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10-30-2009, 08:47 AM
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Skrax_Swifttail wrote:
I'm more curious (in general) as to whether thought is given to the fail rates as expansions age. If Devs want a 50% fail rate to control how much of something comes into the world. And the iitems to make it only drop within that expansions, then when new expansions come live and the drops are no longer farmed from the older expansion, that effectively lowers the rate at whcih said items come into the world.
While the fail rate remains the same, occurance of said item gets smaller and smaller. Is that an expected and accounted for component when determining an item's rarity of coming into the world?
That is expected. As items like that age, they ALSO become less desirable in general, so the lower level of available resources follows along with a general decrease in demand.
Message edited by Dev-Ngreth on 10/29/2009 07:30:13.
Except in this expansion there is no level increase so the demand for the potions will remain the same.
I am aware of that as well. While the supply may decrease, there will still be plenty of people hunting in that. Plus you can find that drop in some of the easy zones of SoD as well, where mass killing can be done for farming.
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Skrax_Swifttail wrote:
I'm more curious (in general) as to whether thought is given to the fail rates as expansions age. If Devs want a 50% fail rate to control how much of something comes into the world. And the iitems to make it only drop within that expansions, then when new expansions come live and the drops are no longer farmed from the older expansion, that effectively lowers the rate at whcih said items come into the world.
While the fail rate remains the same, occurance of said item gets smaller and smaller. Is that an expected and accounted for component when determining an item's rarity of coming into the world?
That is expected. As items like that age, they ALSO become less desirable in general, so the lower level of available resources follows along with a general decrease in demand.
Message edited by Dev-Ngreth on 10/29/2009 07:30:13.
Except in this expansion there is no level increase so the demand for the potions will remain the same.
I am aware of that as well. While the supply may decrease, there will still be plenty of people hunting in that. Plus you can find that drop in some of the easy zones of SoD as well, where mass killing can be done for farming.
More... (http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=156566&post_id=2325887#2325887)