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Bug - COTF Global Drops (defunct)

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Currently (and probably forever) no longer works. COTF Globals currently disabled according to Dev until they can fix the global drops.

I have it on pretty good authority that you can trivialize the drop rate on these items. The Dev's stated they are approx a 1/5000 chance to drop from any COTF mob in the game, however, some people have found out that your chances go to somewhere around 1/200 by killing the right mobs. I'm sure this is an oversight by the Devs and a fix will be in place very soon, so give it a shot while you can.

Zone: The Dead Hills
Quest Giver: Gribble Grobblenobber
Task: Scouting Ahead
Mob: a xulous elder

You'll want a way to both invis and invis undead so you can run past the first 18 mobs. Kill the "a xulous elder" mobs. Request is 5min lockout. Rinse/Repeat this.

GL.

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Just got my first item after 3rd run this morning. It dropped off the very first "a xulous elder" static spawn. They have very low aggro range so I just waited for the roamer, killed him first, then killed the first static guy. I'm making a chart to see if there is any pattern whatsoever as to whether or not there could be a very specific elder that is a PH for the phat lewtz or if these just drop at a higher rate on all elders.

2nd item, back-to-back instances with elders, same mob, 1st static "a xulous elder".

3rd item, all in a row. Same mob.

I'm getting a bit nervous that the Devs pull a roll-back or something because I know there are people that have farmed over 30 of these items so far. As it stands, with so many having been farmed and it is running pretty rampant on some servers where it was been leaked even more, I feel like a big nerf to the items or _something_ is coming.
 
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Would it be the first on the left, or first on the right? Either way I kill all three, even the roamer. Was told it was the first 3 elders on the left at first... but I was told a lot of things.

Done countless HA runs so far, no luck. grrrr

Thanks though, going to keep going at it!
 
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Has anyone gotten any drops since this morning? I'm suspecting they might have stealth nerfed it.
 
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I got a centrino ring last night off an elder, forget which one it was though. Out of 3 full sets of elders I killed I got 1 drop so pretty good result I'd say.
 
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I've gotten 3 in a row in the last hour or so. There was no stealth nerf. It is the first static on the left. I kill the roamer, then the first static. They should be single pulls if you just stand invs where the roamer stops and fight him there.
 
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Just got a message that the zone will repop in 30 minutes... ergh, they're either fixing it or doing something.
 
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Ubiquitous said:
Just got a message that the zone will repop in 30 minutes... ergh, they're either fixing it or doing something.
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Guess we'll find out in 30 mins :P

My speculation will be they're repopping Gribble and disabling Scouting Ahead for the time being or they actually fixed the drop table on the elders and just need a repop to do it. Just a hunch.
 
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i not even sure i was doing this right i have done like 10 of them with no drop...
and i just kill them all. "A xulous elder"
 
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aligwilliams said:
i not even sure i was doing this right i have done like 10 of them with no drop...
and i just kill them all. "A xulous elder"
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You did it right if you killed the elders. These are still very rare, just not 1/5000. I got extraordinarily lucky this morning and got 3 in a row. I haven't gotten one since then and that was like 3-4 hours ago.
 
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when you say first static one are you referring to the left or right hand side? another source is telling me lefthand side so i wanted to inquire
 
the is talks on the server that they are going to do roll backs.
just a warning if you plan on selling/buying any of these.
sit on them for a bit see what happens
 
I would love to see them roll back this. All the RL,PP,Krono that changed hands already. Rollbacks were only mentioned by people crying on the eq forums. And even that is only a couple of the same folks. If they rolled back it would have to be a serverwide rollback on everything. And I don't see that happening. It would piss off way to many folks between raid guilda having to completely redo DKP's for the last week. So unless you see this posted by a dev that it is even be considered please lemme know.
 
why would it have to be server wide? they could just remove every item gained from that 1 exploit and how many times has Soe showed if they wanna do something then it dont matter they will do it.

look at all the AA's gained by that Hail bug they banned and rolled back every one who did it..
 
They don't do rollbacks anymore period. It is folks spreading drama on EQ live site most noteably those who couldn't figure it out. Hell look at the Krono plat dupe from the instacamp feature they put in lol. And that directly cost SoE money out of pocket.
 
Personally I don't see them doing anything at all. Sure there is a few people that farmed quite a few of these, but it wasn't like EVERYONE was doing it. It was only really massively leaked for about 1 day total. I have been trying to sell/trade the Caster Shield that I got and I still get a lot of tells from people wondering where it came from, what it is, etc etc etc. There are still plenty of people that don't even know COTF even HAS global rare drops. Not everyone reads the boards or has any clue about what actually happens in-game.
 
It's all about making money for them. Suspending/punishing players might mean losing gold subscriptions. I wonder how much krono sales jumped in the past five days from this. I spent like 30 hours cumulative and got zero rares anyway. ~_~

Krono plat dupe? dang, I missed out!
 
Krono/Plat Dupe was toions getting rolled back like a couple minutes or so when you camped out.
 
I'm reading that GMs are going around to each account individually and deleting the items. Even if they have augs or were bought from someone else for kronos or plat, doesn't matter. They're just flat out deleting every item that dropped. My items have not been deleted yet but I removed my augs just in case.

This could get interesting.

/popcorn
 
I just wanted to poke my nose in here briefly, since there's a lot of speculation happening in this thread.

There was a small group of players that have acquired a large number of the COTF world drops by using "less-than-honest" methods in Heroic Adventures. The decision was made to remove the items from the accounts that engaged in this behavior.

This shouldn't affect anyone that received these drops normally in game or purchased or traded for these honestly from guild mates or other players.

Players shouldn't be missing augs, and if you are my recommendation is to contact Customer Service directly so they can look into this for you.
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https://forums.station.sony.com/eq/index.php?threads/new-world-drops.208968/page-50
 
I tried hard as hell to get loot from this bug but only managed to get 2 drops.

My guess is Sony is being LAZY as usual. My theory is they looked at how many of these items you looted in the past 24 hours and if it was beyond what is a 'plausibly deniable' level that you got passed over and NOThow many times you requested the HA.. I can confirm myself with 2 loots was not touched. My friend who had maybe 5-6 loots got 1 item removed but he traded a bunch for other pieces he needed. Dudes with like 10+ loots lost everything they had on them (but not things which were traded away apparently).

I'm guessing the threshold was like 3-4 loots. Beyond that they took corrective measures.

In the future distributing loot around may help make sure you pass them around to different toons on your account so when they look at individual characters with a database check it looks more legit. Wont help if they're manually going through the database but when you consider the amount of accounts, servers and characters EQ has from 15+ years you can imagine that is a virtual impossibility.
 
It was 10+ Elidroth even said something about 10+ on the boards on eqlive. I got a few items I bought from someone who had farmed like 30 items and I lost one outta what the person traded me. We also bought a monk weapon from the bazaar and one The Blue Tower bought in bazaar that have poofed that I will be petitioning on but not holding my breath at this point. Anyway I farm about 5-8 on about 4 toons and none of it was touched. Mind you though I killed at least 4 mobs in each mission not just one. So people who were killing more than one mob may get overlooked. I Killed elders in every instance also not just the undead mission in which the items were dropping.
 
AnonymousHero said:
In the future distributing loot around may help make sure you pass them around to different toons on your account so when they look at individual characters with a database check it looks more legit. Wont help if they're manually going through the database but when you consider the amount of accounts, servers and characters EQ has from 15+ years you can imagine that is a virtual impossibility.
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Good advice, but I doubt they would go through every character created in 15 years (if doing this manually). They probably just look at those that had logged in during the time the exploit was doable. Still a lot, but not overwhelming.
 
dannuic said:
Good advice, but I doubt they would go through every character created in 15 years (if doing this manually). They probably just look at those that had logged in during the time the exploit was doable. Still a lot, but not overwhelming.
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Yes and even if they did that and even if they restricted it to people who requested the specific HA that's still a huge number of people to sift through manually since I know a ton of people were just requesting tasks and doing them on teh off chance they got lucky even if they did not know the specifics of how to get the pinata mob.
 
sad i was working during all of that =( would have been nice to get one - they going for like 10mil on my server
 
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