Crusader Recipe - Archmages no drop?

[Crysthal]

600 mobs is nothing.. the drop rate is like .8% dude, it's supposed to be rare. It goes for hundreds of gold for a reason. If you're really that worried, maybe farm the spellbinders in WPL instead, although I know they are heavily farmed.

Do you even math?

632 kills at a droprate of 0,8%. Just let that sink for a moment.
0,8^632 is roughly a chance of 5,6% to not have a drop. So yes it is still possible to have no drop after 632 kills like OP, but your statement is bullshit!

[Kezzik]

My statement is bullshit, yet you just admitted to the fact that he has a 5-6% chance that it doesn't drop after 600 kills.

[Crysthal]

My statement is bullshit, yet you just admitted to the fact that he has a 5-6% chance that it doesn't drop after 600 kills.

Yeah, given the fact that there are lots of people farming the formula some of them have to obey murphys law :p

The word bullshit was a bit harsh, sorry for that

[Phillzor]

So ... i assume the Archmages doesn't drop the Crusader Recipe. Thanks all.

[Nano]

https://web.archive.org/web/20060527031 ... item=16252

It only drops from Spellbinders only at roughly the rate posted here.

db.vanillagaming.org is a useful site but shouldn't be taken as gospel.

[Crysthal]

So ... i assume the Archmages doesn't drop the Crusader Recipe. Thanks all.

Of course they do, you were just unlucky.

[Bit]

I don't know about now but I used to farm there endless hours in the early months of the server and I've killed about 2000 archmages without a drop.

[Norjak]

http://web.archive.org/web/20050327114134/http://wow.allakhazam.com/item.html?witem=16252
From back in the day...0.18% drop from only Spellbinders. Maybe this is closer to what Nost is using.

[Codeine]

i farmed the mobs in that tower before hearthglen, theyre non elites and much easier to kill. took about 6hrs to get it to drop

[Bazinga]

first comment i've found:

"I got this to drop for me today, was ofcourse happy, but also surprised, since it dropped off a Scarlet Archmage in Tyr's Hand." Posted: Jan 10th 2007

and the dark portal was open at that point

http://web.archive.org/web/20070304044843/http://wow.allakhazam.com/item.html?witem=16252