Brass Plate +3

Does anyone know which mobs offer the best chance of dropping a brass plate +3. YG and ZAM seem to be a little at odds on this. Having spent about 3 hours killing Dapper Cadavers and so far today killing Rotting Corpses they both tend to drop primarily iron goods. Any help would be sincerely appreciated.

Nevermind, one dropped from a Rotting Corpse, not an HQ of course lol. Maybe YG is correct - says Cadavars have a better drop rate, but by my accounts it sure isn't 12.5% lol.

if the drop rate on a plate is 10%(its probly more like 1% yg isnt very accurate)
you can bet the drop rate on a +3 is a small fraction of even that

I'm sure I read somewhere that +3 plates don't drop. Some items in this game only drop as NQs. I mean in all my time farming crab shells I've never seen a silver fish hook +3 but seen hundreds of NQs. Never seen a weapon head of any kind drop as +3 either, not just the NM ones. I imagine most crafted items don't drop as +3s.

i know several crafted items that drop as +3 from mobs
so may not be the case

on rare drops, its even rarer to see an HQ is what it really is imo

Chains can drop +3s.
Ingots can drop +3s.
Cloth parts can drop +3s.
Not heard the shell gladiators say anything about plate farming though. Plate is a processed ingot though. It would be a little broken to bypass ore to nuggets, nuggets to ingots and ingots to plates and just go straight to a plate+3.

If you were to try to craft a plate+3, there'd be a mountain of **** behind it that wasn't.

Hi zzapp,

Brass Plate HQ doesn't drop from mobs. As others have said, not every item in the game has an HQ version dropped from a mob. Brass Plate is one of them.

The % you see on YG is for Normal Quality Brass Plate. If you click on the mob itself, or the "+3" Hyperlink, you'll see there are no hits on it. From multiple friends who've farmed undead for weeks upon weeks, they've never had a Brass Plate +3 drop (from the early days 'till even last week).

Thank you everyone, after essentially a full (and I mean full) day of looking for the +3 drop (I did actually get 5 NQ) I believe you're all right in that this doesn't drop. I think YG may sometimes just +3 drops across the board without any substantiation.

Tons of mobs do drop tons of +3 items, and from a crafting perspective, worth pursuing on items one is looking to HQ. For example, for the ice brand I'm looking to HQ, I was able to finally get and Eye of Ice +3 after quite a few NQ drops.

Thanks again for everyone's kind guidance.

Hi Eli,

No worries. :)

To be fair in regards to YG, they added in a +3 Brass Plate because it does exist... you just have to Craft it.

If you click the +3 Hyperlink on Brass Plate's page, you'll see the "Dropped By" option disappears, since there are no monsters that drop it, and all that remains is a "Created By" via crafting.

Good luck!

+3 plate as a drop does (or did) exist from one of the 65-70ish undead mobs in LL area. This was quite some time ago that we farmed them and quite possibly changed much in the same way Haubergeons were removed as a drop. Just to test if they still do drop we went back to the same mobs and farmed for a few hours and got nada.


Just as a point of refrence: chain +3 is pretty processed as well. Even more so then plates.

ore>nugget>ingot>wire>rings>chain

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Originally Posted by twinkles

+3 plate as a drop does (or did) exist from one of the 65-70ish undead mobs in LL area. This was quite some time ago that we farmed them and quite possibly changed much in the same way Haubergeons were removed as a drop. Just to test if they still do drop we went back to the same mobs and farmed for a few hours and got nada.


Just as a point of refrence: chain +3 is pretty processed as well. Even more so then plates.

ore>nugget>ingot>wire>rings>chain

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Wire resets the processing difficulty because you can make 12 HQ all at once from NQ ingots. Still painful though, and people choose to farm them rather than craft them which is a shame.

Also a testament to how much people prefer to grind on battle farming compared to grind crafting. No surprise there though, crafting is basement content.

It comes down to whats easier, and in the case of chain +3's, farming mobs is hands down easier. I define easier as faster that's just me, plus its not hours of the processing steps vs. hey i can go kill some undead.

The most mind numbing of crafting for me at least is processing parts. Since to get the batches i like to do, takes hours on end of grinding ingots/handles whatever really, and usually all for little to no sp. Any chance i can take to get out of Uldah and farm a part from a mob i take it!!

The solution for that would be upping the rate on hq parts, or giving us touch up for parts, cause right now part creation is right up there with a swift kick to the nuts.

Touch up on parts would be nice. But at the end of the day the easier you make it to craft HQ parts, the easier it becomes to make HQ finished items. Those +3s go from being rare to common and the +2s go from being common to trash.

I'm not sure how they can balance it right. I like the rarity of +3 end-game items. Maybe make touch up on parts less effective than touch up on finished items. That way you get a few more rolls at an HQ chance but it's not too easy.

yeah i totally see where you're coming from on this, and i like the idea of a "reduced effectiveness touch up". The HQ system for parts atm as far as i can tell is just a big RNG shit storm. I like the idea of finished items being rare, i just don't care for having to make 4hrs of parts just to get a hand full of workable materials. Sorta comes back to rewarding spamming vs actual real understanding and applying whatever mechanic SE intended to "work".