As the title says. I have received two cloth caps. 1 in Gribble's first mission and one in his second. Sure would have been nice to have the rare item this was supposed to be. Anyway I can trade them in please? Prath can you please take a look at loot tables again? Thanks!
yes and ethernere items are dropping in heart of fear I don't think it is high on the list of thing sadly but it is annoying still
Last official comment I saw on the issue was one of the devs asking which mobs were dropping the caps. Apparently, mob treasure tables are not something that can be batch parsed to find "cloth cap"/item ID.
Since CotF was released, I have seen Cloth Caps drop in Missions. I have seen them drop in static zones. I have seen them drop from named spawns. I have seen them drop from trash spawns. I have seen them drop in CotF zones. I have seen them drop in HoF zones. I have seen them drop in VoA zones. This leads me to believe that whatever item/items are suppose to be dropping, they are NOT CotF specific drops.
Cloth caps serve the same purpose that the "Doug" human model does: When something fails, a Cloth Cap is dropped instead of what is supposed to drop. Just as you will see the "Doug" human model when the proper model NPC is broken. So, no, they can't just search for "Cloth cap" in loot tables. They have to look at the loot tables and discover the bug. This might entail searching all the mobs' loot tables looking for errors. Depending on how it is set up, this might be a long, boring, labor intensive type of job usually shoved off onto interns or low ranking staff... of which EQ might have none. Now, a proper set up would post to an error_log file whenever the loot table fails and a cloth cap is produced. So it could be tracked down that way. But with the ancient EQ spaghetti code held together with duct tape and sealing wax (and bailing wire), who knows? All of the above is just a guess, of course. Only her hairdresser the Devs know for sure.
Not this silly excuse again....it is as old as the "ancient" code base of EQ. It is simply a lame excuse to cover for failing to have a staff of developers improve the overall code base...
Had this happen to me in Neriak II - The King's Court HA yesterday. Unfortunately I didn't think to write the mob name down. Original speculation was that the cloth caps were supposed to be the purity augs, however, I had one of those drop in the new HAs so I don't think that is the case anymore. Mobs have been dropping level appropriate TS items, cash loot, and other "normal" stuff. It seems the cloth cap drop is rather rare (for me at least) so perhaps that could help narrow it down.
Lippy Slicks Bixie Warfront Guard D`Estalian Neriak - Fourth Gate an offended sapling Ethernere Tainted West Karana Frolli Bixie Warfront a burning treant Ethernere Tainted West Karana a corrupted pusling The Dead Hills a cursebearing myrmidon The Dead Hills a wilting treant Ethernere Tainted West Karana a sneaky worker Bixie Warfront a lurking darkfang The Dead Hills a shadow of pestilence The Dead Hills a forgettable tenant Bixie Warfront a twisted bonewalker The Dead Hills a honey-addicted guard Bixie Warfront a test subject Bixie Warfront a burrowing scavenger The Dead Hills a plant bundler Bixie Warfront a poisonous creeper Bixie Warfront a decaying ivymaw The Dead Hills a material handler Bixie Warfront a plunderer Bixie Warfront a filthy scavenger The Dead Hills an undaunted homeowner Bixie Warfront a hungry bixie Bixie Warfront a sharpfanged rat The Dead Hills an enraged spiker Bixie Warfront an agitated skeleton The Dead Hills a pile of bile The Dead Hills a pollen hoarder Bixie Warfront a squirming egg sack Bixie Warfront a plotting supplier Bixie Warfront a flower eater Bixie Warfront Guard D`Dbth Neriak - Fourth Gate a callous bandit Ethernere Tainted West Karana a creeping mushroom The Dead Hills a muddy deathfang The Dead Hills a stone protector The Dead Hills an outraged trapper Bixie Warfront a stenographer Bixie Warfront an elementalist guardian The Dead Hills a cadaverous evoker The Dead Hills a fallen disciple The Dead Hills an aerial security officer Bixie Warfront a xulous lorekeeper The Dead Hills a murderous rioter Bixie Warfront a lingering templar The Dead Hills a packer Bixie Warfront an aggressive corpse The Dead Hills a drunk lab assistant Bixie Warfront a moldy skeleton The Dead Hills a skeletal myrmidon The Dead Hills an undead pusling The Dead Hills a fired janitor Bixie Warfront an archaic trilobite The Dead Hills an encroaching spider Bixie Warfront a lifter Bixie Warfront an egg tender Bixie Warfront a filthy rat The Dead Hills a home wrecker Bixie Warfront a moldering dead The Dead Hills a fired chemist Bixie Warfront a mindless cultist Bixie Warfront a xulous ambusher The Dead Hills a taunting trainee Bixie Warfront an acrid muck The Dead Hills a noxious mantrap The Dead Hills By this point I was fed up filtering out level 12 mobs in Befallen.
They started dropping when the new higher-level tradeskill stuff like cloth bolts, leather rolls, steel ingots, etc. were added. It's got to be related to that somehow. Also, I got a halloween-themed hat ornament to drop in a Dead Hills mission earlier today. That was amusing.
Would be a cool idea to remove the old cloth cap item without telling anyone, then putting a vendor up where you trade in your cloth caps for gear, or even currency. Wouldn't fix the issue, but would remove the awful feeling of getting total junk instead.
I thought these were a joke referring to the original "caster loot" in Sleeper's Tomb back in the day.
Just had one drop off a creeping mushroom in The Hills Are Alive heroic adventure. Did an in-game /bug as well.
