My guild has killed Seru five times and only the last time did this ring drop. The breastplate and shoulders also dropped for the first time as well. The Bloody Berserker's Blade is the common drop at 4/5. The boots dropped once. Trophy sword drops every time as well as orb and a couple of random spells. Our guild is not very powerful, not elementally flagged nor all 65. We have been able to handle him with 35-50 though as long as we have aggro control.
subject says it all. personally pure (wis/int) casters first, then hybrids/bards. and if any guild gave this to a monk before a mana user i'd want thier heads checked.
Not really. The DKP cost will be high because of the FT and a pure melee would be throwing his points away. They can get the stat equivilent much cheaper and only idiots would pay for a premium effect they can't use. Not to say there aren't some idiots out there.
My guild is DKP, but even so, items with effects are sometimes limited to those who benefit from them.
In some, you have fixed DKP prices for items and the quantity you have banked determines who qualifies for the item -- example within 5 or 10 points from available DKP banked = rand for it all others can't get it if they don't have the DKP earned but they only PAY the DKP assigned for the item.
Other systems use a kind of bidding war -- how bad do you want this item? --, others use a seniority type method to determine qualification -- how many raids have you been on with us and how much stuff have you gotten? --, etc...
DKP has almost as many variations as /rand such as 1 1000 or 1 person does a rand with each person assigned a number, etc...
Limits on who can bid on items can range from who can get the most use from it on to who can use it and around to who just feels like bidding at that time (/tt hey bud, did you know your class can't use that???)
Each system has it's benefits and it's problems. Each person in a guild using such systems agreed to it at their sign up and there ARE several systems and variants to them.
All have their own foibles and glitches that cause grief, aggrovation and annoyances for folks but there is NO perfect system out there or it would have been addopted by every guild out there.
You like your system -- that's cool but realize that there are others in use and someone out there really doesn't care for the way someone elses system is set up...
Does anybody else want to decapitate these fool manks who try to take ALL caster gear?
Here's a hint, monks:
Casters don't have alot of str That's why our gear is light...
Hmmm... Lets's see, Flowing Though, +mana, +10 to Int and Wis..
If I were in a guild who gave this to a monk, they would be minus one caster.
If I were a guild leader, and I lead a raid with this, and a monk wanted to roll for it, or demanded they get it, I would promptly remove them from the guild without so much as a second though, and leave their greedy retarded **** sitting there stranded.
Hmm, don't forget the bards here. Bards using 900 mana every time they use Fading Memory Skill. Bard mana is INT based Bard mana is only effected by FT items and natural manaregen.
So after a fair amount of rings for casters (yes, casters 1st on this ring) every guild should start to spread this item to other classes too.
Oh and btw pure casters, there are other classes using mana too. PAL, SK, Druid ...... and the Clerics who'll heal your butt when ya have overnuked again ;)
Phpp... whatever. Some of the retards who pass for Monks here don't speak for the entire Monk community. No monk, with half a brain, would take FT5 from a caster.
As much as I agree with you that there are *much* better monk rings out there, I'd have to question your further comments. If you were in a guild that awarded this to a monk, and you left that guild, I seriously doubt they'd be all that broken up. Someone that would leave over a single piece of loot is at least as guilty of greed as the monk that you think should never have gotten it. If you were the GL of a guild capable of dropping Seru and deguilded a monk that asked to be considered for this item, I doubt you'd have much of a guild left. Fact is, you come across as greedy in this post as the monks you talk about.
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Posted:Feb 13 2003 at 10:22 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Any guild who would give this to a monk over a caster would not even be good enuff to get here to get it. Simple as that.
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Posted:Aug 10 2002 at 6:45 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) the weight says it all...has everything a monk needs....stats, hps , and ac.
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Posted:Jan 08 2003 at 9:29 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) i agree with u, has nice ac, dex, agi, hp and saves. but because of the FT the monks (depending on how guild loot rules work) will either A) be overrun by casters rolling or B) have a caster use more raid points to get it. not saying "oh this is good for ______ (insert class of choice)" just saying every caster on the raid is going to b oodling over this ring.
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Posted:Sep 11 2002 at 7:39 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Um...FoH and AL are on different servers last time I checked....so that means that they will never meet...which means that they can't battle to the death...so what's the point of saying whether FoH or AL rules more?
I wouldn't really worry about it, as most people bantering about this don't even come close to FOH or AL. There are alot of great guilds out there, and what matters in EQ is to have fun- that's the point of even playing. However, avoid the overprotective level 20 parents. Nothing is worse than an overprotective level 20 parent who goes on a rampage because you said one naughty word, and the newbie doesn't know what the bad word filter is!
OMG Holy freaking crap, what the hell, jeezes criminies, babba da babba da ba, I... can't....deal....... why do they do this to me?? This has to be the most ridiculously insane ring there is. sigh, I suppose I could get one someday.... IF I WANTED TO TRADE MY LIFE FOR IT.
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Posted:Apr 04 2002 at 6:15 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) No chance in hell that this ring will drop again, unless either FoH just decide to smoke the lord again (they are equipped now!) Or.. in the next 4-6months.. another guild is able to get themsleves equipped and ready to rock! (highly doubtfull)...
This item has been dropped many times on quite a few servers. Like the person above said it just takes time to farm the weapons. As long as EQ is played some guilds will advance faster than other but it usually does not take long for the best of the best Guilds to get to the top of an expansion.
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Posted:Apr 04 2002 at 5:47 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) This ring is nice...but it might take a while to get your guild equiped with them =)
Yttrium is one of three elements named after Ytterby in Sweden. The other two are Ytterbium and Terbium. Appearently somebody found a rock near Ytterby, and it contained 7 undiscovered elements.
Other "EQ related" elements: Thulium, which is usually found naturally in yttrium-rich minerals. Palladium, which got its name because it's so shiny (and pretty much useless on its own.)
And about nuclear bombs. They're really quite simple to make, you can find the recipe on the Internet. The problem is getting the ingredients, such as enriched uranium.
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Posted:Apr 05 2002 at 12:59 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I think some boys from the energy department are gonna want to have a little talk with you Cephany, you know just a little too much about this topic, hehe.
Nope, not for an atom bomb, it's for the second stage of a fusion bomb. It's what raises the density high enough to achieve the critical mass you need to sustain the fusion reaction throughout the plutonium core =)