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0 Race Specific Cards now Dropping Vanguard TACT
Sep 19, 2007 - 09:32 PM - by Aruspex - SGO
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Originally Posted by fisdatin View Post
I believe what Spex means by "rare" is not a "named boss" but rather unusual creatures which are rare throughout the world. Giants would be one. Yuki would be another. I did not even know they existed anywhere outside of Rahz until someone mentioned the 3 mobs that exist in those elemental islands south of Tanvu, and then the few that exist in the Gardens. Compared to creatures like treants, which are populated in large numbers across multiple chunks, the yuki would be very rare. Speculation earlier in tihs thread about creatures which should drop cards but weren't will probably hold true come patch time; some of them would also fit the above definition of rare. Come GU3 I will be in River Palace. ^_^
Fisdatin is essentially correct. These are racial cards, not mob cards.

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0 Race Specific Cards now Dropping Vanguard TACT
Sep 19, 2007 - 08:03 PM - by Aruspex - SGO
ALL the cards that you are NOT seeing are accounted for in the missing data. Once we go live with the Update 3 patch (or very possibly sooner, I don't know our patch schedule to that level of detail) some of these cards will pop right out, and others may take a while to find.

My first assumption that some of the cards are on rare mobs should still be valid, though you have already found some of the ones I thought were fairly rare, so even that may not be true.

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0 Race Specific Cards now Dropping Vanguard TACT
Sep 19, 2007 - 06:30 PM - by Aruspex - SGO
Hi guys, I just wanted to give you an update on the hunt for the cards.

One card, the Djinn card, is definitely not even available to realistically drop. Consider it a non-card for the purposes of your collection list. This means you guys are missing 9 cards. In at least 5 of these, players kill many dozens of these a day, so it is a huge concern for me that they are not dropping. I am working with Demila to investigate this - I have a suspicion that the next patch may correct it.

Also, Demila's report included a breakdown of what cards are on the broker for her server, and it's a good snapshot of drop rates. We're considering tweaking drop rates of certain cards based on your feedback and her report.

Thanks to everyone who gave me information, and I'm happy to see you guys enjoying the hunt for the race cards.

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0 Race Specific Cards now Dropping Vanguard TACT
Sep 18, 2007 - 02:24 AM - by Aruspex - SGO
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I must have killed 300 or more.

*sigh*

Back to the killing fields
I'm doing further testing with QA - they report that one of the cards is not dropping for them no matter what I set the drop rate to, so there may be a deeper issue.

Specifically, no one has seen an Efreeti card drop? (not the same race as the hint above)

Note: there may be one NPC type that is not present in the game in attackable form - my bad - so you guys may only be missing 9 cards instead of 10. Specifically, this NPC race is present in the game world, but there are none that I could find that are attackable.

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0 Race Specific Cards now Dropping Vanguard TACT
Sep 17, 2007 - 01:46 PM - by Aruspex - SGO
I took a little time this morning to confirm that there are indeed 34 total cards introduced, and I looked at the race tables and world loot tables and they are fine. I'll give you one, in bizarre hint form, so you can slay them and confirm if they are or are not dropping.

One of the race cards I didn't see on your initial post is a critter whose city you encounter in ADnD module A4. :P

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0 Race Specific Cards now Dropping Vanguard TACT
Sep 14, 2007 - 09:22 PM - by Aruspex - SGO
Some of the cards are on rare mobs and should drop rarely.

I, too, have wrestled with giving out more or less information. The last few patch notes I have written have had things like "...x will now happen rarely..." I expect I'll be asked to clarify in a thread when that stuff goes live.

I'm fine with the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" thing in this case. Like I've said before, as a player I always wanted to hear from devs and talk to devs more - it makes me want to stay with the game. Now that I am one, as long as my bosses will let me talk, I'm going to do so.

That all said, I'll check again to make sure I got the right number and they are dropping. QA tested these and gave me a green light, though, and they haven't been wrong when they've responded to a testing request.

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