
It's good to know that if mobs kill me while I'm not red that I will not drop my weapon. <--- that's a relief
There has been considerable controversy on this topic, and I wanted to clear a few things up. Your equipped weapon will only drop if you are red and have 6 or more PKs. If you have 5 or fewer PKs then your equipped weapon should not drop. If you do drop your weapon while having a PK count lower than 6, or while white, please submit a petition so that the GMs can investigate.
Sarge
Woooo, hold the phone.
Are we talking about Pk, PvP, or PvE deaths here? :confused:
All of them. The conditions I listed are the ONLY ones that matter in this specific case.
Sarge
Cool.... I was always under the impression that your weapon has a chance to drop no matter what the death.... This at least for me will make me want to pvp more now, being i didn't want to lose my weapon before.
Yeah this was as well writen in the INGAME help :) But nice to know that you guys finaly said the entire thing for everyone.
Yeah, but then ashNC went off and stated that the ingame help was incorrect awhile back and said that the equipped weapon always had a small chance to drop.
I'm not too used to dying but I lost freaking 7-8% the other night when I let a lower level player kill me after going red (that's like 2+ hours of grinding at level 63) --- geez, I would have spent the time to run from Dion to Aden if I had thought that would have happened lol. But I don't play for xp, I like the game; I'll have to stop Lightning Striking bot train healers heh.
Most times that I have died in one day was 20+ but that was in a siege so the xp loss was expected.
When was this rule applied? A while back, very early C3, I had a friend of mine who was with an entire group, get pk'd (he was white) and dropped his bow of peril.
With C3, along with the changes for New players, as the first official statement about this fact is in the new player guide. An item, that every new created char gets.
Nice to know this. Back in August my wife, Trovan dropped her Crystal Staff while equipped when she was in EV. At that point she had never PKd or PvPd anyone. We did run and go pick it up for her, so no biggie, but I will have to let her know that is not supposed to happen. Thanks.
It is possible to drop up to five items when you die - even your equipped weapon - regardless of your karma status. Chaotic players have an increased chance to drop items upon death.
It is possible to drop up to five items when you die - even your equipped weapon - regardless of your karma status. Chaotic players have an increased chance to drop items upon death.
You got a point there, a clan mate of mine popped like a pumpkin the other day in the clan hall when i trained a guard on him he dropped like half his inventory (9-10 items) true he had 40 pk's with like 10k karma. The Plot thickens.
quoted from tip of the day section
This ONLY applies to EQUIPPED Weapons and does not apply to Armor and other wearables. If you carry a main weapon and have a Bow of Peril in your inventory for ranged attacks... you can still drop the Bow if it is not EQUIPPED. (Within the 5 PK Limit)
Additionally, the probability of dropping items does increase with your number of PKs. (i.e. A person with 500 PKs is more likely to drop than someone with 1 PK)
no matter how many your pks are above 5 it is more likely to give presents to those close to you whenever you die. so if you dont wanna become "adens santa" visit floran village.
PK IS GOOD BUT......................
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If you are red and you have less than 5 pks, you do not drop any items at all.
So not true....way before I ever went red on my first bot I dropped my karmian stockings, karmian boots and fp boots all at once in the middle of town due to an aggro mob durign the raid event week. By some miracle nobody picked up my stuff, and I got it all back.
You can, in fact, drop items at any time. It's just your EQUIPPED weapon with LESS THAN FIVE PK'S that is protected against dropping.
This is going to be ugly, because this software doesn't do tables well, but here is the current status of player drops. (NOTE: This is the way it is right now - it was not always this way, and may not always be this way in the future. Please do not petition about previous drop issues)
I understand the equipted weapon explanation.
{ie. weapon in use}
I understand the chance of item dropping.
{ie. additional inventory weapon, equipted armor,jewels etc. as well as other inventory items being carried}
Is adena considered an item? Is there a chance you will drop it upon death?
This has never happend to me. Nor anyone I know. In game some players say, Yes it is an item..possible to drop a portion. Other say it will never drop from your inventory.
:oApolgies, if this seems like a silly question, but I tend to store my adena in the warehouse. One reason is so I don't go shopping wild while in towns. The other is paranoia of dropping cash.
Could someone clarify,, nothing really came up definitive when searching. Is Adena and item carried that is possible to drop? After all it does take a inventory slot.
This is going to be ugly, because this software doesn't do tables well, but here is the current status of player drops. (NOTE: This is the way it is right now - it was not always this way, and may not always be this way in the future. Please do not petition about previous drop issues)
Player Karma = White
Killed By: NPC PC Summon/Pet
Can Drop Weapon? N N N
Can Drop Items? Y N N
Player Karma = Purple/Red with < 6 PKs
Killed By: NPC PC Summon/Pet
Can Drop Weapon? N N N
Can Drop Items? Y N N
Player Karma = Red with 6 or more PKs
Killed By: NPC PC Summon/Pet
Can Drop Weapon? Y Y Y
Can Drop Items? Y Y Y
Tytytytyty for that info. ^__^
Now we just need you to hop on the web team to get them to change this in the tips.
It is possible to drop up to five items when you die - even your equipped weapon - regardless of your karma status. Chaotic players have an increased chance to drop items upon death.
Also, thanks for your clarification on the rest of it. ^_^ its always good to know that its semi -safe while pvping. (I dont care at all about exp loss - more sp ftw) :)
It is possible to drop up to five items when you die - even your equipped weapon - regardless of your karma status. Chaotic players have an increased chance to drop items upon death.
you wont drop equip armors if you are red and less than 6 pk??????
Correction...you won't drop equip WEAPON. ANything else in your inventory is fair game, including weapons that aren't equipped. Poor poor dagger/bow users :P