Armorsmith Archive
Thread: Gurk king hide spawns/drop rate perfect for RIS
I agree. Its GOT to be made more attainable for it to be even remotely worthwhile. Notice I said "attainable" and not "easy". Hard is one thing. The way it is now is just stupid.
I still say that decay ruins items like this. No one wants to risk damaging something like this now. We need some sort of decay, but it ruins the use of high end items.
Tuanga wrote:
People keep saying it needs to be easier, they make it sound like because they can't go out and hunt for a day, and have all the components to make an RIS suit, its way too hard. Did you ever think maybe they made it so that this suit requires more than just one person hunting the loot to put a suit together? God forbid you have to take a few days or weeks or monthsto get the stuff together to make a suit of this. It's a challenge, look that word up.
Reading comprehension > you
Even at the drop rate of gurk king hides, a master armorsmith is still looking at more hours than most people work in a week to get all of the components to get certified and make one set. For most normal people 50+ hours is a few weeks of playtime. As for your comment about "one person hunting", for most normal people taking down a GDK or albatross is a group activity.
I could think of a few words to characterize you based on your lack of comprehension, and I doubt you'd have to look them up.
Tuanga wrote:
So what's your point? Yeah it may take a few weeks to get the parts, it's rare armor. I'd rather see a handful of people with RIS parts (as it is now) than everyone running around in it.
Again, reading comprehension > you
My point is that even with a drop rateand spawn changes that would yeild one component every couple of hours, it would still take someone whose entire life isn't consumed in a video game weeks of doing nothing but going after RIS components to get one set. I fail to see how changes like those would end up with "everyone running around in it".
The drop rates as they are now are making what could be a legitimate challenge into something more akin to an EQ-style campfest, so that you can go AFK sit your toon over by the bank with your uber gear UO-style, as opposed to seeing people actually using it.
First off, you are lucky to get one that quickly. Besides the gdk scale, the gurk hide is hard to get. 3 hours between spawns and only one at a time, argh. I've killed enough to say the drop rate is more like 1 in 30. I've put in several 9 hour days (3 kills) and gotten absolutely nothing.
Also, the giant dune kimo can be solod. Im a tkm /fencer and do it, although it takes 20 minutes to bring it down. This dang thing never drops any. Kill a albatross and you're almost guaranteed a feather. Albatross does need a group effort though.
Tuanga wrote:
So what's your point? Yeah it may take a few weeks to get the parts, it's rare armor. I'd rather see a handful of people with RIS parts (as it is now) than everyone running around in it.
I think this was his point. That it should take someone aFEW WEEKSto piece this together, not the4months it has taken for several ambitious people to assembleFULL suits on their server. I haven't even SEEN one person with afull suit of this stuff, although a few suits do exist. That isn't rare, that is mandolorian.
II have enough resources to make about 300 suits of composite, and 400 of Ubese, but havent' come close to the loot to make one suit of this stuff.
Gurk kings spawn from most random lairs. If the lair spawns feral gurks there's a 99% chance it will spawn a king. Thanks for the info in the GDK. I assumed they were tougher than albatrosses and steered clear of them when I've found them in the wild. I'll try taking down the next one I find.
Sandsifter wrote:
First off, you are lucky to get one that quickly. Besides the gdk scale, the gurk hide is hard to get. 3 hours between spawns and only one at a time, argh. I've killed enough to say the drop rate is more like 1 in 30. I've put in several 9 hour days (3 kills) and gotten absolutely nothing.
Also, the giant dune kimo can be solod. Im a tkm /fencer and do it, although it takes 20 minutes to bring it down. This dang thing never drops any. Kill a albatross and you're almost guaranteed a feather. Albatross does need a group effort though.
Message Edited by DirthNader on 04-07-2004 05:20 PM