Restore Doom Artifact Loot Lists to Default

[Magus Zeal]

Right now all the crap doom artifacts are making the chances of getting a decent one very low. This is a "heritage" custom that was introduced due to the platinum tunic. I am suggesting that this be reverted to stock Servuo so we can start hitting the useful arties again instead of all that other crap.

 

[Brosephine]

I do not agree that it should be restored as it was before. Maybe the change that was implemented was not the best and there is a further compromise to be made? We had an entire discussion about this months ago and the old loot table was RIDICULOUS. I'm posting the former thread for reference:

Doom Artifact drop rate, and Legacy table odds.

It's honestly a bit crazy. I understand why OSI made the change to create the legacy table since there was literally a decade of backfarmed doom items, and cursed doom items from events, etc. but on heritage it makes such little sense. Trying to farm for anything is unrealistic to say the least...

trueuo.com

DO NOT revert... maybe re-assess and make another change. As DewCono posted, he hit the legacy table only FOUR TIMES within literal THOUSANDS of kills. That old loot table was terrible.

 

[Dan]

Thanks for finding the old thread. This is why I push to post stuff here, for references later. Great discussion so far, let's keep it going!

 

[Noah]

I'm on the fence about this issue.
I understand Magus' frustration about not getting the old "better" arties from doom. The last 3 times I went to doom I got 4 shitty items.
I have yet to hit the legacy items from days old since the new patch went into affect.
That being said, Im also not too keen on having a shitload of AoF's floating around. But, it seems we have traded the cuffs of the arch mage, scholars halo, and a few others for the older Legacy items like the AoF, Jackyls, Aegis, spirit of the totem, and the hunters headdress.

Ive been told it is random, but cant the odds be slightly increased for a better chance at a legacy items instead of 3 deceivers that are essentially not even worth the points to CuB them?

 

[Magus Zeal]

So of the 25 crap arties that used to be on their own "condensed" list, 3 are of any use. That just MASSIVELY reduced our chances of getting the rest of the desireables.

Artifacts – Doom Gauntlet – Ultima Online

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Just look at that list above and tell me how many of those arty's you would chase that are labelled "Condensed".

So we now have a 1/37 (2.7%) chance to get any artifact on a reward. 25/37 (67.5%) of these are obsolete.

When we were at the other system, we had a ~7.7% chance to get an updated arty and a very low chance of getting the really old crap arty. I don't want to do a doom gauntlet knowing I might get stuff like this instead of an upgradeable arty or a halo etc.

Holy Knight’s Breastplate
Artifact Rarity 11
Hit Point Increase 10
Reflect Physical Damage 15%
Physical Resist 35%
Fire Resist 3%
Cold Resist 2%
Poison Resist 3%
Energy Resist 2%
Strength Requirement 95
Durability 255

I can craft better than this stuff for days - and I don't have to kill 31 Doom mobs.....

I might suggest we make those "Minor Doom Arties" available as high fame random drops in Fel (or maybe Ilsh...) and restore Doom to 14 possible hits when a reward is issued, (12 better arties, 1 list of crap arties, 1 random legendary)