Curse

Rellok · Jun 22, 2005, 02:16 PM // 14:16

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Originally Posted by Paladin_Adoni

I got a gold axe 4-9 (written in white) with no mods or nothing.

its wasnt even a cool looking axe

the value : 109!! hhaa I doubt I could sell it to a person for 100g

Did you try to ID the item? I've heard of people unlocking runes from white items before. Now, I've just heard that, I haven't done it. However, if it said that it was worth 109, I would try IDing it.

Matt

FengShuiBundi · Jun 22, 2005, 02:25 PM // 14:25

This is easily alleviated. All Southern Shiverpeaks and Ring of Fire Island Chain MISSIONS must have item drops with MAX stats for weapons and foci. The rare rates can stay the same.

Explorable areas have their current drops.

Moly · Jun 22, 2005, 02:38 PM // 14:38

I'd have to say there's a bit of randomness here. Oddest gold drop I ever got was a gold staff:

Inscribed Staff of Smiting Prayers
Energy +8
Chaos Dmg: 9-15 (reg. 6 Domination Magic)
Improves Casting speed while using Water Magic skills (Chance: 20%)
Improves skill recharge (Chance: 10%)
Smiting Prayers +1 (19% chance while using skills)

Rather nice if you happen to be a Me/E/Mo

corax5 · Jun 22, 2005, 02:53 PM // 14:53

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Originally Posted by Drakharran Zealot

But if people buy them for 100, shouldn't you sell them for 75? Sell price is always 25% lower than the buy price.

Well by the time I find anyone who wants to buy them, I could just walk out of Lions Arch and kill a few tengu for more than that.

Jelloblimp · Jun 22, 2005, 02:55 PM // 14:55

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Originally Posted by Algren Cole

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The other is a Storm Artifact. +12 energy +31HP(while enchanted)...This item actually has some decent modifiers on it...but wtf wants a storm artifact.
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If im not wrong Storm name indicates air magic req for wearing, elementalists either use Attunement and/or Aura of Restoration & both are enchantments which means that artifact can be sold for some nice price.

Epinephrine · Jun 22, 2005, 03:42 PM // 15:42

Lasher Dragon posted this one in another thread, made me laugh ...

dinglenut · Jun 22, 2005, 04:00 PM // 16:00

Best purple I got last night:

Accursed Staff
4-6 Dark damage
unidentified

After ID'd

value = 16 gold

Worst Purple EVER

ssnider75 · Jun 22, 2005, 04:00 PM // 16:00

I salvaged a sword pommel of skeleton slaying +10% damage to skeletons.

Not the most valuable find in the world.

static deathbringer · Jun 22, 2005, 06:15 PM // 18:15

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Originally Posted by Rayawni

Drops are all random when it comes to purple, gold, and dyes. I too have had gold items with NOTHING in them. I still used a sup salvage kit and got a rare crafting material from it though. Bolts of Silk and Steel ingots...

Maybe the point of a regular old gold item is to just give you some extra gold or some rare salvage items.

that might be all fine and dandy if they upped the drop rate for gold/reare items, bnut outside of a mission its like 1 gold every 3/4 hours, and 3/4 of them r either crap or have no mods at all, i hunt very high level creatures who kick my arse, but my build is set up really well that i can take about 3 of these on at a time, but if i make one mistake, boom! im dead! so its not like im just runnign through a zone killing leve 15's Cough, ettins, cough... im killing level 21's-24's, and id like to get some better items then 12, white, 2-4 purples, and maybe, if im lucky 1 crap rare...JMHO tho

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Originally Posted by FengShuiBundi

This is easily alleviated. All Southern Shiverpeaks and Ring of Fire Island Chain MISSIONS must have item drops with MAX stats for weapons and foci. The rare rates can stay the same.

Explorable areas have their current drops.

thats BS as well, ive hunted the shiverpeaks, the ring of fire, the desert, ect ect ect, same thing happens, crap, whites, crap blues, crap golds, and usually in the same ratio as listed above

JoDiamonds · Jun 22, 2005, 06:40 PM // 18:40

One of my favorite gold items (not NEARLY so bad as some other ones) is a focus that no one could possibly use fully.

It's something very much like:

Energy +11 (requires Air magic)
Faster recharge for Death Magic (some %)
Faster recharge for Illusion Magic (some %)

So only a triple-class character could fully make use of this. I'll keep it for when they make the expansion, and the new race that allows triple classing comes out.

;-)

Shadowsting · Jun 22, 2005, 07:47 PM // 19:47

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thats BS as well, ive hunted the shiverpeaks, the ring of fire, the desert, ect ect ect, same thing happens, crap, whites, crap blues, crap golds, and usually in the same ratio as listed above

That was a suggestion, not a fact.

JMK89 · Jun 22, 2005, 08:51 PM // 20:51

I got a gold Jeweled Chakram
Energy +8 (req. 10)
Armor+4
Health-40
Value:76g
I laughed for a few minutes when I got it. A couple minutes after getting it, I salvaged it getting 4 iron ingots..

Bingley Joe · Jun 22, 2005, 09:11 PM // 21:11

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Originally Posted by Epinephrine

Lasher Dragon posted this one in another thread, made me laugh ...

Hmmm... clue me in here -- I haven't played a Necro yet, but at the moment that Cesta looks pretty sweet! ... Or is Soul Reaping entirely passive?

JoDiamonds · Jun 22, 2005, 09:27 PM // 21:27

Yeah. There aren't any Soul Reaping skills. There's a few attributes that have few or no skills at ALL associated with them, so fast casting or fast recharging them is pretty lame.

Energy Storage, Fast Casting, Soul Reaping, and even Divine Favour, to a smaller extent, have few associated skills, and a disproportionate number of those skills are elites. In a couple of these cases, there's a really GOOD skill associated with it, but often just one or two.

(Warriors and Rangers are better off: Strength and Expertise have many skills associated with them. Then again, not every class even has the same number of attributes, and Warriors feel like they have less sometimes: Not too many Warrior raise more than one of Sword, Axe, or Hammer skills.)

Night · Jun 22, 2005, 09:33 PM // 21:33

I have gotten many purples and golds that have no additional mods to them. I spose they have a better req but if the damage isn't high, I'd sell them anyway. kind of a bit of disappointment when you id something like that.

Jimbodan · Jun 22, 2005, 09:41 PM // 21:41

My last gold drop was worthless

Crude Shield
16ar
13 tactics
Armor +6 vs. dwarves

NightStalkerXT · Jun 22, 2005, 09:58 PM // 21:58

Wish I would have taken a SS but I didn't. It was a purple sword some low crap to like 18 dmg. (low at that end too) It had NO mods on it! I though WTF

why is this even purple!?!

Bingley Joe · Jun 22, 2005, 10:24 PM // 22:24

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Originally Posted by JoDiamonds

Yeah. There aren't any Soul Reaping skills. There's a few attributes that have few or no skills at ALL associated with them, so fast casting or fast recharging them is pretty lame.

LMAO! That's hilarious!

So then I'd guess that the items are conjured up on-the-fly by some kind of script buried deep inside the engine (the same one that prevents my ranger from getting any decent bow drops, no doubt)... you'd think they could add a simple filter or two to prevent such abominations from spawning at all.

Granted they've got better things to worry about at the moment, but one hopes little details like that will be tidied up eventually..

Static · Jun 22, 2005, 11:59 PM // 23:59

This one made me so pissed off

http://img297.echo.cx/img297/7232/ggjhj8zv.png

Adaria · Jun 23, 2005, 01:04 AM // 01:04

Blue Chakram thing, +5 energy, -5 Energy, So... this is just a pretty toy to carry?