Invention Recipe Drops, how do I get them?
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Sardan,
Posted on: 2009-10-06 10:53 in Player Questions
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Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA
I have by now under the same settings cleared the map 4 times, and had the results shown above as an average, sometimes I get a few more drops, others I just get less; but in all cases, I get no Invention drops; so what am I doing wrong?
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I suppose one could argue if you really want to optimize your settings for drops, you should run at +0/x8 not your current +2/x8. That will make it faster to defeat mobs and thus the drops will flow faster. You could even run at -1/x8 but be warned that any invention recipes you get will be 49s and even though the difference between those and 50s is negligable, they go for substantially less inf.
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You are doing nothing wrong. You are merely at the fickle whim of the RNG.
I would however suggest cranking the difficulty level down to even con with no bosses. For a level 50, you don't really need to be fighting anything higher level, and doing them even ensures you will be fighting stuff that can drop purples.
I noticed that when I did a run with one of my 50s set at -1, level 49 enemies were dropping level 49 recipes instead of 50s. Was this a recent change? After all, I do recall before the new difficulty settings were implemented that enemies as low as 47 had a chance of dropping level 50 recipes.
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They drop set recipes of their level. Common recipes and purples are level 50 when they drop from 47+ enemies because they do not exist at levels 47-49. Level 46 enemies still drop the 45 commons but drop the 46 sets.
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Originally Posted by Willowpaw
You are doing nothing wrong. You are merely at the fickle whim of the RNG.
I would however suggest cranking the difficulty level down to even con with no bosses. For a level 50, you don't really need to be fighting anything higher level, and doing them even ensures you will be fighting stuff that can drop purples. I noticed that when I did a run with one of my 50s set at -1, level 49 enemies were dropping level 49 recipes instead of 50s. Was this a recent change? After all, I do recall before the new difficulty settings were implemented that enemies as low as 47 had a chance of dropping level 50 recipes. |
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This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
You might want to check out Archie Gremlin's Dropstats. If you log chat, it'll analyze your drops and let you know if it's within the expected range.
It requires a bit of knowledge to play around with command line and perl, but it's not too hard.
Also see Log Files Wanted for Drop Rate Analysis thread.
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Originally Posted by Willowpaw
I would however suggest cranking the difficulty level down to even con with no bosses.
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Thank you so much for your advise!
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Stormy
Hi:
I suspect I am doing something wrong, but can't put my finger on it, perhaps one of you sweeties can point me out in the right direction...
I have a gorgeous Mace/Shield Tanker and she is nicely equipped with IO sets to be fairly tough and capable to dish out quite a bit of damage.
I settled on a nice council map, rescue Dr. Sam or something like that from Unai Kamen.
My settings is treat me as if I was a group of 8, have mobs spawn as +2 from me, and force Bosses to spawn.
Thus I am fighting very large groups of minions, lts and bosses at level 52 versus my humble level 50.
After I clear the map, I check my bag of loot goodies and see what I earned: 4 white salvage, 2 Yellow salvage and every other run I get an Orange salvage drop. Besides the salavage I get about 4 level 50-52 single enhancements, and about 4 recipies; the recipies are always jumps, runs, and what not; but never an invention.
I have by now under the same settings cleared the map 4 times, and had the results shown above as an average, sometimes I get a few more drops, others I just get less; but in all cases, I get no Invention drops; so what am I doing wrong?
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Stormy