08-14-2003, 10:20 AM
>Due to the 8 additional levels you'll get more items in one game.
Sure, simply having more area and the Nak set drop helps. Not to mention Griswold simply having more vendor slots also helps immensely. I'm no code reader, so I'm just going on my own experience. But I bet, even without the gris peeking feature, you still would get more chances at a better item simply from the number of offerings available.
>So it maybe a little bit easier to find certain items in HF (the unique probability list in jarulf's guide proves this), but I don't think that finding good equipment is really "much" easier.
Again, that depends on the individual's "luck" I guess. But over time, at least going from my own experience. (So really the sample size is too small to be significant.) While decent to great gears in HF does not just drop \ get offered every 5 seconds. It does seem at least to me so far, that getting decent gear is noticeably easier compared to classic.
To use a Low armor class Rogue as an example. On average, on Classic it could take me anywhere from a month (rare) to 2+ months to outfit and raise a clvl 35+ LAR, equipped with some decent gear. (eg: Obsidian of whatever hat and shirt, bow of whatever drops\sale, and plain Heavens to Zod jewels.) On HF, given the same amount of time not only would I get similar or better gear, the increased vendor slots also gives me a chance to do it in less time. Key word here is chance, not a guarantee.
So when I said "much" easier I didn't exactly mean everytime a player starts a game, bam! Gris in HF offers you a KsoH. But it does become more noticeable over time that my HF characters are getting stuff that their classic counterparts can only dream of, or by slogging through more shopping \ laz runs. Or maybe my luck in classic is simply not that great compared to others. I mean after 3 years in classic, all I've been offered is a 2 handed KsoH? :)
Sure, simply having more area and the Nak set drop helps. Not to mention Griswold simply having more vendor slots also helps immensely. I'm no code reader, so I'm just going on my own experience. But I bet, even without the gris peeking feature, you still would get more chances at a better item simply from the number of offerings available.
>So it maybe a little bit easier to find certain items in HF (the unique probability list in jarulf's guide proves this), but I don't think that finding good equipment is really "much" easier.
Again, that depends on the individual's "luck" I guess. But over time, at least going from my own experience. (So really the sample size is too small to be significant.) While decent to great gears in HF does not just drop \ get offered every 5 seconds. It does seem at least to me so far, that getting decent gear is noticeably easier compared to classic.
To use a Low armor class Rogue as an example. On average, on Classic it could take me anywhere from a month (rare) to 2+ months to outfit and raise a clvl 35+ LAR, equipped with some decent gear. (eg: Obsidian of whatever hat and shirt, bow of whatever drops\sale, and plain Heavens to Zod jewels.) On HF, given the same amount of time not only would I get similar or better gear, the increased vendor slots also gives me a chance to do it in less time. Key word here is chance, not a guarantee.
So when I said "much" easier I didn't exactly mean everytime a player starts a game, bam! Gris in HF offers you a KsoH. But it does become more noticeable over time that my HF characters are getting stuff that their classic counterparts can only dream of, or by slogging through more shopping \ laz runs. Or maybe my luck in classic is simply not that great compared to others. I mean after 3 years in classic, all I've been offered is a 2 handed KsoH? :)