Sunshards by Level

[Gaell Stormracer]

I agree with your summation

The 25-35 range for dust seems right to me, I was killing a lot of mobs of that sort of level in Lavastorm, SolA and SolB last night, and I did indeed get dust from spiders and basilisks near the DoN camp in lavastorm, and miners, clockworks and goblins of the right range in SolA, but I got nothing at all from a couple of hundred kills of Kobolds in Sol B -- even though they should have been in the right range.

So, perhaps, the "global" drop table isn't quite as global as all that?

[Bobaten]

Magelo does show dust having dropped off of "greater kobold"(which can be as low as 33, or as high as 37). Many of the kobolds are 36+ though, so they are outside the predicted range.

[Eleena Transient]

For what it is worth I can definitivly confirm Sunshard Ore dropping off mobs that are 63, 64, and 65. With about 3% drop rate.

[Gaell Stormracer]

Apologies for the bump, but it seems clear to me now that the mob level for the sunshard component is the recommended level of the resultant armour +/- 5 levels. So, sunshard dust makes armour with a recommended level of 30, and so drops from mobs level 25-35; Sunshard Pebbles make armour with recommended level of 50, so drop from mobs level 45-55; and Sunshard Ore makes armour with recommended level of 60, so drops from mobs level 55-65.

[Liwsa]

Apologies for the bump, but it seems clear to me now that the mob level for the sunshard component is the recommended level of the resultant armour +/- 5 levels. So, sunshard dust makes armour with a recommended level of 30, and so drops from mobs level 25-35; Sunshard Pebbles make armour with recommended level of 50, so drop from mobs level 45-55; and Sunshard Ore makes armour with recommended level of 60, so drops from mobs level 55-65.

With that theory then no sunshard items will drop at all from any level 36-44 mobs.

[Gaell Stormracer]

Correct:

Allakhazam is great for comments, but Magelo blows it away for data collection.
Sunshard Dust (mobs level 20-35)
Sunshard Pebble (mobs level 45-55)
Sunshard Ore (mobs level 55-65)
It looks like level 55 mobs can drop both Ore and Pebbles, as there are mobs listed in both lists that were exactly 55.

This shows a gap 46-54. (There's also mobs listed under level 25 listed as dropping the Dust, however, like the Trog King, being listed as 2 23 -- but then again Illia's EQ Beastiary lists the Trog King as 23-25, so could still be right).

[Bobaten]

The 10 level gap is pretty definite. I leveled alts in Blightfire and Stonehive, and they got dust fairly often. But when they moved into Gorukar they don't see dust anymore, and have yet to see a pebble.

[Gaell Stormracer]

There's some indirect supportive evidence from Ngreth's comments in the other thread about Sunshard ore:

It was not appropriate to put the sunshard stuff on higher level NPC's, so I restricted it by level range. This was not to "punish" level 75's put put the drops where they are appropriate.,.. the drops are for level 60 (and lower) armor, so it was appropriate that it drop from NPC's around level 60.

This same model will be used in general for the cultural drops upcoming, with a bit of a difference. I want to keep the difference a surprise for now.

[Kcalehc]

as a note. Sunshard Dust drops in a level 30 instance of "The Forgotten Halls" So I'd assume the others drop in correct level instances of the same zone. Saw about 5-7 in a couple of hours soloing with an SK alt.

[Fox the Clever]

Here's some more.

I found a sunshard pebble on the corpse of a seer, in Veksar. This critter was a light blue /con to my level 65 character. Estimated levels of said critter range from 50 to 54.

[Fox the Clever]

Still more...

I obtained two sunshard dust drops from sonic ravagers, in Hollowshade Moor. As they were grey /cons to my level 48 character, I looked up information in regards to their levels elsewhere. Appparently, this critter is level 25 - no more, no less.

[Fox the Clever]

Even more....

I've found sunshard pebbles on the corpse of a rotting peasant, in Veksar. This critter was a light blue /con to my level 65 character. Estimated level ranges for said critter are from 51 to 54.

[Eleena Transient]

If you are looking for Sunshard Pebbles you can try a lvl 55 instance of Forgotten Halls. I had a 6% drops rate (10 pebbles over 160ish kills).

What I did was shroud to 55, get instance, unshroud, and go farm for a bit. The instance will last about 6 hours.