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People will beg you to buy there blue staffs for extremely low prices. Far cheaper than crafting it. The drop rate is really high.

Just check a guild store with 400+ members.

Honestly, I (and half my guild) have gotten nothing but light armor and staves.

Also, with crafting the way it is, there is no reason to have items that low below your level. Make a new one!

I'm using medium armor, one handed weapons and bows.

I've had like 20+ staffs, a ton of heavy+light armor.

I hate rng... or maybe rng hates me!

I realize with the number of people playing there are bound to be some people who just happen to get a string (or lack of) certain items. But it really does seem a little bit inplausible at this point considering how many items have dropped that I haven't gotten a single green firestaff...or even a white one - any firestaff with a researchable trait

The game forces you to craft or join a guild cuz questing almost never gives you something you can use or want.

Mansome wrote: »

The game forces you to craft or join a guild cuz questing almost never gives you something you can use or want.

I get that this game is very crafting/guild centric. But how am i supposed to craft a fire staff if i never get one to research traits on? Or is it also forcing you into crafting things only other people want so you HAVE to trade?

I don't know if it is, but it's just dumb if so.

yeah thats what i did - i realized if made one for my level and stuck a glyph on it even without trait and being white it would be better then the one i had - and at least then i can research the one i had.

friend i was playing with today found TWO blue staffs - he doesn't use staffs. One was a fire staff. i found a couple of staffs, greens and whites, none fire.

Delte wrote: »

I had 10 staffs and various green light armour drop from one area alone and deconstructed them all. I have yet to see a bow or dagger drop from a mob since I started playing the game.

AFAICT things are balanced so that all weapons are equally common. So a frost staff is as common as a bow, is as common as a 1h mace.

If you're using 1h weapons, then dagger/axe/mace/sword are all usable - so you get '4 rolls of the dice'. If you're using a bow, then the only useful loot is a bow - so it's effectively 4 times less common to loot a usable weapon.

I still find a bow every few levels, but I generally make them from all the deconstructed staves.

GattacaGaming wrote: »

Welcome to RNG. She can sometimes be an evil evil mistress

So true, my heavy armour character got loads of things he does not need, tons of raw scrap hides and what not.

My Brawler medium armour two hander is having a nightmare getting raw scrap hides though....its funny how it works.

Glissando wrote: »

It is not RNG. I have a lvl 30 NB using bow since lvl 1. Not a single bow drop.

I have to agree. My friend, who is using a bow, did not get any bow drops yesterday. He did however find a few nice staffs, which he is not using. I, who am using staffs, did find a few staffs, none as good as the one's he got. And none a fire staff.

My friend, who wears medium armor, found a couple of good light armor pieces, and i think 1 good medium armor. I wear light armor - i found 1 light armor piece that was good and several medium armor pieces that were good.

It really does seem like the game is inclined to give you loot for items you don't use.

Even randomness is prone to streaks. I went through a quest instance where every urn, pot, and container looted yielded lock picks, pristine water and the same food recipe. Suffice to say, I have a lifetime supply of picks and level 20 h20.

the loot drops suck bad, I spent 30 minutes and died 20 or more times to kill the doppelganger in main quest and I got nothing. Nothing!!!!!! it cost me 1300 gold to repair my armor this is crap!!!1

I get all items equally. Sure not everything can drop from a single mob and a tiger is unlikely to give you a wooden weapon. For example, if I need a fire staff I would go to a cave where there are some evil sorcerers or wizards with a corresponding boss in the end. After killing the boss 3-5 times you will almost certainly have a number of staffs and light armour items. I can't even call it an intensive farming as I only stay at each boss for a few kills and from my observations most of the players are doing the same (with some players staying there for half and hour or more). It also may happen that some items have a higher chance to appear at higher levels, for example I did not see a single helm/shoulder piece of any type till lvl15.

At my character level 35 I have already researched four traits for bow/fire staff/heal staff and my preferred heavy and light armour pieces. And I have almost all traits for those items available in my storage for future research.

merk wrote: »

Hmm - does everyone get the same reward from quests? Because i rarely get something useful from a quest. But I'm assuming everyone gets the same reward from each quest.

Some quests offer you a choice in your reply. I remember a guild discussion about who chose which answer and what reward he received, and the rewards for different choices were different. Other than that, I also believe that for the majority of quests we all get the same. Because I see same quest items being added again again to the stores of the trading guilds.

from my experience, i'm inclined to think the loot drop is not completely random. Way too many instances of me not getting any items i can use, but he'll get tons of them and he doesn't use them.