Our guild on Druzzil Ro killed for around eleven hours to get two of these to drop. One dropped from an ukun slaughterhound on 1/05/2006 and the other from a noc darklurch on 1/07/2006.
Gone through 4 stacks of gems for summoning arrows ( 400 arrows per stack ).. figure 1 arrow per pull and then maybe I plucked a few off so I figure Ive killed at least 1200 faction mobs here, Have only seen vendor fodder, a couple magnetic chunks and +4 augs drop from trash. would love to upgrade my bracer of quickness with this item hope it drops before I hit warmly faction :P
Again as always Im on test server Average people online maybe 100 and alittle more on weekends so there are no groups in zone, more pop could help the drop rate.
Does anyone else see this being a good Necro item as well? Regen, Mana, nice stats across the board...but then again, that's EVERY OoW item these days...
Well since its a Plate item, I don't really see it being a great Necro item. Good plate drops are to hard to get as they are and have been since PoP.
Progression for items in difficulty of zones/drop rarity (hardest to easiest); Plate, Chain, Leather then Cloth.
This I consider silly since the Plate Classes have to give up so much in ability and utility to have that higher AC. I would prefer if everyone had an equal chance. Sorry about the rant. For some reason your post touched a sore spot with me.
IMHO, these are not common! But can drop off common mobs. Got the bracer from a noc darklurch, and the skirt off a noc. In all the fighting in DS that my toons have done, I have only seen one of each drop.