Remember when "animal leg bone" was dropped only by mobs that could be considered an "animal" and actually have "legs"?? First time I noticed them dropping from plants (flanae; smoulies; nepenthes) I had a serious WTF moment.
Haha, exactly! The drop table now is like making krawfy tails drop from moldies! Some of the drops in the current table are okay but there's too many of these ridiculous map drops. I think map drops are just awful unless they have an actual theme to them. Like making woods a map drop in a forest type map like Forest of Wisdom or Forest of Wandering. And doing things like this -
Animal Leg Bones and Backbones - as pep said only from animal type mobs
Thin Insect shell - drop from things like Choropies and Bees
Thick Insect shell - drop from Beetles and other hard shelled type mobs
Insect wings - drop from Hornets and Bees and other flying insect type mobs
Pumpkin pieces - drop from Pumpkins, Big Pumpkins, etc
Coal - drop from Moldies and Coal Mine moldies.
Twig - drop from Little Smouly
Bark - drop from Smouly, Elder Smouly, etc
Thin and Thick Leaf - drop from plant type mobs
Pollen - drop from Bees and Flanaes
Frozen Animal Fur - drop from Wolves
Ore of Water - drop from places where water type mobs inhabit i.e. Aquas
Ore of Fire - drop from fire type mobs i.e. Fiery Snappers
note: some of these may already drop like this but just giving examples.
And they wouldn't only have to drop from these types of mobs. They could just be a higher/better chance.
Also they should scale map drops better instead of just having mats drop all over the place. We have several places that lv200+ could level or farm yet I'm willing to bet the useful drops don't differ too much from map to map.
One last edit - doesn't make sense for a mob to have different drop tables just because it's in a different map. How confusing must that be for some players? And the only reason I can think of why it is that way is because of laziness aka let's just make a general category and call it map drops so we don't have to assign each individual mob a drop list.
Just my opinion.
Edited by Kaizy, 22 July 2011 - 08:50 PM.