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    In light of the recent "game change" by Evony I thought i would start a thread about material farming. The subject has had very little coverage in the past as materials were primarily gained from the wheel of fortune. But now we are faced with a situation where the non coiner will be reliant on trying to find these elusive material drops and a better understanding of where and how to obtain materials through farming needs to be achieved if the casual gamer is to endure.

    I myself have no wish to start doing tests on how frequently materials drop if a player solely concentrates on farming them. I can say though through my own experience that I have probably got 1 piece of material for roughly 100 lv10 valley hits. I have never had a piece of material drop in any other place than a lv10 valley and do not know of anyone that can correct me on lv10 valleys being the only place these elusive materials drop.

    Soooo maybe some people out there would be willing to try and make some sense of this so there will at least be some kind of understanding as to how long a non coiner would have to play the game before achieving lv10 gear.

    Personally I think that lv10 valleys is a good place for materials to drop, it just needs to happen a lot more frequently to get even remotely close to the time scale it took a non coiner to get lv10 gear via his/her 21 amulet spins a day. I also think having material boxes drop on npc lv6-9 is another step in the right direction.

    Finally.....lets keep this thread on topic and not start ranting about losing amulets in the first place.

    I'm going to add this linkhttp://feedback.evony.com/evony/topi...ial_drop_rates from the feedback site here also, please check it out and comment there if you feel like it. Thanks.
    Last edited by Gamble; 07-26-2012 at 09:10 AM. Reason: adding a link

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    I tried farming for them once. About all I can say is that the drop rate is extremely low and you will likely have a few medals from the farming for each material drop you get. And you also need to get the right material.
    Farming for these is highly impractical in my experience and you may actually be better off checking for commission quests and attempting them rather than farming for the material. But this was just my personal experience and conclusions shouldn't be reached solely from it.

    Edit: Sorry if it seems I'm a little off topic talking about commission quests.
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    i agree that farming for materials is a big waste of time. the way the drop rate seems to be will only frustrate you and give you a bad feeling about just how hard it will be to compete. i've heard the age1 guys saying medal farming on age1 is really bad but in my experience it does not even come close, i found medal farming on age1 acceptable, it was achievable. material farming to seems to be in no way achievable no matter which way i look at it.

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    i have never had material drop from a valley
    i've heard stories
    but i've never even seen a report with a material drop
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    i have never had a material drop either
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    I recently came back after a very long break just to find out the new state the game is in, and needless to say I'm ready to quit again over item drop rates.

    I'm currently looking at the reality that no matter how much I plan, farm, and build up I got 0 chance against someone with a 700+ attack hero, nor to I have any means to compete with that without massive coining. Materials for armor upgrades just do not drop, or are very, very rare, 1 in 1000.

    I'm a competitive player, or at least I try to be but once I realize I got no chance, it sorta defeats the purpose of playing this game. I suppose the coiners could still send one of their uber heroes to reinforce you if you got attacked by someone who would otherwise roll you over because their hero has 300+ more attack than yours does. I experienced how big of a difference that is in age 1 when I lost a city to someone with a 700ish attack hero, when mine only had 450 or so. Do the devs understand how much of a phenomenal advantage that is?

    I quit age 1 because I was stuck at baron rank, and honor medals simply wouldn't drop, ever, even though I if I could get 6 more to drop, I could jump all the way to Furstin, and only a few Nation medals to get for Prinzessin, but those actually dropped.

    Are there any new age 2 servers being made, that way at least all the non-coiners are on a level playing field? Since they nerfed the amulet thing?
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    Quote Originally Posted by H3llion View Post

    Are there any new age 2 servers being made, that way at least all the non-coiners are on a level playing field? Since they nerfed the amulet thing?
    the last one was opened about 1 week ago

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    ive never had materials drop from a lvl 10 valley.. but then again i play age1 and am still learning the basics about these crazy lvl 12-18s u guys have lol.. will report again when i kno more
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    The information I have, is that they drop from all valleys, however, the drop rate is also affected by server wide gear and star sets. So, the first few days of a server, you can get material from l1-3 valleys, and I know people who have done this. But, after the first couple of days, the coiners already have gear up so the valley level increases.
    In real simple terms, if no one has a star set, then it drops in 1-3 valleys. if they have a 5 set, 5-7 valleys. but as soon as someone has a 9 set, the server wide drop becomes 10s only.
    Thats right, its not YOUR star set that affects drop rates, but the SERVER star set. it takes just 1 person to get their gear up to alter the drop rate for the whole server.

    Its a tough one to actually quantify correctly, but that has been the experience of a few people I know.
    Material drop rate needs to be altered drastically. Especially since you could end up with 500 LAS and no material to use it with.

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    on s166 the other day i got a mich script out of a lvl 2 npc...
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