ok. i have been hunting there the past feew days, to get books for my warlock and my prophet.
The books I have been hunting was:
*greater shield
*unholy resistance
*holy resistance
*arcana disruption
*betray
*mass surender to fire
now, looking at [censored], most of these books have a drop-rate of 1/80-120. so about 1%, thats pretty high drop-rate me think. ok, this should go fast. yea right.
I managed to get greater shield and holy resistance in about 4 hours of grinding. fast killingspeed, no downtime. 4h is a lot for that kind of drop-rate, but ok, I got my books, im happy.
now, another 4 houres dident get me the unholy book. ended up buying it.
5 hours of hunting for betray about 1/80 drop-rate...dident get it...had to buy it. (killed maybe, what, 300+++ groups)
Hunted 7 hours for arcana disruption. dident get it. lost my count on 400+ groups. (im using 1 bsps / group, so its easy to know, but i was out of bsps after 400...) had to buy it.
after this I dident even start to hunt for mass surender, I just bougth it.
what I would like to know is, are those drop-rates at [censored] right? Am I just terrible unlucky?? :'(
I am convinced that the droprate is inversely proportional to how much you want the spellbook. NC has somehow hacked our minds.
That being said, I was hunting the group mobs south of oren, looking for the Inferno Spellbook for my Sorceror. I got something in the neighborhood of 30 demon wind spellbooks in an 8 hour timeframe. In that same time, I got 1 Inferno.
well, who gets all the friggin spellbooks? cuz those numbers are facts from people hunting, me thinks?
well, someone has to go farm books, and sell them cheap to me :)
I think its designed to be like that...
The mobs are not very good XP, and if they where, you did out-lvl the mobs and they did turn dark-blue befor you would be able to get the SB drops >.<
Im sure it is like that!!!
Actually, I 've discovered the trick to getting the right book to drop. You have to whine... in white chat, in caps. Always works for me! of course, I'm a woman, and our whining gets action and results! sorry, guys... :)
It's just like that, those group oren mobs are rough because I swear the drop table switches. Some days I get a ton of demon wind, inferno, and aura symphony, other days I get BO recs, other days B weapon parts, it's weird.
Enchanted valley is even worse, I spent an entire level getting 2 DW books and 1 guidance.
And of course anything you really need in frozen lab just won't drop :/
If I had a nuker at this lvl, I would be farming those areas all day long. im sure you can do a lot of money doing it.
atm I have a gimp SPS, they get aoe at 56 right? or 58? anyways, he is perma red anyway...
Just went there for books... spent maybe six hours or so to get one Trance, three betrays I didn't need, and two Erases (wanted).
I decided not to bother trying to learn Erase on one of my characters (will yet have to decide), as one of the Erase books is already up for a trade for Major Heal - which I'm very grateful I won't have to hunt.
I guess there's a reason those books go for a mil each.
I agree with you TheObserver - whining seems to help me with SB drops - I whine in shout, general chat, on TS, clan chat - then all the sudden I get my drop.
i AoE Ursus squads and i gathered a tone of holy and unholy resis. i think that the drop rate is fine considering that i drop 1 book per hour approx. Also when my clan was looking for war + erth chants we realized that the drop rate was higher when we multiplied the buffalos, we droped 5 chants in 1 afternoon(if i remember well 6 hours)
Now thats a bit misleading, cause I think the summon cursed bones dropped off a mob fighting our way out to where we wanted to hunt, and the Major Heal was off a yeti we just happened to hit with an aoe on a ursus group. Also, we got everything but the Greater Shield in like 4 hours, we spent about 2 hours getting just that book, which sucked.
Summon cursed bones drops off of Gargoyles. (can't remember if it;s the young or the elder)
Holy and unholy Drops from the Uruses Group mobs.
g/s I believe drops off the group golums. but it mite be the second group mobs of the penguims (boy did I hate those things, low drop rate, and when you use a skill to pull them out, it's 8 mobs vs like 1-2 poeple, and they often do stun).
Mass surrender to fire drops from one of those spiders.
I know trance comes from the group wardogs. something else does to can't remember which books.
As a Archer that place is great, well was. that mid Chron. Patch dropped the respawn rate in FL, so I'm not sure how good it is there now.
but I took an HE from 55-60 there. Could of gone to 61, but XP was starting to suck.
Ahh yeah, The gargoyles also drop Mass surrender to gloom and mass fear SB's needed by necros.
Sorry to correct here but G. Shield is off the Frost buffalo (don't split it or it don't drop) and the summon cursed bone is off frost yeti.. know that from getting to of 'em while farming clarity for our clan's EE
Sorry to correct here but G. Shield is off the Frost buffalo (don't split it or it don't drop) and the summon cursed bone is off frost yeti.. know that from getting to of 'em while farming clarity for our clan's EE
Well thx.
Like I had said, it's been over 4 months sense I was there, so I couldn't remember for sure.
I never actually got the G/s SB, I just shot some ******ed dwarf a few times for being on my mobs, till he asked what I wanted to leave him alone.....hehe G/s for my friends PP I said.
Sorry but right after C5 hit, there was a lot of people trying to farm there, and none would leave a spot that they consider theirs!
Yeah I think your right about the yeti. it's so hard to remember.
Just so everyone is aware, if a drop rate states it as 1/120, then yes, on the whole, it should drop after about 120 kills of a particular mob, but this doesn't really hold true.
Let's say an item has a drop rate of 1/120 for mob X. Each X mob has a 1/120 chance of dropping that particular item. And just because you kill 119 of them doesn't mean the next one you kill will drop the item. The probability starts over with EACH mob, not with each group of mobs.
Luck plays a HUGE role in how an item drops. Adult beverages seem to help. :D
I am convinced that the droprate is inversely proportional to how much you want the spellbook. NC has somehow hacked our minds.
That being said, I was hunting the group mobs south of oren, looking for the Inferno Spellbook for my Sorceror. I got something in the neighborhood of 30 demon wind spellbooks in an 8 hour timeframe. In that same time, I got 1 Inferno.
/servertransfer Lionna and gimme one of those Demon Wind books ;)
I know if the drop is 1/120 you aint granted a book if you kill 120 mobs. but, if you kill 500 mobs, and still dident get a book, its very very VERY unlucky me thinks.