Don't Bother farming specifically PoS for Battered hilt

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Originally Posted by Talos

It only drops in heroic, has been that way since the start.
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yeah I see now, apparently there are a lot of lying bastards on KJ.

I farmed FOS and POS like made for days when the patch went live with no hilt. I've had pretty much all the other trash epic drops at least once. Starting to piss me off to the point I might buy a hilt for 13k gold...ugh

Speculation i know but I had one hilt drop from POS, then continued to grind for 2nd, needless to say it didnt drop. However, i ran one shammie through the questline and got the mace, after which another promptly dropped when i continued the grind. I was wondering if a group already pocessed a hilt does it lower/negate the chances of another dropping? Probably not but you never know :o

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Originally Posted by Saoul

Speculation i know but I had one hilt drop from POS, then continued to grind for 2nd, needless to say it didnt drop. However, i ran one shammie through the questline and got the mace, after which another promptly dropped when i continued the grind. I was wondering if a group already pocessed a hilt does it lower/negate the chances of another dropping? Probably not but you never know :o

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Blizzard said that it is a flat drop rate.

I have no hilts and have cleared PoS trash since 3.3.0a went live around 20 times without a drop. I'm beginning to think it doesn't exist and that I'm crazy for farming for it! Although, I have made a decent amount of gold from all the farming so far.

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Originally Posted by Svpernova09

yeah I see now, apparently there are a lot of lying bastards on KJ.

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lol

learn2patchnotesbear

ugh I've farmed both FOS and POS for days now with no drop. I have all the other epic trash drops though. Now hilts are going for 20k on my server its depressing.

I got one the first day and another the second and havent see shit since. Clearing only pos and fos on three teams. So ya, its really really low chance to get hilt.

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Originally Posted by Gares

ugh I've farmed both FOS and POS for days now with no drop. I have all the other epic trash drops though. Now hilts are going for 20k on my server its depressing.

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I feel your pain. I have been farming PoS trash and doing a full clear of all the instances and have yet to see one.

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Originally Posted by Rms

Blizzard said that it is a flat drop rate.

I have no hilts and have cleared PoS trash since 3.3.0a went live around 20 times without a drop. I'm beginning to think it doesn't exist and that I'm crazy for farming for it! Although, I have made a decent amount of gold from all the farming so far.

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From questing and gathering in WoW I suspect their drop rates are timed instead of just percentage based. I would frequently get a spike of drops and then nothing for a while and then another spike. If someone else is farming the same drops then my drop rate would go down even if my kill rate stays the same.

This is pure speculation and based on a gut feel from collection quests. If it is true though it means that the more people farming for the hilts the smaller your chance of getting one.

I've always felt (pure speculation, also) that the way their drop system is works is total-kills based on say, a server level. For instance, if something is a 1 in 1000 drop rate then every 1000th kill on that server (or however it's grouped up) drops the item. I've *always* had better luck for epic and rare drops during off hours and this is the best system I've seen proposed that fits with my experience. To that end, I definitely try and farm when the server is a dead zone :)