Bug: drop rate, xp and tp bonus, official announcement

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Uure

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Thursday, September 4th 2014, 3:05pm

Bug: drop rate, xp and tp bonus, official announcement

It seems that no one has brought it here, so:

On the official .fr forum there is the following announcement

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Bug: drop rate, xp and tp bonus

There were some tests on the effectiveness of bonuses to drop rate, xp and tp performed internally by the Runes of Magic team.

The results highlighted a bug:

If your bonus is 500% yours actual bonus drops to 100%.
To make it clear, if your cumulative rates give you 550%, in reality, you will only enjoy a 150% bonus.

If you intend to farm, do not exceed 499% in your interest until an eventual bugfix.

It matches what was observed earlier, but some ppl have tried and cannot reproduce this. So it might be bound to how some specific bonus (pot/title etc.) works, and not be a general 500% border value.

Also what is interesting is that previous reports were focusing on drop-rate only, while this official French statement mentions all three: drop-rate, xp and tp buffs.

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bleedingblak

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Thursday, September 4th 2014, 10:45pm

Glad to see that this is finally made official. Known about the actual hit for awhile now.

~Fly into the distance, disappear for awhile~

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Cike

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Thursday, September 4th 2014, 11:30pm

yes, this has been known for a long time.

did GF/RW really NOT know about it?

my r/p can outdps r/m. your name is stupid.

mages should stack dex. word.

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alegre08

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Friday, September 5th 2014, 2:07am

how do you compute for it? are the bonuses merely additive? let's say i have housemaid pot which gives 75% drop rate and i have a loot IV rune on an OD equipment which gives 48% i just add 75 plus 48 and i get 123% drop rate?

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lesmceld

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Friday, September 5th 2014, 2:43am

Yes, add your bonuses for your drop rate bonus.

I've known about this reported bug and tend to intentionally keep my drop rate bonus under 500 because I've heard of it. That being said, I've also gone above and had extremely good luck, average, and below average luck. It seemed to fit within the parameters of what my drop should have been, so I simply don't know if this bug is constant or depends on certain parameters or buffs, or what.

I don't believe the drop rate bonuses which you can get from bonus xp/tp drop rate weekends affect your drop negatively though, since it's very easy to go over 500 with them, and the drop rate I've gotten during those can be extraordinary.

All in all though, I think it would be nice to add certain stats to your character screen so you could see what your xp/tp/drop rate bonuses are. Would make things easier.

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Jhordan

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Saturday, September 6th 2014, 6:01am

Let me get this straight. The drop rate bonuses are additive not multiplicative (like everything else in the game)? From the above example, I always thought it was 1.75*1.48=drop rate (2.59%). You are saying, it is 223% because they add?

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