Thoughts on Relic Armor upgrade

[Demonjustin]

EP mobs have always had a fairly low drop rate compared to the DCs, if you can tell me the zone you farmed and the area in the zone in which you farmed theres a good chance I can tell you if it was EP or DC mobs, but so far as drop rates go, EPs have like a 2~5% drop rate and DCs are more like 5~10%, just doing Arch Dynamis Lord over the last month and a half and picking up loose hopes falling into my inventory from NMs & DC monsters I have gotten over 150 of them stocked up, if I went out of my way to farm them, it would likely be much higher, since we have around 10 people most nights and yet only kill around 150 mobs capable of dropping any hopes.

[Olor]

I was on the Orcs by the lake on the way to the boss pop area in Beau

[Demonjustin]

Ok those are EP. In Beau the DC mobs are generally the ones higher up from the starting area, if you went up the very first ramp on the way to TE1, those and everything further upward are all DCs so far as I know, they are also all Hydra mobs. One of the easiest ways to remember what mobs are DC and what ones aren't, the 10 minute TEs are all spread out in the areas with EP mobs, the 1 20 minute TE is placed in an area with DC mobs, so if you know where the 20 minute can pop, you should know where DC mobs are for the most part.

Also as a note I would do Chains areas like Valk or Bub rather than original Dynamis areas like Beau or the cities, but thats more a matter of preference I suppose since I always hated the original zones.

[Olor]

Only Tav has thoughts other than beau... and I don't have access. Hydra mobs really really really suck.... ugh. Thanks though, that helps. I usually just don't get the 20 min TE because I am not proccing and don't actually want to spend that much time on a 2 per cent drop.

[Demonjustin]

Yeah if you are going specifically for thoughts it can be a pain, even if you did Tav your mob selection wouldn't improve much in that case since the monsters there I think are Demons, Clusters which blow up, and Leeches. Either way, I get where you're coming from, but I do hope with this new info you can more easily get your drops, so long as you use the Sparks gear from RoE you should be good to go do DC mobs anytime.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

500 log-in points for a single "Forgotten" item? While listing an entire frayed pouch of Walk of Echoes coins or enough seals to jump up from nothing to Empyrean +1 in a single purchase for the same price? Sounds like the annoyingly low drop rate is "working as intended."

Yeah... still not feeling it.

[Zeargi]

500 log-in points for a single "Forgotten" item? While listing an entire frayed pouch of Walk of Echoes coins or enough seals to jump up from nothing to Empyrean +1 in a single purchase for the same price? Sounds like the annoyingly low drop rate is "working as intended."

Yeah... still not feeling it.

But did you also notice that they removed the +2 items for Emp. Which is a likely sign of that the Empyrean equipment isn't short behind this string of ilvl+