User:Arnout aka The Emperors Angel

Me? LAME'''?!?
Sigh. Up for the first test week. I don't feel like doing it, but I guess I'll have to. Well, at least it will be followed by a holiday. HURRAY!!!

Welcome!
Hey. The Emperors Angel is my game name, you can find me there.

My chars

 * The Emperors Angel, a female Warrior, my first char.
 * She's Tha BomB! I really like her, and im trying to get her HoM stacked to the notches. (pve)


 * Angel Neferata, a female Assassin, my second char.
 * Primarly used for farming ecto's and if I feel like it, Raptors. (pve)


 * Mama Ik Heb Lol, a male Warrior.
 * A trusted hardcore beater of the Luxon's. Or anything else that gets in his way, for that matter! I started doing RA with him recently. (pvp)


 * The Healerangel, a male Monk.
 * Now going to 55 everything there is. And not just 55'ing, I kinda like playing monk as well. (Just don't have the skill to do it in high-end anything.) (pve)


 * Angel of Courtesy, a female Paragon.
 * Used for parading around naked. (or it's GW equivalent)


 * Mama Ik Leg Vallen, a female Ranger.
 * Primeraly used for farming the Zaishen. (pvp)

The chars my brother uses

 * Death Elementelist (this is not an spelling error, its the way the name is written), a male Elementalist, his oldest char (pve)
 * The Worlds Doom, a (now female, it used to be male) Necromancer. I still like to play MM, but recently I started using Curses, and Blood Magic too.

Loot Test
To clear things up for myself, (whether drops increase/improve if you farm with a party outside radar range) I'm going to undertake a little testing on how loot drops work. The test is limited, as my time is limited. The test area is the Raptor Nestling cave, with a Perma SF Sliver Armor Build.

I'm doing three sets of tests (each consisting of 45 runs): I'm going to check for greens, golds, purples, blues, whites, gold, collectibles, festival items, dye, lock picks, blue scrolls, gold scrolls, tome and elite tomes. I'm going to check for numbers, not the quality (max damage, max mods, color of the dye, etc.) of the items themselves or the mods on the items.
 * 1st (default) Test: With a full party within radar range killing the raptors. (done)
 * 2nd Test: With a full party outside radar range, and then kill the raptors.
 * 3rd Test: Going alone, and kill me some raptors. (done)

No comments? I'm flattered!

Progress Report: I thought that my runs were slow as hell, (I dont have "BUH" or EBSoH on my assa), but I have been timing reguarly, and I need 3-4 mins to kill 27-32 raptors a run. That’s a lot less then the 6 minutes I thought I needed. Well, only 20 runs left to do. I hope to finish today, so I can do some other things as well, namely the costume brawl. I hope to get R1 gamer before the event ends.

Results: I finished the "default" test. Results? As expected. Lousy, so to say. On average 28.1 raptors killed, and per run 23.44 gold pieces. Half the time, you get a Trick-or-Treat Bag (47%). I'm not advising this kind of farm. Average profit: 100-150 gold. This does not include tomes, gold items, festival items and collectables. And that’s even besides the trouble you have to go through to keep your party in range. About a dozen failed runs due to a mess up on that part, and then some more due to lagg. (getting stuck between raptors without a full agro, or lagging out when refreshing SF) Noteworthy: only 3 normal tomes, and no elite tome. No greens, and no lockpicks either.

I finished the final test. Results? Mind blowing! Let me sum if up for you: on average 28.9 raptors killed, with a whopping 71,73 gold pieces per run. More then 4 (4.2 to be precise) ToT-bags, more then 2 (2.35) Saurian Bones, a 25% (0.24) chance of getting a normal tome, and 1 gold item out of every three runs (0.38). Smashing! Noteworthy: 1 elite tome, 4 lockpicks, 4 blue scrolls, 1 green, 8 dyes (no black or white though) and 4 lockpicks. Massive!

That's all Folks!
Tnx for reading!

As opposed to my previous line here, I would disencourig you form joining me. D*mn this is boring!

Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 17:07, 29 October 2008 (UTC)