Drop rate of Sewer Queen Staff (and possibly all other BS pinks) is nuts

[Doubletime]

I'm a little torn about whether the drop rates have gotten a little better. On one hand, I have seen 8 pink drops and two recipes in two days. Before, I would go days and days without seeing a pink drop. On the other, I have been grinding for xp trying to hit 56 -- so I am doing runs over and over non-stop. So maybe it is just I have run those boards so many times the odds are catching up with me. My gut tells me the drops seem better. My head tells me it is probably just how many runs I am making. Regardless it is nice to see pink either way.

[hawkei]

If two drops appeared consecutively, and that was it, I wouldnt have made a thread about it but 4 pinks in 10 runs is just weird.

i believe they have increased. i have seen 5 pinks within 15 runs. 2 sewers robes 2 blast staffs and a dagger recipe.
of course i got the recipe

[Luchta]

The way I see it. The rates have increased bec there are more pinks variety too loot. Anyone else witnessed this in AO3?

[Ellyidol]

I haven't personally noticed it yet, judging from the number of runs we did.

I did see a SQ Robe drop, and I got a Str helm, but that was over the course of 6 hours of on and off playing.

[FluffNStuff]

Not sure if he mentioned, but two of those Sewer Queen Staffs dropped to the same person, ME!!! YAY!!! Zero pinks in BS before last night, and two in one night. When it rains, it pours!

[RedRyder]

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[Moogerfooger]

You just got a pink, if I recall, Red

[hawkei]

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Rolf I'm so sorry

[Physiologic]

Fluff deserved that, he played one too many games without a pink

[adwin]

Didn't notice anything, if not for the increasing frustration arising from one too many runs.
I've seen a single pink drop since yesterday on GF (as usual, not to me), and apart from that, nothing else in view.

I've been told that the new sewer king leather drops on roach. Can anyone confirm that?

[Doubletime]

Maybe it is the repeat grinding runs, but I have picked up three pinks in the last two days. Before that -- I had one pink and one recipe since the day the sewers came out. Maybe I'm just getting lucky, but it does seem like the drop rates are better. Plus, including mine I have seen three pinks drop today.

[adwin]

@doubletime: where did the drops occur?
most ppl are quoting swill pitz, but have been running swill + roach mostly since yesterday and nada.

[serulean]

swill pitz drops mad pinks.

[FluffNStuff]

swill pitz drops mad pinks.

Swill Pitz is the fastest to do because you can go straight at the boss and only kill what is in your way. And with birds, the boss can be killed before the first totem starts healing. That means in the same amount of time, you are doing more runs, so more drop chances, so of course, more drops Timed it and we had it down to 3 minutes. So if it takes the other boards an average of 5 minutes, in an hour a group of 5 can do 8 more runs, which means 40 more drop chances.

[adwin]

@Fluff, I came to the same conclusion some time ago. Swill is the way for farming. Roach isn't bad as well., both have ~60 enemies, but I find swill faster to clear (despite the fire goblins).

[Doubletime]

@doubletime: where did the drops occur?
most ppl are quoting swill pitz, but have been running swill + roach mostly since yesterday and nada.

The pink drops I have been getting (and seeing) are on Hideout from Gold Fever. I'm still xp grinding from 55 to 56 so I need the extra mobs.

[Luchta]

I dont thnk of leveling anymore. The xp occurs naturally at the moment for me at least. Whem they raise the cap again and make the 83k xp to 8.3k, I don't want to be one to face palm and get bored of doing runs until then.

My group got 3 pinks in 5 runs. Got one of them robes and sold it for 550k. With the current drop rates, those robes will go down to 300k or less in a week or two.

[adwin]

@jlacosta: +1

I've been thinking about grinding to 56, but, I would hate it if the cap was raised while I was halfway especially taking into consideration the investment in time and xp pots.
IMO, STS shouldn't rethink the xp/cap procedure.
Can you imagine doing ONCE more ~90k xp? I guarantee you, that after 2 or 3 such actions, you would wave PL good bye, as to an epic waste of time. ppl do have real lives going on.
I think that once someone has grinded to elite level at least once, he shouldn't face the same boring task once more, that is:
IF you have 83k/83k xp, this should be transferable in full towards your new level, or at least in 50%, but 10x is pure ridicule.
How would you feel, if just before the cap, after more than a week or two of diligent grinding, just before ataining lvl 56, the cap was raised?
For example, at 82k of 83k xp?

All in all, in order to keep the "elite" level what it is, someone has to "feel the pain" once only. I don't see the necessity nor the validity of forcing users to hate the game.
;]

[adwin]

Well, I've seen 2 drops during the same run on GF today.
1 was a fury weapon and can't remember the other one.
Other than that, I've seen 2 drops during 2 consecutive runs (I believe it was the Catacombs).

On a side note, the most I've seen is 4 pinks for a full party of 5 ppl in VL, and I quite often see 3.

[davidis57]

I have not seen a pink in a week in any group or map. Most of the time its hideout. So you are lucky.