BCNM drop rates, how do they work?

[Armando]

This has been bugging me for a while...how exactly do BCNM drops work? Do you get a certain ammount of drops each time, and they get randomly chosen, or is the number unlimited and the drops you get based on a percentage rate, like with mobs? Does a BCNM with more possible drops mean I have less chances at getting the valuable ones? Are the drop rates for a particular item the same in every BCNM that it can be obtained, or does it vary from BCNM to BCNM? I understand many of these are interlinked but all these little details have been gnawing at the back of my mind a lot when choosing which BCNM to invest my seals in. Thanks in advance.

[RoNTi]

Re: BCNM drop rates, how do they work?

Alot of people say the faster you beat it the better the drops..

[Ghostraven]

Re: BCNM drop rates, how do they work?

I believe that's how it works except for the mimics.

[lionx]

Re: BCNM drop rates, how do they work?

Alot of people say the faster you beat it the better the drops..

Yeah as i said on AIM, thats what i feel too. The rate for 6 man party BCNMs that i have done seem to be a consistant 6 drop unless special ones i think. 3 man BCNMs i have no idea but probably 6 items too. Kindreds however i have no experience on.

[tdh]

Re: BCNM drop rates, how do they work?

Now it's been over a year since I did a BCNM40, but with the 18 that I've done, the quicker we did them, the worse the drops were. lol

The first one we did took us about 18 or 19 minutes. That run dropped Erase, Phalanx, and Utsusemi: Ni. Pretty good drops at the time. After the 5th or 6th one, we were down to 11~12 minutes and the drops were crap! The crappy shield, a belt I think, Refresh, Ice Spikes and some other crap. So in my experience, if we took longer than 17 minutes, we got good drops, but under 15 or 16 minutes the drops went to crap.

Maybe this is just my poor luck kicking in. I know it's not karma. I help every soul I can! lol

[Alucath]

Re: BCNM drop rates, how do they work?

From what I remember hearing when I was doing the BCNMs in the beginning- it used to be time based a while ago.. So that the faster you beat it, the higher chance you had of getting phalanx and erase etc. But now it's percentage based... Kind of luck. I remember people complaining because the price of Phalanx was spiralling downward and they couldn't sell it for as much. (But they're getting it more often, so that's natural).

EDIT: Also, on maybe of the 3-man BCNM60s there's a drop people consider 50/50 or close. Usually it's also the most expensive drop. When the orb costs 60 seals, maybe they up the chances of cashing out.