Cyanne Wrote:Chance of equipment dropping is generally based on the relation between the equipment's level req and the monster's level, with weapons, stars, and scrolls dropping much less frequently of course.
I'd tend to agree with this in general but I'm not sure if that's just how they happened to set the droprates or if it's automatic.
For example, Pan Lids drop from Star Pixies - but in my experience they're no more common than any of the other drops. Black Bandanas drop at Wraiths (well, used to) and they were rarer than Whips. Where Blue and Yellow Umbrellas drop (I think yellow come from Death Teddies) they're no more common than the regular gear.
On the other hand, if you kill low level mobs, you find way more equips. At one point early in Bera I killed about 10,000 Slimes on 2x drops, and got on the order of 70-80 equips. More recently I killed about... 100,000 Red Wyverns. And I found about 40 equips.
In order to get a good idea of drop rates you'd probably want to find a total of around 15-20 minimum of an item. At that point the individual luck is dropping off and it's more reliable. For some bosses (Papu) that is not so bad cause he drops equips pretty frequently and can spawn proportional to the number of people hunting him, for regular mobs it could mean 1,000,000+ kills.