Can someone explain me how does DPK works?
i have been farming for some items to complete the collections and found out about this DPK thing, but i am unsure of something as i read somewhere that every single kill on the monster, even from other players outside of your party, counts toward the DPK for the monster to drop the item, is this true? does that means that i could be at 560 kills and then some random person hops in the map, kills 10 and gets the item, when i have been killing 560 already just for someone to kill 10 and get it instead of me?
Posted May 10, 2017, 1:40 PM UTC
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Yes and no
how the current DPK work : a monster X drop item Y every Z number of kill (like 500kill-530kill) , it generate a number , like 517kill and when you will hit 517kill (you or anyone , once 517monster are killed) the item will drop BUT every time you kill a monster you can drop the item faster , frist mob is 1/517 , second is 1/516......
so if you killed 500 mob out of 517 and "random guys" killed 17 monster there is a really small chance he can steal it , you probably going to loot the item before the end of the DPK but it could happen
to be honest a DPK of 500 is almost the same as a drop rate of 0.2% just that you can't loot it out of nowhere you have to farm for it, or alteast someone have to farm for it.
The problem is that you don't necessarily know that it dropped for them. Also, some items have a dps of over 9000(no pun intended) which can get reset by maintenance or a channel crash.
So, if you try to farm this, all you do is make it easier for ANYONE to get the item instead of just you, especially if you stop part way. Btw, most people don't have the 14 hours it takes to completely cover the DKP range to farm a battle bracelet(3spawns 5 min respawn ~500dkp).
If it was a percent chance you could step away at any time and be no worse off, with DKP you literally wasted your time if you leave before the drop hits.