Airship items and quests

[torkur]

These got downgraded mostly which surprises me in some cases compared to similar zone fight items.

The rares for these items are horribly rare. Yes, they used to pop at too high a rate and some people farmed them. Yes, some are soloable for some people. With the zone pop times though, some quests- like gretwehrr items- are taking me an average of 40+ hours soloing small armies of lvl 50+ mobs to get the items to pop and collect per single eq piece.....hell, I have 6% trophies on a couple mobs up there that have dropped only 1 quest piece that whole time. :)

In that time, couldn't I just go farm a zone 15 times and get everyone in the 15 man group a set? I'd personally prefer the challenge of working out quest items and spending longer doing them to at least give similar stats, but currently almost all are clearly below simple zone fight items.

Or if the downgrades are going to stay to the items, could the rareload % perhaps be looked at instead for airship please?

[Cirath]

Not everything from airship was downgraded. One item in particular that I was orriginally really disapointed in considering how hard it was to get is now useful. If it was a gretwehrr item, of course it got downgraded. All hp stuff did, and those really arent that hard to get in comparison to many of the other quests. But Ive heard some mages talking about how happy they were about the changes to the staffs.

[Bilraex]

airship got wonderful upgrades, all the mage staves went to 1 handed as they should be, hammer is 1h now which is nice. and i heard the magebanes are even a bit better

[thanuk]

airship got wonderful upgrades, all the mage staves went to 1 handed as they should be, hammer is 1h now which is nice. and i heard the magebanes are even a bit better

That makes perfect sense!

[Dizzin]

Gretwehrr eq needs to lose at least another 3 hp. It's just way too simple for the stats they have. And airship staffs could lose about 4 wt since they're 1handed now.