HQ king triggers

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Originally Posted by Ravenmore

On 4 NQ faffys we got 3 HQ nidhoggs. 1 beard from the 99 2 from the HQ. no lolridills 2 e.bodys, 2 n.legs and 2 n.heads

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lucky! you had TH?

yeah, why wouldn't you take TH? Though I did opened my mouth and jinxed it on #4 faffy.

7/47 on Cups of Sweet Tea;
2-3/7 on Nidhogg BB Item;
0/47 on Ridill post-update (0/65+ overall).

Can anyone attest to Ridill dropping post-update? Starting to believe it is in the same pool as the HQ trigger.

And i wanted a Ridill as a toy :(

ridill still fun these days>

Just to once again add to the sample.

Attempt 1: Behemoth

2/3 HQ pops.
Highest TH was 8.

Attempt 2: Fafnir

1/8 HQ pops.
Highest TH was 9 (however it wasn't the pop that dropped HQ)

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Originally Posted by Sureal

feel free to actually do work instead of coming here complaing that your 22 pops didnt all drop what you wanted


welcome to ffxi, have we met before?

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22 pops too many......

Spent 16 KS99 orbs and got 1 black belt item. 6 turtles gave 0 HQ pops.

I would save my seals. Shout and buy the items form people that don't need em, then Shout and sell them to people when they increase the drop rate :P

I feel u on this one. Defending ring is a little less than a 1/20 drop. That's a lot of work getting Thant many savory shanks. I hate it. And there expensive if u find one for sell 4-6 mil

another 7 faf pops, another 7 nodrops...

all with TH7+, no double abju drop, no N.Hd, but hey I got another Ridill?

Can I get some bloody feedback on this, because its getting absurd.

Ive yet to try or do this myself but i can say that if they intend to keep this system in place, they need to do one of three things.

A. Offer an alternate source to obtain the pop items for NQ/HQ
B. Lower the KSNM cost from 99 to 30/33 seals, or even 40-50, it would substantially increase one's chances to do this.
C. Raise the drop rate on HQ pop, possibly to 65%-100% Because as it stands, little of the loot, and abjurations are still worth using.

Even looking at this myself, i consider blackbelt, but at the moment i just want a wyrmal abj body, it looks really cool.

I just can't afford to blow my seals at these drop rates. People are selling the HQ pops for over 3 million Gil on Cerberus.

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Originally Posted by FrankReynolds

I just can't afford to blow my seals at these drop rates. People are selling the HQ pops for over 3 million Gil on Cerberus.

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Haha, if you see one for only 3mil you should buy it. I sold a Sweet Tea for 9mil, and they regularly go for 7+.

14 Behemoth pops with TH10-11 and no HQ. There's some more sampling for you guys.

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Originally Posted by FrankReynolds

I just can't afford to blow my seals at these drop rates. People are selling the HQ pops for over 3 million Gil on Cerberus.

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I'd buy them at 3 mil, Nid goes for about 8 mil on Carb (almost typed Gilga haha) and KB goes for about 15...IF you can find someone selling them.

Years ago we were fighting to get a single dragon everyday, and we considered ourselves lucky if we managed to claim once a week. The situation has pretty much changed, and if you are doing Kings is either for BB drops or for NostalgiaDrops. I helped on a lot of KSNM99, like a dozen Wyrms + a dozen fafnir, ten Horns + ten behemoth + 1 KB. I see HQ triggers selling for 10m on Ragna and KSNM99 pops for over 1m. It's okay to lower droprates of BB to actually EARN them, but wtf guys how is this REVAMPING old content if you have to fight against ridicolous Salvage-like droprates. It's OLD, let us do more Nidhogg, Monks are not even going to get their BB items 100% from it, so what's the problem <_<

I'm pretty annoyed that there was never a response to this. I feel like Tanaka snuck in and changed some code to keep his legacy of pain alive. I would also like to point out because I don't know if it has been mentioned but the double NQ drop rate from KS99s is just freaking terrible. Like 1-2% terrible.

Can add to the statistics
0/20 on Nidhogg
0/10 on Behemoth
all had TH7+

HQ pops are 10m+ on Leviathan, KB being the more expensive.

One shining piece of positive news out of this. 1/2 on Red Pondweed after blowing 2 mill on 2 Adamantoise pops. I had to take three THFs to SATA it to death though, TH10 each time. It simply didn't live long enough for us to proc any higher.

On the other end of the spectrum, it ultimately took 25 Behemoth pops for me to get an HQ.

Very much with Nynja at this point - I would apppreciate the dev's stance on this issue, because it seems this is an ongoing problem. Why is the development team so adamant about keeping the playerbase from realistically accessing kings content?

Apparently the JPs agree. Needs more Placebo!

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Originally Posted by Insaniac

I would also like to point out because I don't know if it has been mentioned but the double NQ drop rate from KS99s is just freaking terrible. Like 1-2% terrible.

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Theres a double drop?

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Originally Posted by Nynja

Theres a double drop?

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SE originally hinted there was. I've personally not seen it or not seen it reported.

I was going to say I've seen it once but now you are making me question it. I'm only 70% sure I've actually seen a double drop in 100+ KS99s.

It comes from this post they made, but after going 20/20 on single NQ drops from KS99s, I just started assuming they were trying to reassure us that it wouldn't be less than 100%.

I know after having done god knows how many KS99's post patch, I've yet to see a double drop. Its always been the pop item 3rd slot from the bottom.