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Alright, I hate to have to do it, I thought that I was just going through a stage of bad luck, But here it is.

Where are the drops ? Where are the all the forge stones ? Getting them to drop has been VERY rare for myself and everyone else I have spoken with concerning them.

Lets look at the increase in new players. Many of them have joined and started their own guilds. Guilds equals PvP in most cases. Where there is PvP there are vets in most cases. Alright lets take someone who has played for a month, If they have the same luck I have had in the past few weeks, then they have a grand total of 0 Blue Forge stones. No blues in PvP means you lose lol. To craft gear that will be ok in PvP you will need about 35 forge stones. Keep in Mind that number is with you getting the Red,Yellow, and Cobalt rolls on your first try. Myself and others have come up with the average number of stones needed to make good PvP gear being in the 50's. At least 6 of those stones are Blues. Can the Forge drop rate be looked at closely. Not just quantity, But Quality. Many of the stones needed to make good gear to even survive in to level a character can not even be bought by the Vets.

This is turning into a serious problem and I think that in time the players will start leaving if they can not get better drops.

Roland Deschain

i've made 2 guys since BSK came back found 2 forge stones from 1-40 on first second guy is still in the lvling progress and sorta bugging me cause i don't like clerics very much but anyway he's 26 only found not one!

i am though experimenting with classic style that being lvling at zombies with no buffs or haste with a brand new toon not rushing it see if i get anything more or less interesting lol [-o< [-o< [-o< [-o< [-o<

Axe Madness wrote:i've made 2 guys since BSK came back found 2 forge stones from 1-40 on first second guy is still in the lvling progress and sorta bugging me cause i don't like clerics very much but anyway he's 26 only found not one!

i am though experimenting with classic style that being lvling at zombies with no buffs or haste with a brand new toon not rushing it see if i get anything more or less interesting lol [-o< [-o< [-o< [-o< [-o<

Hmm I know of someone else who is level 25 at the moment and has found a grand total of 0 forge stones.

*coughs* *nudges thread back to life*

Roland Deschain wrote:*coughs* *nudges thread back to life*

*spanks Roland for not getting enough attention*

That's about it.

Old Chars forgie count since BSK came back = 0
New Chars forgie count = 0
Magic Item drops in general are way down
so far new char level 1-7 total magic items found above +1 in power = 2
Seems no one is finding much since the pawn shop is mostly empty these days.

just my 2 cents.

ttfn

Nizzle wrote:

Roland Deschain wrote:*coughs* *nudges thread back to life*

*spanks Roland for not getting enough attention*

That's about it.

*rips nizzle's arm off and whoops him with it*

Thanks for the input Cybermagi

*ponders the idea of how much gold one would spend for these little stones if he came back* hehe

i'd say forge stones worth more then gold now actually hehh

What little looting I have done as well as leveling I have received I think 1 socket gem and that was it.

SO....What is the current drop rate of forge stones?

The forge stone script has been changed.

Now it checks the forum posts to see if the player has complained about anything.
If the player has complained=no forge stone drop.
If they have not complained=1 in 10000 chance of a forge stone drop

Myle

ST_DM_Myle wrote:The forge stone script has been changed.

Now it checks the forum posts to see if the player has complained about anything.
If the player has complained=no forge stone drop.
If they have not complained=1 in 10000 chance of a forge stone drop

Myle

ok well so far we have everyone agreeing with me that is actually looking for stones. Now that could be viewed as greed lol, or Wing--Zero's question could be answered and then we could see If the stones are dropping as they should. I do not know the facts but I have a pretty good idea that the stones are not dropping as they should

Oh and I know I said I was complaining earlier, But I retract that statement and I have found a better way of putting it, Constructive Criticism. If I was merely complaining I would not have done any research about this, Nor would I have been asking others their opinion of it. Complaining would have been " the drops suck wah wah wah". My suggestion of looking into improving the drops will better the server, people like to be rewarded for leveling and looting. Not only that, Alot of RP leads to PvP and it is nice to actually have a chance to win.

Ok tonight my char went from level 1 to 2 and no loot other than wolf pelts. I'm not counting the barrel find of a sling and light healing potion. Rats, wolves and cows.... zip.

As far as I know, the last change made to the forge script was to beef up the drops and reportedly that was working.

No indication has been given that the drop rates have been lowered, however, I also have not seen sign of Driller or Luc on the forums recently.

Myle