Ancient Droprate

Discussion in 'Items and Equipment' started by Beee, Jul 13, 2015.

  1. Feldon Well-Known Member

    I won't even get out of bed for Ethereals, Ancients, or Grandmasters. If something is less than a 1/100 chance, I'm not going. That includes casinos.
  2. Beee Well-Known Member

    Rare ancient spelles are fine, but the behavior that 6 spells (all conjurer 91-100) did not drop at Valor for the last 10 months is a little bit too rare ;)
  3. Carni Active Member

    I've tried farming for ancients in the past, which is roughly about 400 times more aggravating than trying to pharm current ethereal drops. Best place to acquire either is off the broker, unless you are a masochist.
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  4. Jsnappy Member

    At least with high level ancients they should be expected to be best end game spells for a while.
  5. Thundercloud Active Member

  6. Feldon Well-Known Member

    The drop rates are absurd. Working as intended.
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  7. Beee Well-Known Member

    The new expansion is coming soon - and still there were NOT DROP of conjurer ancient 91+ at Valor reported.

    I still will not believe on a correct loot table :eek:
  8. Errrorr An Actual EQ2 Player

  9. Beee Well-Known Member

  10. Beee Well-Known Member

    Just got the info this spell really dropped yesterday at Valor first time
  11. Beee Well-Known Member

    One year of conjurer ancient 91-100...
    And we have discovered ONE of them ( Still only Crystal Blast ) at Valor.

    Sorry this is stupid
  12. ZUES Well-Known Member

    It is stupid, I completely agree. I've never seen any drop rate in any game as rare as these stupid spells. Funny considering they are mediocre upgrades to horrible spells/CA's.
  13. Wards Member

    with like 10 players left playing on valor ... woulda be nais to have eu servers merged anytime soon
  14. Sigrdrifa EQ2 Wiki Author

    Good lord, the sense of entitlement. Rare objects are supposed to be RARE, hard to get, unusual to find. I have a broker set up for my class and "Ancient", just in case one ever appears. And that's mostly so I can LMAO at the price.
  15. Beee Well-Known Member

    just discoverd my second conjurer 91-100 ancient on Valor, again on a transfertwink bought on AB.

    It's stupid you have to transfer and discover ancient from a different server - more than one year after introducing the ancinet spells :eek:
  16. Amaitae Active Member

    Who said you have to transfer to another server just to discover ancients ?
  17. Beee Well-Known Member

    If it never dropped before - you discover it by a servertransfer.
    On Valor we have only discovered 2/6 conjurer ancients

    discoverd by a transfer:
    http://u.eq2wire.com/item/index/4166528144 Jul 25, 2015 @ 3:27:52 pm
    http://u.eq2wire.com/item/index/3486271649 Dec 23, 2015 @ 7:13:01 am

    not discovered at the moment:
    http://u.eq2wire.com/item/index/284429701 discovered on 4 server
    http://u.eq2wire.com/item/index/962108322 discoverd on 3 Server
    http://u.eq2wire.com/item/index/593966768 discoverd on 6 server
    http://u.eq2wire.com/item/index/1319821583 discoverd on 2 server

    You should get a chance of getting an ancient on your server.

    A solution would be a guaranteed drop of an ancient master eg. by killing stygian endmob. This would be a reason to raid
  18. Errrorr An Actual EQ2 Player

    Ancients are meant to be a rare and a long term thing. You aren't meant to find 2 every week.

    They aren't a requirement for clearing content, so if you are playing on an unpopulated server (like Valor) you are bound to see less than if you were on Maj'Dul.
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  19. Kraeref Well-Known Member

    /sarcasm on
    So what's the rate then for underpopulated servers? 1 per million characters played? And if there are only 100 they will never get a drop? /sarcasm off
    This is such a bs and absurd.

    Example. Cataclysm IX was discovered on 4 servers since. Not on AB, not on Valor. Go figure the drop rate.
  20. Errrorr An Actual EQ2 Player

    Well seeing as they only drop as a chance if you kill a mob with the potential ancients on it's loot table, it is logical if you are killing more on a populated server,more will drop.

    As for the drop rates of specific examples, you can look at discos sure, but they won't tell you if Cataclysm IX has dropped 20x on one server, while another Ancient has dropped repeatedly on another.

    The whole point is, Ancients are a Bonus/Luxury, rather than a necessity.
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