Salvage 35s and 25s Drop Rates

[Slamm21]

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25s For ZR, AR, and SSR, the boss has two 100% pools of 6 25 items, shared equally (1/6 chance each) for BR, it is the same except 7 items so 1/7 chance each. 2 will always drop and it can be the same one in both pools.

35s BR Looks like 8% with TH4 for all 35s here Spawn rate of each NM is 133/7396 (looks like 2% per hp tick)

ZR same here 8% with TH4

AR AR is more interesting. Outside of the rats it should be 8% for each item Morrigan and Ares Body 35 from the rats, the rate per kill is high.

The rats are interesting, despite the double morrigan rats killed over usu legs for example, I think this number must be per zone and not per rat. Ares with 2 rats must be 2.5% per rat then. Morrigan with 4 is either 2.5% or 1.4% but 1.4% is a bit weird if so as it would be the only time this rate is used in era to my knowledge. Many people did not kill the final two morrigan rats. Perhaps this was the first time with the 1.4% rate being used as there were more ares bodies than morrigan in era.

SSR This is where things get interesting. That data alone suggests 2.5% for all, but it is weird that some are over 7%

It is worth noting that there was a patch note in April 2009 (out of our Era) "Under Certain Conditions" must mean if you do something in particular the drop rate increases to the next tier (8%) So I checked drop rates pre and post patch Pre Patch Post Patch Yet the only obvious increase is Morrigan legs 35, which must be because era strat was fulfilling those "Certain Conditions"

I think we will never know what these "Certain Conditions" were, and while we know drop rate had to be 2.5% or 8% with TH4 (since pool is not shared), it does look like that perhaps there were "Certain Conditions" previous to the patch which is why some items such as Usukane head were so close to 8% and that they just changed what the conditions were in the patch.

It's worth noting the lowest 3 % items in that list are:

• Usukane Body, where people would generally just kill ramparts and chariot and ignore the gears on that floor.
• Morrigan Legs, perhaps the previous condition here was to not go Usukane Head path on 1st Floor? and this was changed to something else like kill X fomor on 1st floor or port within X time. You have to kill all 15 fomor on 2nd floor to pop so it can't be that.
• Ares Legs, This one could be pretty much anything. 4 portals on that floor, a slot, or even something like you need to kill a couple extra gears. People would ignore the 4 south gears when taking that path for example.

SSR Summary Drop rate on each 35 is at least 2.5% argument can be made that perhaps there were certain conditions to increase to 8% but we will never know what. If that was implemented, it would be best to put it in and not tell anyone what they are per NM, and leave us to guess like in era.

[Slamm21]

this screenshot is pre patch most of this matches up very closely with the exception of Usu body 35 3/36 while a small sample size is 8%, and there is a clear 8% for usu head, and a 7% for skadi gloves.

It would be odd to put ares and morrigan at 2.5% with the other 4 items at 8%, which does add to the mystery, especially with the later "certain conditions" patch notes