Introducing the SPDB

What verifies the source of accuracy of any information in the database?
Can you prove that Zakum3 in fact has 110,000,000 HP?

Why are you so focused on how we'll verify something that isn't even there yet but OK with the info that is, yet equally unproven?

Various extractors have told me that mob HP is in the client, specifically the mob.wz file. The data they present is easily borne out for regular mobs (especially since the insta-kill ring exists), so I have reasonable confidence that what they tell me about Zakum is also correct.

However, these same extractors have repeatedly told me that drops are server-sided. Monster Book contained lists that may or may not have been in sync with the actual drop data, but now that that is gone, the client contains no clue whatsoever as to what any mob drops. Or so we are told.

If you've found drop data hidden in the client somewhere, or have figured out a way to coax this information out of the server, and do not wish to share your methods - that's your right. Just say, "I have my methods, which I'd rather not disclose." However, pretending you don't know why we would think community input is needed for drop data but not HP data, is disingenuous.

So.... your drop data is going to contain frequencies too, right?