Salvage Drop III: No drop? Suck Less

[Terravcota]

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First Usu body drop for our group. Also got Usu head which went to a guy whose MNK/SAM/NIN jobs are all 37. We were hoping it would be an all-usu drop run and we'd finally finish our last two pair of Usu feet, but got double Skadi Body'd on the boss. Orz.

[Kunoki]

My pants were shat.
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[Shenrien]

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1/1 puts our member at 14/15 just needs 35 pants.

[Thorny]

just needs 35 pants.

lol, pants take more than twice the time of rest of set combined on avg

[Neosutra]

On average for your group.

Our "shit never drops" item was Ares legs, and Usu body (until I got mine, then it rained Usu bodies for the masses).

I still remember the constant chain of PMs almost on a weekly basis: "Hey Neo, can I get your 4th floor Turtle strat, our group is having trouble" -> One week later -> "Thanx Neo! We finally beat it and went 1/1, hurray! Sorry to hear you just passed 0/200.."..

So glad to be done with this event.

[Deader2818]

I wish Morrigan Feet would drop so I could stop doing salvage. I don't even know if I want to bother getting crown to finish set. lol

[Thorny]

On average for your group.

On average. Group specifics aside, SSR drops are ~3-5% while the rest are ~10-12. With an even zone rotation, that means you'll get 2x 14/15 well before the corresponding SSR 35 on average.

[Fiendishone]

Damn all you bitches and your turtle droppings.

We have to settle for this shit instead:
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[Dooom]

Marduk head 35 last night yay, finishing that item for a member. Boss also dropped 25 usu head which finished usu head for another person, as well as coin purse. 2 finished items and over 100 alex in a run is nice.

[Chen]

I still remember the constant chain of PMs almost on a weekly basis: "Hey Neo, can I get your 4th floor Turtle strat, our group is having trouble" -> One week later -> "Thanx Neo! We finally beat it and went 1/1, hurray! Sorry to hear you just passed 0/200.."..

there is a strat other than sac the gears into corner of hallway and pull/kill all ramparts to porter n whoop them?

edit: nvm just checked your site, same as ours

[Lilswitche]

lol, pants take more than twice the time of rest of set combined on avg

This, a million times.

I had to go 1/97 on the 35 pants pre-drop update. Everything else seemed like a breeze in comparison.

[Neosutra]

On average. Group specifics aside, SSR drops are ~3-5% while the rest are ~10-12. With an even zone rotation, that means you'll get 2x 14/15 well before the corresponding SSR 35 on average.

edit: Nevermind, not even worth it.

[Hyriu]

Thank god.

[Thuronn]

edit: Nevermind, not even worth it.

Remember Thorny=always right.

Or at least in his unrealistic version of reality.

[Cairthenn]

I live in a world without numbers.

[Iremire]

Marduk head 35 last night yay, finishing that item for a member. Boss also dropped 25 usu head which finished usu head for another person, as well as coin purse. 2 finished items and over 100 alex in a run is nice.

What do you guys do with your alex?

[Dooom]

I just bazaar my share, sells fast at 3.5k. Chen and some other members sell direct to Squally for a bit less.

[Iremire]

I just bazaar my share, sells fast at 3.5k. Chen and some other members sell direct to Squally for a bit less.

You should sell to us!

[Neosutra]

I think the point is that no one here has accumulated the total drops from every server and every salvage shell to determine the exact drop rates for each zone. We have our guesses, but it wildly differs by group.

Making the claim by Thorny that "SSR drops are 3-5% and others are 10%" is blanket statement that isnt backed up with anything more than his own guesses and observations.

BR cant really be compared because when it rains it pours and if you get NMs, you have a high chance of getting a 35. However you can go many runs without NMs.

ZR each NM has a 5% chance of dropping one of their items, but they can drop 3 each, so on average you have a 15% chance of getting a 35 piece from them, but that doesnt raise the chances of getting the specific piece you want.

AR is a bit of a mix and match. The chariot is similar to the ZR frogs in that it can drop 3 pieces, so you have a higher chance of getting armor from it, but still low% of the armor you specifically are targeting. Ares body/head and Macha's head seem to be higher drop rate, but again we can only pull from observations here and personal experience. Macha's body however seems to have a depressingly low % compared to everything else due to having 4 chances to drop (on the order of 1.5% per kill).

From observation in this thread and experience, SSR follows the same 5% drop rate per mob.

So no, unless Thorny has pooled the drop rates from every group on every server, the original statement of "For your group" is applicable.

[Neosutra]

I just bazaar my share, sells fast at 3.5k. Chen and some other members sell direct to Squally for a bit less.

What's squally upgrading?