Question on EoF Fabled Set Pieces Drop Rate

[HuskerFootball]

<p>Ok, my question is this : </p><p>In EoF for Fabled Set Pieces, does anyone KNOW how drop rate is calculated?</p><p>The number of a certain class, divided by the raid total?  For example, if a 24 man raid had 6 Conjurors, would they have a 25% chance for their set piece if a set pice drops?  Or no matter how many of a class you have, does it just count as 1?</p><p>Anyone know for SURE?</p>

[Khurghan]

The code to calculate what drops is pretty simple - It first compiles a list of who in the raid has existing drops that it can drop, all items in the list are unique, this list is compiledRaidItems. A second list is also generated this is based on any alts that people have in the raid - it essentially does the same as the first list but for alts. - this is compliedAltGuildRaidItems. then a /ran 100 If the number comes up less than 80 it simply picks and item from the list and returns this as the dropped item. If the /ran 100 came out greater than 80 it moves to doPossibleAltGuildDrop( List compiledRaidItems , List compliedAltGuildRaidItems ) call. The method doPossibleAltGuildDrop takes the 2 lists that is is passed and creates a new list of unique items then a /ran <length_of_list> + 10 is performed , if this /ran *hits* the +10 an item for the whole of the bosses loot table is then selected (a simple /ran on the list) if it hits the <length_of_list_ part> it returns the corresponding item from the list as the drop from the boss. Hope this helps.

[MadLordOfMilk]

Actually, it's more like this. 1. Pick random class in raid. 2. If anyone of that class does not have this item yet, repeat to step 1 until you get yet another copy of the class armor your one shadowknight/whatever already has. So to stall us, they went from giving us stuff nobody could use to stuff everyone already has. <img src="/smilies/0320a00cb4bb5629ab9fc2bc1fcc4e9e.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Slayer505]

Kraaj@Everfrost wrote: <blockquote>Actually, it's more like this. 1. Pick random class in raid. 2. If anyone of that class does not have this item yet, repeat to step 1 until you get yet another copy of the class armor your one shadowknight/whatever already has. So to stall us, they went from giving us stuff nobody could use to stuff everyone already has. <img src="/smilies/0320a00cb4bb5629ab9fc2bc1fcc4e9e.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></blockquote>Sure seems like it sometimes.  Somewhere around 20 or so MMIS raids and until this week the only Zerker set piece I've seen was the BP (I just got my gloves this week too finally).  Meanwhile we've gotten like tons of Guardian, Illusionist and Ranger pieces to the point where we have some alts with more set pieces then mains.  Seems like the only way to not get repeat items is to have people who already have their pieces off a given mob just drop raid whenever possible.  I'm pretty sure that's not what SOE intended, but what else can you do when you keep seeing dozens of drops getting transmuted because everyone and their alt has it?