its not about abilities... its about the amounts of hit u need to kill an ep... kill it with only a few shots and u wont get much. penetrate it with a rusted dagger and it will drop u 100 items at once... something in this manner

imo thats like a punishment for ppl investing into this game... just wierd!

This post was edited by derDrops on Feb 28 2012 03:26am

You all realize that when you say killing slower and enemy does not mean you have to wait and not hit it or hit it with bad gear for him to look stupid right? When they die slower they had more life and they are stronger that's all. We have weak mobs and strong mobs. Only strong ones give decent drops. That's all.

This post was edited by rusclaudiualin on Feb 28 2012 03:41am

then explain why a double ep, which usually consists of a strong and a weak mob drops nothing for me if i oneshot both? or same for a triple ep. oneshot 2 of them which are by chance 2 hard or one hard one weak mob... get nothing. didnt happen only once

Double punishment for a well invested longsword user. Triple that for a high end crit

If its true anyway. Only done ~5 solo cata climbs so I dont really have much opinion either way.

yes but thats how it is atm rly sux

If you got more problems with killing mob --> more side drops / chance @ better items (higher lv items*)

for example try to well 55 lv items @ 35 lv for and my crap items @ hc was up to 14 side drops (solo ofc) and most of items are high lv item

also I saw same thing with eps when I'm facing casters (less clicks to kill them) most of the time they are empty or t 1 t2 items
but whe I face melee ep (killing it takes ages cuz of high vita/def/lv/etc) always more items dropped and usually higher lv's

same when I iso well with my weller @ sc most of the time crap sides / tier of item cuz most of the eps are for 3 - 4 shots and killed

strong mobs does not necessarly give an item they are strong becouse they use good gear or have high stats and good casters might sometimes melee doing crap damage to us while melee monsters might cast with a pathetic charm.

I am sure what you see it's just an illusion as I had that too but what it changed my view was testing and the fact that sometimes when i instant kill a monsters or an ep I still get good drops.

Drops are like mining for gold.

You get lucky once in a while, but most of your findings are tossed away.

That is the reason gold has such a high value -- scarcity.

im going with the superstition
drops are better soloing because its taking me longer to kill them

most of the time i oneshot one guy of a tripple ep to make it easier for my robe solo char, so i dont have to heal as much. that one never drops anything close to my level, while at least one of the other two does.
from my experience in a solo ep of 3 monsters there is always one weak and two relatively strong ones. if i kill the weak one with my ability the other two drop good. if i kill a strong one with ability it doesnt drop anything above tier IV, the weak one doesnt either, but the other strong one does.

im pretty sure there is a correlation between the amount of actions it takes you to take a mob down, and the drops you get. and that is when killing two mobs of the same level and strength, weaker mobs always drop worse ofc.

I haven't really noticed, but I will look into it. FOR THE COMMUNITY!