Quote (CrimsonOdin @ Thu, Sep 3 2009, 09:23pm)

hmmm do they have a chance to spawn on ' magic ' pelts or just rares?

Quote (deathwinger @ Fri, 4 Sep 2009, 04:19)

extremely, to put it lightly.
The pelt is what makes or breaks the Shaman, and its also the only item on the whole char that is difficult to acquire.

At least its not like a ghost where claws, rings, ammys, circlets, etc all have to be trophy-worthy to be very effective.
Its very rare for helms to spawn with multiple +3 skill mods enough to begin with, and +2 skills on top of that is a toughy.

For the # of skills to have total, it will normally do this:
10% chance of 3 skills
30% chance of 2 skills 20% (70 <= x < 90)
40% chance of 1 skill
20% chance of no skills 30% (0 <= x < 30)

Normally, staffmod items have a chance of +skills as this:
10% chance of +3
30% chance of +2
60% chance of +1

So from a normal drop, any given pelt has only 1/100 chance of being +3 to 3 skills. At thats let alone trying to get the ones you want (volcano/grizzly/geddon).
So odds are extremely low. HOWEVER, theres a trick you can use to get very good druid pelts: Imbueing

When imbueing, the odds of getting more/higher skills is increased by a factor of the ilvl of the imbued item.
A level 90 item, for example, will add +90 bonus to the "more skills" and +45 bonus to the "level skills". So a level 90 item being imbued has:
100% chance of 3 skills
55% chance of +3
30% chance of +2
15% chance of +1


In other words, the secret to getting a good pelt (or any other staffmod item) is to imbue with a high level char. The ilvl of the imbued item will be set to clvl + 4 (your character level + 4), so imbuing a druid pelt on a level 95+ char has the absolute best results. The ilvl of the item before you imbue it won't matter iirc.

Quote (deathwinger @ Fri, 4 Sep 2009, 04:44)

Rare items will have 3-6 affixes, distributed evenly (25% each):

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Quote (deathwinger @ Fri, 4 Sep 2009, 05:20)

another byproduct of that, is that those packages of "mass rare druid pelts from chaos!" you see all the time, are actually pretty shitty
imbued pelts have a much higher chance to be good

Quote (Cher @ Fri, Sep 4 2009, 01:44pm)

very nice guild

Quote (tudey @ Fri, Sep 4 2009, 07:23am)

yea, too bad you only get 3 imbues per high lvl char =/

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thinking about actually making a welfare version of this char at eu, pelt is really the only hard thing to get =/
I think I have a 2 druid 3 armageddon pelt with 2 sockets, its not as good as volcano or grizzly pelt would be but I guess it would do fine too
do you think its better to use this pelt than say, jalals or ravenlore or something like that?

Quote (deathwinger @ Fri, 4 Sep 2009, 17:38)

Not with seckret rollback hax
pro imbuers/etc will self-rush with 8 clients through whatever means and followhacks and all that, and imbue by the truckload
same dealy-o for anni farmers



humm 2 druid / 3 geddon isn't particularly good, imo. I'd might rather go with ravenlore over that. Sort of a tossup actually, since they're both about the same

Quote (kbk @ Fri, Sep 4 2009, 12:31pm)

Good pelt?

2 d skills, 3 volcano, 2 armageddon 31 Life


Thats the one I picked up.