Sea Tier 2 Drop Rates & Prudence Glitch

[Lockecole]

For Ix'Aern DRK.... we kill the Qn's first and then he keeps reraising until he drops either the cape or deed. I don't think we've ever killed it while holding the two Qn. We have 3 enfeebling capes now for our RDMs out of 6 or so kills if I'm not mistaken (so perhaps 50/50 with Qns dead?).

We've yet to see the capes drop from the other two Ix'Aerns.

Edit: Wrote RDM capes instead of enfeebling cape

yeah, that's pretty risky... we better not do that since the Ix's are sooooo hard to pop.

Recently I'd agree..before we used to go hours without pops, now it seems like its almost first or second room everytime. All I can say is try and "OK" it with the LS. I was never one who complained about sea, but those who do would be the ones who will complain about a different and less reliable strat. Im down for deeds or vices, at least vices are something you can cross off a list, and then just concentrate on deeds. Deeds...like pop items in sky, will never be "crossed off a list" so I think that would be a good way to present it to the LS.

[ertyu]

My LS has a pretty good history with virtue drops,

to counteract our fafnir drops (*'-')b

[Suiram]

It's hard to get a good idea for the cape drop rates, since the Ix'aern drops one or the other, but not both, so if you roll a deed a few times, you move on to the next NM, since it's the virtue drop rate (not 100%) that is going to govern how many times you kill a given Ix'aern.

EDITED: What I think is somewhat peculiar, is that we've only gotten a single tier1 torque in the last month. torques/virtues/kills since jan 12:

Temperance: 0/2/3
Fortitude: 0/1/5
Faith: 1/2/2

[MisterBob]

My LS has gotten 0 deeds, and 1 vice out of 2 or 3 DRKx... Ix's refuse to pop for us, it really sucks. We never killed the helpers, always kited them while focusing on DRK, he never reraised on us. DRG just plain out never popped for us.

However, ever since one of the patches a while ago, tier1 jailers seem to have had a 100% drop rate on the pop item, for us at least.

That's just you, because they are not 100% drop lol. Faith and Hope both just gave us a weapon the other day.

[nivlakian]

It's hard to get a good idea for the cape drop rates, since the Ix'aern drops one or the other, but not both, so if you roll a deed a few times, you move on to the next NM, since it's the virtue drop rate (not 100%) that is going to govern how many times you kill a given Ix'aern.

What I think is somewhat peculiar, is that we've not gotten a single tier1 torque in the last month. torques/virtues/kills since jan 12:

Temperance: 0/2/3
Fortitude: 0/1/5
Faith: 0/2/2

Actually, we got a Faith torque on January 19.

[Suiram]

oh, so we did

[Kaylia]

That's interesting, we haven't ever had the DRK not drop anything with the Qns dead, I started to believe he must drop something.

I now sort of wonder what happens with only 1 Qn dead >_>;

We were 0/2 with both Qn dead.

[Eternus]

lol we got the drops Kaylia last 2 times with both 2 Qn dead... we got pop items both times and Seiki got the enfeeb cape. But you weren't there for that? Or maybe I am mixing it up with DRG Ix lol.... who fucking cares.

[Suiram]

Last two kills = 2 pop items + enfeebling cape? So you got a deed and a vice in the same treasure pool?

Also, Kaylia, how long ago were your kills for DRK with both Qn's dead but no drop?

[Lordwafik]

Our Ix'DRK have always droppd something. Killed 3x, 2 deed 1 vice. We always kill his Qn's first while holding him. He always drops nothing first, then reraises once, and drops either vice or deed. He's never RR'd more than once for us.

[Francisco]

It's hard to get a good idea for the cape drop rates, since the Ix'aern drops one or the other, but not both, so if you roll a deed a few times, you move on to the next NM, since it's the virtue drop rate (not 100%) that is going to govern how many times you kill a given Ix'aern.

What I think is somewhat peculiar, is that we've not gotten a single tier1 torque in the last month. torques/virtues/kills since jan 12:

Temperance: 0/2/3
Fortitude: 0/1/5
Faith: 0/2/2

Actually, we got a Faith torque on January 19.

On my birthday no less... ; ;

Also lost lot on Dryadic Body two days later... lol... sucks to be me.

[Kaylia]

Last two kills = 2 pop items + enfeebling cape? So you got a deed and a vice in the same treasure pool?

Also, Kaylia, how long ago were your kills for DRK with both Qn's dead but no drop?

It was a long time ago, before any info about Drk and Drg Ix was posted . I remember people wanting to kill me for posting a teaser pic somewhere

I think there was 2 patch fixing drop rate since then, so it's possible they changed it somehow. I forgot that.

[Suiram]

Well, that was my thought. Our first DRK kill wasn't until early November, after the October patch that made Faith and Temperance resist gravity, and nerfed Love's regen. Perhaps they made DRK's drop conditionally 100% in the same update.

[Kaylia]

Yeah, it's possible. I hope it's true because those Ix were retarded at first.

Anyway, are they still as painful to pop? Or did anyone figure a reliable pattern to get the "everybody hate you" emo message.
And about Drg Ix, is there anything to get him to pop faster? Like killing all 12 at the same time before any repop?

[wewt]

Also, while fighting Prudence while there's still two of him we've had him glitch a few times and one of him had the name removed so it was impossible to target it. This has happened once when they did the duo Weapon Skill where they come together and once upon popping him which made things very interesting to say the least. Has anyone else encountered this glitch and heard anything more from the GMs other than we can't assist you?

Were you able to target the other one after it used Perfect Dodge? I'm thinking the other one you can target after they use Perfect Dodge(Anyone able to confirm this?), so my LS came up with some ways of handling this. Problem is I've only noticed this once recently, and the other times we popped Prudence were a very long time ago when this "glitch" wasn't around. I'm starting to think it's not even a glitch anymore. I don't think them going invisible is a glitch either ;o

[Septimus]

Also, while fighting Prudence while there's still two of him we've had him glitch a few times and one of him had the name removed so it was impossible to target it. This has happened once when they did the duo Weapon Skill where they come together and once upon popping him which made things very interesting to say the least. Has anyone else encountered this glitch and heard anything more from the GMs other than we can't assist you?

Were you able to target the other one after it used Perfect Dodge? I'm thinking the other one you can target after they use Perfect Dodge(Anyone able to confirm this?), so my LS came up with some ways of handling this. Problem is I've only noticed this once recently, and the other times we popped Prudence were a very long time ago when this "glitch" wasn't around. I'm starting to think it's not even a glitch anymore. I don't think them going invisible is a glitch either ;o

I'm starting to think that sea is one giant glitch.

[Kemberly]

I'm starting to think that sea is one giant glitch.

think about how the new expantion will be

[Septimus]

I'm starting to think that sea is one giant glitch.

think about how the new expantion will be

I am hoping that Square will have pulled its head out of its rear end for this next expansion. I think they pretty much gave up on sea because of the massive negative reaction from all of the player base who managed to get there, and focused on ToAU. (Which is a shame because they could easily fix sea to make it as good as sky with very little effort.) They know that if ToAU flops, the game is going to lose a lot of players. Hopefully this will motivate them to make a winner.

[MisterBob]

I have high hopes for the expansion, considering the quality of the content in the last patch, and the fact that the upcoming patch also looks quite good.

[Cendus]

I'm starting to think that sea is one giant glitch.

for real.... i donno if its supposed to be like that or wutever but its too fuckin wierd that it has to be bugged... we were doing faith on friday. we ran into the taru tower. a couple of my ls members told me the ??? was up. i couldnt see it so i had to give the organ to another member to pop it. and i told one of our tanks to grab the euvhi in that room quick before the ??? would depop. but he couldnt target that.... so another member had to grab it...


btw... to infinitum. you say you held your Qn for the DRK. how long were your fights? lol... my ls popped DRK again and tried to hold the Qns and kill off the Ix... and that fuker kept RR-ing for like 2hrs before we said fuck it and decided to kill of the Qn.... got deed tho.