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Thread: GDK scale drops... are they bugged?
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ArianSix
Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:15 pm
#1
Just out of curiousity... I was wondering if GDK scale drops (the RIS scale, not scale segments) are bugged?
I, personally, have killed about 55 GDK with only 1 scale to see for it... and that scale was looted way back when GDK were only 17k HAM and you could kill them by spamming strafe2 with a rifleman.
Of those 55 kills, about 3 were at the static GDK spawn in Kimo City and the rest were kills of random GDK spawns.
Speaking with some friends yesterday, I found out that theirhunting group has0 lootsfor over 100 GDK kills.
If you combine our efforts, we're 1 scale in 155+ GDK kills.
Are the drop rates for GDK scales really this miserable, are we cursed, or have those creatures or their drops become bugged somehow?
Thanks,
-- A6
Toguro
Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:43 pm
#2
they are just really rare. ive gotten loot about 1/10 times and about 1/4 of the time i DID get loot, it was armor segs. so really the chance of getting a scale, from what ive experinced, is about 1/60. thats a rough estimate as ive killed hundreds (lost count) and only gotten 12 scales. (other times there was loot but it was stolen)
darthbock
Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:07 pm
#3
I killed about 250 prior to getting my first loot. The drop rate is just sickeningly low.
ArianSix
Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:22 pm
#4
Ouch... and to think we need 9 of them to make a full set of RIS.
-- A6
Herms
Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:33 pm
#5
Myself and a couple of close friends/guildies started Hunting GDk's properly about 2-3 weeks ago...
So far we've found upwards of 35 scales. All of which came from wild spawns (usually consisting of two GDK's per spawn with 3/4 x respawns) As i recall our record was 27 in an evening. (incidentally we looted 19 Gurk hides too that night while clearing spawns) One night while hunting we bumped into one of my regular customers who had been looking for a scale for months without luck, being as we'd been so lucky we gave him two of the scales because he's a such nice fella.
We're really superstitious when hunting, we NEVER EVER loot while 'blinded, stunned, intimmed or diseased' we carry the rare artifacts (obtained easily from Nym) as some random dude told us they increase your luck roll - yeah i know thats plain daft, but we still carry em! We always make Perpy do the looting too as he is just one of the luckiest dudes in SWG.
Having said that ours have always come from an area about 1km square and we dont even bother with Kimo town.
I really dont know what the deal is with the drop rates its seems kinda crazy.
You do have my sympathy though, it was always the appalling drop rate that had put me off the RIS quest. Best of luck for future hunts.
PS we only ever hunt at reboot as there are far more wild spawns at that time.
So far we've found upwards of 35 scales. All of which came from wild spawns (usually consisting of two GDK's per spawn with 3/4 x respawns) As i recall our record was 27 in an evening. (incidentally we looted 19 Gurk hides too that night while clearing spawns) One night while hunting we bumped into one of my regular customers who had been looking for a scale for months without luck, being as we'd been so lucky we gave him two of the scales because he's a such nice fella.
We're really superstitious when hunting, we NEVER EVER loot while 'blinded, stunned, intimmed or diseased' we carry the rare artifacts (obtained easily from Nym) as some random dude told us they increase your luck roll - yeah i know thats plain daft, but we still carry em! We always make Perpy do the looting too as he is just one of the luckiest dudes in SWG.
Having said that ours have always come from an area about 1km square and we dont even bother with Kimo town.
I really dont know what the deal is with the drop rates its seems kinda crazy.
You do have my sympathy though, it was always the appalling drop rate that had put me off the RIS quest. Best of luck for future hunts.
PS we only ever hunt at reboot as there are far more wild spawns at that time.
Message Edited by Herms on 09-13-2004 10:37 PM
ArianSix
Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:59 pm
#6
Wow Herms, I really envy you!
I've been trying to get a set of RIS put together for my armor collectionsince it came out (so far I have enough for 1 piece).
As of a few weeks ago, though, I now have all the other components... the scales are the last thing on my list.
-- A6
Dazien
Wed Sep 15, 2004 2:16 pm
#7
I must be lucky as well...one GDK kill to my credit....7 GDK RIS parts.
MaiqEskan
Thu Sep 16, 2004 4:05 pm
#8
found one random spawn...
killed about 6 or 7 GDKs, on the last one we got 11 scales (yep, in ONE loot)
Doratos
Thu Sep 16, 2004 7:19 pm
#9
I play on Corbantis, and the other night someone said they were bugged and they killed about 3, and EACH dropped like 11 scales....i have no idea if they were the segments or not, I would like to think this person knew the difference but who knows....strange though, i mean like 3 GDKs in a row dropped 11 each....luck? maybe.....bug? i would think that would be the more correct term. So it would seem that they are "bugged" differently depending on where you play....ive never looted any, but then again ive only helped kill about 3. i find it easier to take mokk missions and make like 2 mil a buff session, i mean thats 3-4 hours instead of hunting 70 down to get 1 scale....seems like waste of time. ill let these loot hunters do their thing, while i sit back and get 2mil which will maybe pay for one...and itll take a person weeks to get 1.... but i guess looting is much more fun 
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