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  1. #1
    Hydra
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    Casket Gear drop rate altered?

    I never bothered to farm caskets for their special gear when first released; I'm currently in Xarca looking for the Gothic Gauntlets.

    I'm 0 / 12 open / 15 total brown chests.

    I've so far amassed: 4 Potion+2, 4 Potion +3, 3 Ether +1, 3 Ether +2, Mythril Claws, 2 Carapace Leggings, Carbon Fiber.

    I've had similarly bad rates trying for special casket gear in other zones (Behe, Srta, Gusta, Qufi, Valk, Sky, and Moon)...

    Normal? Or has anyone else noticed a change/reduction in frequency of Casket only gear dropping?

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    To be honest, I'm an avid casket finder. And I've notice no increase/or decrease in item rate+ found tbh. Rates for me have always been horrible.

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    Hydra
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hiroko View Post
    To be honest, I'm an avid casket finder. And I've notice no increase/or decrease in item rate+ found tbh. Rates for me have always been horrible.
    With respect to casket-only gear?

    I mean in sky, I've gotten Ori ore and Adaman Ore and no Caract Choker...

    Also, +0/1/1 and Ether+2 to my list above =p

    Mostly been killing demons, but a few gigas, 2 shadow dragons, and a smattering of ghosts, ele, skels, and weapons... I've made 20k in gil drops now, 60-70gil at a time -_-;

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    the whitest knight u' know
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    As soon as the update hit, I went and found both the desert items real quick. I thought: "wow they upped the rate for these, awesome"
    Now, after spending fucking hours farming in zi'tah, yuhtunga, and yhoator, I'm thinking: "wow they fucked the rate for these, gay."

    I just opened maybe a dozen brown caskets in West Ronfaure and got only single Echo Drops and Eye Drops from them. What's up with that?

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    At least you are getting caskets to pop.

    A few days after the update I spent a night farming groundskeepers in sky.

    I killed just over 50 (i remember the number as i was doing FoV at the same time).

    Not 1 casket... nothing, not a blue 1 or a brown 1.

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    caskets have always been random and gay, you gotta be lucky

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    Spent approximately 130k exp worth of time in Ro'Maeve for 12 brown caskets total and no Diana Corona to show for it. A friends has spent even longer there with a similar casket drop rate and no item to show for it either.

    Just assumed this was the normal rate since only time I've ever bothered with them.

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    I currently sit at 0/162 trying to get Herder's Subligar......

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    Do red caskets have a horribly low pop rate in Valley of Sorrows, or am I just unlucky? I've done probably ~30 FoV regime total there, and have not even SEEN one. I have tons of other casket gear, and have had bad luck before, but this is just ridiculous.

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    Bagel
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    I am 0 / Large Number, I have never seen a casket-exclusive item and I open them all the time.

    BTW is signet required to make the casket spawn? I always have it up anyway, but I'm just asking because it seems weird that some people are saying that they never pop...

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    Caskets and their gear drop rate can go fucking fuck itself.

    The time I'm not actively hunting for gear is when I picked up some shitty cloak in North Gustaberg while waiting for a doomed CoP group to do moblin mission (I agreed to help I forgot why) and that Great Katana with Wind Damage in Batallia Downs (SAM1) while waiting for a slow ass friend to come and do his BST AF.

    Doubt that Great Katana is 100% proc damage, but I kept it just incase I want to level SAM.

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    Damnit, I want that cloak =p

    Yeah... the Mokusa GK i was 1/3/5 on soon after it was released, and I got Attar of Roses ammo item in Konsch randomly 1/1/1 (-_-)... but everything else might as well be sage Sundi laughing.

    Now at 0/15/18, 5 Potion+2, 5 Potion +3, 3 Ether +1, 4 Ether +2, Mythril Claws, 2 Carapace Leggings, Carbon Fiber, Ash Log, Dryad Root

    I suppose this will help your wiki data or something -_-

    Personally, I'm not seeing how this is preferable to camping lotto pop nms... I can understand not making the drop rate 100%, but the items usually are not so awesome that they can't be a 33 or 25% drop from the caskets... since that rate is further multiplied by the rate of brown caskets spawning (i don't think signet needed, but i don't know for sure) to generate a smaller rate (as a measure of total mobs that need to be killed)

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    Quote Originally Posted by miokomioko View Post
    I just opened maybe a dozen brown caskets in West Ronfaure and got only single Echo Drops and Eye Drops from them. What's up with that?
    Well that's better than the single flint stone I keep getting from the Konschtat Highlands one. 2/2 so far on the ones that I've randomly opened.

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    I have seen two herder's subligars, one great katana, one pinwheel belt, and one pair of rambler's gaiters while getting ACP key items.

    Too bad I spent 11 hours getting my own rambler's gaiters when they first came out... my friend got hers when we were waiting for a party member outside of CN.

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    I am 1/1 on S.Gusta and Glacier's items, killed 2-3 mobs before a chest and got them. I have farmed Xarc for 45~ mins before each dynamis, killing well over 100 eyes and I've only seen 2 brown chests, one of which I failed to open.

    Also...

    Quote Originally Posted by Soa View Post
    I currently sit at 0/162 trying to get Herder's Subligar......
    I feel if we should happen to meet, we'd instantly recognize each other like long lost twins who share a bond like no other, collapsing to the ground while hugging and crying.

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    Hydra
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    I bet we have to kill the regen somehow.

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    received/opened

    *Firefly: 1/~10
    *Pile Chain: 1/3
    Blind Ring: 0/~30
    *Surviver: 1/~20
    *Rambler's Cloak: 1/~20
    *Bronze Bandolier: 1/~10
    *Protect Earring: 2/~30
    Desperado Ring: 0/~30
    *Attar of Roses: 1/5
    *Pestle: 1/3
    Phlegethon's Trousers: 0/~15
    *Mammut: 1/~10
    Pinwheel Belt: 0/0
    Wurger: 0/~10
    *Herder's Subligar: 1/~70
    *Mokusa: 1/~40
    Rambler's Gaiters: 0/~30
    *Custodes: 1/~20
    Gothic Sabatons: 0/~5
    Buccaneer's Scimitar: 0/~10
    Beluga: 0/~15
    *Casaba Melon Tank: 1/~15
    *Galkan Dagger: 1/4
    Sirocco Axe: 0/1
    Daedelus Hammer: 0/0
    Rossignol: 0/~15
    Diana Corona: 0/0
    Caract Choker: 0/1

    hmph.

    * = got

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    Xarcebard is just fucking bitch with it I went:
    1/16/28[had alot of 4 attempt fails], while I went 1/6/11 for feet in behemoth's and friend went 1/7/? for feet too.
    Edit: I am pretty sure signet is needed since I went over 45 minutes w/o signet no chests at all so went and got it.

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    Huntin' right now, sanction is on and I've popped 3 blue and 2 brown chests in Jugner. Don't need signet for it.

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    Hydra
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    0/17/21

    5 Potion+2, 6 Potion +3, 3 Ether +1, 4 Ether +2, Mythril Claws, 2 Carapace Leggings, Carbon Fiber, Ash Log, Dryad Root, Gold Nugget

    As near as I can tell, items are determined when the casket spawns - nothing you do seems to have any effect on whether the item within is gear or garbage. I've tried opening them at low health, full health, 300 tp, status effects, no status effects, no buffs, using minimum number of clues, using maximum number of clues, using clues to solve, using logic (half pointing) to solve, and so forth...

    Taking that as a premise, and (arbitrarily) taking as a premise 5% item drop rate, could then conclude that in the 21 browns I've gotten, one should have contained it. 4 were failed; there is ~20% chance that one of the failed chests contained the item =p

    Also of interesting note, I've made ~30k gil in straight gil drops alone from the demons, averaging 65g a kil. That's ~460 demons and a handful of gigas (and does not include the spree on ghosts, ahriman, skeletons, weapons, a single ice elemental, and 2 shadow dragons). I think this is SE's answer to fixing gil economy. Make players farm beastmen for items that 'never' drop (like, say, ACP...)

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