Items And Loot Archive

Before the pearl nerf I was getting loot pretty regularly. On an average, I'd probably get about 10 pearls and 50 or so tissue a day. This was usually done in 1-2 buffs depending on the day of the week. The day of server reset was usually the best. Today (server reset) I decided to start charting how many I killed, if I got loot, and what kind of loot. In about 2 hours or so (lots of teamspeak, smoke breaks, and reading the forums ) I killed approximately 51 krayts using 2 accounts. I say approximately because I may have forgot to write down 2 or 3 krayts. Here is the breakdown of krayts and what I looted.

20 canyons killed-8 were empty (40%), 2 had pearls (10%), 3 had segs (15%), 3 had scales (15%), 4 had tissue (20%)

29 juveniles killed-15 were empty (52%), 2 had pearls (7%), 5 had segs (17%), 3 had scales (10%), 5 had tissue (17%) *NOTE* some numbers were rounded up, hence the total of 103%

2 giants killed-1 had tissue (50%), 1 had scales (50%)

Total krayts killed were 51. 45% were empty, 8% dropped pearls, 16% dropped segs, 14% dropped scales, 20% dropped tissue. All numbers were rounded up.

Now the following is just a guess based on these numbers and how "I" think the system is set up (for krayts anyway). There will "probably" be a 50% chance to loot at all. Once that roll is done, a second roll is done to see what kind of loot you get. Seeing as there are only 4 types of krayt loot, each one "probably" has a 25% chance of getting looted. 2 things in regards to this statement. One is based on what the devs have already said (in a nut shell).

1) The % chance to loot does not mean that you will always get loot 50% of the time. It means that a check (or roll) is done each time you loot.Although the first roll only consists of 2 options (on/off or loot/empty), there is still a chance you could kill 100 krayts and NOT get ANY loot at all. The same would apply for the second roll which does a check (or roll) against the loot table for that particular mob (more on this in my second point). In this case, one would think that each type of krayt loot has a 25% chance of being looted. The devs have mentioned in the recent past that pearls will be monitored closely and adjusted as needed. In the example shown above, my best guess would "probably" be that pearls have a 10% loot value. Again, this number might actually be higher or lower and is only based on this one experience. To put this in english, imagine 100 balls thrown in a rotating bin (like a lottery) with only 10 of them being pearls.

2) This is in regards to the krayt loot tables. For the most part there are only 4 items that can be looted. Tissue, pearls, segs, and scales. Before the pearl nerf (for lack of a better term) krayts only dropped these 4 items. Long ago (as far back as a year) there was also a chance to loot other items. Most notably weapons, armor, etc. The first day this new fix was patched in a friend and I went out and killed countless krayts (probablynear or over 100). During that time we looted 2 non-krayt items. One was a dh17 with weak damage but excellent mods, the other was 11 chitin armor segs. If I remember correctly, these were looted off giants. That being said, the loot tables probably change once you kill giants or ancients (and now adolescents). This should be taken into account when determining the % each type of loot drops. Again, if I had to guess, I'd say these types of loot have a much lower % than others. Probably 1-5%.

What's the point of this? SImply put, loot hunting is a gamble. While the rewards can sometimes be very satisfying, you can expect to come across quite a few empty corpses or even a few duds. When you come to think of it, krayts actually have a very decent drop rate as opposed to other high end mobs such as elders. Today, after killing about 15-20 elders a friend and I came out with 2 crystals and nothing else worth selling or keeping. When you consider that you could at least use/sell both pearls and tissue (and in some case scales and segs)from a krayt, they rank much higher on my "to kill" list.

Happy hunting and good luck.

Master Nerf Herder

nice break down.. ty

Yea, that helps a bunch, thanks man :-P

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maybe i can get up the courage or time to write soimthing like this!

Glane Dustwalker - Officer

Aerias Dustwalker - Structures Crafter
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I thought Juvies didn't drop pearls anymore? Or has this changed?

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I agreee with your breakdown mostly. But i think the 50% chance of loot roll is different for giant and ancient, alot less of these are empty. However check this out for a run of bad luck -

3 buffs on ancients yesterday we we're killing roughly 4 spawns per buff.

first ancient dropped a pearl, so did the 5th and the 6th. sweet we thinks.

Then the luck turned and we killed a further 40 ancient krayts without looting a pearl. Came home with some nice loot, 34% base segs, 106 max tissues. but still felt robbed lol.

Master Nerf Herder

attachments are still dropping-at least from ancients,got +25 music bf healing out of one

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