Quote Originally Posted by Alistaire View Post
Got a good laugh at that considering the change to kings made Black Belt about 10-20 times harder to get and time consuming in doing it.
you tried it? I recently finallydecided to get BB items for 2 MNK mules using seals, so i can get those extra 3 STR. The 3 KSNM99 can be easilly 2 manned or 3 manned with monks; MNK+WHM for Behemoth (magic defense gear), MNK+WHM+RDM for wyrm (chainspell thunder 4), MNK+WHM+SCH for turtle (Klaustra). Not to mention the poped NMs and their HQ are jokes compared to the ks99 mobs.

I pretty much went 1/3 for each items that i farmed twice for 2 mules. I even got a HQ behemoth and a HQ turtle. People tend to exagerate or extrapolate out of their crap luck. The drop rate from ks99 from experience and what people say is ~1/4 and the drop rate on HQ pop with TH12+ is ~1/5. Not to mention HQ pop can be bought lol (5-10M a pop is nothing by today's economy). I'd say BB is 10x easier to get now. I had to pay 15Mil back in the day which was 50+mil of today.