ShinkuDragon Wrote:and a friend in maple told me she found a recipe that isn't on the monster drops of the monster, so... dunno about the drop tables.
Indeed. A few people reported such occurences here on SP as well.
I see two possiblities:
1) The drop tables are not dynamic as we thought, but static and manually updated by Nexon (or not). The reason the extraction doesn't match the in-game monsterbook data is that the client does, indeed, get this information from the server - but the information the server gives is not from the actual drop tables. It's some other table that is separately maintained. If that's the case, this is sad news indeed. Means we need to keep on maintaining our own drop table information based on player reports of what they found.
2) In addition to their regular recipes that they drop with reasonable frequency, every mob can drop *any* recipe, at a low rate. This is not in the drop table but a separate function.
This would explain why the information we got from KMS fansites seems to contain so many mistakes. So many monsters reported to drop recipes that, we can see now, are not in their tables.
If this is the case, we must *not* rely on player reports. Just because someone found a DAB ring recipe at COGs doesn't mean anyone else hunting there will find one, too, even in a million kills. These off-list drops are pure luck. If you're going to farm something, farm it where it's listed in the codex as dropping.
If anyone can suggest a way to determine which it is, or any other explanation for all these apparent mistakes in the codex, maybe we can figure it out.