Yasha

[FlamingVolvag]

I have a sange and want a yasha. I could get it by either drop (Melqueek or Indi Belra). Which one would be faster? I mean they both are really rare drops but the highest drop (1/20000 something) is from an Indi. There are like 5 Belras in 1 run of the Temple. There are a pretty good amount of Melqueeks in Addicting food. So im wondering which one would take less time (provided that i get the drop in the exact amount of enemys as the drop rates show). If this seems confusing please say so and i will try to make it less confusing.

[Yurnero]

Go for Melqueeks. Indis are a pain in the ass to kill, and a lot harder to see than Melqueeks. Plus, you could find at LEAST 100 Melqueeks in a normal Caves run, if not much more.

[Out_Kast]

If you think about it, the odds are fairly similar. You see 3 times more Melqueeks than Indi Belras, and the odds of the Yasha dropping from the Melqueek are 3 times larger than the odds of it dropping from the Belra.
Please tell me I worded that correctly.

So basically, which area are you more willing to play through? As Yunero said, Indi's are much more annoying than Melqueeks.
But personally, I can't stand the Caves. Or the Temple.

[FlamingVolvag]

i doubt that there are at least 100 melqueeks in 1 caves run. The guides here say that the best way to find melqueeks is in Soul of a Blacksmith quest and there are only like 25 in there. But im not sure if that guide only shows the best quests to find enemies in. But ok ill kill a crap load of melqueeks.

[Out_Kast]

Better than killing a crap load of Indi Belras ¬.O
60000 Melqueeks is a lot.
Good luck =]

[FlamingVolvag]

yah should i do Soul of a Blacksmith or just normal Caves runs on Ult to find melqueeks?

[Yurnero]

I say do quests, they're usually packed full of more monsters than a normal run.

Also, you do not always get a Yasha with every 60,000 Melqueeks you kill, if I am reading your first post correctly.

The best analogy I've heard is:

The Red Marble = the Left side of the drop rate (Eg in 1/1000, 1 would be the left side)
The Black Marbles = the Right side of the droprate (Eg in 1/1000, 1000 would be the right side)

Imagine a box full of Black Marbles. In your case, you've got 60,000 Black Marbles in there. In the box, somewhere, is a Red Marble. That's the chance you've got. When you kill a Melqueek, you pick out a marble. If it isn't red, it isn't a Yasha. Once the marble has been picked out, you put said marble BACK IN the box, restoring the 1/60,000 drop rate.

= It's harsh to hear, but t'is the truth.

[Ryna]

If I remember correctly, Soul of a Blacksmith has something like 25 Melqueek in it. An average Temple run will only turn up a few Indi Belra. So, looking for the Yasha offline is a fairly hopeless task using either path. You're looking at several hundred/thousand runs. Even in the online quest Lost Ice Spinner, which has 100+ Melqueek, you'd still have to do several hundred runs of it to get close to the average drop rate. You have better odds of finding a Sealed J-Sword offline.

[Neith]

Offline it's virtually unfindable. You only tend to get 5 or less Belra in Temple, and offline Melqueeks are fairly scarce..

Online- Today's Rate, Mop Up #2, or ultimately Lost Ice Spinner for Melqueeks. I wouldn't bother hunting Belras at all.

However, the reason the Melqueek drop is so damned hard is that only 15% of Melqueeks drop ANYTHING, let alone Yasha. This multiplies the standard 11* weapon droprate (1/10,083) upto 1/67k.

When I found mine, it was a Melqueek drop, BUT was also on a 2x drop day, which made it 1/33.6k. Still uber-rare, but without a 2x drop day, I doubt I would have found it.

Good luck to anyone hunting it, the feeling you get from seeing it drop is worth even years of hunting.

[FlamingVolvag]

ok if its gonna take several hundrd thousand runs than it looks like im never gonna get a yasha. And also there is no hope of me ever going online cuz the servers shut down next month.