AgentMountaineer

Sweeping through 8-man spawns solo can be a time consuming task for a scrapper. Malta Zeus Titans are slow work, even when you do have semi-decent single-target damage. Anyway, here's the run info:

It's very nice to have a Red Name commenting on this thread, though the treatment does leave one with a lack of resolve in light of the data that has accumulated over the course of this thread, especially when it comes to recipe drops. I'm going to make some more runs tonight and see if anything hasn't changed.

Shoot, as long as you have Borea as a contact, you've got access to as much Rikti-smashing-goodness as you could possibly hope for.

Boo for misdirection!

I did some more runs on my Kat/WP scrapper at 8/+0 difficulty level. I don't know how the numbers are changed due to my running with no bosses, but here are the results I got according to Archie's DropStats (Thanks for building this script, Archie, makes life so much more convenient!).

Type DropRate Drops Expected Mobs
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Pool A 1.77% 18 19-39 1016 minion equivalents
Salvage 7.05% 66 59-92 936 minion equivalents
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(Table excludes mobs of unknown rank and their drops.)
(1 in 20 runs will be outside the expected range.)

896 rewarding mobs defeated
96 bosses and elite bosses
138 lieutenants
452 minions
121 underlings (XP only)
89 rewarding mobs of unknown rank
Chief Mentalist (32) failed heuristic rank check
Guardian (57) failed heuristic rank check
39 pets and 56 greys

Salvage is certainly within the proper drop percentage, but the recipes are just a tad low, reinforcing the idea that something is a little off with the drop rates or how they're being awarded.

PS: Archie, I noticed you mentioned building DropStats to factor in fighting bosses at Lieutenant levels. I think the easiest way to do this might be to count everything not of minion rank as Lieuts and have a separate table showing the difference.

Very nice! Congrats!

Going back to the OP: This is an awesome story. I remember learning how to read, in part, via a computer game called Reader Rabbit. Anybody who says that computers and video games do nothing but rot the mind are sadly misinformed. Personally, I would never have thought of CoX as an educational tool, but apparently it can meet that need.

This is a quality story!

Ah, good old PQ. I haven't fired it up for a while, but I'm severely thinking about it now.

Screenie Analysis:
Top hat: check
Monocle: check
Teabag emote: check
1 or 2 billion influence: check

Extra credit:
The screenie was taken in a casino instance with sweet fountains in the background.

Overall grade: Pure awesome! Congratulations!

*swoons at the beauty of what was said by the OP* Wow....very enjoyable read!

It seems as if the publication of the City Scoop has been put on hold, or I just don't know that it was moved to another section of the forums. Does anybody know the status on this because I haven't seen any new editions published lately in the Announcement forum where it usually is.

Jot me down for 75 Mil and thus 7,500 tickets. Suddenly I don't know how small this spreadsheet will be, but I think this sounds like fun!

Entry request: Rejected
Reason(s): Lack of top hat, monocle, and /e teabag emote.

Please feel free to reapply at any time.


Reality: Congratulations on making the club. No doubt you've moved around more influence than this before now, but have finally had the liquidity for this post. I know that was my state during the development of my main.

How often are you revamping your toon? Personally, I start throwing in standard IOs around lvl 20...sure that's a little bit of back and forth in Steel, but it isn't that annoying. Then I just slot powers as the slots come so the time spent going back and forth is pretty minimal. Then there might be a little back and forth when I log in to move what I have bought to craft and then to actually craft and then sell them.

I suppose I've just never thought about it as much of an inconvenience to go back and forth and I usually stay in Kings Row and zone to my base to craft. I am more annoyed with the vast numbers of power spammers in Talos and Steel to spend much time in those consignment houses than I am with any back and forth-ing to craft and sell.

I don't generally see myself as a farmer. I'm a scrapper and there's nothing I love more than going toe to toe with as many mobs (8-man team, on low difficulty)as possible and thrashing them to pieces. I have run several missions on the test server from Borea in the RWZ. I am absolutely loving how I am able to mow through those Rikti crowds in pure scrapper bliss all without the hassle of having to find fillers.

The most popular map for farmers prior to AE seemed to be the battle maiden map on blueside. I've heard a few references to some TV mission redside so figure that's where to be there. Personally, I can't say too much more than that.

I ran some more missions today and remembered to get the mob breakdown. Here are my numbers:

Defeated Mobs: 684 (50 Bosses, 74 Lts, 452 Minons, 5 Portals, 103 Monkeys)
Enhancements dropped: 4
Inspirations dropped: 268
Vanguard Merits Acquired: 70
Recipes Dropped: 7 Total (4 set, 3 standard)
Salvage Dropped: 69 Total (47 Common, 17 Uncommon, 5 Rare)
Influence Earned: 3,313,481
Time Ellapsed: 1:35:31

Again, this was run solo on my Kat/WP scrapper, but I changed some of the settings. My difficulty was on 8,+0 with bosses enabled. Perhaps the fact that I got more set recipes than standard was due to the bosses, but it was two recipes less than I got last night. I don't know what to make of that.

Anyway, I'll keep running missions and posting my results as they accumulate. With the market as crazy as it is right now, it would be nice to know that we're at least getting drops on the schedule we're supposed to for running non-AE content.

Edit: If it isn't obvious, these were all RWZ missions from Borea.

If only you'd been doing the /teabag emote, you'd be golden. Otherwise, pretty sweet and congrats on joining the club!

I just finished running 4 missions on my Kat/WP scrapper; two of which were run from Borea in the RWZ and two from the Roman in Cimerora. The missions were run on the test server with a difficulty of -1 Level, 8-man spawns. I don't know the exact maps because I didn't think to look. Both Roman and both Rikti maps were the exact same though.

Defeated Mobs: 668
Enhancements Dropped: 6
Inspirations Dropped: 175
Vanguard Merits Acquired: 31
Recipes Dropped: 9 Total (4 set, 5 standard)
Salvage Dropped: 52 Total (40 Common, 10 Uncommon, 2 Rare)
Influence Earned: 2,116,393
Time Elapsed (H:M:S): 1:19:09

I know that the Vanguard Merits will be slightly skewed since they were only acquired in two of the four missions that I ran. I will run some more missions tomorrow in order to get a larger sampling.

This was my first run with the new difficulty system and I loved sweeping through those mobs like they were nothing. The Romans caused me to actually make Defensive Inspirations so they didn't debuff me into the ground, but I still never was defeated. I16 is awesome if for nothing besides the difficulty slider, IMO.

One final caveat for this post was how much influence (raw, not through drops) I earned just running on my own. I remember doing samples before while running solo and only earning ~400K inf/hour. It's nice to see that amount swing up to somewhere around 1.7M ifn/hour still running solo. I think it will probably mean more inflation in the market because, in essence, the player base is being expanded where farmers no longer need to team up with other players to generate their influence and drops. However, if those same farmers move from AE back to PI, it makes me wonder if we won't see some interesting shifts in the market probably back to somewhere similar to pre I14 as far as salvage and recipe costs are concerned.