Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-74.10.105.99-20130523200150/@comment-82.168.125.187-20131007125235

The drop patterns may differ and change from time to time. In the Skeletons Tomb I found that sometimes the pattern is: dropped a few times in normal, a few times in mighty, a few times in valor, then a few times in normal again. But it happens the pattern is the other way around. So from valor to mighty to normal to valor etc. Sometimes the next step seems randomized. It will go from normal to mighty to normal to valor to mighty to normal or something like that.

Usually one of the 3 lower levels will give the rare item, but today I had to go to honor stage to get Roc feathers in the Zephyr Plateau. It wouldn't give them anymore in the lower stages.

A few directives for getting the rare drop items:

- it seems there is always a level where you will get them at first try, be it normal, mighty, valor, honor or epic.

- it seems useless to try again on a level if you don't get them the first time. So try at normal first en if you don't get them move on to mighty, then to valor etc. I may be mistaken about this because I may not have tried often enough.

- once you get them at a stage, try again there. In my experience I always get at least 1 other set the next time once it gave rare items. It makes sense to keep playing the level as long as it drops rare items. Once the boss starts dropping more common items you better move on to another level. Usually it drops the rare items 2, 3 or 4 times in a row. But sometimes I get 8 or 9 snakeskin sets in a row from the same level.

- Don't make mistakes. Don't let all your knights die in achieving the level. Just wait till your knights healed enough to win the next stage. Also make sure you finish the boss with a special attack every time. In my experience failing to do so breaks the chain. The boss will stop dropping rare items. If it happens you best follow the same procedure as always: play the level till the boss stops dropping the rare items and move on.