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**nicholai** · 2010-10-05 15:39

http://powerwiki.na.aiononline.com/a...+Server+Update

Increased drop rates huzzah?

Password thing looks odd.

Looks like they made it a bit easier to obtain greater stigmas also.

**Sta** · 2010-10-05 16:30

Players will be able to purchase Greater Stigma Quest Collection Items with Shulack Coins without going through the Steel Rake/Dark Poeta instance dungeons.

Am I reading this right? It comes across to me that they will be making it so you can buy Processed Drana and the Diary from an NPC, with kinah? I guess it's for the people that hate doing instances?

**Veyron** · 2010-10-05 16:37

Interesting, increased drop rates...

**Pyree** · 2010-10-05 16:53

Originally Posted by Sta

Am I reading this right? It comes across to me that they will be making it so you can buy Processed Drana and the Diary from an NPC, with kinah? I guess it's for the people that hate doing instances?

It's not really explained in our notes, but from the Korean website it seems that there's a new daily faction that rewards Shulack tokens, and you spend these on the stigma quest items. These were only available for the first 3 advanced stigma quests, but you can join this faction in addition to the faction you are in currently.

There are a few other rewards too, such as the SR gold weapon skins. I'll dig up the page when the korean site is no longer down for maintenance.

**Diabolic Peach** · 2010-10-05 17:36

They said they increased the drop rates already with another update... and I haven't seen a difference.. lol Hate to see what they mean by increased this time.

**Sta** · 2010-10-05 17:54

Yeah "greatly increased drop rates" = 40% greens, blue 40%, gold 20% pls from bosses pls ^_____________^ actually... nvm... for your gold item to drop you then divide that rate by 4 (in most cases, b/c of the 4 different types of armor) so for YOUR gold body to drop it will still be a 5% chance... and then you have a class to roll against 90% of the time.... so then u slash that in half.... 2.5%... fuck that makes me emo

**Pooky** · 2010-10-05 18:45

Originally Posted by Sta

Am I reading this right? It comes across to me that they will be making it so you can buy Processed Drana and the Diary from an NPC, with kinah? I guess it's for the people that hate doing instances?

On siel at least, its hard as fuck to get a DP/SR group these days. No one runs the lower instances anymore.

I've been hearing rumors that 2.1 is nerfing sorcs and glads as well as the drop rate goodies, but I haven't seen any solid patchnotes regarding that. Would make me really pissed off if Sorcs get nerfed (again) before Ranger gets touched -.-

Edit: Also they're finally fixing the NPCs that sell the new morph recipies/give Iggy shoes quest

**Veyron** · 2010-10-05 19:51

Glad doesn't need a nerf

**Trocian** · 2010-10-06 08:02

So increased drop in all the instances, or just the ones no one ever does anymore?

**Pooky** · 2010-10-06 13:40

Originally Posted by Trocian

So increased drop in all the instances, or just the ones no one ever does anymore?

Patch notes say all: instance bosses, field bosses, world drops (including: stigmas, fluxes, white drops, skill books, everything).

**Veyron** · 2010-10-06 16:18

Inflation says hi, get your cheap shit while you can now, finish +10/15ing stuff while you can! (Unless more drops=more DE's, but who knows where the price will go!)

**Pooky** · 2010-10-06 17:10

Originally Posted by Veyron

Inflation says hi, get your cheap shit while you can now, finish +10/15ing stuff while you can! (Unless more drops=more DE's, but who knows where the price will go!)

hey I'm all for it, hopefully we'll see some more master fluxes drop so it wont cost 40m per attempt at an eternal. Imo things needed a change, currently I've been killing a few hundred mobs and getting maybe 20 grays (i miss the world drop rates of 1.5) farming anything isn't worth it atm...that and my abysmal luck in instances -.-;;;

**Veyron** · 2010-10-07 08:01

Yeah I'm really hoping the upped drop rate will be nice, maybe not on par with WoW but something a bit better couldn't hurt. A friend has been using Xeno hammer since he got it on his cleric...he's been running instances literally non-stop since I've known him (atleast 1-2 per day) and he has yet to get anything better lol.

And I could go for some cheaper fluxes, that would be glorious.

**Trocian** · 2010-10-07 08:22

Originally Posted by Veyron

A friend has been using Xeno hammer since he got it on his cleric...he's been running instances literally non-stop since I've known him (atleast 1-2 per day) and he has yet to get anything better lol.

Still using Xeno too. Was 50 for months without seeing any kind of weapon drop. An increase is definately needed. :/

**Cloudius** · 2010-10-07 08:30

I have never seen a gold bow drop with me in group ever. Starting with FT thro SR to TL/DP and now the new instances, including world bosses.
If there werent quested weapons (xeno/miragent) I would have probably been done with this game ages ago.

**Trichocyst** · 2010-10-07 12:11

I ran Theo Labs about 80 times without ever sniffing the staff. And I've only gotten 2 Dark Poeta drops. Taste the happy.

**Drex** · 2010-10-07 12:51

Originally Posted by Trichocyst

I ran Theo Labs about 80 times without ever sniffing the staff. And I've only gotten 2 Dark Poeta drops. Taste the happy.

and that's after two droprate increases
but surely this time will fix the problem

lol

they really just keep saying that they are increasing the drop rates every couple months so people keep chasing the carrot on the stick

**arus2001** · 2010-10-07 23:29

Originally Posted by Veyron

Glad doesn't need a nerf

I agree with this, especially with the "root" problem on some of their skills.

Higher drop rates is good if it's actually meaningful. I'm still sour over the silent nerf to general loot that people had to pry from the reps who later got the info from the Koreans.

**Pooky** · 2010-10-08 14:02

Korean devs did an experiment with the new drop rates, and posted up the results on Korean powerwiki:

They ran DP 20 times ranks C-S and broke down exactly how many drops they saw with the new rates. It came out to be around 3-4 golds per run (68 golds total) and listed boss final boss drops in their own category.

S rank had 18/20 drops (including 2 eternal weapons)
A rank had 17/20 drops
B/C rank had 4/20 drops

Drops being golds/eternal ofc.

They apparently have plans to run similar tests for the other endgame instances as well; but if NCwest doesn't fuck up (like usual) and these rates do hit stateside, it's looking pretty good.

Source

**Pyree** · 2010-10-08 15:17

I was about to come post that! Looks pretty exciting to me, and if you want to see the actual Korean source it's http://power.plaync.co.kr/aion/%EC%9...8B%A4%ED%97%98

They have the schedule for when all of the instances will be posted. The next one will be Fire Temple on 10/12. I translated the whole schedule below:

Instances
[10.08] Dark Poeta
[10.12] Fire Temple
[10.15] Beshmundir Temple
[10.19] Steel Rake
[10.22] Abyssal Splinter
[10.26] Aetherogenics Lab
[10.26] Alquimia Research Center
[10.29] Theobomos Lab
[10.29] Adma Stronghold
[11.02] Draupnir Cave
[11.05] Udas Temple
[11.05] Lower Udas Temple

Named Monsters
[10.14] Eltnen Named Monsters
[10.14] Morheim Named Monsters
[10.21] Abyss Named Monsters
[10.27] Heiron Named Monsters
[10.28] Beluslan Named Monsters
[11.03] Inggison Named Monsters
[11.04] Gelkmaros Named Monsters

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