Treasure Hunter Testing

[Arcon]

Did they change that you can get rare drops if everyone in your party already had them?

[Karbuncle]

No, He'll skew the results unless he drops one.

Or he only plans to test Raxa? or pop Ulli

[Insaniac]

I don't really remember raxa being that rare. It's been at least 2 years since I've farmed a diorite though so idk.

[Vold]

yeah I remembered the whole ra thing before I continued. I did stop to kill Ulli but I also left for the day because weekends are best for bazaar sales :x I'll start my trials again tomorrow.

[Vold]

I never saw a single raxa back at 75, granted I didn't see a billion hours doing end game up there. Still, raxa has been documented as much as diorite to be around the same drop rate of 1-2%ish. Of course as we all know a wiki is just a wiki so best case let's just say the truth is about 10%. So far I'm seeing about a 10% drop rate increase on them both with TH3+. That's from my personal memory, hence why I'm bothering with /thf farming. These things are dropping left and right for me so it's time to see what TH2 can do. Eventually I'll get several hundred kills and see how it pans out over time but I suspect I'm going to end up seeing TH3 giving a considerable boost to raxa drops, and diorites themselves having received a boost in drop rate for the new Sky era.

I have very good reasons to hang around in sky to make money so I really should end up with thousands of kills to see one way or another just what the deal is. I'll *try* to make the farming even between THF and /thf but I stress it's hard to not farm on THF so THF will probably end up having more data than /thf. If nothing else my current plans are to at least get 1k kills on war/thf to document. Yeah... very good reasons to live in Sky these days.

[Insaniac]

That's great man =) Post your infos here and I will add it to the OP.

[Vold]

Here's some LOL numbers to celebrate the start of my grand journey up in Sky:

WAR/THF - total goal today - 100 Aura statue kills, even if it means dropping diorites.

100 Aura Statue kills, goal complete.

Drops overall - 6 crests, 3 high crest, 9 golem shards, 4 geodes, 47 mythril ores, 0 raxa, 11 diorite.

11 for 100 on diorite. 0 raxa.


Now I'm going to get on THF and do the same exact thing just to see how things are comparing to each other after a mere 100 kills.

[Vold]

Round 2 - same test but as THF/NIN +3 in TH gear

100 Aura Statue kills, speed killing with few TH procs, about half of the kills had TH7 on, with 8 being very rare before statues ran out of HP.

9 crests, 6 high crests, 5 geode, 7 golem shard, 53 mythril ore, 0 raxa, 7 diorite


Results, though small, are interesting to say the least.

Final Round 3 tomorrow - same test as THF/NIN but slow killing for TH procs, no weapon skills, pure melee, SATA as much as possible. Generally my best results with TH7+ on nearly every single mob, TH8 will probably end up on half of the kills or more, and very rarely 9. After wards I go silent for a few weeks but I suspect when I return to this thread I'll have a far higher kill count. All depends on my will to mass kill Byakko. I won't be throwing away diorites anymore after tomorrow's test.

[Shiyo]

I thought TH could only increase item drops to 50% drop rate?

[Arcon]

I thought TH could only increase item drops to 50% drop rate?

Why would you think that?