Talk:Dragon Scale

From what I've gathered, the dragon raid splits rewards into tiers, with each item at a certain percentage. Say you get 1k points, you get access to a small varied selection of perhaps pots. This is of course an example as we don't know the exact tiers and the rewards associated with each and even more complicated the percents of each. For all we know, the tiers can be at an arbitrary number such as 1478.

What is important to note about these tiers is that the rewards are cumulative. When you reach a new tier, the rewards from previous tiers are also added into the rng of your reward. What this ultimately means is that going beyond the tier of the reward you want will decrease your chances of receiving the reward you want. If you are aiming for a dragon scale(like this page says) and let's say it is in the 6th tier(hypothetical 8-9 tier system going by 1k), going past the 6th tier is only detrimental to you. Going past it will only add more items to the varied rewards you already have and make receiving what you want harder. It would perhaps be simpler to say that instead of 1/78 chance at 6th tier(again an example), it would increase to 1/127(another example).

Of course if you took time to think about dragon raid rewards, it's a fairly simple system to deduce.

Sounds fair for the black and white dragon raids as far as I've seen, but you can get dragon parts at even just 2000 contribution, and I'm not really sure what they would even add past that. For black dragon it doesn't seem like there's much added. At prairie dragon though, you'll never get potions above a certain contribution, and some other items stop appearing after a certain contribution. Maybe we should get a list of the lowest possible points each item comes along with a highest, and give this format to each raid page as a standard format. I've been meaning to remake my user page raid information based on this, but I still never got around to it. Here's a fun one for everyone out there: Solo enchant from desert dragon is fairly common at ~8 contribution. Makes me laugh seeing people selling them for 5 mil each on Tarlach.