gold armor-how rare is it?

Leon The Tank

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2005

Gold Armor holds superior runes. Anyone know who/what drops gold armor. If u know post the approxamite odds. Thnx

Eclair

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2005

Anything that drops armor can drop gold armor. The chances are completely random and I dont' think there's any specific info on what percentage chance it'd drop. Maybe 1/100?

Reiden Argrock

Reiden Argrock

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Arizona

Shadowstorm Mercenaries

Gold armor also doesn't always have superior runes, unless they changed that, but I've gotten many pieces of gold armor with major runes, kinda dissapointing but, oh well

Akilles

Akilles

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Brothers of the Jade

Quote:
Originally Posted by Leon The Tank
Gold Armor holds superior runes. Anyone know who/what drops gold armor. If u know post the approxamite odds. Thnx
I have played 60 hours, ascended and to date have gotten 2 gold drops, 1 was a gold armor which turned to a superior vigor which i sold quickly for 80k

Digitalblast

Digitalblast

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Calgary AB.

Wanta Fanta [WTF] mo/mes, war/el, nec/ra

E/N

Ive ascended 3 characters and have only gotten 1 gold armor drop and didnt get anything from exp. salvaging it. Talk about shitty. I would say 1/100 is sorely misrepresented. Perhaps 1/6000 would be better.

So far ive had:
1 gold item drop
8 Purple drops
Limitless "worthless" blue items. Between all my characters.

Eclair

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Digitalblast
Ive ascended 3 characters and have only gotten 1 gold armor drop and didnt get anything from exp. salvaging it. Talk about shitty. I would say 1/100 is sorely misrepresented. Perhaps 1/6000 would be better.

So far ive had:
1 gold item drop
8 Purple drops
Limitless "worthless" blue items. Between all my characters.
You have to take into account that all items are distributed randomly between players and henchmen, and the fact that not all monsters drop armor. Rares also tend to drop more on certain maps than others. Basically on a good map (high level monsters, monsters that drop a lot of armor) its probably fairly close to 1 out of every 100 armors dropped will be a rare, at least in my experience.

ChristopherKee

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

1% chance on gold 5% chance on purple 20% on blue.

Hell Marauder

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Reiden Argrock
Gold armor also doesn't always have superior runes, unless they changed that, but I've gotten many pieces of gold armor with major runes, kinda dissapointing but, oh well
Yea, that's right. That happened to me too. Got a major rune from a gold armor. Not always superior.