Belt of the Crimson Demon: Just disco'd?

[acctlc]

<p>Someone just announced the server disco of this on Oasis.  I've been hitting this zone (Vigilent Incursion) daily hoping for the drop.  I'm just wondering if this is entirely too rare considering the higher end nature of the zone..or is there a mechanical problem on this zones final mob fabled armor drop rate.  I've never seen anything besides legendary, or masters off him during a month of running the zone.  And its a little...odd..that its taken this long for the server disco. Are we just unlucky?</p>

[yadlajoi]

Can you post a screenshot of that belt? At least this belt got discoed during the expansion if you remember some server had to wait throu mid EoF to disco the mage wrist of nizarra. And no, vigilant zones arent hard or highend, the only mob that can cause trouble is vigilant3 boss.

[Sithal]

<p>From what I can tell, all the fabled drops from heroic instances are extremely rare.  Every one that I have seen drop (2 or 3 total) out of 75-100 heroic instances has been a disco, even one as late as 4 days ago.</p>

[acctlc]

<p>There's a screenshot on the conji forums on flames, it an extremely nice summoner belt.  But if its intended that one of these drop per month...well I won't bother.  It has one more pet effect than the legendary belt thats dropped innumerable times in the same zone.  The traumas are obnoxious and just tend to [Removed for Content] my healer off.  The zone is short at least but the final seems to always drop crap brawler legendary.  I've run a whole lot of instances, I think I've seen a fabled armor something drop from every one but this zone.</p>

[acctlc]

<p>Ran this room again today..and disco'd a scout belt.....</p><p>Did someone just forget to hook up the fabled armor drops on this zone for the first month ><</p>

[Despak]

If they are "that" rare, leave them that way please. Not every day should be Christmas!

[acctlc]

No I think that kind of thinking is ridiculous quite frankly. These aren't rings of readiness ffs, these are one of the few reasons raid toons even bother with instances..they aren't quite as good as raid drops but they'll do and don't cost dkp. 3rd day in a row I've seen a fabled belt drop from the name now..I think someone forgot to hook up the [Removed for Content] loot. I hope they leave the drop rate a little high for a week or so..because I wasted a month with no chance at what I wanted from there.

[Sticki]

<p>aITEM -866372614 1106573314 0 -224206002:[<strong>Belt of the Crimson Demon</strong>]/a</p>

[Gninja]

<p>or new loot got added to the fabled loot that was already there previously...</p>

[Vortexelemental]

<p><cite>Gninja wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>or new loot got added to the fabled loot that was already there previously...</p></blockquote><p>I like that one =p</p>

[acctlc]

<p>LOL...well I don't buy that necessarily since the only reason I knew to look for the drop was class forums showing a screenshot/linkie early on in xpac <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /> Its all good tho, i have my belt now and I'm a happy summoner! On a slightly different note tho, I miss the concept of the lockboxes. I know the loot is tradeable now which is supposed to compensate. But for purely farming ease, lockboxes were an awesome concept. Final name in Incursion (edit:  I goofed the zone name) for example, seems to have 2 fabled scout drops, the elusive summoner belt, and a tank earring. I saw in personally grouping this zone *daily*, 2 scout items and 1 tank fabled drop. Another guild group got the 4th scout item. I pestered folks daily while offering an obscene amount of plat (I even just for fun created toons on 90% of other servers to check the brokers, never saw one listed) for the summoner belt. Had the lockbox been implemented the drop could have conceivably been gotten 1 month earlier :d Just a tad of feedback..I miss lockboxes!</p>

[Alfeo]

<p><cite>Arieva@Oasis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I miss lockboxes!</p></blockquote><p>To offer a counterpoint, I'm glad to see no lockboxes in this expac so far. Sure its convienent if you are going with friends or guildies for a specific drop, but all lock boxes do is guarentee that every time you run the zone in a pug, if by chance you get the rare drop which takes many runs before you see, you have to roll against pretty much everyone in the group. People will see the box drop, and go well that has something for everyone so I'm gonna roll need before I even see if any of the items in the box would be an upgrade to me. Frankly, trying to get the spell crit bonus charm from ea:lp in pugs was particularly painful. At least with specific gear drops you'll have fewer people to compete with and a much better chance of getting it. Again if you are going with friends or guildies this is non-issue, but for anyone whos pugging, imo boxes are more trouble than they are worth.</p><p>Also yeah, I found the crimson demon belt on the broker within the first week of the expac hitting live, so it definitely wasn't added later in the expac =P</p>

[Vymm]

<p>Kinda have to agree on this one some of the drop rates are ridiculously stupid for ANY fabled from zones like this and Vasty Cella as well.. Run it 30-40 times now and haven't seen a single exquisite drop off the Queen let alone the 1/6 chance for scout item..</p>

[Galldora]

<p><cite>Arieva@Oasis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>LOL...well I don't buy that necessarily since the only reason I knew to look for the drop was class forums showing a screenshot/linkie early on in xpac <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /> Its all good tho, i have my belt now and I'm a happy summoner! On a slightly different note tho, I miss the concept of the lockboxes. I know the loot is tradeable now which is supposed to compensate. But for purely farming ease, lockboxes were an awesome concept. Final name in Incursion (edit:  I goofed the zone name) for example, seems to have 2 fabled scout drops, the elusive summoner belt, and a tank earring. I saw in personally grouping this zone *daily*, 2 scout items and 1 tank fabled drop. Another guild group got the 4th scout item. I pestered folks daily while offering an obscene amount of plat (<span style="color: #ff0000;">I even just for fun created toons on 90% of other servers to check the brokers,</span> never saw one listed) for the summoner belt. Had the lockbox been implemented the drop could have conceivably been gotten 1 month earlier :d Just a tad of feedback..I miss lockboxes!</p></blockquote><p>Here is another handy way to check broker items on all the servers. The live broker feed has had some problems updating, but supposedly it's all better now.  Hope so, as it is very handy.  I've also made toons on other servers for similar reasons of curiosity. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></p><p><a href="http://eq2.zam.com/db/broker.html" target="_blank">Zam Live Broker Feed</a></p>