News - Extra Life Bonuses now active until 12 Nov 2024 10AM PST

[Algar]

Our resident newsfrog must be busy.

Here’s what all players get to enjoy this week:

• 200% bonus experience gains
• 225% more likely rare spawns
• 155% more loot
• 100% increased coins
• 100% increased alternate currency
• 250% increased collections spawns
• 100% bonus evolving item exp

These bonuses started this morning at 10:00 a.m. PST and will end on November 12, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. PST.

Donations are also still possible!

https://forums.everquest.com/index.php?threads/extra-life-bonus-week-is-here.301303/

 

[juice999]

Good time to distract from the existential dread that election day brings in the USA.

 

[Robban]

is the bonus still active? I just now got 3 chase items from a single random mob

 

[strongbus]

is the bonus still active? I just now got 3 chase items from a single random mob
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the exp has ended. And i seen less lot on mobs. Maybe you just got really luck with the loot lottery

 

[TheFiddler]

is the bonus still active? I just now got 3 chase items from a single random mob
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My Take: All mobs have their loot determined upon Spawning. The mob you killed in the zone you were in was spawned before the 10am ending of Extra Life and the zone had not yet gone down. I had several named I killed apx 2pm PST Tuesday which yielded a ton of extra loot as if the Extra Life was still going.

CongaRats on the extra loot!

~TheFiddler~

 

[Robban]

My Take: All mobs have their loot determined upon Spawning. The mob you killed in the zone you were in was spawned before the 10am ending of Extra Life and the zone had not yet gone down. I had several named I killed apx 2pm PST Tuesday which yielded a ton of extra loot as if the Extra Life was still going.

CongaRats on the extra loot!

~TheFiddler~

ah yeah, thats probably why.

 

[Redmonkey]

I go hunting in dead zones to clean up on this after bonus's. Got some cool stuff and nameds still up.


Wish it worked like that for Overseer. Like the ones I set up on the night before it ended would give me the 5%-10% bonus they were before it ended. But, no, back to 1.5%

 

[durango773]

My Take: All mobs have their loot determined upon Spawning. The mob you killed in the zone you were in was spawned before the 10am ending of Extra Life and the zone had not yet gone down. I had several named I killed apx 2pm PST Tuesday which yielded a ton of extra loot as if the Extra Life was still going.

CongaRats on the extra loot!

~TheFiddler~

Incorrect, loot is calculated when EQ gets a query "container is dead, generate list". It is also ran off standard loot tables (this past event time 300%?). This has changed since early EQ when you could visually check mobs for weps and armor.

 

[Sic]

Incorrect, loot is calculated when EQ gets a query "container is dead, generate list". It is also ran off standard loot tables (this past event time 300%?). This has changed since early EQ when you could visually check mobs for weps and armor.

correct.

i *suspect* that since chase loot is somehow related to how many mobs were killed, that it had some crazy multiplier on it, and by the time it got to dropping it it was overloaded already, there was likely no further gain in modified values, but it likely held its existing value when the loot was determined

 

[TheFiddler]

Incorrect, loot is calculated when EQ gets a query "container is dead, generate list". It is also ran off standard loot tables (this past event time 300%?). This has changed since early EQ when you could visually check mobs for weps and armor.

Well then I stand corrected. Good to know.

 

[burdsjm]

Collection items still all over the place

 

[an_image]

correct.

i *suspect* that since chase loot is somehow related to how many mobs were killed, that it had some crazy multiplier on it, and by the time it got to dropping it it was overloaded already, there was likely no further gain in modified values, but it likely held its existing value when the loot was determined

@Sic translation: "loot code be broke..."