weird drop rates on rare items (no quest items)

I can't speak for anything else, but saps should be quite common.

Maybe you just weren't as good at the game back then.

 

Idk about the scroll dropping rate. but its definitely not high.

 

Yeah drop rates aren't right for a lot of items. I've found upwards of ~40-50 sets of steelies from GS5, thousands of ores, over a hundred equips, etc. Stars drop way too frequently and continue to drop in price. All ores as essentially worthless. Not sure about scrolls, though.

 

Agreed with stars, it's a joke how Tobis are 50k max and Steelies only 900k now. Just completely flooded the market with them. Bullets on the other hand seem to be kinda fine.
Ores are fine too. You need hundreds of ores for some quests. If this would be 100% GMS like, it'd be stupid for such a low amount of players imo. Plus they're still worth something and always a nice bonus.
Equip itself is fine too, so are scrolls. Not GMS like but Kim explained that the apparent 0.0003% droprate or sth like that was absolutely ridiculous and just wouldn't work for our playerbase.

TL;DR -> Nerf star droprate ; Leave the rest as it is (unless something needs special finetuning)

 

Well this server prides itself on being GMS like, so I don't see why the drop rate should be any different. I think the player base is large enough for people to have the equips they need. Or people could at least hunt for the equips they want and it take more than a few hours. As for ores, it's a shame to see crystals ores worth so little as these were always worth a lot in GMS. The damage has already been done so I don't see the drop rate being changed to how it was in GMS, but I agree stars should be changed at the least.

 

Keep in mind that not everything can or should be made to follow GMS exactly though. There are some people who believe that even GMS constantly tweaked their drop rates so there might be nothin fixed to follow.

Although I am fine with drop rates being as low as they were in GMS, a little higher to help new players earn money is good as well. But not too high, it is true a lot of items are dropping in value or not as expensive as they were (relatively) on the original server.