So, solo explored up to 71 to see how it'd be with the huge rooms and drop quality increase. Impressions:

1. Huge rooms and no trapdoors doesn't mean much when every map still has one horrifically long dead end and you continually get spun back to the same spot.
2. Welling is decent. Didn't get much from it, but a lot of near misses.
3. Up until level 55, drops were pretty decent, all things considered. Ended up getting quite a lot of level 25-45 items of varying quality. No complaints.
4. The moment I hit 55, the quantity of drops went down to about 1/4, and the quality tanked, both from standard mobs and EPs. No 50/55 items dropped at all, 2 45s, no 40's, and only a few 25/30. All had tier 1 mods.

Conclusion: This event is great for welling and the potential to find mid range items (tiers V-XII) with potentially decent stats. It's every bit as terrible for XIII/XIV items as it always is. Thus, I'd advise against solo exploring "for drops" past 55. Whistle will do just as well. That being said...

FDF

Season Fails
17 FDF
5 SDF
1 TDF

Season Passes
3 Third Door (To Samurai, To Paladin, To Monk)
1 Four Door (To Ninja)

This post was edited by InsaneBobb on Sep 2 2016 11:50am

I agree, the drops don't worth it actually on this event.
Here's my report!

Lvl 25-40
15: 8
20: 4
25: 2
Total: 14 (15 lvl)

Lvl 40-55 (7 magic luck active)
15: 1
20: 3
25: 1
30: 4
35: 1
40: 1
45: 2
Total: 13 (15lvl)

Lvl 55-71
15: 1
20: 2
25: 1
30: 1
45: 1
55: 1
Total: 7 (16lvl)

That was an insanely fun solo climb. Kind of disappointed that I only got to 42 before the monster difficulty was properly set to 10%, rather than 225%. But still... Got to fill up Dion's vault with his muting ISO, found a 78ee IV Club, 89ee VII axe, 100ee VIII heal, 161ee IX staff, got nearly 5000 points in sword prof, and simply put, thoroughly enjoyed myself. Anyhow...

FDF

Season Fails
18 FDF
5 SDF
1 TDF

Season Passes
3 Third Door (To Samurai, To Paladin, To Monk)
1 Four Door (To Ninja)

This post was edited by InsaneBobb on Sep 6 2016 05:28pm

Decent solo run. Welled a ton of items for Dion, among which were like a 76 dura VIII rod and a 133ee IX scale armor. Didn't find or well anything else of use though aside from enough mutables that Dion will be busy for a week.

FDF

Season Fails
19 FDF
5 SDF
1 TDF

Season Passes
3 Third Door (To Samurai, To Paladin, To Monk)
1 Four Door (To Ninja)

This post was edited by InsaneBobb on Sep 7 2016 11:42pm

2 FDF

Season Fails
21 FDF
5 SDF
1 TDF

Season Passes
3 Third Door (To Samurai, To Paladin, To Monk)
1 Four Door (To Ninja)

Rather pointless solo full explore finished. Seems like 45+, all the EPs simply don't spawn. Ah well.

FDF

Season Fails
22 FDF
5 SDF
1 TDF

Season Passes
3 Third Door (To Samurai, To Paladin, To Monk)
1 Four Door (To Ninja)

FDF

Season Fails
23 FDF
5 SDF
1 TDF

Season Passes
3 Third Door (To Samurai, To Paladin, To Monk)
1 Four Door (To Ninja)

FDF + SDF

Season Fails
24 FDF
6 SDF
1 TDF

Season Passes
3 Third Door (To Samurai, To Paladin, To Monk)
1 Four Door (To Ninja)

FDF

Season Fails
25 FDF
6 SDF
1 TDF

Season Passes
3 Third Door (To Samurai, To Paladin, To Monk)
1 Four Door (To Ninja)

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