Experiment 108 Drops from Zaken depending on character's level

[quests and drop]

why is zaken always dead?
cap'n here! he's getting killed.
but what should you do instead?
what to do if you are skilled?
skilled enough to get him farmed.
slain. obliterated. zapped.
slaughtered. murdered. finished. dumped.
wasted. smothered. he feels trapped -
every single guy on core
has a wish to take him down.
yet again he yearns for more -
less a pirate, more a clown.​

drops from zaken depending on character’s level​

goal: to check how level of character who has done the most damage affects drop.

experiment: we have created two characters. first character has level 99, he will be in a group with the main character and won’t allow him to gain exp. the main character will be changing his level from 60 to 69 and killing zaken.
we have decided to kill night zaken lvl 60, as it has the highest chance of dropping zaken’s earring, which makes any kind of drop chance penalty easier to see. we killed 100 zakens at each level and put in the number of acquired earrings.

additionally we have conducted a test when we killed one zaken at each lvl without characters being in a group and wrote down the amount of acquired exp and sp.

the results can be seen in the table below:

level and color	drop chance	exp	sp
60 (white)	90%	9 759 490	1 779 071
61 (white)	85%	9 759 490	1 779 071
62 (white)	82%	9 759 490	1 779 071
63 (green)	71%	9 759 490	1 779 071
64 (green)	56%	9 759 490	1 779 071
65 (green)	56%	9 759 490	1 779 071
66 (blue)	38%	8 132 908	1 482 559
67 (blue)	22%	6 777 424	1 235 465
68 (blue)	11%	5 647 854	1 029 554
69 (dark-blue)	0% (paralyzed)	4 706 544	857 962

results on the diagram:

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conclusion: looking at the results of the experiment, we can see that the chance of drop changes rather smoothly and has its own thresholds that differ from the one exp has (mob color change).

 

did anyone rly asked for this kind of experiment ?

 

thank you for experiment.
if understand correctly, there was 2 character in party when zaken was killed? one 60-68lvl and another 99lvl?

 

so u are telling me that at lvl 60 there is a 90% chance of getting normal zaken earring?

 

well... i suppose this experiment is about that 8pt zaken? coz it seems you missed that info, which is quite important.

 

thank you. i asked before for an experiment really close to this one (the 83 one), so it's maybe mine... and it points out 2 things :
-only the guy dealing dps will affect drops
-lvl has an impact on the drops even when the char sees it white (tbh, i thought you had max chance while you were seeing the mob white)

 

this or is this instance changed too and you need less people now to enter the nighttime zaken?

 

i am 100% sure nighttime zaken still requires 56 people.

 

thats what i thought. drop rate of the zaken jewel @ 90% was allready confirm for quite a long time. the problem was allways to get so many parties ready to go.

 

well ye confirmed its 56 and droprate is that , talking from personal experience