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.
 * 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)

WTF?
I just had the strangest thing happen to me: I was farming raptors (when isn’t I)and suddenly Aidan was with me, while the rest of the party was suddenly running towards me. Unless Aidan has suddenly mastered the art of shadow stepping, I have no clue what the hell happened. I had the brains to make a screen shot of it though. (fortunately). I'm going to write down the location here, because I will forget where it is and I can't post the screenshot anyway, as I have no idea how. Some help would be appreciated, so I can all show you this miracle/disaster, as it screwed up the run. D:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Screens\gw.026.jpg

That's all Folks!
Tnx for reading!

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

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