BOFF and your longest drought (Olindo, 10/20/05)

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:47 am Post subject: BoFF and your longest drought! Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Well title says it all. I am pretty sure that my guilds first Ture kill was in mid/early spring of 2005. We are still currently without a boff ever....that is with weekly kill of him. So about 8 months then, anyone else gone longer?
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Our last one was on June 30. We kill Ture every 5 days, so that's somewhere in the order of 22 kills without one. Doesn't matter to us, all our Paladins have one, but it does seem an awful long time.
There has been some discussion of this on the Sony boards. Could I ask anyone who has definitely seen a BoFF drop in the last two months to post here, please.
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We have had THREE drop in the last two months, all in September and all back to back. 9/6, 9/11, 9/18. We have killed him 10 times total starting on August 2nd.
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Cool, thanks. Figured it was just the RNG but nice to know.
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22 kills one drop. Which was on 8/24 , first ture kill was on 6/26
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Last BoFF drop for us was at the beginning of June.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: BoFF and your longest drought! Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Olindosoulsaver wrote:
Well title says it all. I am pretty sure that my guilds first Ture kill was in mid/early spring of 2005. We are still currently without a boff ever....that is with weekly kill of him. So about 8 months then, anyone else gone longer?
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Actually its just over 6 months. but still with 7 pallies this is gonna take years :p
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We've had 5 drop in 24 kills since 14/6/05
Last one was on 8/9/05, only have 1 paladin waiting now and he has 2.0 so im kinda glad it's thinned out a bit..
The strangest thing I've noticed is the complete lack of masks from ture, we've gotten 1 in 24kills.. think I have more chance just waiting for a vish mask atm..
Edit: another ture kill, no mask or boff, and got vish mask tonight LOL, 2 vish kills 2 masks O.o
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A bit off topic, we started farming Ture last april or somthing.. we've only gotten one morguecaller ever heh.
I understand lowering class item drop rates a bit, considering it's super annoying when they drop and rot in place of real loot (i.e. Tacvi!)... but that's just stupidly rare.
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They should just bunch up the class-only loot on one or two nameds that can be skipped if you want to (somewhat like the aten blobs in VT could be). Then let people start skipping them when noone needs em anymore. Alternatively leave one slot for class-only loot on each mob (and spread the loot around a bit) and have the other two drops be misc.
Leaving it up to RNG when the percentage is so low is just plain stupid.
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We've been doing Anguish since like.. i think early June.
Here's our BoFF listing:
10/10/05 - Twink Paladin (that'd be me)
08/08/05 - Main Pally
08/01/05 - Main Pally
07/11/05 - Main pally (first drop)
Yeah.. all of our main and fulltime paladins have the BoFF already. We have i think 1 or 2 mains that do not often play, and thats why my twink got a boff instead... kinda scary still =x
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40 Ture, 3 BoFFs, last one about 3 weeks ago. Took 22 Tures to see the first one drop (actually even aksed a GM if Ture was bugged on KD back then lol).
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Our first kill was May 13, 2005. We got our one and only BoFF in July. So, 29 kills and 1 BoFF, still no morguecallers in guild for about the same amount of Hanvar kills. Seems crappy to me but can understand not wanting alot of rot once everyone gets.
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Someone was trying to tell me that only one drops a month. Any truth to that?
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4th one tonight, first Ture kill was I think June 24, which would make it our 4th in 4 months. for what that's worth
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Joslynn wrote:
Someone was trying to tell me that only one drops a month. Any truth to that?
Doubtful... the RNG is the RNG.
It's not Anguish, but going back to Time... my guild has been killing there around once a week for about 3-4 months now. In that time, we've seen maybe 5 Hopebringers, and 0 chanter slow sticks from TZ. I think that might actually be the only piece that hasn't dropped yet for us.
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First Coa raid 08/07/05
Date Buyer Blade of Forgotten Faith
08/29/05 Kikthin Anguish
09/05/05 Lionheartx Anguish
Still 6 players waiting for them.
Has anyone dropped hanvar since he been put on steroids, we decided last night to kill AMV and save Jalvan as we been told those two are easier then hanvar is now.
Gonna be kind of messy with him hitting and ramping for 4k.
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4 drops from 23 kills, first kill was 25-June-05 last BoFF dropped 7-Sept-05
as for hanvar we killed him last night with about 8 MT deaths, it was fun... and then we wiped to AMV Embarassed
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same on hanvar and AMV, Hanvar was a pain but we took him down first try, AMV wiped us. AMV's adds seemed to spawn faster than usual, and more "marked for death" too, could be bad luck though. Second run at AMV was fine, so who knows. Had what I think was our first flawless (0 deaths) jelvan though.
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Got hanvar first try as well, 2 belts of the stagnant and another bracer /groan. I ramp tanked hanvar and his ramp is pretty darn wussy compared to his dmg on the MT (when not DA of course...). For mobs that stun - DA ramp tanking can make a paladin immune to the stun and able to heal the MT at crucial times, try it - its like the coolest thing in all of eq to keep the tank up when all the clerics are stunned hehe.
We had 6 clerics and 4 warriors, but 3 of our warriors are top 10 on the server... guess which one died on his turn in the disc switch... only 1 tank had to tank twice so 15min fight roughly.
*still only 1 mask from ture after 26 kills, 3 from 3 with vish masks now lol /em flattens old mask into a frisbee and throws it at ture.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:47 am Post subject: BoFF and your longest drought! Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Well title says it all. I am pretty sure that my guilds first Ture kill was in mid/early spring of 2005. We are still currently without a boff ever....that is with weekly kill of him. So about 8 months then, anyone else gone longer?
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Our last one was on June 30. We kill Ture every 5 days, so that's somewhere in the order of 22 kills without one. Doesn't matter to us, all our Paladins have one, but it does seem an awful long time.
There has been some discussion of this on the Sony boards. Could I ask anyone who has definitely seen a BoFF drop in the last two months to post here, please.
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We have had THREE drop in the last two months, all in September and all back to back. 9/6, 9/11, 9/18. We have killed him 10 times total starting on August 2nd.
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Cool, thanks. Figured it was just the RNG but nice to know.
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22 kills one drop. Which was on 8/24 , first ture kill was on 6/26
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Last BoFF drop for us was at the beginning of June.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: BoFF and your longest drought! Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Olindosoulsaver wrote:
Well title says it all. I am pretty sure that my guilds first Ture kill was in mid/early spring of 2005. We are still currently without a boff ever....that is with weekly kill of him. So about 8 months then, anyone else gone longer?
Olindo Soulsaver
Actually its just over 6 months. but still with 7 pallies this is gonna take years :p
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We've had 5 drop in 24 kills since 14/6/05
Last one was on 8/9/05, only have 1 paladin waiting now and he has 2.0 so im kinda glad it's thinned out a bit..
The strangest thing I've noticed is the complete lack of masks from ture, we've gotten 1 in 24kills.. think I have more chance just waiting for a vish mask atm..
Edit: another ture kill, no mask or boff, and got vish mask tonight LOL, 2 vish kills 2 masks O.o
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A bit off topic, we started farming Ture last april or somthing.. we've only gotten one morguecaller ever heh.
I understand lowering class item drop rates a bit, considering it's super annoying when they drop and rot in place of real loot (i.e. Tacvi!)... but that's just stupidly rare.
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They should just bunch up the class-only loot on one or two nameds that can be skipped if you want to (somewhat like the aten blobs in VT could be). Then let people start skipping them when noone needs em anymore. Alternatively leave one slot for class-only loot on each mob (and spread the loot around a bit) and have the other two drops be misc.
Leaving it up to RNG when the percentage is so low is just plain stupid.
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We've been doing Anguish since like.. i think early June.
Here's our BoFF listing:
10/10/05 - Twink Paladin (that'd be me)
08/08/05 - Main Pally
08/01/05 - Main Pally
07/11/05 - Main pally (first drop)
Yeah.. all of our main and fulltime paladins have the BoFF already. We have i think 1 or 2 mains that do not often play, and thats why my twink got a boff instead... kinda scary still =x
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40 Ture, 3 BoFFs, last one about 3 weeks ago. Took 22 Tures to see the first one drop (actually even aksed a GM if Ture was bugged on KD back then lol).
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Our first kill was May 13, 2005. We got our one and only BoFF in July. So, 29 kills and 1 BoFF, still no morguecallers in guild for about the same amount of Hanvar kills. Seems crappy to me but can understand not wanting alot of rot once everyone gets.
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Someone was trying to tell me that only one drops a month. Any truth to that?
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4th one tonight, first Ture kill was I think June 24, which would make it our 4th in 4 months. for what that's worth
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Joslynn wrote:
Someone was trying to tell me that only one drops a month. Any truth to that?
Doubtful... the RNG is the RNG.
It's not Anguish, but going back to Time... my guild has been killing there around once a week for about 3-4 months now. In that time, we've seen maybe 5 Hopebringers, and 0 chanter slow sticks from TZ. I think that might actually be the only piece that hasn't dropped yet for us.
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First Coa raid 08/07/05
Date Buyer Blade of Forgotten Faith
08/29/05 Kikthin Anguish
09/05/05 Lionheartx Anguish
Still 6 players waiting for them.
Has anyone dropped hanvar since he been put on steroids, we decided last night to kill AMV and save Jalvan as we been told those two are easier then hanvar is now.
Gonna be kind of messy with him hitting and ramping for 4k.
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4 drops from 23 kills, first kill was 25-June-05 last BoFF dropped 7-Sept-05
as for hanvar we killed him last night with about 8 MT deaths, it was fun... and then we wiped to AMV Embarassed
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same on hanvar and AMV, Hanvar was a pain but we took him down first try, AMV wiped us. AMV's adds seemed to spawn faster than usual, and more "marked for death" too, could be bad luck though. Second run at AMV was fine, so who knows. Had what I think was our first flawless (0 deaths) jelvan though.
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Got hanvar first try as well, 2 belts of the stagnant and another bracer /groan. I ramp tanked hanvar and his ramp is pretty darn wussy compared to his dmg on the MT (when not DA of course...). For mobs that stun - DA ramp tanking can make a paladin immune to the stun and able to heal the MT at crucial times, try it - its like the coolest thing in all of eq to keep the tank up when all the clerics are stunned hehe.
We had 6 clerics and 4 warriors, but 3 of our warriors are top 10 on the server... guess which one died on his turn in the disc switch... only 1 tank had to tank twice so 15min fight roughly.
*still only 1 mask from ture after 26 kills, 3 from 3 with vish masks now lol /em flattens old mask into a frisbee and throws it at ture.
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