1.74 testnews

[Nausilus^^]

1.74 info

- In response to player feedback, the artifacts that previously had less than a 50% chance to drop will now drop with almost every successful completion of the encounter. In some cases the spawn rate for the encounter has been decreased to balance the higher drop rate of the artifacts. The artifacts affected include Healer's Embrace, Ceremonial Bracer, Crocodile Tear Ring, Band of Stars, Scorpion Tail Ring, Scepter of the Meritorius, Eerie Darkness Stone, Traitor's dagger and Cloudsong.

- Artifact scrolls in Volcanus have been redistributed and the drop rates increased. Siam-he up to level fifty now have a chance to drop any Volcanus scroll one. Siam-he and taurs level fifty-five and greater have a chance to drop any page of the Volcanus scrolls.

- Artifact scrolls in Aerus have been redistributed and the drop rates increased. Centaurs and cyclops now have a chance to drop any page of the Aerus scrolls.

- The final named monster for each master level encounter will now drop a random scroll from their region. Draco will drop three scrolls from Aerus.

Maybe this means that some of the more rare scrolls and artifacts will be easier to get in the future, thus maybe even cheaper in housing?

 

[Brunore]

Spawn rate decreased... lol...

They need to sort out the bullshit, takes 3 days to pop, someone comes along with a sally and takes the enc to sell the arti bollocks out so people who actually need the encounter can do it without need to camp it for days in hope of it popping.

Marias gloves is a prime example...

 

[Nausilus^^]

someone comes along with a sally and takes the enc to sell the arti bollocks out so people who actually need the encounter can do it without need to camp it for days in hope of it popping.

Like who... a hunter with 50 BC ?

 

[Cadelin]

its nice but I don't like the decreased spawn rate. I don't mind encounters being tough or not always dropping but what is gained from having to camp something for ages? It just pisses everybody off. I would have prefered they decrease the spawn time of all encounters to like 1-2 hours maximum.

Scroll changes sound good but I hope they don't make much difference. I would much prefer to go find a certain mob and kill 10-20 of them to get a scroll than to have mobs that drop any scroll cause then you just get pbaoe farming groups, like in DV which is boring after a while.

 

[poisono]

Discussed this earlier in /as and we all agreed we are looking foward to this patch just due to the fact that a lot of us are part time players meaning we cant always spend days killing things for Arti's and Scrolls.

As a returning player also, im glad this is coming into phase as its made it hard for new/fresh players.

 

[Funkdocta]

It is a pain that they are reducing the re-spawn timer on them mobs but they now have almost 100% chance to drop so overall its better than it was.

I done CS encounter 13 times with one of my healers, arti dropped twice and i lost both lottos lol.

Maybe I get it in 1.74