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Drop Rates?
This issue or topic has always been talked about and questioned for years, but recently it is something that really has started to bug me. To be honest it has for a while but more recently whatever Jagex have done, they have done something to change it.
I am of course talking about the drop rates. The drop rates relating to bosses such as Corp/Gwds/Tds etc and slayer monsters.
Over the past few months all I have being doing is Slaying and Boss hunting, more recently completing my Runescape long term target of 85 slayer. Throughout this I have found that the drop rates have dramatically decreased. Now before you read on and instantly come to the conclusion ‘No they haven’t’ for example. Please just hear me out and have a read of what I think and my own personal experiences.
MAIN BOSSES
I have always done Godwars and always being terribly unlucky but over the past few weeks it just seems that nothing is dropping. The only thing I have seen in the past 20+ trips to Zammy, Bandos combined, and for this example lets say each trip is 2 hours long, so that’s 40 hours of gameplay. In these 40 hours of gamplay all I have seen is 4 Shards and no main drops. 1 of them at Bandos which I apparently soloed which I didn’t and 3 lootshare in the same Zammy trip just a few hours ago.
Throughout these trips you always expect to see say, Bandos boots, Zammy spear etc, but mostly recently there is nothing. Ive being doing trips after trips, tanking, soloing, coinsharing, lootsharing, massing everything in the hope that something changes but it hasn’t, I have just ended up losing more and more cash, and not even gaining profit from the little drops.
But what I want to know is this happening to me or is everyone feeling like something has seriously changed? Yes I know Jagex have always messed around with drop rates but I just want to know is it me or what? I have tried all different gears methods and nothing is working. So please post you opinions and let me know!
SLAYER
Haha! You thought I was finished with bosses, certainly not. I have also found that the drop rates within Slayer have also decreased. I have one theory behind this, blame Effigy’s! Ever since these items were introduced into the system I have found that they have been slowly replacing the main drops. I cannot remember the date they were brought in but within my last 2mil Slayer xp leading up to 86 Slayer I had no main drops. Main drops meaning Whips, Etc, instead all I got was effigies. These effigies to me seem to drop at the rate that the main drops do, but instead of dropping them with them, it just seems they have been replacing them.
My example is, up to 86 Slayer in a few weeks I did 12 Abyssal demon tasks of about say 180 each time and in these tasks I got 0 Whips but instead I got 4 effigies. These drops before the update I would expect them to be Whips but instead there effigies.
Again I have tried all different combinations of equipment, methods in which I killed them, and different places and nothing works, this also applies to a lot of other creatures.
To end this discussion, I just want to say that Thanks for reading and I really would like as many replies as possible and peoples opinions on my theory’s and experiences.
Sincerely,
Ineeson
This issue or topic has always been talked about and questioned for years, but recently it is something that really has started to bug me. To be honest it has for a while but more recently whatever Jagex have done, they have done something to change it.
I am of course talking about the drop rates. The drop rates relating to bosses such as Corp/Gwds/Tds etc and slayer monsters.
Over the past few months all I have being doing is Slaying and Boss hunting, more recently completing my Runescape long term target of 85 slayer. Throughout this I have found that the drop rates have dramatically decreased. Now before you read on and instantly come to the conclusion ‘No they haven’t’ for example. Please just hear me out and have a read of what I think and my own personal experiences.
MAIN BOSSES
I have always done Godwars and always being terribly unlucky but over the past few weeks it just seems that nothing is dropping. The only thing I have seen in the past 20+ trips to Zammy, Bandos combined, and for this example lets say each trip is 2 hours long, so that’s 40 hours of gameplay. In these 40 hours of gamplay all I have seen is 4 Shards and no main drops. 1 of them at Bandos which I apparently soloed which I didn’t and 3 lootshare in the same Zammy trip just a few hours ago.
Throughout these trips you always expect to see say, Bandos boots, Zammy spear etc, but mostly recently there is nothing. Ive being doing trips after trips, tanking, soloing, coinsharing, lootsharing, massing everything in the hope that something changes but it hasn’t, I have just ended up losing more and more cash, and not even gaining profit from the little drops.
But what I want to know is this happening to me or is everyone feeling like something has seriously changed? Yes I know Jagex have always messed around with drop rates but I just want to know is it me or what? I have tried all different gears methods and nothing is working. So please post you opinions and let me know!
SLAYER
Haha! You thought I was finished with bosses, certainly not. I have also found that the drop rates within Slayer have also decreased. I have one theory behind this, blame Effigy’s! Ever since these items were introduced into the system I have found that they have been slowly replacing the main drops. I cannot remember the date they were brought in but within my last 2mil Slayer xp leading up to 86 Slayer I had no main drops. Main drops meaning Whips, Etc, instead all I got was effigies. These effigies to me seem to drop at the rate that the main drops do, but instead of dropping them with them, it just seems they have been replacing them.
My example is, up to 86 Slayer in a few weeks I did 12 Abyssal demon tasks of about say 180 each time and in these tasks I got 0 Whips but instead I got 4 effigies. These drops before the update I would expect them to be Whips but instead there effigies.
Again I have tried all different combinations of equipment, methods in which I killed them, and different places and nothing works, this also applies to a lot of other creatures.
To end this discussion, I just want to say that Thanks for reading and I really would like as many replies as possible and peoples opinions on my theory’s and experiences.
Sincerely,
Ineeson