Well after working with 2 petitions that provided no more info than "look at our website" I'll try coming here for some help. I'm a lvl 47, using alt. red codran seeds in EV (seeds bought in hunters villiage). Mobs are Forest runners (lvl 50), Liele Elders (lvl 52) and Fline Elders (lvl 51). The seeds are for lvl 44-54. So, according to this website, since I'm within +/-5 lvls of the mobs I'm seeding, who are also within the lvl rang of the seeds...I should seed at 100%. Out of a test of 20 seeds (2 lost to mob death during seeding) I seeded 3 times. That's 1/6...no where near 100%. What's up?
Well after 2 petitions they decided to elevate my cause and said they'd email me directly...so I guess I'm right in some form or fashion. Thanks.
dont get too excited
there's another seed somewhere in the 20+ region that does exactly the same thing and the standard gm response is "different seeds have different success rates"
Alternate seeds work at a very low rate. Since they allow both drops and seeds, NC has decided that they should return nearly no fruit. This is across the board for all alt seeds.
Get the ones that don't say alternate. Those will work at a 100% rate, or nearly so.
Well after 2 petitions they decided to elevate my cause and said they'd email me directly...so I guess I'm right in some form or fashion. Thanks.
dont get too excited
there's another seed somewhere in the 20+ region that does exactly the same thing and the standard gm response is "different seeds have different success rates"
Probably Lute Coda. I've found the success rate on that seed to be around 45% on mobs in the 'given' level range. (Iron Ore/Metallic Fiber)
and try to use 2*hp mobs, they will give better rate. Example on ~lvl 40 you can kill Fettered Soul and they will give 2-4 crop, depens what seed you are useing.
Atleast i am not seeding 1* mobs, as its not worth it.
Vionessa ok I notice you are useing Alt. Red Codran seeds as stated earlier the Alt seeds are less then desired. The thing is they allow the mob to still drop stuff and give you a chance to get the seeds harvested. Most people that use the manor stay away from Alt seeds cause of the low success rate. Also I would like to state that some of the regular seeds are not 100% even if you are within the levels. The best thing you can do is try a couple seeds on various mobs to see what works best with what mob. I hope this helps you out and if you have anymore questions just ask them here and I and others will help where we can.
under the "perfect" conditions that you mentioned, regular red codrans should land and harvest 99% of the time. alt red codrans will have like a 10% land rate simply becasue they are alt seeds. sell them back to the store and buy real seeds. for the sake of experimentation, buy like 10 red codrans, get a couple people in party, and try them in catacomb of the witch, first room.
Yeah, the GM email I recieved stated that they are les than 100%...no duh. I simply thought alt seeds were there so manors could offer both loot types if they wanted...oh well. That does explain my problems. Thanks all. This is proving to be a good community. :-)
I also wrote to support (the issue was lute coda seeds) and the answer was that "even the normal seeds don't have 100% of succeding, the description is not correct and it will be fixed in the future". The fact remains: alt seeds have very low landing rate and lute coda has a bugged landing rate.