The Flame Geode Thread...... Again.

[Fupafighter]

You can also log out and log back in to restart timer.

[scaevola]

i am trying to come up with a better way to say "why would you do that"

[Fupafighter]

Because logging out takes 30 seconds. Restarts timer. Meaning you can get one every 2 minutes if you're lucky enough.

[scaevola]

Ok, let me put this another way.

Are you suggesting he falsified his data? This would be a really weird and pointless thing to lie about.

[Fupafighter]

Ok, let me put this another way.

Are you suggesting he falsified his data? This would be a really weird and pointless thing to lie about.

I'm saying that if someone in his party accidental DCed and he didn't notice, he could have infact gotten 2 via "log out" method. Not saying it's false, just saying that could have happened. 1 random extra geode after how long makes me think that that's what may have happened or he beat the odds. Or please show me actual testing.

[scaevola]

He would notice a DC, because those are his mules.

At any rate, the implication of his post is that it's happened multiple times* and that was the example he had at his convenience.

I am of course not him so I can't swear by his experiences**, but with ALL THE GEODE FARMING HE'D DONE, if the double drop had happened once and a DC were involved I think he would have found that relevant.




*Vermy is one of the mules; the man has farmed waaaay more geodes than I or I assume you ever will


**I don't have a mule and don't keep my game logs so if two geodes dropped for me in five minutes I wouldn't even notice because really, what does that change

[Nawesemo]

I'm in the zoning does something camp.

[TMG]

There was ONE time I also had 2 geodes in the pool with only one party, 3 people in party. There was wind weather present, I don't remember what day it was though. It was in Sky, I was really confused about it and I've never seen it happen again since. It is entirely possible that one of us had zoned in after the first one was in the pool and gotten the kill shot for the second one... it's been over a year since it happened but I know we were trying to pop Steam Cleaner at the time and I seem to remember zoning in after the detector had been pulled and dolls were being killed.

Whatever it is, zoning DOES help, immensely. I was farming flame geodes in Meriph (S) on firesday, and a random bout of fire weather popped. After each geode I would recall back into the zone and resume killing, and get a geode almost every single mob, if not then the second mob would drop one. I came out with 12 flame geodes on that one firesday. I've done the same thing in sky with wind weather and come out with a boat load of geodes by camping by one of the Ve'lugannon zones. I've never been able to duplicate 2 geodes/1 party, and there's been many many opportunities for it to happen. There's some kind of exception where it can happen, it's just extremely rare and I still stick by the 5 minute drop timer/zoning reset theory.

[Theytak]

it's likely a matter that you can have a geode drop slot for both day and weather separately, but because weather overwrites day, the day drop's would be altered, and most likely, if weather's active, it's more likely to use that drop slot instead of day, even if one is waiting on the 5 min timer and the other isn't, but there's a very low chance that the day's drop will get through instead, and thus give you two in less than 5 minutes. That's purely speculation, though.

[TMG]

I agree, that'd make the most sense since day drops are so rare already you're not likely to see two at once.