Swordsman Archive
Thread: loot tables improving?
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Ittsyk
Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:13 pm
#14
Doratos wrote:Ive only soloed prolly 1 elder, helped kill prolly 10 others and ive only looted 1 crystal. I think its better to get a premium crystal thank a buncha crap ones though....ALSO i found that looting right after the server restart yeilds better results. I looted something off like every other NS this morning...albeit crap, but LOOT. For a few weeks i would hunt for like 2 hours...0 loot, like 50k credits...thats nice and all, but if i wanted that money i would do 2 janta missions. Anyway, i find going right after the restart gives me better...you should try it sometime. Of course all the elders ive killed after restart were crap loot...*shrug*
I have a different take on it - 1 premium crystal = 2-3 million dollars on my server. Quality crystals (from spell weavers/protectors/sentinels) go for between 400-500K (more like 500K lately) on the server. Therefore, 4-6 quality crystals = 1 premium crystal in my book. Seeing how fast I can kill the lower level NS, and how you are not guaranteed to get a darn thing from any NS (even elders), I only hunt elders for fun. If I want money, I hunt lower level NS. Much easier to get 4-6 crystals than 1 premium, especially for me - a non-speedcapped swordsman.
Ittsyk
Message Edited by Ittsyk on 10-07-2004 02:14 PM
korling99
Fri Oct 08, 2004 8:41 am
#15
Hol y your Lucky 3 premium pearls in the last 3 weeks I have killed 2 ancient krayts and about 40-50 juvy, canyon, or giant krayt gotten all comp armor segs man wish I had your luck 
ewano
Fri Oct 08, 2004 6:06 pm
#16
Diopter wrote:
All I know is that when you loot an npc, you will get something every time, even if it's just creds. Even on Dantooine where Mokks and Jantas NEVER dropped creds, they're dropping like 9, or 13 or 4 every time I loot them.
not true
today i did 4 canyon krayts and 4 great canyon krayts the loots where....
pearl, scales, tisues, nothing, pearl, scales, pearl, nothing
3 times good loot (pearls)then 1 tisues 2 scales and 2 times nothing
so not all mobs drop something some even have nothing
ewano
Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:23 pm
#18
Diopter wrote:
I said NPCs, not animals.
just wanted to say i looted pearls
Doratos
Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:29 pm
#19
At least you can find Krayts, ive looked prolly 3 times and i get discouraged evertime, ill look for like 2 hours...nothin....i really wanna try my hand against these, but hell if i can find one
Preacher-UM
Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:41 pm
#20
I believe the reason all npcs started dropping creds, is so the server runs a little better not having all those dead bodies floating around, LOOt, Disappear. clean and simple.
The_Strider_Family
Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:56 am
#21
It's completely random in my opinion... I have had buff sessions where I get absolutely nothing other than Heavy Duty Leather and other unwanted items.
Yesterday however I was out for a buff session and came home with an Armor Attachment (+9 Def vs. Blind, +4 Def vs. Intimidate, +6 Rifle Aiming), a set of Identical NS Shards (-15+ to each Encumb type), 3 Modded Vibro Lances, 2 Crystals and a couple locked containers that I have yet to open.
I was mainly hunting Sentinels, Protectors and Spell Weavers (the AA came from a Sentinel). I have not yet been able to successfully solo an Elder but I actually find that for the time spent I would much rather kill 10-20 of the other NS types than spend a half hour trying to kill one Elder just to get a 1500 credit Loot.
Oss_Wilum
Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:40 pm
#22
when you speed cap, it only takes 10 mins to kill an elder, and then it's waaaayyyyy more worth it to kill them
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