section ID influenced Dry spell?

[OriginalLacan]

I notice my first character in PSOX (a whitill) had found 35-40 rares by lv 40, and averaged about 1 new rare each time i sat down to play from there. One of my other characters (a yellowboze) is lv 41 with only a whopping boomba claw,varista,and DB saber. although i kind of prefer the added challenge of not having so many rares, im curious if maybe your section ID possibly determines the rarity of rares. with a little experimentation i've found that whitill and bluefull tend to find a lot more rares than yellowboze or skyly. Is this just coincidence or have others found similar results?

[Ketchup345]

Most of it depends on how badly you want something (the more, the less likely, no one ever figured out why or how {small sensors in the controller that we don't know about? http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif }), if the game wants to be nice, what the drop is (item) and the normal item drop % of an enemy. There are a few other facters in there, but those are the main.



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[AUTO_]

Click the below link:

http://www.pso-world.com/item_findings.php

[Soukosa]

Some IDs do have more common rares than the other IDs. This in turn can cause these "draughts" or whatever.

[OriginalLacan]

I'm not talking about specific rares, but rather the probability of a red box drop in general, regardless of whats inside.
For example, at level 40 with the whitill id, i had found somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 boomba's right arms while other id's found 1 or none with similar play times. this isn't a major thing, just curiosity

[Ketchup345]

The lack of drops as I said above depends on several things, but my guess is the drop %s of any item from the enemies you are fighting and the difficulty of finding a rare from them is whats affecting you most IMO.

Edit: Also the possibilty of Beat Time(s) for drops.



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[Bit]

It's just what certain ID's will drop for you at certain times. It's all about the luck of the drop, or so we're led to believe at this time.

[Soukosa]

On 2003-09-10 18:11, OriginalLacan wrote:
I'm not talking about specific rares, but rather the probability of a red box drop in general, regardless of whats inside.
For example, at level 40 with the whitill id, i had found somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 boomba's right arms while other id's found 1 or none with similar play times. this isn't a major thing, just curiosity


Section ID wouldn't influence that. I guess the Boomas just liked your Whitill more.

[Dbc]

I heard you find less rares the higher the difficuly(cept for pdrops)

[Stalfos333]

You heard wrong. Rares actually get more common through Vhard, but then drop off aain in Ult.

[toxic_420]

*agrees with stalfos333*

my HUcast in ult was having a serious drought, no reds in about 2 weeks, so i decided to play with my RAcaseal whos only just out of normal. the last three days or so have provided me with loads of rares, not all of them useful, but tonnes of red boxes at least.
and they came from hard/vhard.