I came in here to post your exact scenario. I spent days holding that spot till it dropped. Looks like I wasn't alone lol.
Can you name an item drop more obnoxious than the Sword of Kings in Earthbound?
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There was a Key Item in Crimson Shroud that you needed to advance the story that was a random drop from an enemy. Not just any enemy, because the encounters in Crimson Shroud are Fixed, but a specific skeleton mage that only appears if you fight the first wave of enemies in a specific order to get the right enemy to appear in the second wave which after you defeat it you still has a sub-10% chance of dropping the Key.
Not exactly an item drop but recruiting a King Cureslime in Dragon Quest 5 took me hours and hundreds of tries. A 1/64 chance to recruit a monster that appears maybe 1/10 encounters in a dungeon full of other monsters.
You spent more than 70 hours farming for that? How did you not go insane?
I think that its drop rate was increased in the Remaster, because I got two without farming sessions.
Getting any legendary drop from Vermivorous the invincible from Borderlands 2. As is typical from these loot games, the drop rates are awful and the fact that it can drop skins for all the characters, plus weapons and gear means that the pool is very diluted and you need to pray first for a legendary drop, and second for the one you want. On top of that, the motherfucker is a very rare enemy spawn, and it doesn't just appears randomly when realoading the area, no.
The way to get this boss to appear is by allowing a type of insect enemy to go through a series of metamorphosis, but is not as easy as it sounds. These bugs spawn in numbers, and each of them has a slight chance of becoming Vermivorous, but the only way to know if any of them can do it is by allowing them to go through their life cycle. They are on a timer, after certain ammount of time they get into a coccoon and then go to their next phase, I think all can go through the first one but after that there's no guarantee of which one will go through the next transformation, so when you notice that many are going through a second metamorphosis while others get stuck on the second phase you start weeding out those which got stuck to allow more little bugs to spawn. You repeat the process with those on the third phase and hope for any of them to turn into the super boss.
TLDR: So basically is going through the mother of all RNG sequences, in which you just babysit a bunch of bugs getting incrementally stronger while they are trying to kill you in hopes of one of them turning into a raid boss, and then you hope for the boss to drop something good, finally you pray for the legendary item to be what you want.
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The only time I tried to get the Sword of Kings, I got it in only 40 minutes lol even then I realised I was super lucky.
i really enjoy grinding games to be honest
path of exile is my fav game of all time
There was an item in Destiny 1 that was required to start the quest to get Nechrochasm, and unbeknownst to me it was bugged and instead of having an incredibly low drop rate it flat out wasn't dropping. I discovered this only after farming a particular mission for it for close to 20 hours across three days. I got through one, maybe two seasons of Heroes snapped to the sidebar while I farmed so it wasn't a complete waste.
The Pink Tail in Final Fantasy IV is the worst that I tried to get. I didn't get it.
I don't think the Sword of Kings is the worst item drop in Earthbound (I think I've gotten it three times). Trying to get the Gutsy Bat is way worse (I think I did have a fluke file where I got it...and then didn't use it since I had no idea how good it was).
I don't think the Sword of Kings is the worst item drop in Earthbound (I think I've gotten it three times). Trying to get the Gutsy Bat is way worse (I think I did have a fluke file where I got it...and then didn't use it since I had no idea how good it was).
Solo farming Covenant items in Dark Souls 3 sucks ass. Vertebrae Shackles, Proof of a Concord Kept, Pale Tongues, Wolf's Blood Swordgrass, Human Dregs, Sunlight Medals. The stuff of nightmares.
Yeah. Tons of Notorious Monster drops come to mind here. Even the ones on a two hour respawn timer were hard to get since you had to compete with other players to even claim the monster and then get lucky enough to get a drop.
Did that back in my teens and never really understood why people hate it so much. I got it on my first or second attempt. I'd rather do something like that than be at RNG's mercy and hope for a rare drop of something.
Yep.
I still don't know if the Unsealed J-Sword was even obtainable legitimately or if people only got it through hacks. I miss those days. The PSO Ep. I & II gameplay loop was great. I wish we could get a proper remaster of that game...
Another drop that came to mind was the Trapezohedron in FFXIII. You needed several of these to craft the final weapons and they were a pretty rare drop from the giant Adamantoises in the Archylte Steppe on Gran Pulse.
Still one of my proudest Platinum trophies...
Turns out, all you need to do to get the item you want is complain about it on the internet!
Are you playing the game stretched?
Sealed J-sword was a legit drop yeah, thing is it only dropped from a single ID. (skyly) and the enemy who dropped it was considered a miniboss (gi gue) if you played offline you were out of luck because, online, you had a quest called "Phantasmal World 4" where floor 2 of the tower had 5 gi gues (the fastest method to farm it). Offline you'd be stuck repeating the beach level over and over and hope the singular gi gue dropped it. That's for PSOGC/Blue Burst btw.
For dreamcast, it was also available as a drop but in ruin from some enemy but the drop rate was 1/89k on Ultimate. You can also get it from Very Hard, same enemy but its like a drop rate of 1/1.1mil. Although I think the weapon itself was banned for whatever reasons. (on DC)
Also I agree for trapezohedron, you need a very specific setup to take on these turtles, then you gotta pray it drop.
Only 18 hours? Try 18 months on Phantasy Star Universe grinding for a Psycho Wand synthesis board. Then on top of that you needed 30 fucking diads to synth it. Fucking 30!!!
Agreed. See above.
I remember back in the day reading the manual while playing Earthbound and I was determined as hell to get the Sword of Kings. I was ready for a long slog; and so of course the first Starman Super drops it. It was very anti-climatic. Then on top of that before I left the area it dropped a 2nd time. I literally literally thought the book was fucking lying about it being rare.
It wasn't until subsequent play throughs that I realized I had just gotten stupid lucky twice over. Nowadays when I play I'll spend a little while grinding for it; but if I don't get it after 15-20 min I just move on. I still waste time in other ways, like I can't move on from Onett till I buy the Vacant House.
It wasn't until subsequent play throughs that I realized I had just gotten stupid lucky twice over. Nowadays when I play I'll spend a little while grinding for it; but if I don't get it after 15-20 min I just move on. I still waste time in other ways, like I can't move on from Onett till I buy the Vacant House.
Rare drops from rare monsters in PSO
I don't even know the rates, but it's like maybe 1/1000 to get a rare monster, then they have an additional BS drop rate for some rare items
I see I'm not the only one mentioning PSO.
I don't even know the rates, but it's like maybe 1/1000 to get a rare monster, then they have an additional BS drop rate for some rare items
I see I'm not the only one mentioning PSO.
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Eagle Eggs and Black Pearls in NieR maybe.
If it specifically has to be a drop instead of harvest/found item than also the Broken Earrings and Metal Piercings from NieR.
If it specifically has to be a drop instead of harvest/found item than also the Broken Earrings and Metal Piercings from NieR.
There are several mounts in WoW that come to mind. I have slain Onyxia God knows how many times and still never got the Onyxian Drake mount.
And don't even get me started on Asses of Al'ar.
And don't even get me started on Asses of Al'ar.
The Seitengrat in Final Fantasy XII: Zodiac Age. It's an invisible bow with such insane damage that it makes the Zodiac Spear look like a kid's toy.
But in the new XB1 and Switch versions? Nobody has figured out the RNG manipulation yet. Good luck!
But in the new XB1 and Switch versions? Nobody has figured out the RNG manipulation yet. Good luck!
Lucky Egg in GSC is also pretty terrible. Chansey is a 1% encounter in all areas it appears in, and it has a roughly 2% chance of holding Lucky Egg. That comes out to about a 1 in 5,000 chance of encountering a Chansey holding a Lucky Egg.
Granted, you can actually increase the chance of encountering Chansey a little bit by strategically using Repels, but even then the chances are still less than 1 in 1,000.
THE NUUUUUG
http://www.pso-world.com/items.php?op=viewarticle&artid=574
NUG2000 Bazooka
Back when I played Blue Burst on the PC, I put a stupid amount of time into trying to farm this son of a bitch.
What the fuck did I even expect? The drop-rate is 1/20880!
Sad part is that isn't even close to the worst drop-rate in PSO.
Sadder part is that I didn't even need the piece of crap. I already had a Frozen Shooter, a Spread Needle with 15% hit, and the all-important charge gatlings for damage.
I remember giving all that and a ton of other stuff away on my last day of Blue Burst.
Never really played PSU, PSO2, or the portable titles long enough to farm for the stupid stuff.
On really slow days, I used to do SOTN play-throughs where I'd farm every rare drop.
I'd end up killing Dracula with random-ass weapon combinations, like dual chakrams.
Goofy and Donald enemy weapons Defender and Wizard's Relic in the first Kingdom Hearts have a drop rate of 0.2%. Whilst not the worst example and I got one by accident and another in an hour I thought it was worth bringing up.
The Big Love Rocket mount in WoW. It has a 1 in 3333 (0.03%) chance to drop from a boss which each character can kill once a day for only two weeks of each year.
I've spent years collecting mounts in WoW, got Ashes during Lich King, Invincible and Mimiron's Head during Pandaria plus literally hundreds of other through sheer determined grinding, and I've never even seen the rocket drop for anyone in my group. I never even knew another player who'd seen it drop.
I've spent years collecting mounts in WoW, got Ashes during Lich King, Invincible and Mimiron's Head during Pandaria plus literally hundreds of other through sheer determined grinding, and I've never even seen the rocket drop for anyone in my group. I never even knew another player who'd seen it drop.
I just wanted my mecha maid to have a cool-looking bazooka. =(
:c I know the feel, so many cool model locked behind shitty weapon. Like cross scar, badass dagger but garbage overall, lmao.
Oh man, PSO drop rates are bringing back memories of some boring-ass grinding sessions. I think the absolute rarest thing I got after literally 500 hours of playtime was a Chain Sawd, which is not even *that* rare. Man, fuck the drop rates in that game. Zero regrets about accepting hacked rares from a player by the name of CaptainPooBeard.