Level differences effecting droprates

[Meresgi]

The other day I was reading on a Korean forum that they found people 3levels or more under a boss will cause the boss to drop less, and that' 5 levels higher will have the same effect.

Now I recall reading that 10 levels over a mob will stop them from dropping anything 100% other then quest items. Has anyone heard of bosses having a 5 lvl over cutoff? Or read anything else about this?

I know a lot of it is speculation about being 3+ lvls under (though I know if a mob is conned red to you it does get a bonus in stats when fighting you), but what about the over lvl gap?

[aznmajiktaru]

well we had the 5 level gap upwards last night at grand chieftian and according to the lawl youtube video, he's supposed to drop one legendary each time. Well we got some epic tiamat fire crystal last night (krall molar) so idk wtf is up with that shit. We also had like 2 epic andres that dropped nothing with a 50 in and krater who dropped fine armor flux woooot with a 49 in party.

[Hitoshura]

I believe it, King Corseird dropped an Attack+2 stone one time we had a 2 party ally of mixed levels, we downed him in like less than 10 mins, perfect with no problems and after all the hard work, dat stone.

[sruon]

well we had the 5 level gap upwards last night at grand chieftian and according to the lawl youtube video, he's supposed to drop one legendary each time. Well we got some epic tiamat fire crystal last night (krall molar) so idk wtf is up with that shit. We also had like 2 epic andres that dropped nothing with a 50 in and krater who dropped fine armor flux woooot with a 49 in party.

what the fuck are you doing here.

[aznmajiktaru]

you left your legs open so I let myself in.

[Fayttt]

One of the andres of those two was pulled to the guards.
Kraterr dropped a yellow bloody flame hat with *almost* the same group makeup and Syl was 48 that time.
I don't believe the level gap stuff at all;
I've killed mobs 11 and 12 levels lower than me around 41? Killing the water spirits in Eltnen and still getting gray drops.

[Meresgi]

I've killed mobs 11 and 12 levels lower than me around 41? Killing the water spirits in Eltnen and still getting gray drops.

Really? ok that's interesting (the mobs 12 lvls lower then you)

[Iku]

10 levels is probably the cap level where mob will stop dropping epic stuff because that is when you can run freely without being agro?

[Pyree]

When I was killing the lepharist monsters outside Verteron Citadel (Lv10-12) on my Sorcerer Lv24, they weren't even dropping gold. I never got anything besides the quest item.

[Fayttt]

10 levels would be really stupid IMO seeing as a lot of the HNMs are level 40. But meh.

[Katlan]

10 levels would be really stupid IMO seeing as a lot of the HNMs are level 40. But meh.

Pretty sure normal mobs are about 7 lv difference and elites are at a 10 lv difference (though if somebody in ur grp/ally is the appropriate lv it will still drop) don't know if the same rules apply to hero mobs, but would be kinda fail if a lv 50 grp couldn't kill Andre, ect,.. Game just has a low drop rate on world HNMs, so hard to judge stuff on 1-2 attempts since ala FFXI nothing is quaranteed like WoW

[Leashedragon]

We downed Grand Chieftain Kasika yesterday with a 49 Templar in the group. Dropped nothing but a Mist Mane Mau Hair. Think the lowest we had was 38 or 39.

I am on the same boat as others that the level thing accounting to no drops really sucks. When leveling up there were a few of us who wanted to kill King Zugog, but most of the healers/tanks/dps were all 10 levels higher and couldn't help us.

[Vail]

10 levels would be really stupid IMO seeing as a lot of the HNMs are level 40. But meh.

you mean andre saendukal and kraterr? move onto Heiron if you're got enough 50s

[Fayttt]

Yeah, I know; was gonna get rid of that post but meh.
It still seems really silly to have HNMs that you can't even get drops from at max level.

[Trichocyst]

I was doing some gathering today in Verteron and in 4 of 5 channels I went through there were RMT in the same area all 6-7 levels higher than they should be. When I see that I like the policy of drop rates affected by level. Though I hate it when I have to pay for overpriced flux.

[Vail]

It still seems really silly to have HNMs that you can't even get drops from at max level.

the thing is those NMs and their drops are not ment for the experience of lv50 players. It's the blessfully opposite of FFXI where lv75s were killing jeuno NMs just to sell the drops.

atleast in this game it makes it very clear a lv50 has no business killing lv40 mobs (except for grieving)