Ecto drop rate new UW

aron searle

aron searle

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

I wondered what the drop rate was like in the new UW

After clearing the place we had a whooping 1 ecto for the whole team, and i cant remember what dropped it.

So how many have you had and what drops them?

Puppets

Puppets

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

Internet Serious Business

W/

I've cleared it awhile ago and only 2 dropped. One of those spiders in the first area dropped one, not sure what dropped the next one though. ( It was in the third part )

Cash

Cash

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Bound By Wild Desire [Wild]

i went all the way through on an 8 man team. we had 3 drops- 2 of them for the same guy. didnt pay attention to what dropped them tho. im guessing its pretty close to the old UW on drops, and with the amount of farming for new greens going on, expect the rate of ectos coming into the economy to at least triple - at least until the farming ends.

Silverxman

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2006

Obey The Waffles

W/Mo

I get 3-4 a time down there, usually from banished dreamriders?

lord_seafood

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2005

DaRc

Mo/Me

I've done 2 runs, on both runs 2 ectos dropped. I was doing it with guildies so it was pretty much the same team in both runs, one of them got 3 ectos another got 1. I think 3 dropped in the second level and 1 in the third.

EF2NYD

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

lots dropped on my first run, next to none on subsequent runs

Savio

Savio

Teenager with attitude

Join Date: Jul 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

Ectos drop from the "old" UW creatures, which are the Terrorweb Dryders and Banished Dream Riders. Ectos won't drop from the "new" UW creatures: the Grasps of Insanity, the Chaos Wurms, the Scythes of Chaos, and the Darknesses.

As for my runs, ectos average between 0 and 2 for a run.

snikerz

snikerz

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

Rt/A

concur with 0-2 ectos on several runs ive been on

BBoy_Manchild

BBoy_Manchild

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2005

dayton ohio

N/Mo

my first 2 runs no ectos, the rest of them was 1 and only 1

Shanaeri Rynale

Shanaeri Rynale

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

DVDF(Forums)

Me/N

Usually 2-3 ecto per run here. Tho you know it's going to be a bad drop run if none fall by the time you get to the Darknesses.

We did have one ecto drop from one of those battle hedghogs tho, so it may be they are like Coldfires. Dont drop ecto 99/100 but on the odd occasion they do.

Sagius Truthbarron

Sagius Truthbarron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Animal Factory [ZoO]

A/

I got one on my second run. Drop rate isn't fantastic, and its obvious that the drop in prices is due to horders trying to sell out their stock, thinking the 'new UW' will make it worthless :/

neoteo

neoteo

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2005

Macau

www.exilesofdarksteel.com

E/

beat it 3 times , first time got 1 ecto and no green , second and third no ectos but greens

domination magic and divine favor

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I got one on my second run. Drop rate isn't fantastic, and its obvious that the drop in prices is due to horders trying to sell out their stock, thinking the 'new UW' will make it worthless :/
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that is execly what i think , all the ebayers or just ecto collectors , selling them all to merchent god knows why ...

Cherno

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Stars of Destiny

E/

Our team had 3 drop and I believe all 3 were from the Terrorwebs.

Cronos Khan

Cronos Khan

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

New Jersey

W/

my group gotten 4 ecto drops in 1 run. Plus greens, so it was a little crazy getting all this good stuff.

lyra_song

lyra_song

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Oct 2005

R/Mo

My 5th run yielded 6 ectos on the first 3 maps alone.

boxterduke

boxterduke

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

Walking the ruins of Ascalon

DVDF

Me/

First run we got 3 ectos and 2 were for me.
Second run none dropped.
Third and forth, 1 dropped in each run.

=HT=Ingram

=HT=Ingram

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2005

Anchorage Alaska

Haz Team [HT]

R/W

I'm averaging about 2 every 5 trips... As a group we see about 1 ecto per trip in a 5 man party (only last to courtyard) for the group. larger groups don't seem to get as much. But they normally last to get the green weapon drops. so its pretty balanced if you ask me... Small party ecto run... Large party Green run.. But again... this is more of a underworld Challenge then it is a farming location... The challenge of reaching the final bosses if wonderful. and an appropriate green prize for doing so is well worth the hours long effort.

Buy the way just off chance I did a few runs 3 man teams into the first area. I didn't see much improvement in ecto drops... so I don't think this is an area to focus on farming in that way. its better to think of it as a challenge area.

Hendorr

Hendorr

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

Enschede

W.o.F.

N/Me

Well I had none in my run and no greens either, but well...
If I read al your replys I say the average drop is 2 ectos.

=HT=Ingram

=HT=Ingram

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2005

Anchorage Alaska

Haz Team [HT]

R/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sagius Truthbarron
I got one on my second run. Drop rate isn't fantastic, and its obvious that the drop in prices is due to horders trying to sell out their stock, thinking the 'new UW' will make it worthless :/
amen... and about time thank you... make ecto cheaper over a long period of time and drive the hoarding jerks out of business... an the SLOW market driven drop in price is definatly the way to do it... when they reset the prices all they did was buy them cheap and hoard them till the price skyrocketed... with the slow decline they are seeing profits dwindle with each passing day.. and forcing them to sell out to maintain their gold value. making the price lower slowly. Thank god for supply and demand curve. Economics 101... Who knew you could learn it in a game.. lol someone should write a paper on this for an econ class... I would love to see that...

temp

temp

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

my bedroom

Band Of Death UK

had 1 in 3 runs

UrikoBB3

UrikoBB3

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

Middlesbrough, UK

Envoys of the Phoenix

N/Me

I got 4 Ecto drops in my first run of the new UW (I didn't get assigned any of them). 3 dropped within 5 minutes from Terrorwebs, and one dropped a little later from a Banished Dream Rider- at least, I'm pretty sure that dropped it. The first 3 were definately all from Terrorwebs though.

Orbberius

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

On the one run I did, 1 ecto and 1 ruby dropped

Rahl

Rahl

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

Austin, Tx

Mmph Its [Good]

Mo/

I see around 2 a run mostly.

Or none.

Meh.

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Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

Just down the road.

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cash
i went all the way through on an 8 man team. we had 3 drops- 2 of them for the same guy. didnt pay attention to what dropped them tho. im guessing its pretty close to the old UW on drops, and with the amount of farming for new greens going on, expect the rate of ectos coming into the economy to at least triple - at least until the farming ends.
Exactly the same thing happened to me - I was the lucky man who got 2 ectos

On the run before, however, none at all were dropped, and on the one before that, I got a Sapphire, and then everyone died.

Esprit

Esprit

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Dvd Forums [DVDF]

E/

3 runs, 1 ecto dropped.

I am in the mindset now, when I go to Underworld, I am going for greens, if I get an ecto, it's an added bonus.

I don't expect ecto's to drop, when I go down there.

snapp

snapp

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

W/

2 ecto on one run, the monks got the ecto, I got a ruby.