User:Arnout aka The Emperors Angel

Me? LAME'''?!?
I didn't do as bad as I thought in my test week. Only messed up math (again o.0). Now, for the coming period, I have to my profielwerkstuk (a big paper/research, required to be allowed to do your final exams/tests) and 2 P.O's (practical assigments). WHY CAN'T THOSE TEACHERS LEARN TO PLAN THEIR STUFF PROPERLY. I HATE THIS SH*T!!!! (geez, that feels good...... ;-) )

But for now: A to do list for GW:
 * Get the max drunken title on my warrior. Got R1!, and I've bought a more alcohol still, more then 2000 points!
 * Get my obsidian for my warrior. (wikiteam, go go go)! I finally have everything, now we just need to embark on the trip of a life time...
 * Get some Tormented Weapons for my warrior to display in her HoM.
 * Get my monk to finish prophecies. Only have 2 missions left, but can't get my self round to it.
 * Get on my warrior and do the last few quest in GW:EN and the Realm of Torment. Beh. (sheep FTW! Chickens FTL!) Boring stuff.
 * Get on my assa and go and do GW:EN so she gets some PvE skills and title tracks.

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.
 * Primarily 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 undertook a little (not) testing on how loot drops work. The test was limited, as my time was limited. The test area is the Raptor Nestling cave, and Rekoff Broodmother with a Perma SF Sliver Armor Build. The Tests where performed during the Halloween 2008 event, so the results are not valid for “Peace Time” farming, regular farming outside events that cause something to drop. (or cause an increased drop rate)

I did three tests (each consisting of 45 runs): I checked for greens, golds, purples, blues, whites, gold pieces, collectibles, festival items, dye, lock picks, blue scrolls, gold scrolls, tome and elite tomes. I checked 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: A full party in radar range whilst killing the raptors. (done)
 * 2nd Test: A full party out of radar range, and then kill the raptors. (done)
 * 3rd Test: Solo, and then kill the raptor raptors.  (done)

No comments? I'm flattered!

Progress Report:  FINISHED!!!!! *cheers and raises his beer glass*

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 2nd test. Results? Nice to very nice. And very different from the third test: An average of 29 killed raptors per run, with 3.4 ToT-bags, 2.6 collectables, 0.47 (Nearly half the time!) golds, 6.5 gold pieces per run. 0.22 normal tomes per run, along side 0.3 dyes per run (I got a black! Yeah!). An average of 150-200 gold pieces of profit per run. Again, I didn’t check this. It is purely my educated guess. Noteworthy: 2 elite tomes, 2 lockpicks, 3 gold scrolls and 5 blue scrolls. And the most noteworthy of all: 8 greens! That’s just so much! In fact it is so much, that I don’t think that it was coincidence, but a general increased drop rate. I think I know how I’m going to farm my greens!

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! The average profit must around, or over 200 gold. (without selling the ToT-bags)

New Project (1): Do some "Peace Time" farming of the Raptors to see wether they give (about) the same droprate with and without leechers.

New Project (2): Find a spot to farm stuff for the Winterfest. Sugestions are welcome!

That's all Folks!
Tnx for reading!

Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 19:16, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

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