Clarification Regarding Charybdis Hunt
I'm hearing conflicting info on this. And info that certainly makes this hunt less appealing, nonsensical really, if true. Can anyone help me sort the facts from possibly erroneous rumors with this?...
* If you use the crafted Oracle of the Sea do you still need to do a monger quest that yields the Charybdis bait before you'll have success at finding it?
* It takes a group to fight Charybdis but the fisher is the only one in group that get the drop?
So you get a group together to fight and the only person who has a chance at getting...
Recipe for the generic version of the Dagger Belt
Recipe for the generic version of the Elegant Collar
Hungry Coconut Crab Statuette
Captain’s Hearty Rum
Leurocian’s Mempo of Fortune
...is the fisher in the group?
That can't be right.
* If you use the crafted Oracle of the Sea do you still need to do a monger quest that yields the Charybdis bait before you'll have success at finding it?
* It takes a group to fight Charybdis but the fisher is the only one in group that get the drop?
So you get a group together to fight and the only person who has a chance at getting...
Recipe for the generic version of the Dagger Belt
Recipe for the generic version of the Elegant Collar
Hungry Coconut Crab Statuette
Captain’s Hearty Rum
Leurocian’s Mempo of Fortune
...is the fisher in the group?
That can't be right.
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Best I can find for the other part is from the wiki:
"The fisherman has a guaranteed drop of an item of Virtuous or Villainous armor, in addition the corpse will contain rare fish steaks as well as gold and some magic items. New rewards were added during publish 106"
I'm also told it's tough to beat Charybdis without a decent size group and it's really tough on the ship's health. So it's unlikely I'd be able to try this with just my husband and I. Unfortunately because of the perception of how this hunt goes there doesn't seem to be any interest in it on my shard thus far.
I hope we can get more info here. I think people will be more interested if they find out there is a chance at a drop of the new content for everyone doing the hunt together. If it's as some fear, and only the fisher has a chance, then I don't think this is going to get off the ground and into the water.
@Kyronix ?
The fisherman gave me the helmet. Very nice color. I would love the set.
I recruited her in chat. Yes we went there with no fisherman. She was fishing for 5 min till the Oracle owner gave her bait. In the meantime others were telling her she had to equip the pole and Oracle.
Was a big mess of fun. "
The drop scheme for Charybdis gives a random reward to the fisher who pulled charybdis up, or, if they are not around (i.e they left) it is given to a random top attacker from the charybdis top attacker list, which is such a misnomer we should stop using it - from henceforth i'm going to call it the "worthy participant" list - damage dealt, damage received, and damage healed will rank you on the worthy participant list.
This is the original implementation of the drop scheme for Charybdis - why it was done that way I cannot speak to as the content predates me. Thanks for the feedback!
on Chesapeake there was a public Charybdis hunt by one of the Governors a while back, the fisherman kept the prize, not even offering it up to the attendees.
That’s much better wording for people, imo.
Suggestions....
1) - Take turns in the group to summon Charybdis ?
2) - Discuss with the Fisherman before actually doing the hunt how to handle the drops....
It was about time that Fishermen got some love, fighters get it ALL THE TIME..... there is PLENTY of content and drops (including EM Events) which fighters can do and get, what do Fishermen have that they can do and get as drops ?
It SURE is VERY right, to my opinion..... it was about time that Fishermen had some Love addressed at them.....
That's all well and good, @popps , unless your fisher doesn't have anyone to help go on the hunt with and they're not able to solo.
Between how tough it used to be to scare this monster up and how the drops work, to me, it explains why it's not done often. I'm not saying I should be able to take my fisher out and solo Charybdis. But I made the assumption everyone fighting had a chance at a drop. Unlike Popps, I'm not so worried that my fisher feel the love. I'd rather everyone look in their pack to see if they got a drop.
as for the bug some people seem to be experiencing, can’t say we’ve encountered it and we’ve done Charybdis 20ish times since patch, and have had a drop every single time.
I frankly do not understand why any and ALL content should cater to fighters and fighters only....
I see it as important to have content and drops that were to ALSO favour "non-fighting" Templates or Templates which, having to invest skill points in non-fighting skills, cannot be "as" an effective fighter as those Templates who invested all of their skill points in Fighting skills....
And, as I said, without a Fisherman there would be no Charybdis to summon in the first place so, yes, I see it as right that the Fisherman was to get a drop "more often" as those others participating in the fight....
While a crafter, fisherman etc. can likely deal with lower spawn with their non-combat suits and skills, they hardly can deal with, at least not in the same capacity, with the higher end spawn which dedicated fighters usually deal with.
So your fisher has 120 fishing only and all other skills are locked? How do you manage to kill sea serpents?
So, I find it very right that it is the Fisherman to get the drops.
That said, players inthe group can then make their preferred arrangements in taking turns to summon Charybdis with their Fisherman, make agreement prior to the hunt on which character would get the drop etc. etc.
But it is perfectly rightfull, as I see it, that the Fisherman gets the drops to respect his/her fundamental role in summoning Charybdis......
That said, however, I would prefer the current system over adding an RNG factor where the dice can roll zero for everyone. So if that means only one, predicable, person gets the guaranteed drop, then so be it. Just please keep it so at least ONE drop is guaranteed for the effort involved.
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
Players need to trust the Fisherman in the group ?
Why not turn around the question then, and wonder why should then the Fisherman need to trust the players in the group after being him, the Fisherman, the one that made the Charybdis hunt possible in the first place ?
One way of the other one wants to see it, the fact remains that the Hunt for Charybdis and its consequentially drop exist because a Fisherman made the effort and put in the skill to make that possible....
People need to trust people they hunt with. Period.
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