Soulstone Changes on 09/11/2009 10:25 AM CDT
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Thanks Z. Much appreciated. Nice little change with no downside, makes common sense and has been a weird issue for a while.

Madigan

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Re: Soulstone Changes on 09/11/2009 11:01 AM CDT
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Thanks for the change. I had a worn soulstone that did melt on me maybe two or so less years ago. Soulstone clasps w/o the stone would be a nice item to add to the Ratha Paladin shop for maybe 50 plat?


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Re: Soulstone Changes on 09/11/2009 11:24 AM CDT
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cool story bro:

several years back there was a bug where you could rub <item> with soulstone and the item would glow, not the soulstone. it gave the verbage that you rubbed your armor and it glowed, etc. Pretty cool, right?

So I went out and destroyed my soul. I then rubbed the item with the soulstone and the item would melt rather than the soulstone. Had a fun day going around melting people's items that they would let me hold, telling them that I was cursed.

Someone reported, Royce made me tell him how I was doing it. Bug was fixed. No more fun.

Good times.

-Mr. Glemm
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Re: Soulstone Changes on 09/11/2009 01:01 PM CDT
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>Someone reported, Royce made me tell him how I was doing it. Bug was fixed. No more fun.

Haha, nice.
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Re: Soulstone Changes on 09/20/2009 01:59 PM CDT
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I was wondering if the tortured soul soulstone drop rate has actually been tweaked to be "4x as likely to drop". I have killed over 250 tortured souls, 100 exactly with a weapon and the other 150+ with TM, without a single soulstone drop.

It takes me approximately 2 seconds to kill them with a TM spell whenever one appears, so its not too time consuming. But I would expect with the drop rate changes to at least find 1 out of 250 kills, unless the percentage for finding one is under 1%.

Any possibility of having this looked at?
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Re: Soulstone Changes on 09/20/2009 02:40 PM CDT
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Even if it was upped to a 1% drop rate there's an 8% chance you wouldn't find one in 250 kills.

That said, that drop rate seems excessively low for something that's kinda important to a paladin with few other options to acquire them.




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Re: Soulstone Changes on 09/20/2009 02:41 PM CDT
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>>I was wondering if the tortured soul soulstone drop rate has actually been tweaked to be "4x as likely to drop". I have killed over 250 tortured souls, 100 exactly with a weapon and the other 150+ with TM, without a single soulstone drop.

That could still be a 4 times increase, they were extremely rare.
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Re: Soulstone Changes on 09/20/2009 03:34 PM CDT
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Updating on my findings or lack thereof, I've killed around 500 tortured souls now and still haven't gotten one. If I reach the 1000 mark, I'll post again.

Did anyone do any research on the drop rates of soulstones before the changes?

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Re: Soulstone Changes on 09/20/2009 03:38 PM CDT
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>> Did anyone do any research on the drop rates of soulstones before the changes?

Between me and Semgrey (I think it was him) we killed about a thousand of the things over the course of about two hours trying to get one for a novice paladin and never did. :\

I'm glad the drop rate got raised but I still wish it was easier or that they were sold somewhere convenient.



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It looks the same, she says, but it is not.
It looks as they expect, but it is not."
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Re: Soulstone Changes on 09/20/2009 10:27 PM CDT
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The only post I ever saw on the drop rate was 300/stone. Not a confirmed figure and that post is probably 3-4 years hold.

Next time I take a "squire" to get a soulstone, I will run a counting script.


Madigan

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