hmm,
got in first 10 mins after server was back 26 medals...
same amount in the whole 3 hours later (perma killing mobs).
Franz is EURO so we had MEANTIME...
just give me a hint, Mistryl , do we have to play at night in euro to get enough medals for a EWD in the next 2 weeks ?
its not a flame, may i misunderstood ur post about fixed drop rates...
so heavy load server = low rates ?
(then remove the 1m "NPC's" plz)
The drop rate on event items has always been a little weird. When I was doing aoe in ABG and the silenos outside giran during the letter event, we would either get not a single event drop, or 5-10 in one pull.
Seems to be the same now. I'm doing small scale aoe (just 2fers and 3fers in beast farm) and I either get medals from 2 or 3 or none. I hardly get just 1.
All I can say, I have NEVER got this good rate on an event like this on ANY EU time.
Sure it's gonna be HARDCORE to get the items we want, me and my friend played 5 hours in a row so far today, pulled in 230 of em. Last time this event was up I got 3 per hour at EU time.
why would random mobs be programmed at a rate of drop only certain hours of each day?
Doesn't it make more sense that randomness once programmed is somewhat of a constant since the mobs can't tell the time of day in Europe?
I'm confused. I've played events in am, pm, middle of night u.s. time--presumably those have to coincide with SOME time in europe. I've never noticed times when I did get the event drop and times I didn't!
How come I keep seeing posts about 'drop rates EU time'?
In squash and pumpkin events the drop was significantly better during US evening. Up to 100 vs 10 polens/nectars in same amount of time.
People are afraid for this repeating in this event.
its simple, it was obviously implemented to give real players the most benefits and give bots the least amount of benefits. Unfortunately teon didnt exist and there are no server transfers so it doesnt really work to set them at peak times for the main audiences.
I'm not. My Warsmith is using +++ duals and my bf's bh is using a +++tarbar. We have a little prophet that follows us around, doting on my every need and ignoring him when he asks for buffs. ^^ I mean, I buff us with my prophet :P
it's true. I learned from past events about low lvls being better for these things. So I got a nuker who has lvl 35 skills that is around lvl 28 to farm the events. With the higher lvl skills and top D grade gear, all mobs are one shots and i get a ton of event items from it.
UK time (6.30pm to 8.30pm) me and my g/f got 100 Medals and 5 Glittery Medals, with a lvl 33 Healer and a lvl 46 Dorf in a group hunting lvl 40-42 mobs.
That drop rate was pretty even right up til we logged at 0.30am UK time.
It's nice to have an event that we can benefit from, unlike the Pollen fiasco :p
what I understood from Mistryl's post on the other topic was to mean that there are a fixed number of medals randomly assigned to a mob on spawn. For example (easy numbers, not real):
There are 1000 mobs spawn on the server, 400 random mobs have been given 100% chance of dropping event medal and 100 have been given 100% of dropping glittering medal. Lets assume there are 50 players in the server killing 100 mobs in one hour and 60 of those mobs dropped event medal and 5 dropped glittering medals. This means that as those 100 begin to respawn they will randombly be assigned to drop an event medal or a glittering medal or both.
Now when you spread out the mobs and the players over a large area and increase the number of players the chances of any one particular player getting a medal are very small. In order to increase your chances you'd have to be able to kill more mobs than everyone else in the server.
This does not mean play longer as depending on your class a player that takes 5 minutes to down a mob will not kill the same number of mobs as a player that only takes 1 minute to do so. I imagine players doing AOE will get more medals per hour than those not. Also like silverwolfecho pointed out the chance of a mob having a medal is probably wheighted so that mobs with higher hp get medals more often than those without.
This is a truly random event as there are too many variables to be able to predict any practical outcome. Put simply for those who skipped it, you want lots of medals? kill more mobs than the guy next to you.
The drop rate on event items has always been a little weird. When I was doing aoe in ABG and the silenos outside giran during the letter event, we would either get not a single event drop, or 5-10 in one pull.
Seems to be the same now. I'm doing small scale aoe (just 2fers and 3fers in beast farm) and I either get medals from 2 or 3 or none. I hardly get just 1.
Yes, it does seem a wierd drop rate. Tried booming last night for medals outside Oren and we'd get one or two trains of mobs that would drop medals...14-18 medals. Then not a single medal for about 15 to 20 minutes. Then again, one train, 14-18 medals. Even if I turned around and pulled another quick train, I'd get maybe 2 or 3 medals.
4 hours work, 142 medals, no glittering medals.
A clannie duoing in another area over 600 medals and 2x glittering.
But from what I saw in Oren this is my opinion of how the medals drop. There are different "spawn" areas for medals. Let's say the Oren area is one. Every given period of time there are so many mobs that will be given the chance to drop event medals. Once all those medals drop, no more will until after the timer has elapsed (plus or minus a variable). Let's say 15 minutes plus or minus 5 minutes. So outside of oren it would probably be about 20 medals (estimating for other people killing) every 15 minutes or so. It would really be the only way to explain the wierd drop pattern.
So basically what it comes down to, some areas WILL be better for dropping medals than others and this will be based on the size of the area, the number of medals set to spawn in that area, the reset timer, and the number of people killing there. As for me, I know where I'm hunting in the future.
hmm, but doesnt explain why it dropped at the exact same place like u can get 10k of em in 2 weeks ... but then totally stopped...
some people asked in shout today if the event has begun... cuz no medals, lol
and no comments about killspeed.. a dorf kills FAST :p
my lil nuker with near 1 kill every 5-10 secs dont get more :confused:
hmm, but doesnt explain why it dropped at the exact same place like u can get 10k of em in 2 weeks ... but then totally stopped...
some people asked in shout today if the event has begun... cuz no medals, lol
and no comments about killspeed.. a dorf kills FAST :p
my lil nuker with near 1 kill every 5-10 secs dont get more :confused:
Uhm, guy, I was booming. I was killing 50-60 mobs every 3-4 minutes. Party of 4 and my level 55 dwarf racked up 3.8 million exp in 4 hours.