Okay as there is a lot of specilation on discord about shadow nerf for full drop/parts chance, I went to farm to check it out. Here is what i found out: - I farmed drakes on DV
- counted every mob i kill
- I farmed light red mobs - no drop penalty
- i killed similar amount of slow and fast drakes
- checked Database chances:
- there are 2 types of mob, one has 1% chance, the other has 1/200 for shaft (on average 1/150) - as its wapon part we suspect it has bugged chance
- Also 1 drake has leather drop rate 8% and another 0% (on average 4%)
- Also 1 drake has ghost gloves part 4% chance and another drake 0% (on average 2% chance) - as its armor part we suspect it has bugged chance
- Animal skin (1 mob has chance 32% and amount 1-3, 2nd mob has chance 16% and amount 1-3) - on average we get 24% chance to get 2 animal skins
- I farmed almost 3h, in total i killed 400 drakes, put all of mentioned above drops to one char to count what is result of farm
What was expected result for 400 mobs :
- Emi shaft : 400 mobs for 1/150 chance - i expected to get 2 or 3
- Leather: 400 mobs for 4% chance - 16 leather
- ghost gloves part: 400 mobs for 4% chance - 16 parts
- Animal skin: 400 mobs for 24% chance to get 2 animal skin - 192 animal skin
Okay what pattern we can see here:
We can see expected amount of leather is same as ghost gloves
now lets see what ive got: - emi shaft 1 (expected 3)
- leather 17 (expected 16)
- ghost gloves part 1! (expected 16!!!!) - the same drop rate leather dropped 17x while gloves only once
- animal skin 196 (expected 192)
Conclusions: - I was surprised how close it dropped amount of mats was to what is expected to get from math calculations and database info. (dropped 17 leather - expected 16, 196 animal skin - expected 192) - Parts drop is TOTALLY BROKEN. It looks like i was very lucky to get this 1 emi shaft after killing 400 mobs. - Its hard to estimate how much broken parts/full drop is but if we take example of ghost gloves it looks like chance is 16x lower than it should - Looks like admins did shadow change (didnt announce anywhere) and gossips on discord have strong background on facts
Looking for feedback from admins what is going to be done with this. Emi shafts already fo for 1.5kk each on market
@San0 @Kse @Koll
P.S
forgot to add, i counted also EAC which has exactly the same chance in db as emi shaft Ive got 7 eac and only 1 emi shaft
3 eac here
and 4 went into item