Why does NGD hate me so much?
 

Hello,

well, I am playing RO 2.5 years now. I managed to earn a lot of respect in this game by playing my warlock very well and also by trying a lot of strategies, which led our realm Ignis to victory when Syrtis used to be a huge zerg over one year ago on german servers. I could tell so many stories about all that. It was a great time. :-)

There is one thing, I never managed to archive in this game though:

Within 2.5 years of RO, I never got a drop from Tenax or any of the Superbosses, which got introduced later of course. Everyone else is getting those drops.

I don't like to cry here. All I want is to get an answer to this question:

NGD, why do you hate me so much? Tell me!!1! :-))

I guess I've earned the title: "most unlucky player in this game". Hehe


regards,
Anu

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I would say Warlock is the (second) least likely to get a boss drop. Only knights could possibly be worse at bosses, they can't use auras, and theyre damage isnt very good. The reason I say Warlocks are the worst is because mobs with a title (leader, champion, epic) seem to have an insane resist rate, but not a stunning evade rate. So naturally then your spells are resisted-->you dont benefit the group as much-->you dont get drop :/

This system is also why conjus are so good for bosses (mine dropped mace today! :D) because they do not suffer from evade or resist chances. They are using auras, thus helping tons of people at once, thus taking credit for damage done. At bosses there are so many people, the auras do so much, that conjus get insane amount of damage, and they get the drop.

Just my thoughts, and if this was triggered by me posting about my Daen mace im sorry :/

You don't need to be sorry, because it was not triggered by your post.

I kinda disagree with your points about warlocks at bosses. I use the following setup at bosses:

- Pylon 5
- Mana Communion 5 (Staff Mastery for Damage)
- Lazyness 5
- Vamp and Soulkeeper 5 (for survivals)

I liked to post this thread, because I got Dean's aggro today hitting him with 1.2k norms using exotic empanadas. I only survived thanks to the heals, pylons and lazyness. It was fun but then again, I've got nothing except loot. So I liked to post this more-likely-fun-thread. :-)

Guess if you kill it enough number of times you will get a drop oO conjus/barbs/marks seem to drop better.. just my opinion.

My first boss drop was on my warlock, when I wasn't even lvl 40 yet. It was from tenax, I just spammed bless and bless weapon, along with mana communion.

dont feel alone, they hate me too :)

Seriously though, I have tried on RA for the longest time, and I have tried on Horus enough times to make it hopeless to try.

Too many conjurers already, and all with the same auras, so technically all slots are always filled, so no downtime between auras with so many spamming and overlapping. cant go the bless route, since everyone there is multi blessed likewise.

So, the last option is don't bother going, which I think i should really listen to in the future.
The drops just go to someone who will hold forever, unless he gets the exact same drop but for different class, its a never ending cycle, for those who put their time and effort into helping ONE person get a drop, and he turns around and holds onto it indefinately, very rarely do they go to the people who could use them, its actually nice when someone even says thanks to the team who helped them, and even rarer for someone to give it to someone less fortunate. It has happened, but for the most part, its a wash.

so i think i share your status :) lol. I was still on ra when they added the superbosses, but I never dropped there either as my primary then was knight/hunter, i didnt really get into conj playing till I levelled one before leaving RA, then starting another on Horus, Since I thought the class would be more useful than a grinder killer..or a masochist with no dmg potential and recently nerfed auras.

So, nope never dropped here either, as Knight/Hunter/Conjurer

It's probably a conspiracy...

I never got a drop from Vesper, so i simply gived up going there. From Evendim got 2 times, but after ppl started to spam auras i rare get even XP. Here in Syrtis bossmob drops are usually get from same ppl...

I really do not care anymore.

The secret to success is not expecting anything (?). I got my drop at alasthor on my knight, with a debuffing setup. Amongst all those barbs my damage wasn't gonna make much difference, my debuffs apparently did.

The last time I participated in Tenaxs demise, I set up for Staff Mastery, and didn't even get XP. Far as I can tell, I just didn't do enough damage to be helpful in his/her death.

On an unrelated note; could we get an official to tell us if the dragons are male or female? Not like it matters, but it's been bugging me...

tl;dr.
But anyway, I saw the Knight part.
I have gotten 3 drops from aura spamming. I do not care if I get hated for it =P

Never had a boss drop on my barbarian, have held aggro plenty of times. I've even been in a situation where I got the lion's share of the XP from Tenax, but all I got in in other terms was a metric shitload of various body parts and gems – I held onto these for the longest time in the hope that they had something to do with the planned crafting system that was dangled in front of our noses like the proverbial carrot for so long, but as I'm sure you all know, no dice there.
The last dozen or so times I've helped to kill an Epic mob (so epic... 30 seconds last time we killed Tenax, although empandas probably caused that) I've done it purely so that I was doing something with my realm mates.

I got exp on my marks one time at thorkul, and that's one time only (at lvl....uh.....36?)

I've yet to make it to any event for killing dragon/thorky since I made my conju (always late or have to leave few minutes before it starts >.>) so I've never dropped a boss drop in my life

though I DID drop an aysor amulet once, but does that really count? -.-

I've dropped leggings from tenax on my knight. I don't think I had aggro.
I tend to run under the red beast and hit belly area.

Thats the only drop I have ever gotten, and I PROMPTLY gave them away. Yes gave, no mags or gold or uber gear trading. I wasn't planning to use them and I would always rather see good gear get used rather than sit untouched.

Usually tho I'm in the same boat as Ara, metric assload of 'loot'.

Side note, why is a tenax fire ruby only worth 30gp at merchant? It was considerably more difficult to obtain than say a moon stone from a samal orc, but same value?

So many questions... We demand the TRUTH.

Sometimes it seems that dropluck depends on character not on class or player. Sometimes I think that using boosters decrease drop chance...

Once I grinded my knight... It has 100+ strength which is equal ~300kg of possble weight. Ok, 100kg is equipment.

I got 200kg of loot from sabbertooths and no drop... even nonspec...

Once at Alasthor I was only player who didn`t die... Eh... Sweet tree-tactic times... I got tons of gems, scales, gold, but no drop...

With my barb I don`t have such problems))

I might be able to confirm this. I never got drop, but I alwyas had bossters going because tenax often caught me in the middle of grind. I'm a support conju, so the timer doesnt run out during tenax cuz im not hitting him :D and then the xp at the end is like 3000-5000 xD. But back to what I was saying. The one time in the past 2 months I didn't have a booster up, my conju dropped rha mace, then I got more xim and am using boosters again.....no drop