Why is it that emerald cores stopped dropping in Hillwen mine?

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Shinespike wrote on 2014-02-13 03:11

Why is it that emerald cores stopped dropping in Hillwen mine?

I've been in Hillwen mine for a couple hours and now the mobs just completely stopped dropping them. Any way I can "fix" this? Is this some camping penalty thing?
k1nsoo wrote on 2014-02-13 03:21

Camping penalty. If you kill mobs over 30min in one place they stop dropping items. Only way to solve this is to come back an hour later or get a premium/VIP service to get rid of this camping penalty :(
Kyubey wrote on 2014-02-13 03:34

Quote from k1nsoo;1197717:
Camping penalty. If you kill mobs over 30min in one place they stop dropping items. Only way to solve this is to come back an hour later or get a premium/VIP service to get rid of this camping penalty :(

Not true, not only you can grind for more than 30 mins and still get drops, you won't get any kind of drop till the server resets at midnight.
Already had this shit happen to me twice on completely different situations, the best way i found to extend my grinding was to grind 1 hour, take a break of 30 mins and repeat. You'll still stop getting drops completely at a certain point, but you'll get a lot more than if you grind, lets say, 2 hours in row.
But yes, prem/vip supposedly makes it go away.
Howhurl wrote on 2014-02-13 04:32

Quote from Kyubey;1197724:
Not true, not only you can grind for more than 30 mins and still get drops, you won't get any kind of drop till the server resets at midnight.
Already had this shit happen to me twice on completely different situations, the best way i found to extend my grinding was to grind 1 hour, take a break of 30 mins and repeat. You'll still stop getting drops completely at a certain point, but you'll get a lot more than if you grind, lets say, 2 hours in row.
But yes, prem/vip supposedly makes it go away.

Prem/VIP definitely makes it go away. I remember getting ridiculous drop rates when I still have service, compared to now.
Kaeporo wrote on 2014-02-14 15:11

This is the relatively new anti-botting mechanic which negates mob drops after you breach some unknown enemy/time threshold.

I traditionally halt mob drops in the ecology with around 5~8 counts of Ice Spear.