FrindleBabin wrote:A silver vanq halberd of some type is pretty much my holy grail in t2a era UO. But I don't think in my entire UO t2a career including 97-2000 plus like 7 years here I've ever seen one.
Anyone know how rare they are, like mathmatically? What's the actual percentage chance of say a lvl4 dungeon chest spawning one?
Technical answer, No.
I have GMed 2 lock pickers on level 4 chests pre July 2017, and I never got a silver vanquishing halberd. I have also done enough (enjoyment) lock picking on level 4 dungeon chests to GM a 3rd toon. I did get one or two +25 power halberds (which are far better IMO than a +0 tactics silver vanquishing halberd), and I probably got 1 or 2 OTHER silver vanquishing weapons, (silver durable two handed axe of vanquishing and maybe a silver accurate war hammer of vanquishing).
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The players do not know the technical answer to this. Anarcho or Boom might be able to give you the answer based on the current settings; though, I don't think they will feel that giving up that information is the
right thing to do.
GM(s) been in search of credible ERA data to help prove what the settings should be.
During the TUB (tidy up Britannia) event patch July 2017, this loot drop settings were adjusted. viewtopic.php?f=7&t=66701 Since then, there has been a lot of discussion and feedback about loot drop property %s and #s, so I will spare trying to recap the full details here. (But, if you want to read more there are some forum posts about it and
discord discussions, July 2017 - present).
The short recap, is that the GM(s) felt that the loot drop settings were too high - and the
creation and goal of the server is ERA accuracy. If I recall correctly, the publicly stated determining factor for the July 2017 change, was based on the number of 'perfect weapons'
inside of Vega's castles that existed on the server - it was simply too high. A perfect weapon being +25 tactics, of vanquishing, maybe also with a durability mod and/or hit-spell mod. The player base mostly disagreed with comments like: no actual proof to determine the settings should be different than the demo (no OSI patch notes to prove there was a change), the settings have been the same for 9 years, what called for a change now?, the change was simply too drastic and far different/worse than memory of ERA accuracy...
Unfortunately not much public data exists from ERA, to state exactly what the settings were at the time, other than what came with the DEMO.
Thankfully, Anarcho recently mentioned that another adjustment will be made in a week or two - an uptick. (I think this is a great thing, it is at least a compromise).