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Im The Lord

Im The Lord

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can anyone tell me if i have to complete a full lap to have a chance of getting the essential oil or if i can just spam 1 obstacle over and over and still have a chance of getting it?

It seems the chances of getting it are pretty ridiculous for such a pointless reward...

17-Jun-2021 10:32:26 - Last edited on 17-Jun-2021 10:33:10 by Im The Lord

Bobhaz
Jun Member 2021

Bobhaz

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Essential oils are an item required to upgrade the base camp spa to tier 3. They are rarely found while traversing the Anachronia agility course. Players have a 1/1800 chance to obtain the essential oils per obstacle on the agility course. Players may only traverse a single obstacle once per lap to roll for the oils, resulting in 52 rolls per lap (coinciding with the amount of obstacles on the course) for a player with at least level 85 agility.

This gives players an approximately 1/35.1 (2.8483%) chance of acquiring the oils per lap.

Players will not receive more than 1 roll per obstacle by clicking it repeatedly until they have completed that section of the agility course.

Need lathe to decipher.

18-Jun-2021 01:14:50

Kopaka
Dec Member 2023

Kopaka

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It seems the chances of getting it are pretty ridiculous for such a pointless reward...

Either it's pointless and therefore why care, or it's not pointless.

I'd say you clearly care and therefore it's clearly not pointless.

And so the difficulty in obtaining it is justified.

20-Jun-2021 12:56:29

Froakie
Nov Member 2011

Froakie

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Can confirm you can get it without completing the lap. I don't think I've completed a full lap ever, only used it to get to different parts of the island when I was doing arch.

Managed to get the oils. :)

24-Jun-2021 01:22:28

Rikornak
Oct Member 2013

Rikornak

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Kopaka said :
It seems the chances of getting it are pretty ridiculous for such a pointless reward...

Either it's pointless and therefore why care, or it's not pointless.

I'd say you clearly care and therefore it's clearly not pointless.

And so the difficulty in obtaining it is justified.

The drop rates certainly are off compared to the other upgrade items though:

Pelt - 1/1000 per butterfly catch - which is basically a fairly afk activity (or the same for any other basic hunter activity, but butterflys certainly are by far the best you could do for that) or 1/150 for a BGH dino
Tooth - 1/800 for killing a slayer monster - might be worth noting, that the frogs for mid-levelled slayers still aren't released 2 years later, but for a high-levelled player it's certainly not an issue to kill lots of the weaker blooms or dinosaurs.
Oils - 1/1800 per agility segment
Rib - Any of above

Not only can you achieve significantly more rolls for any of the other upgrade items, the individual chance also is way higher. Oils technically are bugged, since they originally were intended to offer a chance per obstacle (rather than a full segment of the course), since this literally was their narrative for the first two months before their "whoops we messed up" post came by. But even if it was 1/1800 per obstacle, it still would be feelable lower than the other ones, but it certainly would be more reasonable since this actually was their original design. Tbf - it should be something like 1/400 if it was segment based, but well - they never fixed it. Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
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25-Jun-2021 05:22:19 - Last edited on 25-Jun-2021 05:57:14 by Rikornak

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