Figuring out what drops where
| Submitted by BL001 on Wed, 2015-03-11 14:47 | ||
So I started playing DS again and am tying to track down some of my favorite weapons. The tricky thing seems to be figuring out what drops where. For example the unique "Steel Death" is a really rare item overall, but drops very frequently in normal grescal chests / chamber of stars chests and almost nowhere else. The 33 strength leg cleaver is another really rare item, but has a propernsity to drop from Gom, and I've never seen it drop anywhere else. I looked through the logic.dsres to check out the item templates and the mob templates, but am coming up empty handed. I was hoping for an "item level" on the items, that would determine where they drop, because they seem to have a really narrow range where they can drop. Similarly while I see where monster's inventories are generated, and while I see them say something like "chance = 0.25; il_main = #*/84-128" I don't know how to interpret what this means, or how that number 84-128 is tied to an item that they may drop. I also don't see different numbers for normal/veteran/elite yet it's obvious the drops are different. Can anyone help me interpret this? My main goal is to be able to track down the 64-strength leg cleaver, if it can even drop in the base game. I found a 54-strength Leg Cleaver on elite pit of despair before, and I've always suspected that chest to have the best drops anywhere in the game, but again it would be great to have a more exact answer than that. forums: |
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This whole conversation reminded me of something I was trying to do once, and that was make it so every single container/merchant in the game was capable of dropping/having any item, and allow every item to be capable of having any modifier.
Just one of those nutcase experiments of mine.. IIRC, the result would crash the game. Could never figure out exactly how to determine how and where things where dropping. Wonder if it would even be possible to accomplish? Always wanted to see a "Revered Chair Leg of the Lion" drop alongside an unenchanted dragonwing
Hate to resurrect a dead thread but I got back to tinkering with DS and after beating single player for the umpteenth time I resumed my quest to find the unattainable leg cleaver.
Now I had read on dungeon siege wikia that the chest in Xot's Badlands which drops Demlock's Amulet in single player has especially high drop value. Per that site it has the highest drop rate in the game. I had always assumed the highest drop rate was in the Pit of Despair chest but I was gladly proven wrong.
I loaded up my char from years ago and did an hour worth of running this chest and the results were ridiculous: I was getting multiple rate staves and gloves with the highest rare modifiers, usually Admired or Sacred (+98 and +95 respectively). Admired gloves and armors as well as sacred destroyers were dropping with regularity. Interestingly very few uniques dropped at this place, and the magicals were useless. I knew I was going to find my item eventually, and voila, Admired Leg Cleaver, 246-738 damage.
Is there any way to identify what this chest is and it's pcontent description? And compare it to the Pit of Despair? I had found a lower level Leg Cleaver there as well as some Sacred and Admired items but not with the same frequently and never hit the jackpot. I'm hoping to see if I can deduce why it dropped what it did. An of course keep running it for more ridiculous loot
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