Geodes (can someone help me understand)

[Nynja]

Again, dind't say it was definately a 69 mob.. I said 69-ish. They list as being 68-70. It could have been the odd 70 pop, who knows. But I did get one off wivre. I've also gotten avatarites off of mobs in Ru'anne Gardens as well (the normal mobs go up to 78/79). The point is it does not appear to be a hard/fast rule of being 80+ for them to drop.

Yes there is, I'm the one who found the rule, by doing Decorative Weapons and noticing that avatarites NEVER dropped from the lv79 weapons, only the 80/81.

which is the same as the guy talking about farming ornamental weapons for 8 hours straight--with no weather in that zone either.

Are you saying that Ve'Lugannon never has weather present? The entire sky region shares weather when its present...Shrine, Palace and Gardens.