phroggonalog
Dalayan Master
With regard to the Kelethin/Athica turnin quests, I believe that the ratio of Fruit Bat Wings / Frilakh Broodling Scales / Faydark Spiderling Fangs is awful. On my current newbie wood elf running around the Kelethin newbie area, I have 16 wings, 6 fangs, and 2 scales. On a few previous newbie wood elves, I have gotten (yes I'm obsessed) 40+ wings on each (stopped looting/counting after 40), and fewer than 20 scales/fangs. The reason for this might be:
-ridiculously high spawn rate for Fruit Bats (most likely cause in my opinion)
-ridiculously low spawn rate for spiderlings/frilakh broodlings (equally likely cause in my opinion)
-bad drop rates on spiderlings/broodlings (I don't think this is it)
Given the revamped spawn rates for Black Wolves, Black Bears/cubs, and forest drakelings, I think that spider spawn rates can be and should be upped; the increase in spider silk would not make the tailoring TS gamebreakingly easy, and it would bring the spider fang drop rate closer to that of fruit bat wing drop rate. Frilakh Broodlings should also have an increased spawn rate.
Or... maybe fruit bat, black bear, and black wolf spawns should be reduced significantly
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EDIT: now at 35 wings, fewer than 10 fangs and scales
On Track: 10 bear cubs, 4 black wolves, 4 fruit bats...zero broodlings/spiderlings
Another fun stat: with the current newbie wood elf and my wizard combined (wizard AEing the wolves + bears + drakelings for TS mats), 400+ creatures killed (EDIT: now over 500), and a total of 11 broodling scales collected. Assuming this last run is just unlucky (it isn't), it's something like 40 scales at most per 1000 kills, which is lol especially considering that the kelethin rogue questline uses broodling scales, and if a ranger questline gets implemented it too will probably use broodling scales
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Now somewhere between 900-1000 kills between the two characters, and only 20 broodling scales to show for it. a *handful* of kills were outside the broodling range, but even if we generously put the number at 900, 20 scales for 900 broodling/ph kills is stupid rare. Was able to collect nearly 40 faydark spiderling fangs in this same period of time, and let's not even talk about how many stupid fruit bat wings dropped
-ridiculously high spawn rate for Fruit Bats (most likely cause in my opinion)
-ridiculously low spawn rate for spiderlings/frilakh broodlings (equally likely cause in my opinion)
-bad drop rates on spiderlings/broodlings (I don't think this is it)
Given the revamped spawn rates for Black Wolves, Black Bears/cubs, and forest drakelings, I think that spider spawn rates can be and should be upped; the increase in spider silk would not make the tailoring TS gamebreakingly easy, and it would bring the spider fang drop rate closer to that of fruit bat wing drop rate. Frilakh Broodlings should also have an increased spawn rate.
Or... maybe fruit bat, black bear, and black wolf spawns should be reduced significantly
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EDIT: now at 35 wings, fewer than 10 fangs and scales
On Track: 10 bear cubs, 4 black wolves, 4 fruit bats...zero broodlings/spiderlings
Another fun stat: with the current newbie wood elf and my wizard combined (wizard AEing the wolves + bears + drakelings for TS mats), 400+ creatures killed (EDIT: now over 500), and a total of 11 broodling scales collected. Assuming this last run is just unlucky (it isn't), it's something like 40 scales at most per 1000 kills, which is lol especially considering that the kelethin rogue questline uses broodling scales, and if a ranger questline gets implemented it too will probably use broodling scales
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Now somewhere between 900-1000 kills between the two characters, and only 20 broodling scales to show for it. a *handful* of kills were outside the broodling range, but even if we generously put the number at 900, 20 scales for 900 broodling/ph kills is stupid rare. Was able to collect nearly 40 faydark spiderling fangs in this same period of time, and let's not even talk about how many stupid fruit bat wings dropped
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