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[A UIM]

What is your suggestion?:
A detailed thread on how purples are calculated at raids and how drop boosters, raid boosters & donor rank impact this.

Is this in OSRS?:
Yes, via wiki and online calcs.

Has this suggestion been accepted already?:
No.

How would this benefit Alora?:
I think it's fair to say the vast majority of mid-end game players time is spent at raids, specifically COX as most start there.
You can be spending 100s of hours in these and it would be great to know exactly how to maximise these hours spent.
The current confusion about how, for example, drop boosters work is rampant.
Is it a flat increase by 15%? does it increase the frequency of purples? Does it increase the quality of the purple IF you roll one? (How i personally think it works)



I understand there's some extra confusion on how it currently works for COX specifically as Alora was the first server to have it, before the drop rates where even fully understood in OSRS, and the code is quite spaghetti.
There's also been talk of a total rework of the drop system to bring it in line with that of OSRS now it's well understood how it works (which would be great and feel free to give opinions on that as part of this thread as well)

I don't know if the other raids are more in line with OSRS but from the endless complaints about drops, more TOB than TOA? It doesn't seem so.

But either way, a clear description of how they work I think would be great for everyone.

I will also offer my time to write the thread itself if Omi / staff don't have the time, just send me the info.

[Selenagomez]

support, it would be nice for us to know!

[Scorn]

Support! I think it was also asked by a couple of people in the Omi Q/A session but was never addressed. 

[ChikkinHaze]

Huge support. So many people say so many different things about cox rates, minimum points needed, max points that is pointless getting anything more. WE NEED CLARITY. There can’t possibly be a minimum pts needed as I’ve seen Moe get 0 point purple in cox mass event, also there surely can’t be a cap of 8,000 points as this would render large scale cox & point gaining completely useless? I have time and time again found myself wondering but nobody has any good answer. Please give us this info.

[21]

Support - If OSRS have released information then with Omi wanting to 1:1 this server to an extent, makes sense to release it here also.

 

It is a question i've seen asked multiple times and has never been answered.

[strudelle]

full support, this been asked by so many people, we keep wondering how the drop rate/donator rank work( if they actually work)

 

the aswer always been missing/avoided. maybe its finally the time to get more info!

[ChikkinHaze]

After some research it seems there are multiple posts about this issue dating ‘23 & ‘24but not one of them has a reply from @Omicron himself. We deserve the right to have more clarity on this especially seeing as we are pumping a lot of gp/$ into donator ranks but when it comes to cox nobody has a clue where we stand with our base chance, rank, boosters etc. Freedom of information!

[93]

Support - I think I have a general understanding but it's just so convoluted that I'd rather know for sure.

[Clappy]

Support We could use some insight for this.

[Crema]

This would definitely be something helpful to clarify what exactly we're all grinding towards, if whatever boosts we use, etc even play a factor in the drop table. Just something to justify the back end of raids and what we're all working towards.

[Jacob]

big support, it'll be nice to understand how to best utilize our boosts/ranks to get the most out of COX.

[Radagon]

Yes please

[Maliketh]

Support,

 

not only for cox but wondering also how it works for tob and toa (the toa % plugin seems to be more accurate for osrs) doesnt seem to work well on alora

[Darki]

Support, would love to have insight.

[Satan Smash]

SUPPORT  Ive always been just annoyed at not having a set like hey this is how many pts you need and if you dont meet said threshold the odds are lowered for example

 

 

 

ALL HAIL OUR LORD AND SAVIOR SIRKERAVNOSL!

[Kyle Crane]

+1

 

Please explain

[GIM Ty]

Support! - As a newbie to it all, i'm going to be learning/doing these very soon and would like a detailed description as well! I think it would greatly benefit the community as a whole to be honest.

[Selenagomez]

Can we also get an answer if group cox has worse rates than solo? The amount of purples ive seen in group cox is extremely low, even if I'm getting around the same amount of points that im getting in a solo

[Jacob]

full support!

[Dozer]

SUPPORT. If I find out i've been doing solo cox without a better purple rate, I'm throwing hands.