Loot

[lorth]

I wanted to give some ideas on the loot :

High monster loot : Remove all the junk (arrows-scrolls-reagents-pagans-etc)

Less drop of GM items

Monsters like Blackwisp-Umbral Flicker-Undead Flayers-Elemental Mag-Evil Spellbook-etc-etc should not drop any gm items.

As the loot is very high, maybe a lil bit less of items in every monsters would be nice.

This is my opinion and I want to see you guys speak on it as I'm not the only one playing this server but please do not offend me personnaly.

Also I think the high monsters are too easy to kill, not enough HP, Spell Monsters do not cast enough, Melee monsters do not hit hard enough.

Exemple : I am level 2 mage and already 8 hit behemoths with Energy Bolt.

[Gannondorf]

Reduce the amount of items dropped, so the loot is HIGH but people can't just gear themselves by killing a evil spellbook. I think getting 2-3 swift dev and or 2-3 gms items on one monster is too easy.

[Prometheus]

Loot is supposed to be high, I'm not intending on dropping it much, if at all. I did reduce the chances of finding omeros/xara/ebook/nbook today though.

What I've been doing more is making +skill items harder to find. If hunting items are easy to find, players can keep hunting. But if +skill items are hard to find, they have to keep hunting for longer, and some items will be worth more then - at the moment I don't think there's particularly any 'special' items that seem unattainable.

It may take a bit re-tweaking, maybe to reduce the instance of GM items dropping.

Interested to see the feedback in this thread.

[lorth]

I think finding 3 lance of lothian, 2 ebook, 1 nbook, 1 sage robe, 2 pitchfork of prometheus in the same dongeon is nasty. It's not even funny to see these Lothians anymore, do you get what I'm trying to say? Like this weapon is getting trash to my eyes now and not only talking about the spear.

[Gannondorf]

No joke, I found a lance of lothian on a water elemental last day. I don't know if it was the drop, or if it was when back in the beta monsters used to loot, but it seems weird to me. I had a good laugh.

[moffegreven]

Leave it as it is.. People dont wanna hunt a whole day to get some damn gear

[Prometheus]

It doesn't matter what level it is, people will always be discontent.

I am going to reduce the chances of finding GM items though, and +skill items even more.

[nother]

u just have to reduce the ef and ass drop

[Prometheus]

ef and ass?

[moffegreven]

lol there hasnt been one elemental fury or assasin weapon drop yet

[Prometheus]

kk, ill look into it.

[nother]

goood thing i might join this

[lorth]

So i will ask again, is it possible to get all the trash removed from the HIGH loot mobs like :

Behemoth - Orc Brute - Balron - Balrog - Golden Dragon - Silver Dragon, etc.

Sincerely, I don't see the point of having normal reagents, normal spellbook scrolls and some other things in these. It's only trash we always have to move to be sure we're not forgeting any items under.

[Prometheus]

I think it's worth reviewing, Lorth. Although the next restart will see arrows/bolts fall 80 or so at a time, and reagents 30-40 at a time, it's not entirely realistic that high level mobs should carry them, especially when they just get in the way of the good stuff.

Sometimes gameplay > realism. This is one of those instances and I think you're right. After the next restart all those mobs you listed will only drop 1 reagent, 1 pagan and 1 arrow/bolt set.

[GM Evoker]

I still think all Ice, Fire arrows and Thunder bolts should be dropped in all high monsters, with a high amount.
This is the only way of collecting Thunder bolts and Fire + Ice arrows only sell low amount for a high price in the vendors.