Disarm vs NPCs

Post by **Mr. O'Dearly** » Wed May 31, 2006 12:06 am

Does disarm work the same way vs npcs as it does towards pcs?

Ive disarmed npcs many, many times and only once have they actually dropped their weapon. Do they only drop their weapon on disarm if they wouldve dropped it in loot anyway or am i just really unlucky?

PeregrineV · Post by **PeregrineV** » Wed May 31, 2006 12:13 am

In my own experience, when the NPCs are disarmed, I notice that they sometimes lose the weapon on the toon, sometimes not. And, about 75% of the time a disarm succeeds, the weapon turns up in the loot. The other times, it did not.
During combat, aside from the disarm message to tell me I did it, I notice that they are no longer hitting as hard or with elemental (acid, sonic, etc) damage, when they were before.
2 disarms in sucession for a 2 handed wepaon is the one thing I have been able to verify yet.

Post by **Mr. O'Dearly** » Wed May 31, 2006 12:18 am

yeah, when i went to undersea city and tried it out I could pretty easily disarm the huntresses. I disarmed both weps on each one i came across and only once did one actually drop to the ground. I never had one drop in loot.

Today I only managed to disarm 3 or 4 planar dwarves because they have killer discipline, but never did they drop any of their weapons; not to the ground and not in loot.

Death Dealer1 · Post by **Death Dealer1** » Wed May 31, 2006 12:26 am

afaik..disarm works the same vs everything. npc's and pc's alike have to follow the same disarm rules.

as far as things not dropping, for some reason if you are alone or in a small party nothing drops in planar areas. which means take 15 ppl up there with you if your looking for gear, otherwise it will waste your time except for xp.

kingfatzo · Post by **kingfatzo** » Wed May 31, 2006 2:30 am

aye i have noticed this as well -- massive parties do tend to get rather frequent loot -- it sucks when you need somthing but cant find a party -- or you dont want to have to roll for it in the end and end up "wasting" time trying to get an item that went to someone else, tho this is never a problem in guilds ( we all get our share

) ....but i could see players who are able to solo parts (or all

) of the planes become dissapointed over not getting gear drops.....especially when it takes longer to solo or small party kill then it would in a larger party.