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Wilson Magna

Wilson Magna

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Hitting the threshold once is pretty much a must do if you don't want to waste your time because that halves the drop rate, GWD pets are 1/5,000 (or 1/1,000 in HM) btw. Those are the same rates for the GWD pets in OSRS I believe but obviously killing them in RS3 is much faster. I'm curious how rare the chaos elemental pet is, its a pretty easy boss to kill. @wilsonmagna

13-Jan-2015 03:17:05

Lathow
Oct Member 2005

Lathow

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It does seem 1x to 2x is the most significant improvement, anything afterwards is not that much. 2x to 3x is 1/3 the improvement of 1x to 2x for example. But I'd still like more than one threshold before 'camping' for something, if that makes sense. It's not that unlikely to get a pet after 1k kills with 1/5k rate and 1k kills with 1/2.5k rate, and while each kill you do doesn't mean the next kill is more likely to give you a drop, it does work that way statistically.

And even more so for another 1k kills for the third threshold. Hi

13-Jan-2015 03:22:49 - Last edited on 13-Jan-2015 03:23:34 by Lathow

Seeker
Jun Member 2008

Seeker

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I wonder if things like spawn rates, non-instances etc are taken into consideration ..

Chaos ele for instance is one of the easiest bosses to kill, but spawn so slowly that to efficiently kill it you have to hop to several worlds and there's always the risk of being attacked and killed by other players.

13-Jan-2015 03:32:38

Seeker
Jun Member 2008

Seeker

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Yeah it keeps you alert rather than just safely sitting there killing the same monster over and over. :P I was just wondering whether things like that were contributing factors when they decided on the drop rates and thresholds.

13-Jan-2015 03:38:46 - Last edited on 13-Jan-2015 03:40:44 by Seeker

Sulk

Sulk

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Chaos ele is frustrating. We're forced to hop worlds due to the slow spawn rate, PKers are simply time wasting griefers as far as i'm concerned, and with my login delay I lose half my health by the time the game has loaded if someone attacks me as I hop. Would you like to be my Pet ?

13-Jan-2015 03:42:38

Lathow
Oct Member 2005

Lathow

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They are all probably are but the droprates and thresholds are final, so if something isn't quite right because something wasn't taken into consideration then yeah it will be slightly harder (or easier maybe?) to get than other pets. Hi

13-Jan-2015 03:44:00

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