Bestiary - Cockatrice

[The_Stihl]

Hiya, *waves at GW*

 

 

 

I've been camped at the Cockatrices in Slayer dungeon for a while in hopes of obtaining the elusive Cockatrice head. From the xp I've gained, I should be comfortably into the 300+ kill threshold, and I've yet to see any of the seed drops as listed on the appropriate Bestiary page.

 

 

 

Perhaps cabbage seeds have become rarer than I remembered, but I'm inclined to think the Cockatrice's seed drops have been scrubbed. No head yet, so I'll update when I'm finished with these scaly beasties.

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

~Stihl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

==Update==

 

 

 

Hi again, I'm registering in at 280.6 kills since I first posted (apparently I lost some xp to poison damage). I've got my cockatrice head now, as well as two pairs of mystic boots, so I suppose I'm done. The above remains accurate - I didn't see any seed drops from the Cockatrices.

 

 

 

Any case, I'll leave it to you folks, I'm off to land me a trophy swordfish! :wink:

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

~Stihl

[Ginger_Warrior]

Hiya.

 

 

 

Yes that does seem strange. Did you not get any seed drops at all? Not even potato seed drops?

 

 

 

If they no longer even drop potato seeds then it could be very likely those drops have just been... vanished.

[The_Stihl]

Not even those, no. So unless wearing a ring of wealth negates seed drops......

 

 

 

I'm actually half curious if other slayer monsters have suffered a similar fate. I haven't the time right now, but I think I'll camp out at the rockslugs for a while later tonight or early tomorrow.

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

~Stihl

[Ginger_Warrior]

That'd be much appreciated. The only thing is, I did a slayer task today of about 130-odd Cave Crawlers with a Ring of Wealth and they seemed to drop seeds as the Bestiary entry says (I usually take slayer tasks as a chance to check drops for monsters, see). So obviously, it's not all Slayer monsters it seems... :-k

 

 

 

I won't take the drops off just yet. But I'll ask around to see if anyone I know gets a cockatrice task just to varify it. We still can't rule out it may have been a complete freak streak of luck.

[The_Stihl]

That seems reasonable.

 

 

 

[hide=Rockslug L29 drop tally]

 

112x Earth runes (5)

 

84x Iron ore

 

62x Coal

 

49x Dwarven stout

 

45x -nil-

 

36x Hammer

 

28x Tin ore

 

14x Copper ore

 

14x Chaos runes (2)

 

12x Earth runes (42)

 

11x Iron bar

 

9x Bronze bar

 

6x -failure- (used salt prematurely)

 

4x Mithril ore

 

3x Uncut sapphire

 

3x Uncut emerald

 

2x Uncut ruby

 

2x Chaos talisman

 

2x Uncut emerald & Iron ore

 

1x Chaos talisman & Tin ore

 

1x Mystic gloves (white/gold)

 

 

 

*500/500 salt accounted for.[/hide]

 

 

 

I believe there's enough instances here for luck to be negligible. The only other possible explanation coming to mind would be a quest-related anomaly, which there are admittedly a few of. I've heard of no ailment with such symptoms (negated seed drops), but I wouldn't put it past the Gowers to do something like that.

 

 

 

I'll try out some cave crawlers when I get the chance, and see if something determinant comes out of that.

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

~Stihl

[cornholio157]

ive experienced a similar change in the hill giants they no longer drop seeds either i used to rely on them for replenishing my tomato and sweetcorn seed supplies and a while ago i did notice cockatrice werent dropping seeds for me either

[The_Stihl]

That sounds right, come to think of it. I ranged some hillies about a week ago, but I didn't kill more than 40-50, so I just chalked up the lack of seeds to bad luck...

 

 

 

Oh, and I've just been to the cave crawlers in the slayer dungeon, and I started getting potato seeds right away. So perhaps I'm not inflicted after all. :-k

 

 

 

Hopefully it doesn't come down to checking monsters one at a time to see if they're still dropping seeds.... but it's starting to look that way to me.