Finding Pattern in Randomness

[Jazz Kazuko]

Or trying to.
I tried the random question thread and didn't get a good answer about this.
I started to do more augment lately and I was wondering, does it matter which job I fight the monster with? I have Red Mage and Ranger as my main. I mean, if I want range accuracy gear, do I have a better chance of getting it if I pop, let's say Eraser with Ranger?

[Milkster]

I heard it was all random... You know the augments you get.

[Silenka]

I've popped the MKD chest 60key with blm many times now and it's completely random as far as I can tell. Once I even got 2 scorpion gloves in a row (blm can't even wear) with hp and pet attk/acc on them. Similarly though, I got 2 silk coats with hmp+3 and 4 and int+1, but I assume it works the same for FoV...random. I doubt it reads your job, cause what if you're trying to get stats for another job? It doesn't make sense to not make it random.

[Mytiwar]

Completely random as far as anyone could tell.

Except well maybe once I popped the turtle in VoS, it had engravity as an attack and I got mahatma pants with resist grav+1 ftw.
I guess it's still random because you can't guess what eneffect the turtle will have...


(Oh yeah and snow ring with int-1 mnd-1 chr+1 just had to mention it.)

[Hanyoko]

The best example I can give for the augment system is the following.

Rather then have a monster that spawns that has a low chance of dropping nice loot, augments allow the monster to drop something 100% of the time, however the quality of the loot is randomly determined. So therefore in many cases its as though the mob never dropped anything, or the mob dropped a NQ or on rare occasions a HQ!

Some people can go 1/1 on the "good drop" or other can go 1/5873.

[Kaishen]

So therefore in many cases its as though the mob never dropped anything, or the mob dropped a NQ or on rare occasions a HQ!

Not quite. You left out the part where the mob deletes a piece of gear you already own and replaces it with something inferior.

[Hanyoko]

Not quite. You left out the part where the mob deletes a piece of gear you already own and replaces it with something inferior.

I guess that can relate to "farming a pop item"; but should be included either way.