Editing Announcements - 2010/04 - Shedding Skin (section)

=== Rares Update ===
{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = April 14th, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=500486#post500486
 |  Question = Are all the rares still available to any level?
 |      Text = Rares still have no wield requirements.
 | Developer = Django
 |     Title = Turbine Staff
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = April 14th, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=500498#post500498
 |  Question = Do all rares still drop from any creature? Do the new rares only drop from higher level creatures, or in higher level hunting areas?
 |      Text = Rares only drop from creatures that are a higher level than your character and/or level 100+. Same as always.
 | Developer = Django
 |     Title = Turbine Staff
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = April 14th, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=500812#post500812
 |  Question = Thunderhead lost biting strike and gained tusker slayer. Lightning tusker slayer? Why oh why couldn't it have been lugies.
 |      Text = This is part of the bug with Lugians showing up as Tuskers in the examination. It's actually Lugian Slayer.
 | Developer = Django
 |     Title = Turbine Staff
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = April 14th, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=500813#post500813
 |  Question = Can you still get the high tier rares or are they only one per server?
 |      Text = Rares are only limited by drop rate, they are not limited by the existence of other rares.
 | Developer = Django
 |     Title = Turbine Staff
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = April 15th, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=501028#post501028
 |  Question = Seemed in prior times it was 2,500:1 for low tier and stayed with that ratio of adding a 0 per tier up it went.
 |      Text = The odds of finding a rare have not changed at all, it's the odds of that rare being a higher tier rare that have changed significantly.
 | Developer = Django
 |     Title = Turbine Staff
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = April 15th, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=501028#post501028
 |  Question = So the high tier rares are they only balanced with tier 8 loot places like the release notes says or can they be found all over dereth?
 |      Text = Rares still, and have always, dropped form any creature that is a higher level than your character and/or is level 100+.
 | Developer = Django
 |     Title = Turbine Staff
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = April 17th, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=501367#post501367
 |  Question = Aren't they supposed to stack with the rest of the cantrips and not override? Please confirm. Thank You.
 |      Text = The spell with the higher buff will be overriding the lower level version next update. The rare armors and weapons have spells from various loot armor spell sets as well as unique spells. The unique spells will stack with anything, the loot armor set spells will take the highest value.
 | Developer = Django
 |     Title = Turbine Staff
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 7th, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=506117#post506117
 |  Question = In other words, I have the exact same chances as before of finding the same stuff?
 |      Text = That's very incorrect.

What Tao was explaining is correct.

The chance to find a rare has not been changed, so the number of rares the show up on a server in a given month has not changed. The chance that the rares that are found will be the top tiers has been drastically increased.

Which means your chances of finding a nice rare have gone up, not stayed the exact same as you suggest.
 | Developer = NoWorries
 |     Title = AC Quality Assurance
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 8th, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=506146#post506146
 |  Question = Were there any changes to the real time rare system?
 |      Text = Real Time Rares work the same as they always have. It rolls a number between 1 second and 2 months worth of seconds. When that number is up you get an additional chance of finding a rare on any valid rare kill. That additional chance is very high. You can still only find one rare on any given kill but it's possible to find a normal rare when your Real Time Rare timer is up but you haven't found one yet.
 | Developer = Django
 |     Title = Turbine Staff
}}